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Hi @RexXxuS
I greatly admire your excellent work but I have to raise a couple of serious concerns which for me mean that the player experience is frankly not great at the moment.
- Alpha 6 is still very bugged - this is not your fault, but in combination with ultra difficult conditions that you have created on the server it just makes things too frustrating. Space at less than -270 degrees? Space at +500 degrees? POIs which are very very difficult? Fire meteor storms which fall through POI structures so you still get hit indoors and immediately die? These things are over the top and unnecessary and are making the game not fun for me and my friends, particularly when in combination with the Eleon bugs.
For example, last night I tried to fly one CV (class 4 top edge) which for some reason brings frame rates very low in space (down to nil / 2 frequently, unplayable). I crashed to desktop while leaving orbit. I logged back in to immediately fall through my CV and back down to planet. Judicious use of jetpack meant i only broke my leg, then got in an SV to get back to the CV - still floating just in orbit. Get back to CV, land SV in hangar, immediately die for no apparent reason (bug). Relaunch EGS, log in, now I am floating in space 6KM away from my CV! Luckily its not one of your āto hell with physicsā space regions and I can survive with the heavy armour that Ive bought for many credits. Ten minutes of jetpacking later, I arrive back at CV and crash again.
Another frequent EGS bug is getting out of cockpit having stopped ship, but now I am trapped in the hull of the ship. If I am prepared I have a multi tool, but then I break the airtightness of the ship and die in your -300 degrees space.
I am not a noob and neither are my friends who have 2000 hours typically. One friend was out all yesterday raiding POIs but did not pickup a single autominer core. The OAM looks to be pretty useless if we have to buy cores, why did I invest so much time mining gold to upgrade my OAM levels in v5 if it is now in effect useless?
I know the bugs are mainly not your issue - but Eleons - however the server is just way too difficult in view of the bugs still existing. In view of this also my point 2.
- Seasons. Do we have to restart with level 0 and no resources apart from (reduced) OCD again after only 8 weeks? I cant face again spending another week pointlessly killing critters to level up. Please (a) restart with all levels and (b) extend the length of the Seasons. Im going to spend 2 months building a base then have to start all over? doesnt seem right.
Again, sorry to moan, but there it is.
Cheers
sorry to say but I think your feedback is probably skewed.
People mainly want to applaud your very hard work and they dont want to moan, especially not in public, where it makes them look like not very good players. Most in my faction have serious issues but only two have posted themā¦ [ I will try to get more to post! ]
There are some ways you can avoid some of these, make sure to have a medic bay/ clone bay on your cv so when you die in space you can spawn in nearest clone bay/ home depending, spawn nearby is just asking for trouble. Design your cv so that when you dock your sv to it that your inside the cv and it has atmosphere so when you get out your not exposed to the harsh atmosphere. There is a bug where if you park or dc with your cv just just out of orbit you canāt dock your sv onto the cv without crashing, the best way out of this, is to spawn in med bay and manually move the cv further from orbit then dock the sv afterwards. I understand that these things are anouying but you as a player can make your own life easier and that of your teammates with knowledge hope this helps.
I have a feeling space is made super dangerous on purpose so people donāt camp there, their entire game without exposure to people, Planets are a lot safer to live on now so id avoid space if at all possible unless your traveling. Leveling takes maybe what 6-8 hours? it really isnāt much of a problem after each season, and with ocd and cheap sv, warp pod you can get going really quickly again. Fire rain going through structures xD yea I can see the problem with that, that sounds rather rediculas. In another thread it was said that autominer cores will be placed on market so we can buy them, before complaining about it do the math first to see if it still works out cheaper per resource, if the math is not good and its more expensive to buy the cores than the cost of the resources that come out of the amās after all that investment then im sure the admins will buff the amount of resources we get from amās.
thanks kogami I do most of these things. Never would choose respawn in spaceā¦
I feel that the case for extending the seasons to 3 months is very compelling - I would certainly like to see this.
Why?
- With the increase in general difficulty, I find that I have to spend an increased allocation of my game time to the mundane routines, rather than adventuring. The daily trip to the EGS for interest, the resource collection run, moving AMās from planet to planet due to the PvE rotation system, farming etc are very time consuming (much more so than in 5.5).
- POIās are much more difficult, so also take more time, thus a bigger proportion of available playtime.
- POIās generally require multiplayer collaboration, which limits time to when this can be coordinated
- There is so much content in the new HWS that it will take a long time to explore and play through.
- The HWS 6.0 set up is still being finalised/tweaked. The Forum guide needs to be updated and the old 5.5 info removed.
- The Empyrion bug fixes are rolling out fast but it will be a little while to a good level of game client stability is reached.
Thus for gameplay reasons, I would make the recommendation for an extension of this current season run time to 3 months.
I do understand that there is a financial reason for keeping this to a 2 month season and that there is a balance to be made here.
(PS: I have noted that the hunter board is pretty much not functioning yet, even with the server maxed out with players every day. This may well be a barometer for how little PvP is happening at the moment. My personal theory is that the majority of players are tied up with the additional time consumption, as outlined above to be engaging in such activity).
(PPS: I have tried to limit my discussion/input to focus on a single recommendation/discussion, please excuse me if I have missed other points)