[SC] A TALE OF TWO CITIES

2 QUESTIONS

Q1. Would more people play this game is you was just left alone to build a ship up without the fear and annoyance of being destroyed every 60 seconds?

Q2. Would more people play this game if you could go straight into PVP with a fully UBFE ship right from the start of first registering?

 

YES to both questions but then what would the benefit of playing be if you were UFE right out the gate? The NEW players are leaving because of the UFE Bullies that pop them all the time. And many more Veterans left the game when the LF-4 was introduced and they saw the only way to become UFE was to invest thousands of dollars in the game.

Many requests have been made to get protection for the NEW players from the UFE killing machines and so far nothing has been implemented and the UFE issue is becoming easier IF you do G G's all the time (Bonus Weekend Events) but then you still have to invest a lot of time or money to build the Gates.

 

1. This game is either shoot or be shot at. Players at all level see red and either shoot or run. At some point we all shoot. Sometimes, I don't understand why when one enemy ship shows up and there are 8 friendly ships, the 8 will keep a wing hanging onto the port. It is difficult to want to stay in the game if you are getting shot at constantly, but you can also wait out the killers. They don't like to waste their boosters waiting around and if they see nobody out in the open, will move to another map and after nothing in any map, will just log off. But to be more on your question, no.
2. No, because after a while, they would realize the gangs of bully's are still there.

 

Getting popped when you are a noob is nothing new and it certainly isn't exclusive to the game since UFE became a thing. Granted people hit harder now, but noobs got popped all the time in 2008 when I started on US West. Part of the game was learning how to be smart when you needed to shoot npcs.. circle them near a port, be ready to jump. Work with a group if possible. It is all part of the learning process. There is NOTHING wrong with hunting noobs, I actually believe it makes them better players in the long run. What is wrong is then coming into chat and lording it over them, telling them they suck, etc. etc... like so many people do. Other than that.. take away the ep for the kills after you kill them 1 or 2 times.. If they give no EP or don't count for quests most hunters will leave them be.

 

This game is not for the weak hearted...in DO we live by a basic rule- Red is Dead. We all went through the stage of being a noob some quicker than others but now the complaints are getting plain annoying. It would be boring if once you start the game you are immediately ufe, that takes away the fun and adventure.

 

Yer back in 2008 it was harder to start in my opinion, I as a noob back then had to put up with packs of 10-20 people hunting, which meant people found you quicker whereas now, you may get one or two and it's easier to evade them.

 

I have said for a long time now id rather new people get a basic fe goli or vengy be there choice on which they would rather get with a selection of quests to complete learning the game with doing the quest
ie help a fellow company member kill say 10 npc in x3 map, and can loads of little quests like that breach enemy maps with a fellow company member and destroy eic,vru within outfit can be anything but will allow them to learn teamwork and company spirit what the game really lacks now and can be rewarded with a basic fe goli/vengy at the end

i know most not like the idea but id rather see new people i know back in the day as said above it may have been harder but back then u also had alot of people around to help you!

When i first started the game i didnt know what to do like all of us but i was shown the ropes by 2 clans on GB1 FOS and DIE if it wasnt for people helping me in lowers i prob wouldnt be on the game now and thats my point in lowers you dont see anyone anymore you dont see people going out there way helping noobs coz all you get is they wont be around for long so not point helping and you get them same players time again hunting lowers one shot popping noobs which is no good and rather sad tbh... but hey thats my 2 cents

 

The problem are things are expensive I guess not for wallet warriors since always hear them say the game *cheap* ive played my share of pc games and this game not cheap 1mil uri gone in sec with rsb,emp,slow rockets then comes the gate building to build the 3 gates easily 200k+uri even with rebate and pre gates change one time there cheap then they cost twice as much the next time, then comes the tech center to make anything u need sep and lots of log disk which goes fast so u need to keep spamming gates till u pass out or buy them from the store which aint cheap for players who don't spend money or even can.Then there's the abuse in the lowers and upper fe or even ufe who get jumped by the same clans who cant fight alone they need a huge group to make em feel special this makes newbies leave and ufe who dont really spend money just grind uri very upset DO needs to change the system making it so that the lowers are off limits to any ufe they can design a system that adds u to a list and scans your equipment if your strong(different from the UBA system plz) you will be denied if your weak like lf3 maybe 5 lf4 u can pass I know cheats will try to cheat the system by just using lf3 but if they also scan the pilot sheet also that would definitely be great cheats wont want to keep resetting there bio sinces it keeps getting more expensive therefore leaving the lower players alot better chances then a S-L or AZTk even PDT coming in and popping literal babies.The sad fact is people are competitive and aggressive they don't want to lose and that's why people cheat that's why they abuse the system they dont care about the long term affects on the community then again some do but they simply don't care but then again its probably an escape from there lives so I guess its part of life.



P.s clan I mentioned ya terrible I can see why ya get so mad if ya die.

 

The problem with preventing them from accessing the lowers is they can not do Events as they are programmed to be done in the lower maps. Preventing them from PvP low level players is a better solution than preventing access, remember the access to the G G's is in x-1 map.

 

Mhm DO could change the pvp mission for uppers only there about the same everything should be an easy fix then again newbies will still cross over to other lower maps my idea is just to give players a fair chances in this aggressive unbalanced game but you must take into count that the UBA sytem actually keeps many ufe in there the whole time im sure there people you seen in uba that u never seen in the maps so in a way DO is trying to keep aggressive players off the map without actually having to take drastic methods kinda smove.