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kaasdoek
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The amount of exploits and shortcuts you can do and take in this game is really stupid. Frost Guard Cave? No problem, just do it 4-5 times during a delve. Can't kill last boss? Np let 1 Control Wizard climb the crystals and he will down it in 10 minutes while the rest waits.
In a matter of days, tier 2 robes are dropped to 300k. People just bug Spider Lady and in all honnesty. Who can blame them? That boss is stupid hard with the Blademaster adds.
There is no reason to pay to win. I admit, i spend 40 euros on a mount and some respec tokens during my levelling. But now, besides cosmetics reason if you are into it, there is no reason to buy any Zen.
Apparently, you can also do a dungeon 40 minutes before the Dungeon Delve starts. You can then clear the instance and relog when the Delve starts to get the chest having the boss left. This means the harder/longer Dungeons that are meant to be done once can be done twice.
Now i am all for cheaper gear. But atm, this starting to feel like a private server where everyone is a Game Master hehe.
I truely hope the new content will be bug and exploit free, because the current content and economy can't be saved unless you opt for a chracter wipe. it is mind boggling to see how the developers seem not to care about this. Usually MMO designers try to make content as hard and as long possible. They try to keep the player's attention this way and the duration of stay in the game. But in this game? People can be done with it in a matter of a month or two by just doing delves.
Step it up Cryptic. You are really slacking and i can only imagine how the ones that paid $200 feel so deceived and disappointed.
In a matter of days, tier 2 robes are dropped to 300k. People just bug Spider Lady and in all honnesty. Who can blame them? That boss is stupid hard with the Blademaster adds.
There is no reason to pay to win. I admit, i spend 40 euros on a mount and some respec tokens during my levelling. But now, besides cosmetics reason if you are into it, there is no reason to buy any Zen.
Apparently, you can also do a dungeon 40 minutes before the Dungeon Delve starts. You can then clear the instance and relog when the Delve starts to get the chest having the boss left. This means the harder/longer Dungeons that are meant to be done once can be done twice.
Now i am all for cheaper gear. But atm, this starting to feel like a private server where everyone is a Game Master hehe.
I truely hope the new content will be bug and exploit free, because the current content and economy can't be saved unless you opt for a chracter wipe. it is mind boggling to see how the developers seem not to care about this. Usually MMO designers try to make content as hard and as long possible. They try to keep the player's attention this way and the duration of stay in the game. But in this game? People can be done with it in a matter of a month or two by just doing delves.
Step it up Cryptic. You are really slacking and i can only imagine how the ones that paid $200 feel so deceived and disappointed.
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Reading this concerns me.
it shouldn't.
ask anyone how long we've been dealing with the invisible one-shot torpedo
or how op dhc's have been since...well since launch
or how near useless any captain but tac is in space combat regardless of ship
or how the hull on escorts are nearly at cruiser levels, and how the best overall ship in the game is from a lockbox. and how it's best carrier pets are also from a lockbox.
just be glad guilds don't work like fleets.
Not surprising f2p mmo's are all about doing something as cheaply as possible to get people's money. That said how is sto's grouping tool? The queue system in this game is probably the most frustrating thing in the game to me just because it makes it harder to get a quick pug together.
But cheats also come from overpowered bosses themselves. Who could ever imagine a boss could suicide like the spider lady because she has a stupid amount of spells and too much damage?
Stop what? All that you said, i said also. I said CURRENT and what needed to be done to safe it. But, since there is no wipe only new content will balance things out. Unless, we get more unfinished <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font>.
Beta tests are never ever going to be finished software. Regardless of what people say about live ext this stage in developement is a beta release that is somewhat being treated as live so as to attract larger groups of people to test it. Asking for a finished release in a beta release?
About as bad as Neverwinters. There are only a few instances worth farming which are borg instances, and theyve been ingame since December 2011, so if we are talking about content in this game. After they release their next batch of content they are sitting on untill "release" we are going to be waiting a few years for any new dungeons. Queue system will put you in the instance with people who dont have the items for the zone, at all. Thats where the chat channel comes into find people who know the zones and have the gear, which this game will most likely have soon. Sort of a Pug, but with semi-decently geared people and you choose what classes you need, instead of getting like 4 TRs and a CW in Neverwinter. Classes dont matter as much in STO.
So explain me what they did in the closed Beta and Alpha stage of this game
Also, i would like to add. It seems to me that Cryptic is fairly content with the design of the game. Including the flaws. Who knows, perhaps the exploits and shortcuts are meant to be there. Because the last 3 weeks the patches were very weak.
Tanks are unnecessary because they don't have the tools to hold aggro on the source of all the damage -- the two dozen adds chasing the cleric. The boss itself is not usually the issue.
Question is how long can this go on before it drives just as many - or more - players away?
I'm not in a quitting mood or anything, but the exploits and game breaking bugs just keep adding up, and eventually it will reach a critical mass.
However, ALL fights need to be doable by an average-skilled group. So if they fix the exploits, they need to tone down some of those fights. No more of this only 1% gets the top gear <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font>.
And I'm very happy that prices are dropping on that gear.
There is no logic but selfishness within this statement.
Oh, I'm not mad at all. Although I don't accept the open beta excuse when they accept live money from the Zen market. When you start taking currency from customers, there is a standard that must be met and maintained. (And I have no problem with the Zen market existing, so not taking a jab at that.)
I was just saying that as the bugs and exploits keep stacking up, and without the company doing something to repair the damage that will drive away just as many players as doing a fresh restart will. Stopping the bugs and exploits is obviously the first step, but you also have to repair the damage done to the economy and item rarity/values which they have not touched yet (I'd like to hope that they will, but a lot of people on these forums have said it's PW's M.O. from it's other games is to not bother, which is troublesome.)
I would say just open up new, non exploited shards to give people the option to start fresh, but I believe PW always merges into one shard at a certain point for every game, yes? So even that would be useless.
So, I dunno. But it's not going to just sort itself out.
What is driving people away is the game, the publishers and the developers.
Ironicly, a wipe is the only thing that will save this game.
too busy playing i guess
/sarcasm
And they would also need to reward people in some way as well. Maybe give everyone extra char slots and such? Otherwise the backlash from the whipe will be bad.
It yes, a wipe seems like the only real solution.
The only way I can see not losing a significant portion of the population from a wipe would be
5 free character slots for every toon deleted
3 free 24 slot back packs for every toon deleted
2 free bank expansions for every toon deleted
5000 free zen for every toon deleted
Remember if this is like most games probably only about 10% of players are on the forums that means about 90% have no idea about the exploits, and this would come out of the blue. The rewards after promising no wipe would have to be absolutely massive to keep these players. On top of this 30% of forum players said they'd stop playing if there was a wipe so even out of those that know about the exploits they'd need massive rewards to keep.
As of now, all discovery and sense of progression is thrown out the window.
The majority of people have played the game legitimately, so a wipe would be a disaster. Many more people would quit the game and it would irreparably harm Cryptic's reputation. Calling for a wipe may seem like a logical solution to reset the game, but it would do far more harm than good. The game's been out a few week, over time these issues as far as the gear/economy inflation will sort it self out. You can quote me on this, a wipe will never happen (a roll back is a different matter, which has happened in prior MMOs).
Only if you let it be. I'm not sold a wipe is nessecary, but the above is what I see as bare minimum to not do a charge back if one happened.
Let me refute just about 100% of what you claim...
The one shot is not an insta kill....but rather a high damage weapon that only pops those not geared or speccd properly for it....as to it being invisible what does it matter that it is invisible? always expect it to pop pff every X amount of time...and yes I have its cooldown memorized as I tank and know when it is launched.
DHC are not OP. With all gear there must be an item that is the strongest of all the weapons......that staement comes off as utter rubbish as Dual Heav Cannons are such an item.
Once again u speak thorugh your caboose........a sci in an escort is uber on the same par with a tac officer...sensor scan is a nasty bit of equalizer.
Escorts are not at nearly cruiser levels once again u are over generalizing a few ships, namely the vet ship and 1 other..the rest are still glass jaws even when jevonite hard points are used.
While being off topic and out in the wrong forums I felt it necessary to correct this STO player for his follies.
Oh I forgot...the Bug ship while having the best assortment of layouts is not the best ship...the best ships are those piloted by well trained captains ..so that whine is uncessary too.
So the majority of players never used the auction house, grouped with others who may have cheated, or took advantage of this economy? Because that is the only way the played legitimately.
I ended up grouping with a few people that were exploiting. I didn't know it until we killed the first boss in about 3 seconds.
Not my fault, but it looks like I did not play legitimately either. Yes I quit the dungeon, and yes I reported the cheating player, who IS STILL in game btw, but I hate it that someone basically made me cheat.