Topic: Idea: new Alpha Island (Terraformable, able to build structure)
Hello,
now Im certain im not the first one asking for such a feature but I might can offer some new insights.
Anyway let me clarify a couple things first, I love PvP, I want PvP but there is none. Since Im playing I got into 2 fights and I guess that is considered alot but really its nothing. So what can you do in this game that is FUN besides pvp ? I keep hearing more players will fix this issue - well I doubt it. Simply because there were more players 6 months ago when I tried this game out the first time.
So what can a new player do?
- There is mission grinding, that lasts for a couple of days maybe and then its absolutely boring.
- Go AFK and mine. Or Semi AFK and Harvest. Maybe produce a newb robot no ones gonna buy anyway.
Now thats the first Impression People will get from this game. It has no point and is boring.
You need to give players something to do that is fun and keeps them playing and tease them with features which are more complex on pvp enabled islands!
So show new players features which set your game apart from the crowd!
- Create a probably 3 new alpha islands and strip them from recources.
- Create a "special" terminal which can be placed by players only on these islands (limit it to 1 per account, reuse gamma structure model)
- This "special" terminal will mark a small part of the land surrounding it as that players land and enable this player to terraform here, place more structures, and seed recources (as in being able to plant helio and the other alpha plants)
- very important: As soon as the account which owns such a terminal unsubs, all his buildings (and items within) will decay fast and get destroyed, plants can stay and be harvested by other players. It would be even better if any terraforming done by him will also "erode" and go back to its natural form. (As a developer myself this last feature "eroding" might be too difficult or too time consuming to implement. so workaround by severely limiting the terraforming ability itself, as in reduce the max height)
Now giving players some kind of personal home usually motivates people to stay, to get more involved in things and once they realize they can build more, bigger, better things on gamma they might want to try and ... we get pvp hopefully.
Im certain this would be doable to implement without too much time consumption and would create alot of entertainment for new and old players alike.