Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Man, it really sucks when devs efficiently use their time to address pressing gameplay issues, allowing them to use the rest of their time for something else while still being responsive to the playerbase.

efficient would be just doing what needs to be done, rather than being afraid to upset people and doing all these little half-assed nerfs.

There was a pretty good reason.

can't be that good if it took 10 years to change it.

I mean 300 man archon fleets were pretty routine in 2004

Yes the 50 drone limit applies to guarding or assisting, they are counted together. For example, you cannot have 50 guarding and 50 assisting, however you could have 25 and 25.

did you guys consider doing a 1250Mb limit for drone assist?

But entire fleets of missiles are fine, entire fleets of Artillery are fine, entire fleets of interceptors are fine.


What you mean to say is that the 0.0 player base is so incredibly bored with the craptastic wonder that is SOV warfare that we're willing to endure what you consider 'not good gameplay' because it makes the life sucking experience of 0.0 sov fights (you know, the ones that make you all your money in the news) remotely tolerable.

My next question would be if your player base does something, in mass, who are you to decide its not good game play? Perhaps taking a look at WHY something is done that way and fixing that instead will have a greater impact than just shoving your player bases face back in the pile of donkey **** that is Sov Warfare and telling them to deal with it.


The rest of your post is just self righteous garbage. You 100% do NOT listen to your player base, most changes that hit these forums are fairly set in stone regardless of player feedback. You ignored their statements about the Nestor, and look at that thing, your ship rebalancing has largely just been shuffling slots and bonuses with zero creativity at all and despite being told what won't work (by other people that know the game) you put in changes that you are told ahead of time by massive number of people will suck. The ESS is a joke, hated from day one. Instead of meaningful change to things like POS's and SOV that your players want we get deployable crap that clutters up the grid because entire fleets now drop mobile depot's during fights. Thanks for that. I could go on for days about what you were told wasn't going to work with HAC's and how that failure played out because of what you did to t1 cruisers.

In fact, the very best ship redo you've done is the inty, and in a non shocker the main idea for that one came from, wait for it, not you or your office but a player who wasn't on the CSM.

So go on and ride your calm high horse Rise but your design changes and ideas on balance are laughably poor. You and yours knew you were breaking damps and people didn't cry about the geddon being stronger, they outright TOLD you that you were breaking the Domi. That and the CFC (you know, half the CSM) has outright stated a public goal that they will use sentry fleets with the express purpose of you nerfing them (Its on just about every player site and this one) leads one to believe that you just typed that up because you were mad a player (you know what you used to be) pointed out the **** poor job at game balance you'd been doing.

Glad we have a Dev so easily manipulated by 1/2 of the games 0.0 player base that he would interfere directly in a war on their behalf.


So this is me outright telling you Kil2 that your player base already has figured out how we'll handle drone assign going forward, the fix was simplistic in nature, and that we'll keep coming up with new ways to afk the 0.0 game until you fix it because its garbage in the worst possible way

Stop being manipulative with your data Malcanis fleets can't reach 300 people and we all know that.

unless the next rubicon point release hits within the next couple of weeks, no, they didn't interfere in a war