Guys should have left well enough alone on the gameplay issues, IU, and GG/repair damaged gear situation. There is enough that sucks about the changes to the look of the game that will take time to fix, to have to deal with your idiotic attempts at copying other games' styles. The UI gets in the way of gameplay....all the time. make it more intuitive and less invasive. If you need a reference go look at Black Prophecy. They have it down.

The simplicity is what made SS great. Please listen to your playerbase and stop making stupid changes that are unnecessary and more annoying than the way the game was before

Random rage is not productive. Suggesting a fix for a system you don't like is a much better way to get your point across. Having a topic title that says "shit sucks" screams 9y/o ragequit.

I agree. The UI is very annoying and overly complex. The old game was simple and more easily understood. The new mouse icon even gets in the way and sometimes it hard to find menus.

Getting used to this new setup will be hard for me personally...

yes cause every is going to go deadicate 4 year of their life to programing just so they can offer a fix lol get real. No there is a alot of stuff about C2 that DOES SUCK plain and simple.

Same. In two minds about it at the moment. Whenever I want to test something and see how it goes someone wants to pvp, and i suck at pvp at the best of times, let alone with a new system i don't know how to use yet.

It looks good, but gameplay seems much harder, (as in the basic stuff, a/p-ing 12 gals can take a while when you hve 4 goes at every gate to get thru).

I'll give it a go and see how long it takes me to start enjoying the game again. But if it takes too long......

And to be honest, the fact that others have decided amongst themselves that it's a pvp uni has defeated the purpose of having a temp uni where ppl can get used to the gameplay. it's frustrating enough without that as well.

they wanted it to be pvp week so they could blame c2 if they get killed.

Maybe get used to your character in some place other than the perilous pvp playground? It's not like Wild Space and Earthforce Space need you to be level 5000+ to enter...

I disagree. The new UI isn't perfect and could ue a little tidying but it doesn't feel any harder. I realise that not having spent years learning to use C1 might make me a poor person to say this in many people's eyes but if you ask me it makes me better qualified. I haven't spent so long using either system that it's instinctive, I'm not trying to use a new interface after years on an old one I've only played either as a relatively inexperienced player. As such I think when I say "it's not really that different" it might actually have more weight. That said, C2 doesn't feel quite as polished as C1, there's a few things not working properly, I don't feel when you're comparing the clients it's fair to say "Oh we should go back to C1 because C2 isn't finished" but that C1 was a better experience due to this. That doesn't mean I think we should roll back to C1, when you look past the things which should be ironed out in the coming months then C2 on the whole is a better interface.

Of course I've not got to grips with bases yet, they may turn out to be hugely more complex but everything else is very similar. The drone controls are better but the map is worse (too small, WAAAY too small and fullscreen... resizable would be good). The area needing the most work is when you're docked at a station. The window isn't big enough, and this shows when you try to buy ships. One or two ships descriptions in the shop don't work as they get cut off, I guess it'd be fiddly to be able to resize the space station boxes but I think we should either be able to do so, or they need to be bigger.

I have noticed a bit of lag (makes combat confusing very occasionally, though I remember a little of this lag in C1 too) and sometimes the game seems *really* buggy or just inconsistantly laggy when dealing with items in your ship. I've got a new engine/shields etc, gone to equip them, sold the old one, and then suddenly the new one is sold and the old one is equipped. Though it'll also just equip and unequip the same piece even though I'm clicking on a different piece when re equpping sometimes. I suspect this is just me needing to click once more somewhere or the list of items not refreshing, but it's still confusng, frustrating and something which just shouldn't happen (I assume the items are swapping places but it's not showing for a few seconds). I suspect there's a few other things too.

If they can't get those things sorted eventually then hey, I guess due to technical stuff C2 does suck. But when I look past bugs and at the actual designs C2 isn't a step back at all.