Aye Pod wrote:Probably your PC.
The game isnt polished nor updated but its what you make of it. Comparing it to EVE will leave you feeling as if youve made a mistake as this games budget is but a tiny fraction of EVEs. It still can provide you with countless hours of fun if you truly want it.
Can I has your EVE stuffs?
Negative, it is not my PC. I did figure out that the disconnect issue only happens when I am in the terminal. I assume it boots me on purpose but its annoying. I am sitting there reading or looking at the market and I get booted. Can we extend the timer on this?
So I have been playing a few days now and here is are my current observations:
1 - The starting reward of 40k EP for new players was in the form of a gift that you had to click on. But I never figured this out. There are several issues to this. #1 the tiny text... at the end of the tutorial you are told you would get some rewards, but it is unclear what they are. The icons for the rewards are small and you cant really tell what they are. When you hover over it takes a while before text pops up telling you what they are. The 1st time I ran the tutorial I did know a description would pop up on hover... also, the gift is plopped in the background of the terminal screen... I had no idea this was a "gift box." I just looked like a background shape, almost like a logo. I had no idea I needed to click on it until people told me on the bug forum. These are all easy to fix and would help the newbie experience a lot. Again, the font size issue is a problem. Just look at the steam forums.. There is a complaint every 25 or so posts.
2 - Its desolate... in my near 4 days of play, I think i have seen a total of about 6 or 7 players in game and I ventured all the way out to public gamma (which I was not able to get into... due to faction issues... but its owned by a player faction so I have no idea what to do...). This is hard to fix without population, but it can be simulated somewhat. See #3 below.
3 - The economy seems dead. I am not sure if this is game wide but almost nothing has changed in the market the last 4 days among the stuff I was monitoring (stuff that newbies might need). The same orders are still up, no one is buying resources (like ore or liquid) and the only way to offload them seems to be to sell into existing orders. This is ok, but there is a problem. If I want to buy anything, its very expensive which explains why much of the stuff on sale has not moved in 4 days of me watching (resources especially) which is also why I tried to venture to public gamma only to be turned away.
Take a look at X2/3 (the best AI run econ simulators I have played to date); adding AI caravans and traders can help the game ambiance. Instead of infinite stuff available in the terminals (like ammo and low mechs), make the AI go out and earn it or allow players to sell the resources to the terminal. As the terminal build reserves, its price for said resource should decline and vice versa. As supply of ammo and light bots builds up, price should come down which would be very nice for us newbies who want to try out other faction bots early on.
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You have a good game going here. I am enjoying it as much as Eve if not more since I dont need to worry about subscription fees. I hope to pop into PvP in the next week or so. It took about a day to get a good handle on ammo types and weaknesses of various bots. I just cant tell what they are by looking yet. I have to pull up the info to see what it is.