Never mind the forums. Log into the game. Two words: Holy Shit.
Stats continue to bloat, and the removal of all the old ships guarantees there is no alternative to it. The player count is atrocious and the myriad of systems continues to be a ghost town. New ships replace old ones in identical roles for absolutely no reason. Some of the clunky models and misapplied textures make the imports still remaining in 4.85 look positively beautiful, and the poor old Camara freighter is so overlooked that nobody noticed its mapping was broken. The "economy" with more commodities is still relatively worthless because there are so few people to interact with during trading anyway, and no such thing as crafting was ever implemented. Lag out the arse continued onwards to the bowl itself, making the handful of attempts to improve the utility of missiles and countermeasures pointless. Player-owned bases are some holy grail that everyone continues to flip out over even though they're functionally pointless and a drain on time and resources, talks of making sieges last for "days" is utterly laughable unless you expect to have a playerbase composed of 95% spoiled elementary school children with all the free time in the universe. Cloaking and jump drives take forever to implement and then are "balanced" into almost worthlessness.
Meanwhile...
Governments don't have any kind of public participation, not that there are any "citizens" to partake in it. Corporations don't have any public appearance or internal structure via trade assignments and disclosure of financial statements. Poor bastards will join the game trying to be a reporter or an insurance guy, but the reporter has nothing to look at but drama everyone already knows, and the insurance guy cannot get around rules, nor is there any "veteran" demand for a non-vanilla (read: non-bland) service as such. The stories forum continues on it's never-ending march of Gary/Mary Stu monologues that nobody but the author's closest buddies reads (maybe). The communications forum is composed of nothing but A) ship/weapon requests, B) really stunted one-off roleplay stories that affect absolutely nobody in any way, and C) dinner dates between anime characters. The minutiae of "laws" for the Houses are updated sporadically and without public notice, and are not read regardless, because there is nobody around to break or enforce them. Factions reduced to numbers that can be counted on two hands are proud that they are not being shut down, and then brag about not even showing up in the server for weeks and even months at a time. And between all of this is the constant demand for "acceptable" speech in good English, even though there continue to be laughable errors in both in-game texts and the multitude of in-character posts.
New mashups of polygons and hastily applied default textures called "ships"... do not make a good mod.
New mechanics that do not correct former issues but simply compound them because their implications were never truly considered... do not make a good game.
New threads which say nothing new or unique since the mod began... do not make for a "thriving" player-driven universe.
Nurgle would be proud of this kind of stagnation, because somehow, in the face of all inactivity, lack of innovation and hypocrisy on both counts, this place isn't truly dead. But it is taking up bandwidth which would be better used for something even marginally more productive. Porn would suffice.
Discovery 4.88: Porntube Redux.
I'm sure you wouldn't have any problems with donations.
Well i cant think of any more questions so its results time.
and apparently I cant count, but lets forget that.
1. Has Gallia been removed yet? No
2. Are fighter missiles still buffed? Yes
3. Does the server still lag during large meaningful fights? Yes
4. What happened to light fighters since feb? nobody knows/cares.
5. Are player owned bases still pointless? Yes
6. Are cloaking devices still in the game? Yes
7. Are the reavers dead yet? Yes
8. Are there still buffer systems everywhere? Yes
9. Will Alpha be reconnected to Tau 37? No
10. Is the mod going to be stuck with POB's forever? Yes
0/10
Unfortunately there is absolutely no reason to come back to the mod at this point. lol
And when even the reavers arent killing people still, thats when you know its bad.
(11-06-2014, 01:21 AM)Hidamari Wrote: Well i cant think of any more questions so its results time.
2. Are fighter missiles still buffed? Yes
but limited in ammo and max 1 launcher per ship, it's not so bad.
4. What happened to light fighters since feb? nobody knows/cares.
2.0 refire light fighter guns were removed, or rather they exist as two different sets of codename guns. I havent tried out the other Light Figher guns, but I am pretty sure they aren't as extreme as they were in previous updates.
7. Are the reavers dead yet? Yes
there are still mercs out there, large-ish successful groups as well, such as Faze
8. Are there still buffer systems everywhere? Yes
they promised some of them will be removed
you are right about the other things though, but there's still occasional fun to be had.