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Jun 06, 2004 Spellcast link
>>Keep dreaming. There's no way there'll be new ships or new weapons in the next release. Final version? Maybe. Not next release. I hate to say it but your expectations are way too high>>

ok arolte, even if we dont get new ships/weapons, the rest of my points are still valid. And before you whine about how "some people just want to level the playing field cause they didnt get as far ahead and want to bring everyone else back down" please remember that i have 9/10/10/11 and was the second person ingame with a valk.

besides which, when the devs released 3.4.0 they also stated that they were pushing the new missions into game without including the new universe or new equipment. So i think there is a chance of new items. At the very least I expect to see new engines to go with the new navigation system. some engines will only be useful for insystem travel, being unable to jump through wormholes. We might even have 2 engine slots, 1 for localjumps, 1 for wormholes, or an engine slot and a wormhole module slot.
Jun 06, 2004 RelayeR link
I have read and pondered Spellcast's arguements and I am still of the opinion that a reset in any form with the release of the new universe is ill advised. A reset at commercial release is a given.

1) There are plenty of testers at lower levels to test beginner and intermediate missions. Given the possibility that bugs are discovered at lower levels, a simple "new character" creation can put a bunch of advanced testers on the problem

2) There are advanced testers to test intermediate and advanced missions.

3) There are testers with advanced equipment to test the universe and navagation systems.

4) If there is a commercial release in the near future, testing on all facets of the engine should be done in an expeditious way. Waiting for testers to advance to test advanced missions is a waste of valuable time.

IMO
Jun 06, 2004 AlienB link
I dunno. I don't think the new navigation system will really have much to do with the current level system.

My suggestion to the devs would be to completely wipe cash/inventory/faction data, and leave the current license levels intact. I dunno...
Jun 06, 2004 Ciuciu link
/me agrees with spellcast:

either income, faction standing and level gaining should be slowed down (especially money income)

1) i have over 21mil atm.. i have really no idea what to do with it except giving it to noobs. I think that it should be very hard to earn more than 100% of item 'basic' value (it's easy to get 700% income ATM just trade nanites to s6 or somewhere alse)

2) you should REALLY work hard to make faction love you
Jun 07, 2004 Sally Ride link
Can you all go back to making fun of the original post. Or the French. Or whatever? I was having such a good time until the drama queens took over the thread....

Carmen Ibanez
Jun 07, 2004 AlienB link
You have 21m? Dude...shit...get a girlfriend or something....or..give it to me..
Jun 08, 2004 Renegade ++RIP++ link
You dont even need nanites ...

Just get a route that is remotely outside of common tradelines. Still If I do one traderoute mission, then I can recover the loss of 1 - 2 ships. Considering the amount of pirates/griefers I dont really see a prob.

the thing is, you only get that much money once you are nigh uncatchable to pirates "medium/fc combo ...".

If I trade in my centaur, and a pirates want to kill me then i am death. If I have a marauder, then my chances to survive while they have the same wish are greatly increased.

So odnt blame it on the exonomy, blame it on the ships.

But you are right, I sometimes make runs with like an investment of 500 a wedget and a return on investment of 6000...

Still this can easilly be balanced by preliminary increase the prices or delete some amount of cash and then decrease the profit of the tradelines. My point is, this can be easilly done during the real release, just make sure that you dont make them penniless, since people dont like that ...

cheers
Jun 08, 2004 RelayeR link
"...drama queens..." drama queens? Why you little....

:-)
Jun 09, 2004 Ciuciu link
> You have 21m? Dude...shit...get a girlfriend or something....or..give it to me..

Working om that one :)
Seriously: ruby, splen..ehm spellcast ;) or evoli has similar amount.. It's not hard for a trader to get that much :/
Jun 09, 2004 Spellcast link
actually at present i have 951k I gave a lot away, and havent been trading much. i stopped collecting money at 3mil and kinda spent since then. but if i wanted to 21mil is about 8 hours worth of work.
Jun 09, 2004 SirCamps link
well, if you have a trader bot, it works while you sleep :)
Jun 09, 2004 roguelazer link
I still say that that is cheating.
Jun 09, 2004 harvestmouse link
poor trader bot better have fc/medium engine combo :D
bot can be pirated while you sleep! (in the unlikely event that there are pirates on at that time)
Jun 09, 2004 Spellcast link
trader bot???

who has one of those?
Jun 09, 2004 Arolte link
I know someone made one before. I think it was Archon. Yes...
Jun 10, 2004 Forum Moderator link
Had I not been out of town for the last few days, the original post would have been deleted immediately because it is a flame. None of you are noobs anymore and are responsible for maintaining a decent community. I'm locking it now because it has careened off topic.

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