[SC] thought experiment

Hello there,
I read the forums alot however this is my first ever post so please be nice
I have been playing darkorbit for a long time now and i think the game lost is direction.
If u allow me, my idea of the game was that u would grind some npcs so u could upgrad your ship, keep your ammo stock and get some rocks to fuel the lasers engines and shields.
One of the greatest things was that u could just take a bigboy with some fl2s and go pvp, this was possible because u would always find someone with equivelent gear and have some legit battles.
The maximum level at the time was being fe, it was not so op that u could 3 shot everything in the game even with that ship u coudnt solo cubes 4 exemple.
Another thing to mencion is the graphics ; u see... graphics now may look somewhat better with 3d but the aliens and some ships look a bit erm... cartoonish . For exemple take a look at the old client piranha... oh men how much i miss that badass steampunk looking piranha
It looked like it was powered by burning coal , dont get me started with the aliens, basicaly they dont look scary any more (Darkorbit way is to be afreid of lordakias )
Today the game is resumed to infinite griding palladium and do some gates so u hopefully receive some more hercules and stuff and when u get to ufe u basically go pop some noobs and then back to the gates.

So after the above rant (yes i´m old client fan hehe ) lets get started with the idea i have to devs:

STEP 1 : goto test server

STEP 2 : Remove

lf4
u-lf4
upgrades
apis
zeus
hercules
havock
drone formations (maybe not arrow and turtle has they are not so op)
multi company clans (those simple dont make sence )
pet
automatic rocket cpu ( manual loading = more skill i guess
automatic rocket laucher cpu )
advanced jump cpu (ultra important)
bio (not really sure about this one the idea in the survey looks promissing)
tartarus ( this ships... no coments
surgeon
pussat )
gates (we want players on maps !! x4 could be droped by ubers 4 exemple, however keep the gg speener it is viciating )

STEP 3 : Return old weapons range, being able to shot someone of screen enabled phoenix vs goliath battles
Also we shall discuss if the ammo capacity was good, because we have some people (somehow) with infinite ammo...


---------all the above is the absolut necessary-----------------
Now the optional stuff :

STEP 4 :Textures:

make 3d versions of old client aliens, piranha, yamato, defcom (bigboy goliath and vengence look nicer now i think)

STEP 5 : launch test server for 1 or 2 weeks

STEP 6 : gather feedback

STEP 7 : profit

Well i think this is all i had in mind, please forguive my horrible english (shame me )
Feel free to give me your opinion about this and share some nostalgia from the old times
Have a nice day.

 

Quite peculiar that no one has given an opinion on this thread...

Since i started playing last year, I'm curious how the game balance was before the UFE were a thing (prob still unbalanced as it is now...)

 

someone reported

anyway, talking about balance yup it was not perfect but there wasnt players with uber lon stats
plus the good old phoenix worked for trolling porposes