[SC] The true Beauty of Darkorbit

I am one of the players who started Darkorbit back in 2009 and it was the most fun childhood memory of mine on internet. Unfortunately, i stopped playing it around 3 years ago. I saw the discussions about the "old school servers" and it make me excited. Decided to enter the game and look around for a while. There was spaceball (Which was my favourite event) on the server. When i went to 4-4 from 3-5 (I am VRU) the thing i saw made me sad.

As soon as i jumped from the portal (3-5 upper left portal), there was around 20 players on the others side , nearly all UFE. About 10 of them were VRU and the rest was EIC and MMO but they were not attacking each other. Seconds later , EIC and MMO forces started firing at me. But the thing that made me sad the most was to see some of our own VRU ships firing at me. It seems like they were all allied. I exited the game after seeing that.

THIS IS NOT WHAT DARKORBIT USED TO BE.​

The true Beauty of Darkorbit was the company wars. I remember company chats and how people defended their companies with passion. How players helped each other against their common enemies. How everybody attacked an enemy ship even when they were outnumbered. How players communicated about possible enemy attacks and how to prevent them.

I remember i had a leonov (Old leonov ; 5,000 Uri one) and couple of flax. I would spent HOURS on 3-3 upper left portal which is the border portal between EIC and VRU alongside with tens of players just like me. All we did was to prevent enemies to get into our maps. We would wait for hours just for our company. It was like a DUTY. We would attack from time to time when we had momentum and retreat. This was the true beauty of Darkorbit.

Darkorbit is a game based on company battles and if we don't fight our rivals together, what can you expect from the game ?

Everybody complains about the new things that ruined Darkorbit and yes i agree with them but let's look at ourselves too, we changed too.

I am also a big supporter of "old school servers" and hope to see them soon. Maybe old things can bring our old spirits back and we will start to defend our companies till the end, once again.

Regards...

 

Unfortunately ThePatriot[ECEL] I have my doubts that there is much to do now that the differential between the UFE and the simple FE is sooo great.. (some claim they spent a lot of money to be soo powerful [I say that with power comes responsibility but most cant see past the end of their own 'Lasers'])

The above, along with the MultiCo Clans, the Cross-Company Alliances and the fact that your own company members can help their enemy buddies shoot you down provided someone else shot first and etc ... It is all too easy for these so called Clans/'Marauders' that abuse the slightest availability of a chance of a kill even if it is there own Company...
There was honour once, as you say, and the fact that DO cant seem to arrive at a solution (simple ones are usually the best) that you/our best chance will be DO 'Revived' (Resurrected or whatever word to mean bringing it 'back from the dead' to the game so many of us remember) but be certain that you will find the same 'killjoys', and their same excuses, there too and they will do their best to be King of their own little heap without regard for the game and their fellow players/community.. or even the so-called 'honour' they are awarded by DO for their Noobicidal tendencies!! DO had better build in some better rules/ideas of honour into that Game-reality or it too will be a flop in the longer or shorter period!!

DO are full of promises on the idea of returning the game to its former glory but short on doing anything meaningful... Maybe they want it to be like a Phoenix....

 

This is so true! I haven't played in about 3 years, and just came back last week! I think the game has made progress since I left it 3 years ago, but I couldn't agree more with you!

This possibly clears some stuff up for me, like you said I was shooting the spaceball in 4-4, with maybe 30 other MMO, then one VRU ship came along (one of those purple Vengeances?) At first I wasn't too concerned when I saw the red tag pop up, as I presumed that at least one of the 20 UFE MMO ships next to me would send him back to 3-8, not NOPE, he just unloaded at me! From all 30 ships he could have chosen he chose me! He hit me so hard I died in about 7-8 seconds . Considering I only hit 32k on x4 I thought I'd save my ammo.
Then i thought i must have been unlucky, but this repeat about 3 or four times, (the same person shot me down 3-4 times), and then I thought, might as well go back to doing some cubes before I get banned for pushing or something.

Very, very sad to see, ruined my evening on DO .

GB1

 

I am sorry to say the Company Loyalty is gone from the game and even the Old School Servers are not going to change the NEW direction D O has gone. The only way they are going to bring back the O S feelings is to implement a anti-Friendly Fire protection that prevents any Friendly Ship from attacking another. Also they are going to have to remove the AJP-01 and LF-4's from the game to return us to a BALANCED Game and return the Portal Watches for map protection, but then you are going to have too many people complain because they rely on these to play the game now.

The introduction of the LF-4 and CHANCE System, for rewards, are the reasons D O has started its long stroll down death row and further use of CHANCE is going to be the final nails in the coffin D O has been building for itself. The O S S might revive the game IF they get the Old School comradery returned to the game but again the MCC and cross Company Alliances are going to destroy even this server. People want PvP and do not care the cost of killing any ship they see.

 

remember outlaws? and how they were ganged up by 5-10 people of their same company if they tried to steal a friend's alien? regardless of their clan?

just do the same with these Mr.D.O Reloaded folks and they'll learn, of course in a OSS. they can even pack up a 50-people clan, and be bashed by 100 people company in a single damn map. spaceball was incredibly "laggy" for some people because of the "so really much" ships...

 

Ahh the good ole days!

 

Yes this is great for language servers, but when you've got global servers, you have (for example) some Russians in EIC, some Russians in VRU, some Russians in MMO due to them signing up at different times, obviously they will chose to make a multi-company clan for the communication side of it.

 

I remember many things and MCCs were not being abused then as they seem to be now... Playing together is nice for friends and I have been here long enough that I have many friends both who started out in my Company and moved later for honourable reasons and also members of the enemy Companies as, in a community game like this is, I have no problem chatting with the player that shot me down and believe it or not we still shoot each other and we become and remain friends without having to follow each other around the maps like 'little ducks' and hold each others hand whilst popping enemy (anything that moves).. The principle of a 3 Company PvP/PvE game is loyalty to company and friends but when company ceases to be the reason we find a 'free for all'...

I have repeated more of my own post from above as I was just as interested in DO doing some things to stop the game finding the same end and your 'short excerpt' didnt show my meaning...

I have found that most servers have reasonable English when they want to.. but that is not the point is it... If I were to go to the Russian server for example (I cannot read Russian) then I would soon find people who spoke my language and then move my ship to be with my new friends rather than use it as a reason for MCC...
If MCCs and etc were not allowed on

Then the game may stand a chance of avoiding the same fate that our current version has suffered...

 

you know what i meant, people were moar unified towards company instead of MCC today.

if i recall correctly, you could not join other clans from different companies, but i do remeber teamspeak usage, same lang will have everywhere, not everyone knows eng and they can't be forced to (not to mention the d.o sites in their mother lang ), i have fun telling people that any server that has a "Global" title means ANY thing aside offending, not only english.. (try it, it's fun)

not really, youzoint already cancelled shards so...

we can has hope, however anyone that ever trusted old bigpoint knows you can't trust them a second time, like EA today, they are bound to break perfectly functional things, unless they cost money....

if Youzoint brings OSS, there is a 95% chance to be WoW-Fee style, the problem is that F2P-P2W has taken alot of fame already (i mean darkorbit), that may come out as negative towards players, they already left do-rld to not be pushed into paying, and they will have to pay to play a old school server? (and i do believe they will add premium and stuff in OSS if they do, making things worse)

 

I have added my comments to the quote so please read between the lines...

 

The choice to be assigned to a company or not has been there since I started in 2010 but then we never saw the fights like we do now. They were used more as a protection for enemy map NPC or collection missions, occasionally they were spies but they did not join in on the kill.

The news release stated it was a 'Stock" purchase not a company buyout. So as long as Youzo gets their dividend checks the yare not going to make any major changes to the existing games, however we have seen their influence in the direction BigPoint Games are going with the introduction of "Hocus Puzzle". The OSS is being suggested to give us back a balanced game prior to the AJP-01, LF-4, and Upgrade systems. How much of the new improvements will go into it also is up in the air however if they are smart and want to keep the players happy they will not re-introduce anything that effects the balance of the game like these 3 items did.

 

Youzo purchased 100% of the BP stock/shares thus giving them 100% ownership of BP, BP still trade as BP but there parent company is Youzo and they can if they so chose make major changes to any of the games offered by BP or even withdraw a game from the BP list of games. As a parent company they also reserve the right to radicalise BP and reduce staff if they desire. To keep DO a viable prospect the dev team need to make some vast improvements to the game both in recruitment of players and game performance and balance, should DO continue with its decline I can see you Youzo pulling the plug on DO in favour of games for the ever increasing demand for smart phone game app's.

 

Hello fellow space pilots,

I have been member of DO community since 2009 as well. I havent played the game for more then 2 years. Recently i came back to see if anything good has happened. Unfortunatelly nothing good has happened, rather the opposite. In regard to the the old glory days of 2009-2012 the reason why the community was strong is because we had so much active players. The efforts you had to put in to be considerably strong in battle were even for everyone(paying customers or not). When you have a huge community (my account is on GB1) the majority of the folks are gonna be honourable people, who like to play the game by their true rules and that was the reallity exactly as the OP has reminded me of those days. My server is now dead, the only active thing is the chat, which is hilarious. The only way the game to be revived and to bring back the many people that have left for good in my opinion is BP to admit their huge MISTAKES and to remove substantial part of the crap that they have created (or just make 60% of the crap accessible with credits). Currently it is impossible and not advised for anyone to start playing this game and to have true fun like it was back in the days. The cost of playing the game now is astronomical. Back in the days it was truly possible to play the game for free and to fight every single person on your server. With this possibility every active person was ready to put some cash every month in the game. After all BP has to earn their living. Unfortunatelly that huge community only grew BP's greed to levels that i haven't seen in any game i have encountered. I love so much this game! Unfortunatelly i can not see how BP can cure themselfs of their selfinflicted illness. I want to thank the OP for reminding me of those glorious days.

Best Regards,

P.S. Could not see better place to speak my mind.

 

I was playing another game that was rapidly moving from f2p to p2w. there was so much uproar on the forums that the devs created basically an OSS for the game. they promised that they wouldn't have items/upgrades to pay real cash for so that people could enjoy the good old days. it was fun for a short while then they started adding the very things they initially took out. what had been fairly even pvp became ubers against everyone else, similar to what's going on in DO now. After about 2 years they just got rid of the OSS version because people quit playing.

when I started this game years ago I had 2 fe accounts and could battle anyone as well. after being back for a couple of months now playing I see I won't be able to compete like I used to. I'm basically foder for the UFE's. I don't even run or fight back anymore since I get popped after a few seconds anyway.

not sure why I keep playing now, must be some latent S&M tendency. it is a fun game - when you can play it.