JPA On Hold - Feedback Thread

I have noticed a large increase in your participation on the forums, and your responses to the players. I believe many players, including me, really appropriate that you are responding to the players and letting everyone know what is happening with the game.

It has been far too long that this forum seemed to be completely neglected by the admins, and the only information the players had was through mods and vice versa, which was like communicating through morse code.

Thank you, Rick, please do not disappear on us ^.^

 

Hey Rick
$500 per server would be awesome bec all one put money and more peoples need to get chance to won JPA so better to do it agian saver jpa

 

If you think about it ''IF' 'there really were scripts being run don't you think that alot more ships would have been gone by now. The staging was set up and most of there bots went offline after one company was purchased. And then once they got the list it was all ancient history...sorry but telling it how i see it

 

Please give us JPA next month... this game is 100000% boring without it.

 

Yessss, me with u, im just bored just doing gates

 

Lets be honest, with bots being big again and auto-lock being back, why would they bring back JPA for cheaters to gain 10k from cheating.

 

Come on, the bot is a stupid program wich only makes your ship moves auotomatly to kill aliens and collect boxes like everyone nowadays collecting bonus boxes with their poor Doubler Packge so the bot dont count in the JPA , and the AutoLock is only a program to click the enemies automatly but you can click them too, so theres no diference, dont worry about the botters, we know perfectly if there is botters they are going to get a perma ban and thats all.

 

Turn the jackpot into serverwide contests which restarts monthly.

- Most exp earned during 1 month across all servers = 2000$
- Most honor earned = 2000$
- Most ships killed = 1000$
- Most aliens killed = 1000$
- Most credits earned = 1000$
- Most damage done to aliens which you did not get the kill from = 1000$ (this would make people help noobs!!!!)
- Most damage done to everything = 1000$
- Most uridium spent (xD) = 1000$

Or something similar with more divided cash rewards and more possibilities to win, but above is the basic idea What do you guys think? It sure would make people play A LOT if there would be a chance to win 1000$ by earning more creds than anyone else in the world. Bigger servers would have advantage in ship kills part but smaller servers would have advantage in alien kills so it evens out And honor and exp can be earned equally everywhere by doing gates.

Yes, it will be pretty much impossible to win if you don't spend money - but c'mon - did anyone win the jackpot arena without spending a ton? And bots would be easily eliminated, they only have to manually check the winner and if it is suspicious, then just check the 2nd guy and so one. First honest one gets the money.

EDIT: Yes, not much skill involved but this would reward people who are truly dedicated to Darkorbit.

 

The bot has an auto lock feature, and people have been using it for over a month and no ban. So no, JPA should not come back if there's auto locks.

 

Hmmmmm...... But the "AutoLock" is just for Lock people, so if they use this just for lock you can lock them too just with your hand and mouse without programs and being clean player just a lock is not going to ruin the game or the fight either you can get their lock in the JP Map because is a short map without using programs and people using "AutoLock" is going to have chances to get a perma huge ban lol...

 

It's still an advantage, they can easily pull off of someone and auto lock them.

 

Geez, well, anyways the cheaters always get perma ban dude so dont worry.

 

The issue is this simple these people are using the same glitches everyday on these servers it's not just for JPA and what Dark Orbit is not realizing is these players are destroying all the servers as more and more players quit playing out of sheer frustration. Instead of banning these people why not try permanent account deletions maybe if the word gets out that there are no more breaks or second chances people will stop using bot/game glitches on all the servers.

 

They don't even ban that many people. Look at [removed], the one time he got banned for bug using in PvP was a week ban, they don't bother him any other time.

no names please, thanks-SE

 

You need to understand not easy banning people permanently for an accusation like that, they need to check out it too.

#i'd like to BP ban all the stupid people in chat for being serious all the time with personal subjects and making drama in chat all the time but BP doesnt care.

 

Drama makes this game fun. But the stupid people who don't know when to shut up and repeat the same crap when they get wrecked in a fight should be banned. XD

 

Nope, Drama kills this game and make many people want to quit the game for stupid persons they all they do is being serious all the time in the chat. :/

 

Punkbuster springs to mind as one solution or another online countermeasures system of some description which I am sure could be implemented/integrated into the JPA when logging in for this event. Live feeds of a players game screen also help when scrutinising events which is a system I and others have used to determine if a person is cheating on private battlefield servers, admin would simply take a screen shot of a persons game screen from the server and would kick the perpetrator should a person be using any hacks cheats etc.

Regards a return to the 500 players per map in the Jackpot arena, no thanks, too many people would be working together to rig the results, much better to have a series of 1v1 battles as its much easier to scrutinise.

As is with no JPA there is no reason to spend cash monies to upgrade ships, indeed why spend four figure sums on a game when there is no potential reward for doing so? With this in mind any reduction in JPA payouts would completely remove such incentives to spend with regards the JPA as an end game and prizes, as is for some of us the rewards have been reduced significantly when the currency was changed from local currencies to euro's.

As others have already said anyone who cheats once, simply remove the account permanently and enforce your terms and conditions although considering the amount of people who have been caught and have been staged or had items removed from accounts am fairly certain there is a large percentage of players who should be already excluded from JPA or who would no longer have accounts on my local server and likely a great many besides.

 

I think that every server must have own Jackpot Arena every month where you can win 500$ from your Jackpot money. That maybe make people to fight more fair. And if some server have too less players in Jackpot Arena then some servers Jackpot Arena players can play in same Jackpot Arena. And remove nanohull from the Jackpot Arena like in UBA, but with recourses in lasers etc.

 

well I have given this some thought and I think the only way for the JPA to be fair and cheat free would be to run the event over an entire month, the event should be divided into three different sections thus allowing for time to get everyone into the action.
1st stage, weekend 1 and weekend 2 would be qualifying rounds, 1 vs 1 and the winner moves on, no change to anything that is currently on the JPA.
2nd stage, weekend 3, players have a final like tournament with rounds narrowing the entire group down to 8 players.
3rd stage, weekend 4, the players go into quarterfinals, then semi finals and then finals, these fights are then live to anyone who wants to stream them and watch. along with a mod team that can identify any untidy behavior.

The players that qualify for the last weekend would have their accounts checked before the weekend, its only 8 accounts and they can be disqualified or qualified to proceed, those that are disqualified should be replaced by the next qualified player below them proceeds.
what do you all think?