Ville wrote:

I want new players to feel like there's a player base.  Not a tab that says General Chat(4). We need a more alive game.  Npcs that shout things in vicinity, superior observers talkin ***.  We need a little more immersion.  I'd like to be able to put up marquees outside my terminal.  I'd like to plant vanity items on my island like a robot head on a post next to a teleport, I'd like a chain to go around my chain with a $ sign hanging at its torso.  I'd like to see npc caravans spawn at teleport walking to a terminal and despawn.  Stuff like that!

*tear*

So many dreams.  So much disappointment awaiting you.

Obviously it's hard to give up on something that you've been working on for 10 years.

This is the kind of response you should have given the first time. Now my question to you is, "What can we as members of this community do to help?" Have you guys brainstormed ideas with your current community to help bring more players here?

Buddy program
If you invite someone and he/she buys the game, you both get extra EP or credits (to be decided, maybe both)
Account buddy-linking and confirmation will happen ingame due to Steam not having support for this before/while purchasing

DEV Zoom wrote:

Baer Mowser wrote:

I would think that you'd be a little worried that no one is playing the game.

How would that help?

So, you don't think there is a problem with players perceiving the game as "Dead", really? and You don't feel this is a reason for concern or being worried?, really?

You're telling me that I just purchased two accounts for $28.99 each, to play a "Dead" game and that I shouldn't worry about it?

I'd imagine that your Development team should be frantic, attempting to think of ways to dissuade your current and future community members that you are doing everything you can to bring new people into the game. Perception is key bud, if people think this game is "DEAD", it will be.

"How would that help?" Really?

Obi Wan Kenobi wrote:

Perpetuum wrote:

This just in, if you can get enough of the player base to exploit.

Its not considered a exploit.

QFT

case in point:
3 years ago there was a cargo exploit every corp in the game had 3+ members using it. DEVs banned 1 person ?

When the new ore field mechanics were put in many scanning missions became horribly broken.

Again for those these 2 issues, every corp in the game started abusing them. No one told the DEVs for at least a month or more each time.
Every person I talked to or chat log i seen at least in part said "F*** the DEVs they dont fix sh*t & dont give us what we need".

At the same time as these happened (or there about) Beacon pits were kicking off. I could go on but I think the trend is clear enough.

I told the Devs. Thats why it got fixed.

Obi Wan Kenobi wrote:

And yet so many times thru all those years, on the forums Zoom supported the use of beacon pits & AOE.

Now that is BS. Why the hell did we try to stop that by introducing all the limits and mechanics if I supported that? Way to twist things Obi.

Illiathos wrote:

That was done only to keep the mobs from moving around.

And by that you gained serious advantages because conveniently all your support bots were able to hide behind terrain, out of LoS of the NPCs.

Second, Zoom did not "create" this fiasco, you did by exploiting beacons.

*******
And they have not banned for beacon exploiting or account sharing in like 4 years from my understanding so yeah.

He is actually a moderator (with another character), though rarely does anything with it