[UI] Problems ingame + solutions

Hello skrubs,

I've sent this email to the support aswell.

These are the ideas a few people came up with in global chat, and we think it might help

Hello DarkOrbit support,


I'm not sure if this is the right way to contact the developers this way, but I'll also be posting this on the forums.

So, a good amount of players had a talk in global chat about ideas that could help to bring life back to darkorbit, aswell as taking on the botting problem.

These are the problems we talked about:

-Lack of players (to make it more challenging)

-Still a bit too "pay 2 win" (it's getting better though)

-A HUGE amount of botters, and its increasing with high amounts, if I look at my clan and others.

-Lack of challenging elements

-Lack of fun side elements (such as fun tasks/sidequests, secrets [e.g. cubikon graveyard])

Our solutions:

-Lack of players: As we all understand DarkOrbit makes its profit out of the microtransactions, we came up with an idea that the oldschool players that stopped playing a while ago (for example 4 months ago) would receive an email, with a boost ingame to make it fun again, another example: a few booty keys, premium, designs etc... And (to still get money out of it) an amazing deal on uridium, more than on helix sale. (e.g. 1.533.333 Uridium for 100€)

-"Pay 2 win": More microtransactions on skins/cosmetics that doesn't affect the gameplay. I know you are working on it, but making it a bit better would deffinetly help a bit, and lower the transactions on uridium, which make the game less competitive and less skill-based.

-HUGE amount of botters: Looking at other games, they have a simple/hard (I'm not a programmer) solution. Make the game a download game! First of all, you can get more out of the graphic card and out of the computer, which makes the game run smoother for some. You can also increase the graphics a bit. + You can add a program that has filedetection for hacks bots, a program that tracks what programs are open at that moment that have an influence on the game, but isn't made by BigPoint (thus, third party programs). I know that wont stop the botting, but it might help... alot.

-Lack of challenging elements: Without the JPA, there isn't much special to do when there isn't any event online. Well you can hunt some newbies, because finding players of you skill level is hard (due to lack of players). Therefore, you can add a new kind of gamemode, team deathmatch, group invasion, Pimp yo' ship, etc....

-Lack of fun side-elements: There are missions, yes. but most of them are boring and wont attract people doing them. It'd be good to add some fun secrets in the game, or make fun sidequests with a good ol' pun in it


If you have taken your time to read through this all, thank you very much. I know darkorbit still doesn't care that much about their players (it is getting better! in 2014 it was a real joke, now its good!) but taking some ideas of their players and maybe forming them in something special might deliver good reactions!
Again, thanks for listening and have a good day

Sincerely,
Saturn
GB2
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Now, I know some of these ideas may look stupid but remember: this is the idea and suggestions pool, so why not give it a try?

(Sorry for bad England)

 

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