[SC] Thoughts from a disappointed Old School Player

That's what happens when your government pays for almost everything.

 

Well said!

 

Not to diminish the job that the employee's with DO/BP that monitor the forums do, but. Sometimes it does feel as if no one from DO/BP that can make real changes watches these posts.

 

lol you have a strange view of Canada. I take it you are from the deep south.

 

Born and raised. And know some people from Canada. One guy is still on the heart transplant list in Canada and got his Transplant here about 5 years ago.

 

FYI: our gov pays for nothing. The only thing we are better then America at by about 1000x is health care. everything else America kills us.

 

Most of us that quit ....quit for a reason

Reason being that game went from fun to chore ,from semi Pay to Win to full blown Pay to Win in less than three months when developers turned out to be completely insane.


Game changed from "top up 70 quid and have fun for week" to "top up 70 quid and have fun one two hour raid"

They have game at point they wanted it ,developers who followed orders from above without ever complaining and explaining to the money men that their madness will destroy game fully deserve their P45's

 

Also why not mention the burning through 20k uri for last two gate parts and not getting it. Pay for nothing is a good slogan to.

 

When one Company buys out another Company The prices never get lower Hence, the gaming of the system ...continues

 

The people watching the posts are volunteers not paid employees and as such do not have much say in what is done here, they do however have the ears of the company where they can draw attention to a particularly good thread and get some company responses to them.

I do not know what Canada has to do with this game other than the cost of items purchased in canadian dollars so the rest of that is OFF TOPIC, you could always get a US credit card or Gift Cards, and use it to buy your stuff instead of Canadian dollar (especially since some servers are in the US).

Back on topic, I am not as OLD SCHOOL as some (started playing in 2010/11) but have seen the changes from FE to UFE and D O to Reloaded. Some of the changes were needed to keep interest in the game but others needed to be restricted or balanced out a little better for all players. Even some Wallets have left the game because they felt the imbalance of the game shift. Not everyone wants to FARM GATES or Booty Chests to collect "coveted" in game items. Some had invested in the game to where they thought they were able to sit back and enjoy the benefits of their investment to find it is requiring more investment to continue enjoying it and felt the new investment was too much for what they were getting in return and left the game.

IF D O wanted to get some of the OLD players back, they could do it, but it would require a major attitude change within the company. They could redo the entire game structure (create their own access point, require a downloaded program to access the game, and call it Redone). This could solve a lot of problems that have been seen the entire time D O has been around;

• Hackers creating havoc in-game/preventing access to game, the entire botter/cheater scenario gone because no one can add third party code to enter access point
• Populations could return with notification of inactive players, requesting them to return to the game, as changes have been made (may even send a preemptive survey to see if any would be interested in returning and what they want to see done to game)
• Balance could be implemented to the game allowing the NEW player to learn more about the game and defensive measures before they have to deal with UFE players
• Limiting the access points to enemy maps (Advanced Jump Chip drops into maps with protection till cooldown timer resets, but always in the same area of the map) returning map protection to the game (portal watchers) would allow FREE return (using current coodown timer, can return during this time) to originating map if did not move from drop position (like jumping into enemy maps at a portal)
• Since JPA (not a priority to be fixed) has basically been removed from the game (replaced with UBA) remove the JP Euros from bonus boxes and bring the contents up to current needed standards (removal of garbage from Event Special Boxes, e.g. R-310 rockets are only used by NEW players who know no better)
• Remove the "Chance" from the game and make it a percentage with this being posted so everyone knows how many they should AVERAGE to get what they need and remove the LUCK from the game
• Implement PvP kill limits so BULLY attacks can not be made on individual players by a few players, remove same company attacks from game (except Clan Wars) have a moderator (not necessarily D O but could be in-game committee for each company) to deal with endless WAR situations (I have seen some really stupid reasons for WARS)
• Create reasons for Upper Level players to want to protect low level players, like they used to, can't seem to get help when being attacked or needing to kill something not strong enough to solo anymore

I know there are probably a lot more that could be added to this list but these are a good start. It addresses most of the game imbalance issues and should eliminate a lot of the cheater accusations that are being thrown around. The biggest issue is the game went from a 6 month (possibility to be defensive ship) to an unknown amount of time to "stand a chance against" attackers and sent a bunch of players packing because they worked HARD to make a competitive ship to see it stripped away with the addition of the UFE ship.

 

So why aren't you a Dev? Seems like you have an understanding of the problems and the solutions to the game. I understand fixing these problems are easier said than done. However, I have never understood why there isn't a PVE server? I for one deal with the PVP part of the game and would love to just be on a PVE server and would be will to start over without transferring my ships to another server.

 

I don't know programming code but do have a basic understanding of what people are asking for and what attracts people to a game. Plus I have been with the game for several years and listen to what others are saying in the forums plus what people say about the game in TS3 while they are playing other games because they have become disillusioned by the aspects of D O that have been allowed to go to the point they are now.

 

i have seen gaming go down the toilet because of companies abusing games and the players by trashing our 1 hobby we take part in. the whole point of players commenting, reporting issues and submitting ideas is part of the industry, not optional!
i played DO a month after it went live, and was amused to be doing so well for a play to win player, now i have no idea what im playing but it ain't DO - no matter what you try to do, besides its the players that make games not companies.

 

Companies make them and Players make them successful. But when a company messes with the balance of the game too much and the players start leaving the game is no longer successful and then becomes stagnant and dead game.

 

Hades, I like the ideas that you have posted.

 

I don't know what you are basing your comments on, wages earned may be higher, but what about the cost of living. Our health care, at least for those of us that work and earn our money, is not paid for by our government, we pay for it. So, wages earned higher, maybe, cost of living higher, definitely. SO, it all comes out in the wash. You couldn't live in the US on what you make in Canada. So, it's all about the economics not how much money I earn compared to what you earn. It is comparing apples to oranges.

And I am not from the deep south, I am from the central east coast of the country. And my husband used to have a cabin in Canada and is well aware of the Canadian economy.

 

Hot diggegty dawg!!!
I am from London, England.
Bless your cotton socks &
your ships.