[SC] What has DO fixed? cont

I felt a need to reopen a thread with the same title because I would hope that darkorbit moderators actually care about the opinions of players to listen.

there are still a lot of problems that need to be fixed if they actually want to compete with games that are actually worth playing. I also hope players with the same concerns I have will like this post if they agree.

1. Make a 3 faction game actually be a 3 faction game. Clan wars are killing my server and nobody can do anything unless they spend craploads of money.

2. change the nature of pvp and only grant so and honor for killing players of equal strength.

3. DON'T UNBAN PLAYERS WHO PREVIOUSLY WERE BANNED FOR PUSHING SHIP KILLS. We have many players on my server who blatantly pushed kills and were banned for just 10 days. What kind of punishment is that? So they can push kills and after 10 days they can play again? No. pushers should be permanently game banned.

4. Have events that dont require players to give up their social life.

To moderators: someone needs to say this. Sorry it sounds harsh, but many people in my clan have lost their faith in the ability of the developers to make a fair gaming environment and will play other games until these issues among many others are resolve!

Sincerely,

one mildly pissed off player

 

It is a 3 faction game. If ppl on your server are complaining about clan wars then they don't understand the concept of war. Tell them to leave the clan if they don't want to be in a war. Or if the issue isn't actually faction related and just 1 clan trying to bully everyone gather ppl and do something about it.

Changing the amount of honor will do nothing, people will still try and shoot people if they are on the maps if it counts for rank points or quests.

Banning players will probably not happen either seeing as the game is currently seeing the lowest amount of players ever. It is just like the botters, people who have abused bugs or shared accounts for events, and sadly people who push. The only thing this team has done is give a warning which in my opinion was the wrong choice. Even after the warning people are still using the bots, using bugs and pushing. They've been given warnings before they should have just banned them as soon as they've been caught.

As for events, that is just how things go. Some people will invest their time and some won't. BP will not cater to the needs of few when overall it is not a big issue. Even with issues such as bots you've seen what decisions they've made.

Even tho this is not the same team as before and have been putting most of the work into the client and server merge. They have made very poor key decisions in some areas. And unfortunately it is what it is, the game has to evolve and they know that they will loser players. They started losing players the minute the pilot bio came out and now we are here.

 

meatpill-Warlord

Thanks for your sugestions. I can assure you that mods look at all suggestions as does DO/BP.

Thaks

EHD

 

The major losses to the server populations did not come until they introduced the UFE to the game. We had enough NEW players joining to compensate for the players leaving the game until the UFE started running the game and chasing the new players out before they found how much fun it could be. The addition of the Extra Galaxy Gates and "Special Weekend" stuff has also allowed people to know it was best to BOT all week long and build gates to run during the weekend and steal the top spots/ranks with minimal PvP interference.

 

Pilot bio was fine, what made the game much more difficult was the introduction of lf4's.

 

Yes.
Yes.
Yes.

These events are way too time consuming, especially the pirate event where its literally a competition of who can sit down the longest and how much Mountain Dew and Doritos they can consume in one sitting.

 

Thanks for your responses. I will do my best to respond to all and continue to give my opinion.

For the clan wars, people should not have to leave their clan to avoid being bullied and that is what I think is wrong with this game. As for the rest of everything OG said, I agree. If they want players to stop botting they need to make it easier to get ufe. If the playing field is leveled, the game will fix itself in time and wars won't be as much of a detrement to people who have to farm.

 

All the fun has been stolen from this game by those who feel the need to cheat.
I started playing this game in 2009. The first time I quit playing was when the botters were allowed
to continuously steal from DO, while the rest of us spent out hard earned money.
Now there's a whole new way of cheating, in battle. These kids these days have no morals, and you know who they are
they're on every server and they always hang together.
It's sad to see a game that used to be so much fun die.
I've met a lot of good people on this game but they're leaving or they've already left due to frustration.
smh

 

agree... the effort made by bigpoint to their game dark orbit is not enough .. Could you bring back the captcha? method to identify whether you have played boxing many hours 24/7? so whats the loopholes of doing captcha before?

 

If grinding 3 years to get UFE is fun then sleeping is a hobby.

 

Those same players group, using shared damage and hp boosters, and shoot everyone off of event NPCs. They also flame and misbehave in chat. I tried to do Demaner and got shot off every single time. Same thing will happen with the Hitac so I am not bothering. What is the point in playing a game where a couple of multi-company clans make it impossible for lesser players to participate?

Is DO really that deluded to think that people will invest thousands into an account when events are impossible to participate in? These are the same guys too who push to get their ship kill missions done..... doing 1v1s with each other for those missions. Taking turns being the 'loser' of the fight. Many of these guys were botters. Nothing bad happens to them.

On my server there are 2 MCC clans who work together to dominate events. There are not enough strong players to challenge them. So once again, I am not spending a flipping nickel on this game since I don't have an opportunity to participate.

There used to be 3 factions in this game. Now there are two.... MCCs and everyone else. Server merges will just make this worse. You might have a few more MCCs. But all this does is make newer players frustrated from inability to progress. Just prolonging the inevitable death of what used to be a pretty cool game.

Why do you think the maps are so empty now?

 

It clearly seems that darkorbit suffers from the delusion that the only players they need are the ones described above. Why then did they have to lower the prices on my server? iron mongrel is correct in every way. something to add to this: there is only one way to fix this problem. Leveling the playing field by giving away 1 lf4 every month now isn't enough because it does not solve the problem of multicompany clans working together to dominate events, thus killing the servers 1 by 1. The nature of pvp has to change. What would restore my faith is to end all clan wars and multi companies and actually force the three companies to fight each other. Look at Games like planetside 2. It has 3 companies and there are over 400 players ON ONE MAP Because there are severe consequences for killing your own faction. That game is active because it isn't broke.

Darkorbit could be that but admins insist that company wars are necessary. Why? someone leeched my cube. Someone talked crap the wrong way in chat. Someone stole my box. Boo tricking hoo. Aren't these all fixable problems? This can all end and company/clan wars will go along with it. If it doesn't end darkorbit will continue to be a dead money pit game.

One more thing: my server has two kinds of kids. the ones that are kids and the ones who act like kids but are really over 40. you are correct in that they have no morals lol.

To those following this post: Send the link to your clans

 

The latest cheat on East One is scary. It infects your system so that you can't even log out. You can't jump ports. If you shut your whole system down it's still there when you log back in.
The only way to shake it is to log in to your account on another PC. Then the infected PC will reset and let you play again.
This is some scary stuff.
It's happened 2 times to me now, but only when we fight the bully clan.
These guys are smarter then DO for sure.

 

The pirate quests are crazy. Who has the time to kill that many npc's? If DO wants this game to survive they have to better than that.

 

Good players like us will say how we feel about these issues from our perspective. If bigpoint wants people to play this game they need to prove they can fix problems.

 

They can, but instead of focusing on making great games they are focusing on revenue. Even a little too much.

 

Actually they are trying to convince the Chinese this is NOT a DIEING game and they need to make enough to pay the Techs and make a profit to do this. When there are so many wallets closing/leaving the game it is hard to prove it is worthy of the investment to keep it alive. I hate to say it but if this MERGE does not go smoothly I do not believe D O will be around much longer after it happens. The New blood is being chased away faster than it comes in, and the old Veterans are fed up with all of the ongoing issues including the MCC harassment of all players.

D O needs to get its act together before the only thing left is Gate Bashers cheating their way to the top of the charts, botting all week long to build and run gates on the weekends when they get special/double rewards.

 

Even if a server merge happens, they need to do more. MCCs are killing the game and will continue to do so until they are fixed. I like how Darkorbit is trying to level the playing field by giving out an LF4 every month for active players, but that's still not enough. All they have to do is change the game so that wars aren't an issue and the game will be as cool as it used to be.

 

Server merge.... they fixed nothing and i dont think there is anything left to fix. This version is to broken, there is no update that can roll it back to when the game was not a 2-shoot pvp / robot-like-farming horrible experience. MCCs, overpowered gear/ships, childish graphics, toxic players/new player farmers... to much. They dont even play their own game, and that shold tell you everything you need to know about this. I run the risk of repeating myself but in my opinion there is only one way to actualy fix DO.