DarkOrbit on the right direction?

[skeith_sk8]

Things are getting worse and worse.
Yesterday, when the influence event faq was released i was really angry. Once again BP team fucke* an event and we had to complain on discord chat. If that was the only event i think no one would compain, at least on the same way as yesterday, but commit this kind of mistakes after all the fails they are commiting is just ridicolous. The problem is not only the man who checks if everything on the faq is correct. That person may commit a mistake. The problem is the background, who decided to put 2 points / alien kill ? It must have been someone no plays this game. If they say that they are aware of bot usage they cannot put such stuff as it is just laugth at the community.

But the problem is not this event, as i said, the problem is here since years, but, maybe, in the last few months its worse than ever.

On the one hand, for example we have a new gate, QZ. Imagine how bad is the welcome from players about that gate that they even recognize that the gate does not fit on the game. However the gate is still here and it is the only way to obtain the new ships.

On the other hand we have the new lf4. Before they were released the gap between players was getting closer. Something that the community has been asking for years. Good decisions like obsidian materials on gates and double rewards day helped new players to close such gap. Howevenr, with this new kind of lf4 we have moved again to the farming and only farming game logic. Imagine for a while that you stop playing for 1 year. Once you comeback you will not be able to kill anyone. And even if you bot 24/7 or play 24/7 when you comeback you will never be able to close that gap as to obtain the materials you have to complete the weekly and dialy missions. Appart from that as we all know maybe on the future there appear ships upgrades or maybe new shields so the gap will be bigger and bigger and the opportunity to close it lower. Another example is spartan drones, you have to complete arround 80-90 hades gates to get them (if you already have the havoc and the hercules). It seems a fair number for new players no?.

Instead of create new stuff, which we the community, or at least me, don't want they may try to focus on things we are asking for years. Here is my list of such things:

-UBA. The map is wrong, it should be a JPA like map. The matchmaking is wrong. We need a option to enter on it with a friend in order to make a duel. It also needs bug fixes.....

-Credits. Nowadays credits are not powerfull anymore. Why not to create a new tab in the auction with the old system? I mean where you only see who bids but not how much and if you send a wrong bid you lose your credits? On that auction they can put new lf4 materials, some obsidian keys and that kind of stuff. They can also put on the payment area credits for sell.

-Seprom. Why they don't wonder about why there are always seprom bugs? A bug does not appear if people does not search for them. If people focus on search seprom bugs it is maybe because the skylab system is competely wrong. We cannot be using the same seprom as when we had 8 iris. If they allow us to send more maybe people stop searching that.....

-Normal event rewards. What about TDM, CTB, INFILTRATION, INVASION GATE and so on rewards? Just a little comparison, spaceball && CTB, what do you get on CTB? Nothing. They have normal events which could be awesome but as there are no rewards for play them then no1 plays them

-Player kills. How can be possible that we still earn more by killing a kristallon than by killing another player?

-Missions. Why not to create missions to help newbies? For example, lvl 21 mission: Help a player under lvl 15 to kill X aliens. With a proper reward by completing the mission it will help both newbies and old players. Appart of that as those players have to speak each other the chances that the newbie lefts the game will be lower.

-JPA or similar event is needed for real money or for vouchers to use the money on bigpoint products. It is also a nice way to promote the game. "Come, play and earn X".

-Old titles, the ones you get by killing other players. Why those titles have the same colour as the normal shitty ones? It has no sense, those titles had a really good meaning in the past and nowadays its really hard to see them on maps.

-When will be bonge's tools be included on game? They are awesome, but it would be nice that the game include them by theirselves. Maybe as a premium feature.

I can continue saying stuff like this the whole day, so share your opinion guys.
Regards
skeith

[Rushle]

I agree 100% with all u posted

[bestbots_support]

you may post this on official DO forum

[epete]

Completely agree but thats how it is for a long time always geting worse only.


They told they will focus on merges but so far what can we see ? 0 news about server merge progress and every week another event or new item added into game

Also how can a company not fix game lags since December 2016 or even earlier? Yep over 7 months since GE1 started laging and it hasnt been fixed yet.

As well support is bad since ages.



Aint got time to write everything cuz that would be a **** long list but yep since BP cares only about their salary and cant see that their bad steps affect the game they wont do anything with it so no point being angry about it, their coders or employees never played the actual game obviously with all those crapy things they are adding instead of fixing major problems.

[skeith_sk8]

Originally Posted by bestbots_support

you may post this on official DO forum

I am quite sure that i have more chances of being read here than official do forum But if any1 wants i give permission to copy and paste

[nikola99]

If they just focused on quality before quantity just one time...
AND FU***NG LISTEN TO THE **** COMMUNITY

EDIT:
Biggest problem with this game since 2010 is that they value more a new player that pays alot
than a player that spent thousands of hours to the game...
And than.. they wonder why is there so many botters?! Well, my lads.. it's because you created a game perfect for botting.
It's a little off topic but anyways... Couple years ago there was a game called Warpfire, very simmilar to DO, but that game had very different payment philosophy: every single "elite" item was obtainable through gameplay, missions, boss drops.. and the uridium-like currency "Thorium" was used just for stronger ammo, ship paintings and such... game was very similar to DO, even more enjoyable than DO, but it had 0 grind.
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Game was removed due to expensive maintenance, and low income.

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 Long story!

So far I have to say that I stopped playing that crap after the... what it was, the event after Hatching out, don't remember... but anyways that plague thing. The reason was that they added things into the game which never should have, such as the new Kristallons and QZ thing.

When the new ships was released, I thought they have lost their creativity, because why would anyone just make another Venom which is just slightly better, but also at the same time destroying the Goliath itself, first time in the DarkOrbit history. Of course it could be said that it's still a design for Goliath as well as the others, but just called as a ship. Hammerclaw, where the heck we really need it? Ok, it's better than Aegis, but because of this expensive crap, Aegis lost it's value (almost, some people just don't want that Hammerclaw because it's too slow).

Latest events has been a quite big failure + the 7 months on GE1 which epete mentioned. I just can't wait to see how big failure the server merges are, I just can imagine only some lost accounts and corrupted servers that are as laggy (or even more) as GE1. OH, and waiting really much the client!

This game has given only depression to me in the last 2 years. The gameplay is always the same, lock enemy, press control, get rewarded. Such wow. You don't get anything of the regular events, the only event is Spaceball for real. Something should really happen and quickly. The story is also a big mess and full of plot holes + it changes a lot. So also big nope for that either (implying I ever cared of it with someone else, of course we didn't because of that ^).

Is the DO even a massive multiplayer online anymore? Like how much people nowadays "plays" this? Is it 1k, 2k? More likely massive multibotter online. However, I need to say even if I'd pay for the DOB devs that I can use the bot, I consider it also as a money waste. Game is not funny anymore, regardless you bot or not.

But hold on, let's not blame only Bigpoint, I have a word or another also against the community!

I have seen a lot that people complain about things such as JPA and missing the Scoremageddon event. I need to say that without the idiots who pushed points for Scoremageddon or guys who used someones other account, cheats, bugs and so on in the JPA, these two amazing events could be still in the DarkOrbit. Why people started playing unfair, it's still a thing that I can't handle. I don't mind if someone uses bots or seprom bugs or whatever, this game is expensive af and I understand people can't stand the money milking, but those events were fun and if I even remember correctly, you didn't got much from the Scoremageddon (however in that time it could have been a lot, don't remember exactly). JPA was an exception, you got real money over there, which makes me think why people were so greedy.

 Long story shorter!

• Events has been failure.
• Fixing lags has been a failure.
• Waiting the server merges like lost accounts and laggy servers.
• Waiting the client in 2k18 like "We apologize the problems."
• Ships were also failure.
• JPA and Scoremageddon could still exist, if there weren't unfair idiots.
• This game is expensive af, so I don't care about the bots or seprom bugs (I have stopped this game already tho.)
• Even BP doesn't care about the bots.
• BP has lost their creativity, like why combine Havoc and Hercules, why making same kind of ships twice etc.
• Where's the attractive story?
• Spaceball is the only regular event that is worth to "play".
• DarkOrbit is nowadays Massive Multibotter Online (read: trash).

 Solutions

• Make the game attractive again.
• Try to take your income with the designs. There is surely people that wants and waits thing like Steam Workshop to DO.
• Fix the bugs, make the game working and dump the flash.
• Merge the servers successfully.
• Kill the bots (too late).

100% sure I missed something, but the list is long and 100% sure also somebody disagrees with me.

[nikola99]

Solution for botters:

Reward 3 days premium for those who record and prove that certain player is botter.

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Originally Posted by nikola99

Solution for botters:

Reward 3 days premium for those who record and prove that certain player is botter.

The recording haven't been enough proof since 2012, regards the experience with recorded videos that has been sent to support.

BP trusts only to the script, which does nothing.

[nikola99]

Originally Posted by _-trolled-_

The recording haven't been enough proof since 2012, regards the experience with recorded videos that has been sent to support.

BP trusts only to the script, which does nothing.

But honestly script is the only valid proof... others are just guesses

[kajnsmetke]

Love everything expect the auction and the pvp kill reward,that would lead to more hunting of low lvls and would make it a worse experience for them.(Speaking as one)

[AliG-DO]

Bots are not the real issue, way less people would bot if you could earn **** legit way. But instead BP gives us lasers which take literally years to complete, or other **** events. I've got no more hope for this game, privates die and are too unstable to really compete. I thought that when they brought OwningPeeps to admins team, maybe some of updates would get more realistic, but it's still ****. Let's be honest, who wants to farm thousands of hours on webbrowser space game. If I'd want to do that, I would probablly go play Elite: Dangerous or any other more decent game, and farm there.

[～Demetrio～]

The only way to stop to bot is make the bots don't worth anymore in the game! just like get focus in kill players , pvp events , or things like JPA! even a bot can do this , what is the sense?

[anjesh12]

Originally Posted by ～Demetrio～

The only way to stop to bot is make the bots don't worth anymore in the game! just like get focus in kill players , pvp events , or things like JPA! even a bot can do this , what is the sense?

bot develops, evolves around what is needed. if you can only get more "items" by killing people. develops will eventually make bots that will kill people. it will be slow but it will get better.

[nikola99]

You guys remember when there was captcha authentication for every "x" number of boxes collected. Why not introduce that again, but make it pop up every 30 minutes etc.
It would not be too annoying, but it would make any bot useless.

But on the other hand -reduce games insane need for grinding.

I play video games for over 20 years, and NEVER i saw a game that comes even close to amount of time DarkOrbit requires for things that will buff your damage to 6% etc. It's ridiculous.