#9 Tau Ceti Part 3 & Conquest Rework

[conan]

no answer is an answer too......

 

[Highway]

Great feeling to get the first Release Candidate for the Conquest Update on the closed PTR. Release is not very far away

Beware: Changelog will be massive

@conan Check out one of the recent changelogs for get info how the clan fund will work in the future

 

[HerrFox]

How does the game continue after that? Do they concentrate on Tau Ceti again?

Are they considering releasing the game on Steam? There was such a project many years ago, until it became quite quiet. (Greenlight) It would generate more players and new clans and alliances could be built.

 

[gonzaabel]

I think they will work after this update on TC 4 (the final update for TC). Following the articles in this DevShack section of the forum all paths lead to it.

About Steam integration, here an answer from Highway on DS Forum about this topic:


Source: https://forum.dinostorm.com/threads/steam-for-dino-storm-plsssss-xd.19622/#post-51881


I'm good at finding information around the forums

 

[KingSub]

As i know PG and DS are in foucs.. But Steel Legion got not any big updates in years.. So i think when DS and PG is finished with tau ceti + maybe intro of an newer starsystem, focus will go on to the other game.. Just sayin

 

[Vesperion]

Without of any source the rumors say that once TC4 is done and with that TC will be finished the focus will move to DS again for some time. Like said i have no evidence or confirmation about this so it may be just a rumor.

A reason why the Steam release maybe is/was not done is that Steam charges pretty big fees for each transaction that is done over them and should be around 30% according to >>>this source<<<. So i assume that this idea was droped at some point and the release never happened cus i can remember that during Greenlight PG accepted for it but the move for it then never happened afterwards.

I mean considering the time it was added for Greenlight to now is just "a couple of years" and some of the updates show since how long it was planed cus it even has the old article about the "original TC idea" that sadly failed in every possible way >>>Steam Greenlight<<<

 

[HerrFox]

Well, if it's the too high Steam fees, the Epic Games Store is significantly cheaper for developers, as we have read several times in games magazines. Even if it is highly controversial among many players because of the many exclusive deals to the detriment of Steam. Either way, Epic has millions of users, just because of its own games. In the end, I don't care on which platform, but this game here desperately needs a new multitude of new players so that new clans can emerge again. And so that the lower star systems are visited again.

 

[Sypical]

Well, if it's the too high Steam fees, the Epic Games Store is significantly cheaper for developers, as we have read several times in games magazines. Even if it is highly controversial among many players because of the many exclusive deals to the detriment of Steam. Either way, Epic has millions of users, just because of its own games. In the end, I don't care on which platform, but this game here desperately needs a new multitude of new players so that new clans can emerge again. And so that the lower star systems are visited again.

Regardless of which platform is cheaper, it could still be beneficial for the game as a whole. Starting off on Epic Games launcher wouldn't be bad if it brought new players in with it, that would be interested in the game, and would consider paying at least a little bit. If releasing the game on another platform would actually bring in new players and some good income that would be able to pay off both the fees of being on the launcher itself and give some income, the devs could consider different options that would be given to them, such as hiring new devs to make content faster or upgrading the servers etc. It's still a risky thing for them to do, because if it doesn't bring in many new players or income, then it would slow everything down, as now they'd have less money because of the fees.

In the end, I wouldn't expect anything of that sort to happen, at least not any time soon. The devs may surprise me but as it stands right now, it's not the best move for them to release the game on any other platform, and especially not any more than Dino Storm, as if I'm not mistaken, it's the more successful game of theirs, that has a bigger player base and makes more income than Pirate Galaxy.

 

[Vesperion]

The devs may surprise me but as it stands right now, it's not the best move for them to release the game on any other platform, and especially not any more than Dino Storm, as if I'm not mistaken, it's the more successful game of theirs, that has a bigger player base and makes more income than Pirate Galaxy.

I think this would be something only SSG itself knows + i hardly belive that they will give us the actuall numbers to see what game brings more income

At any rate the last time i played Dino Storm is around 1 year ago or something like that and what i still remember from it in compare to PG is that it has a daily login reward, some sort of upgrade system by collecting mats and rndm quests that you could do for XP and the ingame currency. Sure not really things that nowadays something special but can you keep hooked to a game and the thing with "ride your own dinosaur" made it unique in its own way. Next thing i remember was the different ammo types you could use and that "prem ammo" could be found rndmly.

Don´t know if and what have changed over the course though but imo some mechanics of DS could be used and implemented in PG as well. Somewhere in my older posts i made the suggestion that we could find at a very low rate "drone parts" that would allow us to enhance the drones even further until lvl 10 but i would have to dig that post out 1st or maybe consder doing another proper suggestion post about it again cus if i remember correctly it was more an inbetween idea.

Well, if it's the too high Steam fees, the Epic Games Store is significantly cheaper for developers, as we have read several times in games magazines.

In terms of Epic i don´t know if it then gives some sort of "exlusive launcher rights" they use cus from another Online game i know and play from time to time the Game launcher was removed when the devs decided to use Epic in order to make things for Crossplatform play easier what was the main reason of that decision.

Since that the game can only be played over the Epic Games Launcher what is kinda odd for me cus it forced all players to create a Epic account if they had none and the feedback for that move was not really the best cus if your name was already in use at Epic you could not keep your name that you had registred with creating your account before the change happened...

 

[KingSub]

I think this would be something only SSG itself knows + i hardly belive that they will give us the actuall numbers to see what game brings more income

At any rate the last time i played Dino Storm is around 1 year ago or something like that and what i still remember from it in compare to PG is that it has a daily login reward, some sort of upgrade system by collecting mats and rndm quests that you could do for XP and the ingame currency. Sure not really things that nowadays something special but can you keep hooked to a game and the thing with "ride your own dinosaur" made it unique in its own way. Next thing i remember was the different ammo types you could use and that "prem ammo" could be found rndmly.

Don´t know if and what have changed over the course though but imo some mechanics of DS could be used and implemented in PG as well. Somewhere in my older posts i made the suggestion that we could find at a very low rate "drone parts" that would allow us to enhance the drones even further until lvl 10 but i would have to dig that post out 1st or maybe consder doing another proper suggestion post about it again cus if i remember correctly it was more an inbetween idea.


In terms of Epic i don´t know if it then gives some sort of "exlusive launcher rights" they use cus from another Online game i know and play from time to time the Game launcher was removed when the devs decided to use Epic in order to make things for Crossplatform play easier what was the main reason of that decision.

Since that the game can only be played over the Epic Games Launcher what is kinda odd for me cus it forced all players to create a Epic account if they had none and the feedback for that move was not really the best cus if your name was already in use at Epic you could not keep your name that you had registred with creating your account before the change happened...

i don't think that the developers are interested in joining a new team after almost 12 years of development work just to save some money ... the data of the games would have to be disclosed so that epic games can work at all. you also have to consider that the epic games are programmed completely differently. At the point with the accounts, there would be the solution to be able to select several protals e.g. Splitscreen Studios the general server where the data is also received and then the Epic Games Portal ... as nice as it all sounds, it is not that simple. Steam is a better solution.

 

[hektor.barbossa]

Tc,cq update And Where is RDX Event ??
February and devs sleep,only cq working.

Who need cq where can only win cryo ?
Made finaly somthing to earn gold,boosters[small for hour,3h] or somthing interesting.

2years working on cq what will be interesting for max 2 weeks and people stop play anyway.

 

[Vesperion]

Tc,cq update And Where is RDX Event ??
February and devs sleep,only cq working.

I assume RDX will happen around march/april again but tbh i don't really care about the RDX Event itslef cus it's boring AND tedious as hell so that i simply throw 125k of Gold to the company and be done at day 1 with the event if it gives a new RDX of course..

Aside from that it's not uncommon that the announcement of the event drops 1-2 weeks before it actual happens.

 

[KingSub]

Y'all now this topic is for tau ceti and conquest rework right? So why discussing something that doesn't belong here

 

[Vesperion]

Y'all now this topic is for tau ceti and conquest rework right? So why discussing something that doesn't belong here

Says the one who talked some post ago about adding PG to Steam/Epic that also has nothing to do with TC/CQ

 

[Fission]

Hello Pilots,

Please try not to do off-topic and focus on the purpose of this thread. We would not like personal discussions here if its possible.

Greetings,
Fission

 

[HerrFox]

Well, you can see that however you want. Lack of players will also affect the new conquest system, which is flown by the same clans over and over again. Where are the new clans in the new conquest system?

It is directly related and affected. So there can be no talk of off-topic here. It is not an easy topic, but avoiding it does not solve the problems and does not make it any better. Sooner or later you will be confronted with it. This only postpones it a little. To see the whole thing as off-topic shows that people are not yet aware of the scope of this problem.

 

[Fission]

Hello @HerrFox ,i am personally aware of the problem u describe,

But that isn't something specifically related to the Conquests but something that affects all the aspects of the game itself.

We appreciate a lot feedback from the community, but we would not want this to turn a fight between players

Greetings,
Fission

 

[TheExecutor]

Hello @HerrFox ,i am personally aware of the problem u describe,

But that isn't something specifically related to the Conquests but something that affects all the aspects of the game itself.

We appreciate a lot feedback from the community, but we would not want this to turn a fight between players

Greetings,
Fission

Hi Fission, whilst you say this isnt related to the conquests directly its still a relevant part to the community and this thread as sad as it may be, the amount of work the development team are putting in will be for nothing ultimately if the player base continues to decline with no fresh players.

As much as I do enjoy pirate galaxy I know a few people who have recently left which is a shame.

The community of players have a good point about the player base and how this will affect cqs.

 

[Highway]

The CQ update is now live for some weeks and as well received a few adjustments along the way to improve the gameplay/fairness. What are your thoughts on it?

 

[dontbelive]

The CQ update is now live for some weeks and as well received a few adjustments along the way to improve the gameplay/fairness. What are your thoughts on it?

Make cq more fair and abandon the ancient techs.
Cq would be more fun and challenging if we are only allowed to use gold bps.
Ancient techs make it fairly unfair.