Update..Earth to Split Screen... Is anybody LISTENING?

[pbhuh]

well, the things you have called starchaser are the things that actualy have to be done. Or they should remove the alliance max for CQ so smaller clans can team up to defeat 1 big clan.

 

[Serig]

It's nice to read a thread with well written, coherent posts even if I don't agree with all of what is said. I should acknowledge that English is not the first language for many of the posters and I couldn't post in German, for example.

I think that Split Screen does listen. For example when they changed the amount of Cryonite a pilot dropped to be based on his/her level rather than the ship. They soon changed it again due to higher level pilots in lower systems losing too much.

I can't comment on Draconis as I'm still in Gemini, but I liked the changes that came in at the same time across the wider game. I like the achievements which suit my more leisurely completist style of play. They can easily be ignored if they do nothing for you. I believe that the achievements were inspired by V1-Hyper's Total System Finaliser thread, so they have reacted to player opinion and innovation there.

The fact that there seems to be no 'official' response to complaints raised here is a good point. I think that Split Screen should reply to current hot topics in one thread locked to players. Even if it is a response such as 'we see that many in the forum don't like the recent change to **********. However we've done this for ******** reason and that's the way it's going to stay. We hope you continue to play the game blah, blah blah.' At least then people will see that the company is paying attention.

 

[selkath]

Don't worry Lool, I think you have made some valid points here, same as Datajam, the game isn't good to play.
Each step, and new patch is throwing us deeper into a bugjungle and we need to cut us through with WOODEN knives for to try to proceed in any way.

I haven't often expressed my opinions in these days, I used to do it a lot more at the old forums, but when I see something is wrong, it is really wrong and not my fantasy.

Those whos been mostly writing in this forum about their real cash spending in this game, and even many think they are one of most spenders, don't forget not all are writing at the forum about how much they spend here.

Every month I have uploaded 100€ to my debit account what I use with PayPal, these 100 are spent at PG.
So count of that how much I have been spending in this game, for eg 1 years time aka 12 months, thats 12x100= 1200€, now tell that u spend most if u tell us u have spent 400 in this game.
I guess in all I have spent around 1400-1500€ in this game since I started to play.

So yes you can count me in as a big spender in this game.

Now I as so many other players are getting frustrated with it, more and more, day by day, cause what happens here, only new stuff is introduced in the patches, and issues that should be fixed, and returned as it was, they are not touch, Why??

Now lets start from the begin:

CQ's: Return the old Cq's, throw the motherships to the trash, bring back the old days glory.
Resolution: Remove the mother ships and return old cq

Achievements: Bring back the old system, this was supposed to honor the work of Hyper 1 and 2,
I actually cannot see the point, as skulls and all old has been removed.
I rather use the achievement system of Hypers as it was before.
Resolution: Remove the new achievement system from the game.


White/Standard Missions: Vega, Antares, Gemini systems has brought ALL my DONE whites back, and therefore they do not appear at the new achievement system.
I want all what I have done before back and the missions marked as DONE.
Resolution: Fix the DONE missions to be DONE, and stay DONE!

Story Missions: Vega had a make over way back, and it was great and liked even the new story missions what was done, but why in the earth was other systems SM's touched with the Draconis update?
Why was the Testing aggro, and other mission renewed from hard to impossible?
And many other what I will not mention.
Resolution: When u work on a new system, don't touch the other systems, let them be as they were.

Engineer: Useless in these days, the gaming community was much happier, made more friends and could acquire new fresh members when they helped them out.
Lots of friendships were born in this game due to interaction between and engineer and other players, Engineer used to be, and could feel themselves important, now they were thrown to the trash, amongst with many other good things in this game.
Resolution: Bring back the importance of Engineers.

These are some of my points, there are plenty of them out there, and this list would be infinite if I kept on listing them here.
Fact is that I will let the Devs breath in between, and let them look at a few points at one time.
I can understand it can be a mess when there are so many points in each post at the forum what are ranting of the changes, and not liked issues ingame.

Here are my views on what you said

CQs: I kind of like the warships but I don't do conquest that much so I can't say much.

Achievements: Not really bothered by whole achievements ideas

White/Standard Missions: Yes, this should be fixed

Story Missions: If they want to make a hard system, fine by me, but they shouldn't mess with the lower systems, Gemini has got more harder for me and is not fun as it was before Drac came out.

Engineer: They have neutered the Engineer, my engies are worthless and it had to be right after I put the all my best tech on them, making me waste a lot of cryonite.

 

[Starchaser]

I made an add to my post you might want to read.

Many clans stopped to do Cqs due to the changes what came with mothership, a huge CQ clan like ours, Doom Train stopped them totally, if we were a Cq clan, and very active one with some planets that used to be ours, and we fought for, and it is no more, then yes I want the old system back.
The contrary, what I have seen in this new system is that only a few clans dominates the CQ's much more in these days than the old ones, so yes I see my point right.
For to have an idea of what CQ WAS and IS today, you have to be a vet player as me.

Not natural English speaker, there are lots of great add ons to every browser at the web, and most of them has a correctional tool, non natural English using that tool, problem resolved for many, me included.

Achievements, I am bothered when I see all standard missions I have done till SOL system nulled, they have appeared there again. It does not respect the work I had doing them all.
If ALL were updated with ALL past what we have done, I would love the achievements, but it was messed up and made null all work you did in the past, so I rather see it gone, if they can't fix it to be totally correct with all past history me and others has in this game, as me for 1 year and 5 months, I want to see all in it, not achievements only from the first day it was introduced in the game.

I have fully rared ships in my inventory, but where are the from the achievement list, nowhere!


Story missions should not be touch, some of them were hard before, and now some are even harder to complete, they cannot be done in squad, so they must be done solo, and that brings the fact that many players get stuck with them, they do not progress, and might leave the game frustrated to the hard work they have to do, instead of confronting a challenge what otherwise could be fun.

Engineer, I used to be top engineer in clan, I helped most of clan to reach Draconis in my engineer, I have helped other clans to reach Draconis in my Engineer, and I have reach Draconis in my Engineer.
Now I have helped several new players with advices but also with their white missions, have had lots of use of my engineer by helping ppl in distress in a pod whilst they were in middle of an sm, otherwise they had to rescue and many times sm failed and they had to restart all over again.

Now that is NOT possible anymore.

 

[CtMurphy]

I think the biggest mistake they've made in this game is killing the CQs with Levies and CQ ships, there was really nothing wrong with the old system, infact I loved it. When i was in my first clan on this game we went to CQs regulary, it's was awesome. IT was competative and the odd player could just land and have a pop at whoever was on the ground at the time, IT WAS FUN! Great fun, Sinatran, BuccaneerBill I think even Willow was around about then too, Northstar and Starchaser and sooo many more, we all had fun in CQs. but ya can't really have that anymore there.

If you just fix the CQ system back to how it was I'm telling you you'll notice a huuuge diference in the community and the rest of the game very quickly, it wouldn't ven matter about teh bonus you could just keep it at 5% like you got now and no one would care too much because mainly we just want the FUN back in our CQs.
To be honest The CQ of the last whole year doesn't een hold candle to the old days it's boring, dull and well it's the complete opposite of the old days... It's been asked for sooo many times I don't get why you don't just change it back, honestly it's sad.

and Starchaser if you have to do them all over again don't you also get the cryonite for redoing them over again? That's good right? Well I think it is lol I'm greedy for cryo right now >.>