I have also just about given up on this game. I was really looking forward to Draconis, thought it would be exciting, but after its release, things have gotten worse, WAY worse! Is it just me or have the BP drop rate in Draconis gotten lower?! It takes me I don't know, about an hour or 2 just to find ONE simple blueprint!
The Repair Droids are completely useless now, and the Draconis techs prices are ridiculously high!
Cryonite in Draconis is pathetic, and is now extremely hard to grind and to level up!
Now I will be taking a break from PG, and I will probably soon completely quit if this game if it doesn't change! I might visit from time to time, and might come back when things have gotten better than it is now, but for now, you won't be seeing me around.
I too have found another game, waiting for its release. And playing another game while waiting for that games release. You'd better change SS, or you will lose a LOT of players!
Back in 2009 things were much better than what PG is now, people were happier.
Yes there might have been some bugs back then, but it was a bit more easier to progress through the game, and I didn't see ANY rants on the forums! About the old CQ system, it was MUCH better than the CQ system now.
Because at that time it wasn't all about how many people were at CQ. Now, the CQ's are pathetic, in the old CQ anyone could enter the CQ, even people without clans, people enjoyed, and could come at any time while the CQ is on, and could leave at any time while the CQ is on.
Now, the CQ's are all about number, because now the most people at CQ win because a clan with 40 members at a CQ can easily take out the other clans CQ ship, while the clan with the least number of people lose the CQ due to the other clan with a lot of people destroying their CQ ship within about a minute or 2.
Another problem with the new CQ system is that now people who aren't in a clan cannot participate and enjoy. Please remember that this game is called "PIRATE GALAXY" for a reason! People should be able to come and leave CQ's at any time they like! Clanless people should be able to come and go from CQ's at any time they like!
If this game is called "PIRATE GALAXY", they why is there SOO much restrictions?! There is no restrictions according to a pirate. Pirates have no rules, they do anything they want! Pirates come and go at any time they like! They kill anyone and take anything they have. Pirates do a lot more, and if you continue adding restrictions, then why not change this games name to "HAPPY GALAXY"?!
I don't see anything to do with pirates in this game anymore! and now when you pod a player, they lose nothing! completely nothing! Back in the days they had a small chance of losing a BP(or rare) to the enemy player! now we lose nothing! We should at least be able to lose a tiny bit of cryonite!
Another problem now is the: "you can get EXP from mantis that are 8 levels below or 8 levels above (or in between)", I do not agree with this! If a lvl 60 kills a LOT of mantis drones, then yeah fair enough he shouldn't get any EXP. But if a low level kills something more than 8 levels of his own rank, then he should get the EXP, because it makes NO sense that a low level killing a high level mantis and gets nothing in return!
Something else that needs to change is that higher system ship being able to do white missions in ANY system. White missions aren't story missions are they? It wouldn't do any harm if they could do white missions in any star system. Now, the final problem, is that engineers can't repair you from out site squad? I'm sorry but I do not agree ONE BIT of this.
The engineer class have their name for a reason! Now they are completely useless, I think they should at least be able to use their materializers to materialize podded players. Otherwise they are almost useless.
Another problem is, whatever happened to the starter pack in the item shop for new players, I think it should be returned to help new players get into the game, along with the accelerator booster and the prober booster.
Another problem is the new Vega system storyline, I think it should still be like the old storyline, because the old one gets the new players used to the game story lines, and the old one also requires more teamwork than the new one, the new one is actually easy, I could do all new Vega story missions WITHOUT being helped until I got to the Aurora missions, and on the PTR I could do all of them solo until "Behemoth battle", ALL in a lvl 3 ship!, same with on the live servers!
I am sorry for this huge wall of words, but I just had to say this in this section of the forum, and might say this on the Praise and Rants section! Delete my post if you wish, but what I say is my opinion of this game and which way it is heading, which I think is going down, we all have our opinions of this game. Like I said, I will visit this game from time to time, and might come back If things are better, but not now. This is the reason why I have given up on this game, and for those who will still play, good bye and good luck!
Good Bye all.
Tyrannus
