Time to post some honest critic review, (yes i know its long)
Lets start out with some compliments, things i like about this update are:
- Scanning bps to see how many parts you have... best of all! (simple and effective)
- Venar is not an easy planete on wich you can fly around with 1 finger in ur nose
- New bps to collect and new hard missions
- Some activity in pg again
- New soundtrack
- Fixing the functionality of rep droid, rep field and rep turret on low lvl armor. But downside leaving rep target and protector/shield out this (BUGG)
Things i dont like about this update:
- All the requirements and restrictins you put in the game
- Its called PIRATE galaxy, not RESTRICTION galaxy. Might consider changing name though. Pirates dont follow restrictions. And this game become from already being grindy, to the biggest grind game from the whole world. You should focus on creating fun and not creating as much restrictions as possible
- The bp dependency mechanism (all part of ur secret slow down plan?).
- I cannot think of any reason besides slowing ppl down as much as possible why you would implement sush thing. Forcing ppl to get all rares in the game, and holding ppl back who have not spend enough time in sirius. What is worse, players being pushed to sirius/venar to join in with the fun everyone is having, or demanding from new players they spend 5 years hunting all bps in the game before they can go to venar?? Where everyone clearly is having fun as clearly shown in the global chat. Endgame gameplay is what must keep your playerbase interested in this game! If you set the bar to high for new players they are more likely to quit before they reach Venar. All these restrictions are not any good!!
U dont hear much negative feedback from old players cos they nearly got everything, but i cant imagine being a new player.
U force us all in being bp collectors. There are different ppl playing this game, some like to collect all the bps for achievements and others are picky and only take what they need. You force all of us to be collectors, creating a big unbalance. We never had to get previous system tech to install any tech on our ships, why do this radical change now? U need time? We still dont need previous system blue's for all systems besides Venar, why do it to venar then? And this gold bp dependency is out of this world. If i only want to fly a shock in draco and want to equip golds i need to hunt them in the systems before draco aswell???? why do i need them for draco.... The only thing i would find logic is that you need rares before you can install ancients from the same system. (and that would still mean we need to get all golds but in a less obstuctive way)
- Not being able to take venar items to sirius (another slowing down players feature?).
- I've seen ur reasons behind this, but i cant say i agree. If draco players enter sirius and try to fight for effort with a full sirius equiped ship they nearly dont get any bps or cry either. We know that and we help players that come from draco by taking them in our squad. The community helps eachother. If you would allow Tau Ceti ships to enter sirius that would not change, it only makes things a bit faster and less tedious. You should not put focus on sirius gameplay but on Venar gameplay. Venar should be the place where player come daily to shoot and have fun, not forcing us to keep shooting days and days with sirius ships. We have been doing that for the last 5 years already, some fresh venar ships can only make sirius interesting again. Teamplay will still be key to flying in sirius since u need to do Clanmissions in r1-r4 and u cant do them alone. And besides why is there a reduction panalty, for you to allow us to take higher lvl ships to lower lvl systems... if that makes us only get 1 bp each giza trust me we be flying sirius ships in notime again.
- The actual purpose of part 1
Part one has only one goal, that is to collect all the bps wich you will need for decrypting the next part. 3 ships are nice but we cannot do much with them besides hunting bps on venar, once we got those its over with "fun". Its not like you gonna shoot mantis for fun on venar. Maybe some ppl might find joy in white missions for a while, but after that nothing
- Limiting ppl to get warscore when shooting mantis under a sertain lvl below you
- I don't get the gain of putting this limitation, but then again not much of a loss eighter. But i'd say spend ur time on more gamechanging features
Conclusion, you found an effective way to slow us down for a couple of years, you found an effective way for new players to "enjoy" the game for many years. Please add fun content and not restrictions.
Other things i dont like:
- You completely ignored the topic we made about graviton usage in pvp
- You keep ignoring the whole feedback topic
- The way pvp is being neglected
- The lack of fun activity's
- The implementation of unnecessary features that only affect us negatively, stop wasting time on them
Maybe try to sneak in some content that creates fun without us knowing, that would be great. Again whole feedback topic filled with ideas.
Alright that was my truth, what is yours?
