[UI] Ideas for the future

As a lot of people have said, this game is dying. I believe it was the introduction of the LF4s and the upgrade system that has made it slowly die. The divide between WW and F2P players is now so big people are either quitting or don't stick around long enough to get good.

With recent special events not being as good as the ones in the past and that the dev team are thinking more about over priced cosmetics rather than game improvements. It is becoming more apparent to me that the DO team are just trying to squeeze out the last drops of cash before the game dies completely.

I believe that my ideas will help to bring new life to the game.

Firstly, put the LF4s in the shop, (they could have a really good event to introduce them) they have been around for far too long and the LF4 day is getting old. Price them at between 50k and 100k uri or put them into the cash only section. If the DO team think that people will buy a cosmetic drone design or a pet skin for the same price, just imagine how much money they would make if it was for an LF4. In turn this would bring more balance to the game and hopefully bring in new players that stay.

Secondly, decrease the amount it costs to upgrade equipment. This will also bring balance to the game and it will help people to improve their accounts quicker so they can enjoy the game a lot more.

Thirdly, increase the protection level for new players to level 10 and only in their own lower maps x-1, x-2, x-3 and x-4. If they go anywhere else or shoot first they will lose it until they either return to the above mentioned maps or the battle has finished. Also have the yellow nme bar in those maps for every players level.

Lastly, they need to have a rethink about all the events. Spaceball is pretty much the only event people play on my server. The reason for this is that they have a chance to collect good rewards after every goal. Make the other events like this where players can get instant rewards for participating. I.e, every time the beacon is brought home a load of cargo boxes appear. Or players can get special and improved cargo from Infiltration etc..

Thanks for reading.

 

not a bad idea there i like it

 

First of all, people are still spending a tons of cash on this game and that means it wont "die" anytime soon.

If you had watched the twitch stream where they talked about the game, you'd have heard that they are not trying to "squeeze out cash" by making and selling these cosmetic items, they are actually trying to move from selling power to selling cosmetics. And if they can do this, that means they will be able to make it easier for players to get the good stuff like LF-4's. And I believe the upcoming Assembly System is a great first move towards making this game less Pay2Win, they even mentioned that none of the ores used in crafting would be limited to neither uridium or payment. I'm sure they will also eventually add the LF-4 to the crafting system (during the launch event you'd even be able to get surgeon, an LF-4 and other nice stuff, which looks promising).

Now, I'm all in for your other ideas about new events, better protection for newbies etc. But it just gets tiring seeing the same posts over and over again about people who keep ranting about how Pay2Win this games is. Yes, it is, but pretty much every Free2Play game is, which is very understandable because a game like DarkOrbit is not free to run. Even if BP had only sold cosmetic items from the beginning, they would probably not had earned enough to cover the expenses. People want something from their money, they want to see progress, and that is why power is being sold (Mainly in Free2Play games).

 

When this thing realized, they should rework the BK. Persons only buy it cause of the LF4 (or LF3 ?). I think it could work, but only because there are less players then before (I can't imagine what would happen if they did this maybe 5 years ago , very easy pay for easy winning). The most important work is holding the old players. I don't really believe new players try to play D O, they try better MMO or MOBA (I'm sorry for saying this ).

 

Take the work out of getting the LF4, NO. Same for the Havoc and Herc's. Yes I realize they put the Hercs with uri purchases from time to time. This is not a fast track game though. Players need time to work at the game. Do the WW have an advantage, yes. While they pay out money for uri so they can do gates, purchase ammo, upgrades, log disk, etc... they still have to do those gates ion order to get the mentioned items. Nobody makes UFE in a month, and if I am wrong about that let me know, unless they have nothing to do but play.

Of course I have no complaints about the rest of your ideas, even though I refuse to play that stress game, spaceball.

 

wot DO need to do is not concentrate on ww but concentrate on illegal scripts get shut of them.then the new players have a chance then the game will populate again meaning non of this server merge talk its easy to me wot you lot think in forum

 

DO/BP will have to tackle this on several fronts.The economy of the game, server population, fairness, newb protection, cheaters and
better updates for the game. The changes that have to be made must be done with surgical precision. Sadly we stand at another point
in the game where DO/BP have the opportunity to do something awesome for the game. The question really is will the Dev Team finally
come through or come up short as usual.

 

The easiest solution to the cheaters is to get rid of the browser connection and go to a downloaded access point where you take the users computer out of the equation. This prevents the use of any third party software, would prevent the DDoS attacks that have prevented players from being able to access the game, could be a solution to connection problems (dropping connection while playing the game), and could even help players who suffer from major lag while trying to play the game.

This would not be an overnight fix it would require retooling their servers, at least the Back Page server, and after selecting the server to play would get you into the current servers, again protected from external cheats and bots.

 

oh i do hope they read this the dev/coders would be awesome to play on a level field and enjoy the game well written my friend

 

I think the best change would be removing the advanced jump cpu, doing so would force players to fly thorough maps leading to more player to player interaction.

Some great ideas here, I previously was in support of a server merge but too many things including ranks, usernames, and clan tags would conflict. I recently started a new account on Global Europe 1 and it's tough being a noob again, especially with all the ufe's in lowers popping noobs. Creating a new account I find that it will be next to impossible to become fe, and will take maybe at the least 6-8 months to get full irises, given that irises go for 100mill+ on that server, lf3s and bo2s around 30-50 mill, and speed gens around 5-10mill. I made the account 20 days ago but only have played around 13 hours, currently level 10 and have made over 15 mill creds (mostly skylab), but that isnt really much on that server. I think player protection being extended to x-3 and x-4 is a great idea, noobs will be able to complete more quests and stay interested in the game longer, while pvp would be more concentrated in bmaps and uppers, causing more players to fly around up there, in a way increasing population by just concentrating more players in less maps.

 

There is a way around the Jump Chip as far as your own maps, parking ships at the portals and changing hangars to get to that map. It does force the enemies to use the normal portals for entry into the maps and would allow the portal protectors to work again, IF we still had them in the game.