Gremrod wrote:Celebro wrote:Thanks Gremrod, by content I meant tools and more sand sorry.
I thought you meant that, but you know how I am. Always correcting things IMO.
Celebro wrote:I don't agree with you that more landmass is not needed. Even with the doubling of the game world earlier this year and a low population it was the best update to date and made me stay after the mining nerf. Players are attracted to large game worlds, even more so in a sandbox, but to have more players you need more space , so that players can create content.
I agree it was a great patch. But is the current landmass being used fully?
atm no its not but IMO the land mass we have atm is poorly set out out. as it stands right now this game land mass could take only 400-600 players. MAYBE 800 during peak times.
The way the islands are placed i think has been poorly thought out. there needs to be buffer islands between the main beta islands... aka islands with out any stations on them.
The game world can only support 3 power blocks maybe 4. And they will be at each others throats 24/7being so close to each other. good for pvp yes bad for longer term economic stability.
EVE had the right idea. build a Sh*t load of space & let the players fill it up over time.
Gremrod wrote:Celebro wrote:Can I ask how players can create content, with no POS, limited corporation features and no alliance features at all?
While I agree that more tools will help players create more content, I think content has already been created with the current tools in game.
Chat channels used by multiply entities (corps) forming their own alliances. Player driven alliances. They did it without an alliance feature. Yes it would be easier with built in tools, but these alliance tools not being presant in game didn't stop alliances from forming.
Players that create player ran pvp matches with only the tools in game. (62nd did this every Sunday for sometime.)
Corps, creating secure mining of epi on some beta islands for people that don't have combat chars for a small fee being some of the epi they mined while being protected. ( I believe 62nd did this for a bit and some other corps. )
The politics between all the power corps is content and is all created by the players.
I am sure there is more.
I have to disagree to some point gremrod. Yes players have managed to make alot of content in this game over the past year but remember this. It was the EVE crisis 5 months ago that gave this game a shot in the arm. A damn lucky shot i think to. If it hadn't happend im sure poo would be hitting this games proverbial wall a number of months ago.
So that says to me the games current ability to drive & MAINTAIN player driven content isnt enough. Because its not sustainable.
I have 2 accounts about to expire next month & i have to say im probably going to follow Celebro's lead. Ive been around over 1.5 years many awesome things have come in but the big ticket items ive been waiting for .. well i dont think we have even had a dev blog about them in 8+ months.
theres no game advertising only word of mouth sure that works but have the devs said why they dont put ads up? NO. they could have done a slightly better job on that front.
Content they said would be in by the end of this year isnt. In a DEv blog the devs sent out way back in February has not happend. Does that bother me ? not really actually. what bothers me is not even a small bit of news is sent out to say " hey guys were still doing these things but we are going to take a bit longer".
their communication can lack alot. And i dont mean thru comments on the forums. Dev blogs are there for a reason & we know they have no issue just making small blogs to update us on things they r doing.
*rant off*
edit: i agree with what Alexander said 100% but unlike him avatar creations isnt a charity that i give my money away to Perpetuum is a game & its a game that right now is being of the lame. freighter bots dont make content
True Pros make a Podcast to influence the Devs minds,
The rest of you guys are Hacks
PS. I got my Highways & stopped playing b4 they came in & have never used them! ...... Irony much ?