The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Delta Rising.

alaerick · October 2014

tigercatgirl wrote: »

NOTE: I saw these way before DR came out, but I hoped they would be addressed.

THE VERY BAD
The main problem is the leves.
at level 40 you can use mk9 mk10
at level 45 mk11 opens up
at level 50 mk 12 opens up
at level 51 mk13 opens up<----IT IS HERE WE HAVE A PROBLEM!

This is because at level 50 the rep system opens up as well. There is no time to use the mark 12 equipment, because by the time you can afford it it will be useless.
1-the incentive to aquire and use it is gone.
2-the ability to gain it is gone advanced is just too hard for a tier 5 starting ship. Which before you could possible do.
3- Aslo remember that FTP people only keep their old T4 ships, unless they got a free t5 one from an event. These ships even with easy to aquire mk10 vr gear cannont do the pve's to get rep special items neeeded for the rep gear. So they can longer advance in the game and will leave as players. The addition of T6 ships costing money has turned the game back into pay to win as the FTP person is now 2 whole tiiers behind. They don't even get and old t5 ship reward to even give them a chance to play.
4-players leaving the game means no server activity, which means less possible money coming in, which means less people talking to other to play with them, which means the games eventual death.

FLEET GEAR PROBLEM
Fleet gear which was to be the top of the line is now no where near what it should be. This was suppose to be top end gear now its just a dil and EC sink for upgrading.
1- What DR did was move the end stuff and top of the line stuff to the middle. This was happening before DR as the dyson armor eclispes even mk13 (upgraded) fleet armor in raw power. I upgraded my fleet only toon build to find this out.
2- The huge dil cost for fleet gear only to have to pay even more dil and ec for it to be used end game is now totally ridiculous in price.
3- Fleet credits are becoming harder to get now. I am actually thinking about starting my own fleet with a few friends just so I can earn some or give them a chance to earn some...but the dil costs will kill me which is why i can't do it. My fleet pretty much stopped doing projects it has tons of provisions not being used. This also makes it hard for the FTP person to aquire stuff in game and be able to continue playing.

THE CRAFTING SYSTEM
While like the new system there are just things that are missing from it.
1-the old system allowed you to build kits. While i don't care about the kits. I do feel you should be able to build the modiules for the new kits. Let the person buy the kit from a vendor or find them in game, and let them build modules for it using R&D.
2-The system maxes out at mk12. The game goes to mk14 now so the cost to make mk12 really seems too expensive now and not worht the time. Its just too hard now to get the componts with the hard PVE's. The cost dos not justify the time and eveybody sees that. Eventually the supply on the auction will go down or stabilize at some super high price probably.
3-The DR expansion made R&D only useful for level 40 and below. I say this becuase at lvl 40 I can use mk10. I had a new toon, crafted VR mk10 equipment...NOTE:this equipment is equal to uncommon mk12..a nice boost even for FTP people. I could do an eltie at lvl 50 before DR, after DR i coudl not do an advanced. The scale went beyond may power. So R&D is useless because I need to do the advanced to get the materials to make mk12 vr stuff but i can't do them so why continue progressing.

...THE UGLY
ZEN GREED
I could before go out to almost any store and buy a PW card for $20 which is 2000 zen. Now I have done this and know others who have sent such cards to FTP friends. Now though T6 ships are $30...yet the older ships which are now even less useful have not come down in price. Why? Only greed can explain this. I say this because is costs $7.50 for the upgrade for a T5 ship so all ships actually have increased in price by $5-$7.50 as of the DR release.

THE GOOD
While I love the continued expansions and the flow of new content that PW is doing....i cannot help but think they are trying to bite off too much at a time.
This is like 3 expansions at one time, which is too much for any company to do in few months.
I give you credit for trying to do the impossible...yet you forgot Mr. Phelps that should you fail you will be disavowed.

Good post, I agree.

mushariagain · October 2014

big68earl wrote: »

I have been here since Beta, This has been the best launch so far. Yes there are some minor hiccups i know you guys will fix them. But an all around congrats to the team. Thank you for more game to play. and to you haters I say bugger off.

Best launch do far?... I'm sorry, what?... I'm guessing you're trolling? This is the dumbest **** I've ever seen them do. O.o

Also, there have been several moments in the past when I've asked "did they even beta test this?" but this time, I think this question needs to be asked now more than ever.

mushariagain · October 2014

ddesjardins wrote: »

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∆ Rewards gutting. A cheap move when you're adding dilithium sinks (astronomical sinks).

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Especially for those of us who don't want to spend for frakking ever grinding the boring effing rep tree just to get a grappling hook that you can't use until you've, for no reason whatsoever, spent points in the intel tree. -.-

This is the derpiest thing I've seen Cryptic do so far.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Delta Rising.

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