Guns nButter wrote:

interference already exists, and artillery is going to be implemented soon. No reason to give smaller groups yet another built in bonus against blobs. Beta is incredibly inhospitable as it is... and as it's supposed to be.

What we need is player owned structures.

every time i see soembody say that its always the people already on beta and what that tells me it has nothing to do with makeing game grow it has everything to do with makeing your epeens grow.

you guys don't want pos's to make game and pvp grow you want them to make your epeens grow so can come on fourms and say we own x amount of pos you only own y amount our epeens are bigger then your epeens yada yada yada

pos does nothing to promote the game to new players solves nothing in the game except the egos of thos already on beta.

Arga wrote:

I think any CIR memeber would see right away if their CEO got deleted, but they have been oddly missing from the forums ...

We're not missing from the forums, we're patiently waiting on TeamSpeak for the server to go up.

As to Balfizar's quite insultive implications, we have produced our heavy mechs and mechs the legit way, with thousands of hours of effort by our miners, haulers and warriors fueling the furnace of industry.

Who really cares about end game at the moment!

First expansion has been positive but not enough, that's why player numbers increased the first week then went right back down.

Aside from his political motivation smokey is right on most points he makes. Not sure about the M2S influence. PVE is horrible specially for new players, I remember 6 months ago, confident in my new castel on level 1 missions getting blown up due to EW bots demobbing me. I thought at first I wouldn't encounter any EW at least on lvl 1 assignments, but wtf.

Then I figured PVE is all about kiting not tank, what the hell; gets boring after just a few missions manually keeping distance with wasd keys gets tiring , I just can't stand it. Then is the tiring grind of moving manually from mission to terminals and back. Well maybe its just me or are we more interested in end game? sigh

Disclaimer...these are my thoughts, if i have repeated something from previous posts no worries...didn't mean to, just ignore.  for that fact, probably most of these ideas have been posted lol.

couple of thoughts:  goal is to make game more fun for the various types that play (solo type hunters, etc).

problems:  Way to many players try this game and can't take it for long.  possible reasons....not enough content (not everyone likes nothing but pvp/mining/harvesting/production - ratting way to simplistic), the constant grind (belief that u can't get anywhere no matter how hard you try), the constant need to rebuild lost bots(up to a point thats fun, but forever?). 

Needs as i see them.  Need for small group tactics that can't be overwhelmed by larger groups.  more content for solo players (yes, i prefer solo to be honest, though i support my clan).  More stuff for pvpers to concentrate over. 

1.  Drop a heck of a lot more stuff/loot.....    reason:  I don't know about everyone else, but I play for fun.  If I have to work my tail off just to get into a bot (which i lose way to fast lol), something is wrong.

2.  Get the player owned structures done very, very quickly.  whats the downside?

3.  Change intrusions to automatically happen during the primetime of the clan that holds it.  registering clans for intrusion requires something a bit more serious...so few actually show up.

4.  Add mini-stations.  Capturing from the defending spawn grants a nice little bonus (say, a ct and a few cortexes).  whomever holds it automatically is immune from agro when it respawns (right away?)...so that if someone else attacks it defenders are able to help the spawn fight off the attack.   potential...attackers can take away, and get another ct,  defenders can hold a set period of time get some cortexes every 30 mins? holder announced on map? (if a defender harms a spawn defender, no loot for winner?).   

additional potential:  if holding clan goes inside ministation, can drive the spawn bots to help defend.  Put a few of these around each holding station, adds another level to the defense of intrusion.   Add a few defending spawns around each station. 

5.  replace the existing intrusion requirements with something more in keeping with pvp/faster?  5a.  make entering owned stations settable by owning clan...clan only, allies of clan + clan, allies of clan + clan + neuts, all.

6.  modify ai for each spawn.  part of the fun of any game is trying to figure out how to kill npcs(who otherwise are impossible to kill)...some npcs should be almost mindless, others should have lots of limitations (aka damage only, but very smart).   when it takes skill but can be soloed, way fun!  so far, npcs in this game are simply hit with hammer, if not dead hit with bigger hammer - boooorrrrriiinnnnnggggg! (death for us solo players).  would be fun to have a npc chase me around for long periods of time(not losing agro)when im kiting him.

7.  need mage type aoe class - paper cannons with aoe (artillary?).  completely different type of class to play.

8.  npc clan spawns...  add a couple of hive spawns to the game, where the npcs are protecting an area as well as a spawn structure(possibly with some good loot?), where the ai makes the area spawns act in concert.  watchdogs bring a response, etc...

potential:  nearby stations can get npc allies for future?  hehe, how do u get an npc as allie?
potential:  sneak quests in the area?

9.  clan challenge areas...with limits to the size of each group entering so that people can enjoy small group tactics(instances?)...nothing lost that enters?

10.  I suspect that some people will never join this game strictly because they know they are way behind in ep points...  see this as a problem, don't see a solution (though, allowing low point players to drive station bots of higher lvl is a possible helper, not to mention way fun).

11.  mines?  minelayers?  smart mines?  minable automatic turrets (heh)?

12.  terrain modification?  ability to attract npc spawns permanently?

13.  nukes!!!!!!  (suicide bombers?)

14.  btw, absolutely love the artifact hunting!   totally awesome! 

15.  limit some types of intrusions to one attacking clan only...even allies cannot get onto island?  possibly have entire islands where only two clans can get on at a time....allowing a small clan to try to hold a small island?

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