Can someone do me a favour and write a tl;dr for this entire suggestion thread

This is as much tl;dr as I can condense.




1. Reduce techs to make endgame seem more reachable. from t1-21 to t1-t6

2. Balance classes for solo play, team play, early level, mid level, and end level, and increase total amounts of class supported designs. so obvious that pointing it out doesnt help.

3. Discourage the really small teams, increase teamwork requirements of bosses/AI, and vastly reduce the need to sit still and shoot for a long time on auto-fire. this was never part of my suggestion.

4. Discourage colony camping with lower income per colony and income fluctuation based on random daily events. this was not suggested either, the "massive amount of creds" would be less valuable as everything would decrease in price to more reasonable levels

a different cash sink method would need to be employed, such as imp seal type skills, and an "upgrade/benefit" system to allow teams to purchase "teamwide bonuses" that are temporary, and affect non combat things, like extraction rates, build times, build costs, etc

5. Increase Daily/Hourly/Weekly missions for random jobs, increase rewards for completing missions in a group. Increase respawn of roaming ubers (Theres one with a 14day respawn time still), increase the droprate of droptable items for roaming ubers. Also randomize the galaxy in which roaming ubers spawn from each time.

6. Make Ubers Ubers. Use effects, super items, boss scripting, and shouts to make Ubers really stand out instead of being 'normal AI's with a droptable of specific items'.

7. Encourage non-war conflicts by rapid de-aggro system, a finished repair system with cost based on the ship itself being damaged, and instant transfer (creation, enemy will lose money to balance it when he repairs) of money when person is killed.

Reduce the impact of large teams annihilating smaller teams with bvb (as soon as zeph dropped their kits, THC lost their gal, period). Both sides have to work at killing each other. Tweaks should not be usable on bases.

Your suggestion is to make the game much more playable. The discussion changes to fit the need of the people involved. I listed as small as possible on changes that would make the game much more playable.

So what if they don't all fit your perfect world? Does it hurt you that much that there may be other people more concerned about a topic than you?

you have your own suggestion to fix an extremely similar problem, and yet you deny that the problem even exists?

I'm not aware that I've denied anything except your delusional notion that all content besides endgame PvP is worthless.

I'm going to stop visiting this thread, because no admins read past the first post I suspect for this reason: You're suggesting throwing out the entire system and starting from scratch.
1) that's too much work
2) that's not necessary
3) that would alienate the few players who didn't quit when C2 came out.

Try suggesting something less extreme in the future.

About the advertisements: I really havent seen most of them so couldn't say for sure, but the things listed in the description of the trailer Jeff posted a few weeks back doesnt include PvP, and everything else I did under level 100 in the first couple weeks of joining... and are easier to do now. So...

If there is a player retention problem at mid-game, the reason, in my opinion, is simple.

Once you reach roughly df 100 dgs, you realize that every single dg is identical in every where.

You have 1-8 ai, 1 warp in, 1-2 warps out.

You are on a star field, maybe with a couple suns or planets.

And this is what it will be at df 200.

And df 300.

And df 400.

It will never change.

And then they realize that the game really, really, really wants them to do the dgs because it requires a lot of grinding.

The way dgs work needs to change massively and needs a much wider variety - a minimum of 5 different types of dgs - types meaning that they play in very different ways - would make a HUGE difference.

The way dgs work needs to change massively and needs a much wider variety - a minimum of 5 different types of dgs - types meaning that they play in very different ways - would make a HUGE difference.