[UI] increase income before adding expenses

you keep adding new expensive CRAP but you dont do anything to make the game fun or make it so we can afford new toys. your only market for these is the wallet warriors, you need to think about getting more players to spend money not milk the ones who already are

 

You don't really need all this stuff - just pick a ship and run with it. TarTar (I call it that) is new and I would rather wait it out till a skin is added next. Just get a Goli as it is the best all-around ship anyways. Build it up and see what's next.

 

For some reason the DO team seem to be spending a lot of time coming up with nothing but expensive crap like cosmetics and selling them for real money and uri. The reason why they are doing this is because people are buying this crap, so they will be making more and more of them. Also making a two week event based on a few colour changes just added to the hype and makes people run out to collect them all.

Now that all the designs are actual ships they can bring out different colours for all of them. So instead of them having to really think about making a real effort into the future of the game, all they need to do to make a quick buck is to change a few colours around of a ship that is already in the game and then make a big deal about it. (Money for old rope, springs to mind)

Over the years it has gotten more expensive to get a good account in a reasonable amount of time. This has made a huge divide between wallet warriors and people that cant or wont spend money on the game. Unfortunately the DO team are only catering for the wallet warriors amongst us. This, I believe is affecting the server populations more than any other reason. Like the OP stated they just seem to be milking the players that already spend money rather than encouraging other potential customers to do the same.

OP, do you have any ideas on how they could get more players to spend money and not just the wallet warriors? Or any ideas on how to make the game more fun for all?

 

id say new maps, not gates, maps. like 6-x or 3-9 and such. like a higher uppers? then once those are out make lowers safe zones where people of other companies cant enter. that'd improve noob retention while making it interesting for the newer players

 

The issue is the New Management could care less about the play-ability of the game, as I was informed in Discord "the new management will not allow me to answer this" when I questioned about a problem in the game. So they are only going to generate things to make them MONEY and who cares if you can not use them.

There was a very nice idea for an area for Upper Level Players (level 19 and up) in the Update area recently. New maps have been requested, FREE Gates have been offered (even created 3 different levels of gates to be done as a group or solo) using a mixture of G G NPC's and map NPC's and left the actual end rewards to the decision of the TEAM however the rewards given during the gate were substantial with the NPC kills and if you had "trader drone/PET" could amass a tone of credits from collecting the cargo. The problem with new maps are they are not Enemy Free Zones and D O is not going to make an area where PvP can not be done but then a G G that you pay for is too much for a NEW player to deal with (even alpha can not be done if not FE) but then a group gate could be handled by a NEW player (these unlike Hades do not require UFE players to defeat the gate) but if doing the hard gate would be nice for the UFE to solo.

But then the New Management needs to care about the game instead of MONEY.

 

Actually you can do LoW gate lazy style, but many don't play that way. I do my GGs like this . It is time consuming, but it is one-click till other side and back over and over - hahaha - lazy, but it gets done. Where is the enemy anyways for me to keep on me toes Oh yeah, need some lazy buds too

As seen above can get credits from cargo which many don't collect for some odd reason. Free credits just scattering into the wind The credits can get items that will make you stronger - in auction that is hehehe

 

well by adding new maps, whatever npcs they put in would actually give old players something new to do, so people would care to still play the game

and the only way i can think of to keep noobs safe without costing them money would be to make x-4 and below the same kind of safe zone as x-1 maps. which you cant say they wont do because they did exactly that with x-1 maps because noobs couldnt get off base. well now they cant get to a competitive point in the game so they quit before they have enough invested in the game to want to spend money on it.

 

They should add events or missions that require you to get out of the power ships and play in a credit ship, or a leo. Of course doing that will really bring out the wallets to come hunting us but unless they have a "kill enemy ship" mission, they will be hard pressed to have a real reason to pop those participating.