10-24-2023, 03:34 PM
I will try my best to be constructive. I love this game, it is nostalgic. I love this community and mod despite it’s flaws. I only want things to improve.
::: JUMP DRIVES :::
Jump drives were discussed in Dev Diaries #6 - Jump Drives I’ll be talking about certain points said in that post
"Obviously I can't speak for anyone, but personally, despite having access to a jumpdrive for QUITE some time, I have not once used one on the live server. The idea of having to look up a coordinate table stashed on some discord pin, then have to input a lengthy 20+ symbol coordinate only to mess up and input it again. Not exactly a very thrilling experience, similar to alt-tabbing to set up AutoHotKey macro to type the coordinate for you. And then you end up 100k below the plane because the coordinates were old.
Imma be honest, unless I were going uh, Bretonia to Sigmas or something, I'd rather just engage cruise and fly manually"
- You did not use jump drives, something that existed since so long coz you’d rather “fly manually” you wanted to travel? (definitely not F2 and minimize) And now you changed the mechanics for everyone?
- Sure the Jump drive mechanics the coordinates and everything was tedious. But still Everyone I know used jump drives extensively. They were not perfect. Sometimes We did have to survey coordinates so that we don’t spawn 100k from the Star. Most of the times we used old coordinates coz it was till better than travelling long distances through the systems. The main use was to organize raids and PvP opportunities that’s all. And we’d have enough jump fuel to get back to where we came from.
"Then there's the fact that Jump Drives are very boring visually. You start glowing reasonably nicely, but then you just stop, the game freezes and your ship suddenly starts existing in another spot in the universe. No cutscenes, no special effects, just a *pop*."
- I never personally thought the old group hug was bad. Everyone stands close, you start glowing reasonably nicely and you reach your destination with the jump sound. Simple and sweet.
- The new system has you spawn a jump hole now with a 15ish sec jump sequence which I do think is cool but not really necessary. The bystanders will still see a jumphole *pop* out of nowhere followed by our ships. Although there are some blue after effects added to ships that jump. It happens when you exit the regular jump holes too, I noticed. Those are nice.
- Although I might like the simplified controls, But the restrictions are a bit too excessive.
-The present jump system has you spawn a jumphole.
-But even with the largest Jump Drive you can jump 8 ships max
-Oh and Only THREE systems apart. That’s right.. Just THREE
-Oh and if you jump Max distance, that’s three systems apart, All your fuel will be eaten up. Now you can’t jump back unless you refuel.
-And the full load of fuel costs 20 million (200k as per new currency).
-So Lets say you wanna jump from Omicron Alpha to New York and back, It would have taken 2 jumps and 10 million as per the old system. As per the new mechanics, It would take 4 jumps and 80 million (800k as per new currency). That is Absurd.
-Matrix will extend the jump upto 5 systems, at the cost of 2.5million (250k as pew new currency). It will again spawn a jump hole and as per my understanding allow 8 ships max.
-So why the hell do we need all these restrictions.?
Well, Yeah people did come with LOLStraegies like this one.
But the way I see it, it’s pretty effective strategy. They jumped away, gathered more dudes, came back and annihilated us when we didn’t expect. So what’s there to be mad about it?.
I’ve also been forcibly LOLjumped away by people and obliterated hilariously, to which I just laughed and moved on. All the restrictions are to counter this aren’t they. Please do enlighten me if there’s any other reason I am missing out.
But still if you were gonna put all these damn restrictions over jump drives, may be don’t make using the Jump Drives so damn expensive! Everyone ain’t Rich lel.
::: CLOAKS:::
Cloaks were discussed in Dev Diaries #1 Cloaks
-The full load of cloaks costs like 5 million.
-So again if you were gonna put restrictions that would disable buttcloaking, I don’t think the quadratic formula fuel consumption thing or crysis style movement restriction is necessary.
-And if you were going to put both these restrictions, then why does cloak batteries need to be that expensive.
::: DYING is EXPENSIVE :::
-The above 2 problems are worsened by this. There was this convenient old plugin thing which allowed us to retain our expensive ammo after death, so dying won’t affect your wallet.
-In the present version, When you die it’s gonna cost you 1-2 million (10-20k) for the shield batteries, some 2 milllion for torpedoes and everything, additional 5 million if you got cloak batteries and additional 20 million if you got jump drives. If you dock to preserve ammo, the repair costs are too high, especially if you lose parts on a Battlecruiser.
-Earlier I had no problem with people killing me even if it was a gank. Now I am skeptical coz everytime I die it’s gonna cost my wallet. I sell my cloak/JD battries and/or have it disabled in autobuy, so my shiny equipments will be eating rust 99 percent of the time. Why would I even bother to buy new ones.
-Is this intentional? Like Dying gonna keep being expensive all the time from now on? Or is this going to be fixed later?
-Please Fix it and bring back the way it was in the previous update. Not everyone is stupid rich with barges parked in every corner of the universe.
::: SUMMARY :::
-Since I can anticipate that I will be told how some systems have been deleted so Three systems is still "good enough" jump distance and how the restrictions are necessary, Well atleast make the ammo/battries cheap.
-Preferably remove the Quadratic Formula Fuel consumption thing. If Not, atleast make the battries cheap.
-Please bring back the old plugin that doesn't charge us for the lost ammo so that Dying isn't costly.
::: Conclusion :::
All I want is the game to be FUN to play. These are just my opinions about what the present state of the game is and how I'd like it to be.
Also
-I could not review Alien Cloaks since I am not a member of K'Hara I won't know the full potential. If you can review them, please post your opinion below.
-I could not review the economy/trading/mining stuff. If you did, please post what you disliked about the new changes
-Comments/Criticism/Feedback of my opinions as well as your own opinions are most welcome.
-Thank you for listening to me.
::: JUMP DRIVES :::
Jump drives were discussed in Dev Diaries #6 - Jump Drives I’ll be talking about certain points said in that post
"Obviously I can't speak for anyone, but personally, despite having access to a jumpdrive for QUITE some time, I have not once used one on the live server. The idea of having to look up a coordinate table stashed on some discord pin, then have to input a lengthy 20+ symbol coordinate only to mess up and input it again. Not exactly a very thrilling experience, similar to alt-tabbing to set up AutoHotKey macro to type the coordinate for you. And then you end up 100k below the plane because the coordinates were old.
Imma be honest, unless I were going uh, Bretonia to Sigmas or something, I'd rather just engage cruise and fly manually"
- You did not use jump drives, something that existed since so long coz you’d rather “fly manually” you wanted to travel? (definitely not F2 and minimize) And now you changed the mechanics for everyone?
- Sure the Jump drive mechanics the coordinates and everything was tedious. But still Everyone I know used jump drives extensively. They were not perfect. Sometimes We did have to survey coordinates so that we don’t spawn 100k from the Star. Most of the times we used old coordinates coz it was till better than travelling long distances through the systems. The main use was to organize raids and PvP opportunities that’s all. And we’d have enough jump fuel to get back to where we came from.
"Then there's the fact that Jump Drives are very boring visually. You start glowing reasonably nicely, but then you just stop, the game freezes and your ship suddenly starts existing in another spot in the universe. No cutscenes, no special effects, just a *pop*."
- I never personally thought the old group hug was bad. Everyone stands close, you start glowing reasonably nicely and you reach your destination with the jump sound. Simple and sweet.
- The new system has you spawn a jump hole now with a 15ish sec jump sequence which I do think is cool but not really necessary. The bystanders will still see a jumphole *pop* out of nowhere followed by our ships. Although there are some blue after effects added to ships that jump. It happens when you exit the regular jump holes too, I noticed. Those are nice.
- Although I might like the simplified controls, But the restrictions are a bit too excessive.
-The present jump system has you spawn a jumphole.
-But even with the largest Jump Drive you can jump 8 ships max
-Oh and Only THREE systems apart. That’s right.. Just THREE
-Oh and if you jump Max distance, that’s three systems apart, All your fuel will be eaten up. Now you can’t jump back unless you refuel.
-And the full load of fuel costs 20 million (200k as per new currency).
-So Lets say you wanna jump from Omicron Alpha to New York and back, It would have taken 2 jumps and 10 million as per the old system. As per the new mechanics, It would take 4 jumps and 80 million (800k as per new currency). That is Absurd.
-Matrix will extend the jump upto 5 systems, at the cost of 2.5million (250k as pew new currency). It will again spawn a jump hole and as per my understanding allow 8 ships max.
-So why the hell do we need all these restrictions.?
Well, Yeah people did come with LOLStraegies like this one.
But the way I see it, it’s pretty effective strategy. They jumped away, gathered more dudes, came back and annihilated us when we didn’t expect. So what’s there to be mad about it?.
I’ve also been forcibly LOLjumped away by people and obliterated hilariously, to which I just laughed and moved on. All the restrictions are to counter this aren’t they. Please do enlighten me if there’s any other reason I am missing out.
But still if you were gonna put all these damn restrictions over jump drives, may be don’t make using the Jump Drives so damn expensive! Everyone ain’t Rich lel.
::: CLOAKS:::
Cloaks were discussed in Dev Diaries #1 Cloaks
-The full load of cloaks costs like 5 million.
-So again if you were gonna put restrictions that would disable buttcloaking, I don’t think the quadratic formula fuel consumption thing or crysis style movement restriction is necessary.
-And if you were going to put both these restrictions, then why does cloak batteries need to be that expensive.
::: DYING is EXPENSIVE :::
-The above 2 problems are worsened by this. There was this convenient old plugin thing which allowed us to retain our expensive ammo after death, so dying won’t affect your wallet.
-In the present version, When you die it’s gonna cost you 1-2 million (10-20k) for the shield batteries, some 2 milllion for torpedoes and everything, additional 5 million if you got cloak batteries and additional 20 million if you got jump drives. If you dock to preserve ammo, the repair costs are too high, especially if you lose parts on a Battlecruiser.
-Earlier I had no problem with people killing me even if it was a gank. Now I am skeptical coz everytime I die it’s gonna cost my wallet. I sell my cloak/JD battries and/or have it disabled in autobuy, so my shiny equipments will be eating rust 99 percent of the time. Why would I even bother to buy new ones.
-Is this intentional? Like Dying gonna keep being expensive all the time from now on? Or is this going to be fixed later?
-Please Fix it and bring back the way it was in the previous update. Not everyone is stupid rich with barges parked in every corner of the universe.
::: SUMMARY :::
-Since I can anticipate that I will be told how some systems have been deleted so Three systems is still "good enough" jump distance and how the restrictions are necessary, Well atleast make the ammo/battries cheap.
-Preferably remove the Quadratic Formula Fuel consumption thing. If Not, atleast make the battries cheap.
-Please bring back the old plugin that doesn't charge us for the lost ammo so that Dying isn't costly.
::: Conclusion :::
All I want is the game to be FUN to play. These are just my opinions about what the present state of the game is and how I'd like it to be.
Also
-I could not review Alien Cloaks since I am not a member of K'Hara I won't know the full potential. If you can review them, please post your opinion below.
-I could not review the economy/trading/mining stuff. If you did, please post what you disliked about the new changes
-Comments/Criticism/Feedback of my opinions as well as your own opinions are most welcome.
-Thank you for listening to me.