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Ion Storms

Jun 30, 2008 skybrat link
TO ANY AND ALL DEVS WHO MAY COME ACROSS THIS THREAD. "THE MORE I PLAY, THE MORE STORMS I COME ACROSS THE LESS I PLAN TO RESUBSCRIBE.” I'M NOT ASKING STORMS TO GO AWAY ALL TOGETHER, BUT THEY CAN BECOME FEWER AND FEWER OVER TIME (ONE WEEK OR SO) THEN LEVEL OFF TO ONLY A SINGLE STORM OR TWO AT A TIME. THIS WILL MAKE GAME PLAY MORE DESIRABLE. I DON’T’ KNOW OF ANY PLAYER ASKING FOR STORMS SO THIS IS SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT. I KNOW ONE SUBSCRIPTION ISN'T A GREAT AMOUNT, BUT ONE SHOULD BE ENOUGH. DROP ME A LINE WITH ANY COMMENTS. YOU HAVE MY E-MAIL ADDRESS ON FILE.

SIGNED
A PATIONATE PLAYER WHO IS PLANNING NOT TO RESUBSCRIBE
Jun 30, 2008 MSKanaka link
One: Lose the capslock. I know it's "cruise control for cool" and all, but even with cruise control you do have to steer...

Two: Why is this in the off-topic forum? This belongs in General.

Three: The only people who get this bothered by ion storms are those who can't seem to figure out how to hold down the shift key while making a navroute to plot a course *around* the asteroids. Try it -- it helps. Really. You're only going to hit an ion storm if your route takes you over a non-wormhole/station sector that has asteroids in it. Plot around. It takes all of a few seconds.
Jun 30, 2008 Aramarth link
Wrong, skybrat.

I love ion storms. I would be very disappointed if they were removed. Now the vote is 1 to 1. Your voice has been equaled already.

Ion storms are useful for:
*Losing pursuers
*Catching up to NPCs (they never go around)
*A very simple way to increase the challenge of combat
*Adding that unexpected break in the monotony of space

Your complaint is simply that you want to expend less effort to get around the universe. I am more concerned about gameplay than I am about some perceived injustice to your time. It takes far more time to engage in large scale trading or mining than to evade ion storms. Seeing as grinding to make money was my very least favorite aspect of every MMO I have played ever, I have to wonder how much more pissed you would have been at those games for wasting 'your' time.
Jun 30, 2008 Trinexx link
Weren't you pwned into silence earlier regarding this on 100? What good do you think ranting about this on the forums will do besides offer a timeless monument to your lack of piloting sk1llz?
Jun 30, 2008 MC1171611 link
Hear hear!!

And yeah, the Caps is annoying, Brat.

I wouldn't argue with decreasing the number of storms so perhaps there are only a storm or two in a fourth/third of the sectors at once. I understand it seems to mesh with the backstory anyhow, so maybe changing them would screw things up. :-\
Jun 30, 2008 Professor Chaos link
YOU KNOW WHAT I'M PATIONATE ABOUT? Spelling "passionate" right.

I think I'll spam 100 with spelling corrections from now on.

OH, AND GRAMMAR, TOO.

Except that'll be annoying, so I won't.
Jun 30, 2008 Dr. Lecter link
Too easy.
Jun 30, 2008 Pointsman link
Also, they totally need to nerf flares.
Jun 30, 2008 ArAsH link
I think your caps lock key is broken
Jun 30, 2008 Snax_28 link
Quit trolling ArAsH and get yer snake-in-the-grass-arse back in game where I can shoot yah.
Jul 01, 2008 look... no hands link
id like to see more ion storms
Jul 01, 2008 smittens link
I'm pretty sure this is satirical? Unless someone has evidence of the contrary...
Jul 01, 2008 ArAsH link
Gav!!! eh :)
Jul 02, 2008 LeberMac link
I'm with Lecter on this one.

"All too easy."
Aug 09, 2008 SuperMegaMynt link
In America, you plot around Ion Storms.
In Soviet Russia, Ion Storm plot around you!

In America, you come across Ion Storms.
In Soviet Russia, Ion Storms come across you!

In America, you ask for Ion Storms to go away.
In Soviet Russia, Ion Storms ask for you to go away!

Oh, and:
Aug 15, 2008 ryan reign link
I contemplated posting a mean spirited post but, Dr.Lecter is right...all too easy.
Aug 15, 2008 Ticho link
Wouldn't it be better if all that annoying spaceflight was completely removed from the game, and a simple "Increase my license levels and money" button was introduced in their place?
Aug 29, 2008 SuperMegaMynt link
Yes.