[SC] Again drop rates Reduced further

Okay so Dark Orbit wants us to COLLECT cargo drops and not only are we competing for actual Cargo but we have 2 different types of Assembly items, Green Booty Boxes, and 3 days of Red and Blue Boxes added to the mix. The drop rate for the A.S. ores is ridiculously low and reduced even further because of the greed for cash of this game (since to collect these Ultra Booty Chests are strictly from a cash purchase). Many people look forward to collecting the normal ores from killing the NPC's and are happy for the reduced A.S. ore drops while others want more of the A.S. ore.

I do not understand why these new ores/items could not be an additional item collected from these cargo drops instead of in place of. Could there not be a line of code added to the cargo drop with a random assignment of the A.S. stuff? I understand that the A.S. does not effect the Cargo Space on the ship but I also remember reading that the PET did not collect the A.S. ores if the bay was full, this could be rectified by having the PET attempt to collect every cargo drop even if the bay is full just after being informed twice the bay was full without collection it would move on to the next drop, this because some drops fill the cargo bay and need to be refined for more to be collected (Ubers and Cubes for example). This would allow the A.S. items to be collected and leave the Cargo materials there for the next person to collect instead.

This could also be added to the NPC dropped Booty Chests (no matter what color) allowing us to collect the cargo from the NPC even though we did not have the key to open the chest. You would keep the visual of the Chest or A.S. Item but include the code for a Cargo Drop (Chests) for the PET to see the cargo. This would satisfy the people who are farming Credits (from Ore) and Xenomit (from Bosses/Ubers) could allow you to increase the drop rate of the A.S. materials, and still allow you to run the Ultra Booty Days without effecting Event Quests or a persons game play. It is bad enough that we are loosing our cargo drops but to have a quest to collect ores only found in these is really a slap in our face to collect Booty Chests instead of Cargo.

I am going to assume the code that generates these replacement drops is a random generator and is assigned when the NPC is Spawned so could this not be embedded in the cargo assignment with the visuals overriding the Cargo graphics? As I am not a programmer I do not know, but in theory it seems like it would be an easy fix, just tying the 2 systems together.

Look forward to hearing others thoughts on this

 

During gate discount make few gates to get keys (cost nothing). Use keys to get new materials. Very easy, simple and free.

 

i gotta say the prismatium drop rate has dropped alot lol

 

Drop rates suck guys i just did gamma gate and used kami on saimons and got 1 piece of scrap, they say free to play but lets face it if you want any of the new design you will have to spend uri cause DO is making sure you can't farm what you need. Try and enjoy i know it's hard with the bugs i just lost emperor title which is like the 5th time i lost a title in a gate due to lag. Funny the kami went off and all the kristallins popped but i didn't get any rewards i got dead and started kristallin wave again. Getting really hard to stay having fun with all this happening. I guess by the time they fix all these bugs they are hoping we will all forget about our lost modules that were promised back by DO.

 

They might be hoping we all just forget about the game in its entirety. Everything that they say they are doing to help the game seems to be hurting it more than helping it.

Everything they say they are adding to assist the free player is, as you say, for the Pay2Play. Even during the first A.S. Launch the drop rates were not what they should have been for a true Free2Play player to gain anything. The ammo expended, the time needed, the NPC's that had to be killed, all of this along with loosing the credits from the cargo to buy more ammo is just showing the F2P player they are not important to D O. Be funny when you start seeing MHH on 2-3 times a day trying to entice people to spend money on the only thing worth spending money on (Uridium) so you can farm more gates (assuming you are not lagging out to death). Rebate and Premium are about the only other things that a person would be buying, as they are in the G G's all the time, they do not need to buy Doubler as they are not boxing. So $170 a year plus whatever Uridium you need to purchase, if unlucky at gates $300 a year (3 million Uridium), especially if you only build on "%" off days.

Yeah, you don't see too much about the titles anymore. Since they added the achievement titles and everyone can wear one. I received a title and not knowing what it was went to the achievement screen and set my display to "No Title" to see I lost it. But then I had no idea what "Portal Guard" was for, but I collected it from a Lordakia in x-2 map.

It is all about the CASH, drop rate so low you spend Uridium as the components are in shop the first day of the event knowing the drops are going to be too low and we get all of that Uridium so easily we will part with it instead. The game is all about how much cash can D O drag out of our pockets, why else run Ultra Booty Days 3 days in a row?

 

the drops rates have really badly dropped, whats worse they not even gviign out missions with materials in em, i really dont like they way this game is going

 

droped rates have drop so it makes it harder for people or near on impossible for them to collect hence making most players frustrated and then resulting in them using there bank cards and buying everything they want.
remember guys do doesn't give things away for free, and when they do its impossible to get.
hence why this isn't a free game
its a play to win game. but do wont listen, I don't even think they listen to peoples concerns on the forums unless it benefits them in turn of bringing in money.
do has always been selfish and always will be.

 

Well I was gonna write half an essay but I decline to waste my time here anymore, looks more like I will finish up my last months premium and take my cash else where in future.

Just what were people thinking when they decided on what kind of economy they wanted in the assembly feature as it is so out of touch with reality and the competition it will be that very same competition getting my cash in future. Such a shame as it is a rather nice concept, seems ludicrous that BP didn't look at what it is actually feasible to charge for flair and vanity items and how it works in similar online games. The lack of comments from the development team regards this issue simply confirms many of the above statements ridiculing Big point.

I can get vanity space ship reskins for less than £5 on other games in a full 3d game environment with well populated uk servers, congratualtions big point you have finally surpassed yourself with greed and convinced me to spend my time elsewhere where I can get a better product that is value for money in a competitive market place.

Edit to add; Bring back the Jackpot battle and I may actually consider spending some real cash money on here again as this was the only thing that ever justified your ludicrous pricing structure, now its gone so has the incentive to spend anything more than a little pocket change as right now you have outpriced your far superior competition and have an inferior product.

 

LOOK at the URI drop rates, just plain ridiculous.
DO is making this game all about SPEND, SPEND, SPEND..............................
That is why many have left or hardlly ever playing.
The highest DROP RATES in the game are from those who are going to or have LEFT this game .................