I really feel that the complete silence except for a monthly blog if we are lucky has done a great disservice to this game.  We have had pretty major bugs that have not even been acknowledged, let alone fixed.

I agree that we need war as it fuels many aspects of this game.  Even so, we need the PVE corps and players (carebears) to feel like they can do stuff and contribute in their own way.  Grinding billions of kernals just seems so lackluster, ESPECIALLY when the spawns are bugged big time.

WHY did they feel the need to make Beta a "safer" place to be?  Attacks on Outposts were few and far between that really held any consequence for the holder.  Sure, we saw what a major almost server wide team effort could do to a single outpost, force holder out.  Sure we saw some OPs get down to the low level of 80..  But in the end, No one really cared enough for whatever reason to keep pursuing either defending or attacking them.  Maybe because alarm clock gaming STINKS for both attackers and defenders?

Walls made Beta even safer and harder for the roamers to potentially gank a few miners or other bots before reinforcements came, and ideally a larger battle ensued.  Walls allow people to darn near 100% of time to safe log their miners, and then sit around and contemplate gathering up a group to fight the roamers.  We all know that most of the time if we can only get 3 bots together and opposing force has 12, we will just stay docked and the roaming force doesn't find too  much to fight. 

I don NOT think the PBS will be the saving grace this game needs at this point.  Who will really care, and Why will they care about PBS?  Once they are up and the newness has worn off, it will be another ho hum aspect of the game just like alarm clock gaming and worthlessness of the Sap system.

Current idea of random ore spawn locations is another complete fail, IMO.  Mining is already for most of us not our number one thing we like to do.  It has its place, but just the idea of having to take the time to Scan, get lucky find a spot, THEN assemble the mining force to go out to mine is just another kick to the groin.  Ugh, why make mining even MORE tedious and time consuming?

No WAY!!!?!!!  Someone else who actually wants a response from the DEVS?  Hey Devs you following along here??  Could we get an acknowledgement on this and/or the Killmail BUGS?  Why the silence?? 

I just can't think up a rational solution as to why these bugs have continued for so long with NO response from the Devs?  Why would they give us the silent treatment here?

I don't log in much right now either.  Spawns are stuck in buildings, and as soon as I engage the spawn I get massive lag spikes where before I never had this issue.

Just in past week, it seems whenever I go to engage in combat (NPCs) i get huge lag spikes until i kill them.  I can hear my guns fire, but don't see the effect, I hear the bots explode, but don't see it, I hear them locking me, but they dont show up on my screen or landmarks until a few seconds later.

Sigh, just seems to be another major issue that most likely we will not get any response to.  Yet, they are spending time and effort on PBS???  Game is breaking down slowly but surely and they want to introduce even MORE things that will need tweaking and fixed??  I just don't get their silence and how they prioritize their time.

Lemon, appreciate the link, but this is exactly what Im talking about.  Unless I missed it, Dev asks if the bug is still happening.  There didn't appear to be any acknowledgement once people said Yes it is.

You are right, Killmails aren't the hugest issue, nor the most gamebreaking issue in game.  BUT, they have been broken for a LONG time, without any response in these forums at least saying they know they are broken.

Shoot even if they told us to STFU, we would know their stance on it.  Im not looking to be babied, but some form of response would be GREAT.

@grem + Anni-  I totally forgot about the newer ticket system.  I'll give this a shot.

More communication from the Devs, instead of a "maybe" once a month Blog post would be SO SO appreciated.  It doesn't even have to be a huge "state of the game" message, but just acknowledging the little things.

Agree with lupus. "When you build a house are you done?  Having been a home owner, I know that is anything but the case. There is always something you have to do, maintenance you have to perform, things that have to be replaced, and the occasional broken something, or a tree falls on your garage during a storm.  There is upkeep to keep your home in good shape.

The fact remains that walls, as they were, are unbalanced as hell.  Instead of playing around with them and figuring out the issues and what would happen to game play, many went hog *** wild with them.  And anyone who bothered to think about it objectively could have seen a mile away that some change was going to happen with them, especially if they were abused.  Now you have to be willing to maintain them, and lets be honest people, if you had been reasonable in their deployment, this would not be an issue.  Short sightedness will always end up with it's price.

PS- Walls are not a replacement to that which truly defends territory, an armed force effective enough to defend itself.  Unfortuneately, many resorted to walls as their main defense because they were not able to effectively defend themselves with firepower or scouting out hostiles to keep assets in the field safe.

BETA = RISK, that is what justifies the rewards.  Instead, you want the rewards with little to no risk. For such, stay on alpha, it's where you belong if you want no risk."

Also- Walls are just a terrible idea for the game right now.  The small landmasses are now even "smaller" plus more.

That;s fine Gargaj, but the IN GAME mails have been bugged since last major patch.  SO something is wrong from inside the game, then it is going to try and send that info outside of game?

Read forums, In game kill mails have been really really buggy.

Once again, thanks for the effort!

I would also like to hear from the DEVS what they feel is working so far in game for them, and what they feel is still needing some tweaking.

Hearing THEIR perspective (NOT future things/direction) would be wonderful.

Any chance at this?

Seems this bug is still around.................................

They degrade so slowly.  If you want benefits of noralgis, you have to maintain them. 

Roads in real world need maintained too.

If you build mega walls and want the benefit of the walls, you should have to maintain them.

For the record, I dislike all the walls at this point.  I've hated the walls on Hersh and their limiting me where i can go in so many ways.  I especially hate the walls now since I can remember when the "small" islands were open and free for movement.

Wait, so 62nd/War now doesn't like how something turned out??   You were all stoked about the walls.  Did you not spend enough time on IRC telling them how you want your game made for your specific desires....:fuuu:

Did not CIR threaten to leave game or "testers" as you call it also.  They actually DID when they didn't get what they wanted.  Will you do the same?  Time will tell.  But most of us know the answer.  You will just get back into camping IRC and telling them how you want the game to be.  Unfortunately they've listened to you too much already.

Walls prohibit roaming.  They make Beta too safe for the Beta rewards.  I really dislike the walls then and now.  I really don't have much faith in the Devs seeing that they release Probes, and Walls and don't have the foresight to see that they will not be good for the long term success of the game, plus many other cascading /scratch my head moments.

They also shouldn't keep trying to placate the IRC campers telling them how to make their game, which ironically benefits one Corp's playstyle.

Too bad you had randoms BEFORE they made all spawns random.  So if you wanted random spawns you could've fought them.  Now you don't have a choice.

Devs, you should keep in mind that people like this HAD the ability to fight random spawns.  People HAD the ability to fight more static spawns as well, now they don't, unless its mission.

I liked how it was.  We had some random spawns and some static spawns.  Please think about changing it back.

This pretty much says exactly what I was thinking.  I liked having some random spawns to go to, but I liked the more static ones also.  The fitting for what you are fighting is an issue, and wasting more Nic on ammo just to kill the light bots and hope it generates a mech it lame.

I also farmed a now random spawn today for 2 hours and it only spawned ONE "mighty" bot.  Totally not worth fighting like this spot used to be.

This change needs some reconsideration!