Hoppop

The tea leaves point towards a wipe. Even a full wipe LUA creators are way ahead. There is zero way to truley level the playing field. There has to be a way to remove schematics without a wipe. I feel like you are just sucking my money at this point until you officially say there is a wipe becuase I will cancel all of my paid accounts and return to console gaming. This beating around the bush feel like a play to suck every penny out of the paid subscribers as you can. I did no exploits or mission abuse with alts and up until about a month ago fromt he start of beta grinded my way to where I can play my way when I want to. I am not starting over. Of course I do not want a wipe but a chance I will leave even before them becuase your effort at transparency feels more like a money grab.

I do not get the fairness argument. Non PVP there is no true progression. PVP is talent and exotic weapon gated. I have never ran one mission and could care less someone who did and even alt abused it has billions. I started at beta launch (paid accounts) with a group of friends that bailed after a month. I have solo grinder since and focused on non mission money making for a factory and just recently got my first warp beacon. I do not want a wipe of any kind. For those that want a wipe imho it would have to be literally everything. For instance if talents were retained PVP players have huge advantage day 1. Those who are about fairness those that have the fancy lua scripts would have a monster advantage and be in a position to leap ahead (whatever ahead means). those that say all the good tiles are taken. In the last two months I was able to snag a five tile cluster 30 km from market 6 and just this week found some T5 to drop a my on. if it is about the fresh land and ore rush first to space etc, it will not be the newbies, it will be the vets first to best tiles, first to space, first for scanners, first to the pvp dominance. There is zero sense to wipe to level for new players. I personally will not grind again. I am but one person but I can see zero benefit to wipe to bring new players as the vets will be right back to where they are now much faster than you may expect.

So I slept on this overnight. I am more upset today than yesterday. What keeps a playerbase in an MMO? Content and carrots. Think of the original EQ (still going). A huge carrot. I inspect his armor- Oh I want that. Oh look at that raid mob, I am going to grind and get into that guild. After all of the other changes to date, some of the carrots are: Utopia, crazy ship show rooms, personal player markets, race tracks. My org was just starting on a large base/station project. Poof gone. With a modest amount of mining units, a base that is 60ish cores but like an airport meaning a lot of floor area. You have to keep the carrot or there will not be any desire to play. Utopia, Hude Station., IC Spaceport to name a few. You have to allow people/orgs who have not built a project like that to have cores to do so. Sure there needs to be a core cap but it must be much higher with other steps taken first. - Cleanup the old abandoned junk first - After a period of time for an unsubscribed account (3 months?) remove the HQ designation then poof the core - 100 cores per individual (many people would never hit this but here is the carrot to dream big) and long term play - 50 or 75 cores to donate to org. This maintains the carrot but also sets a hard limit. If the player core count is not materially raised people will hesitate to donate their precious cores to an org they are just a member of. Have you thought about the grieifing that can happen to orgs? From mining units to now there have been so many material changes and very little PTS time the partial talents reset is not hitting the mark. So much material changes have happened,. I strongly feel there should be a total talent reset. FInally, raise the sub price if needed to not stifle and potentially cripple the games future.

Yo can kiss TW goodbye. THere will be nothing to take.

Have to add - I am only going to run into a brick wall so many times no matter how much gold is on the other side ,23, Demeter etc.. I want to see if there is a change in direction but my gaming group that goes back to the launch of Everquest were excited to come back to DU when I told them the vertex editor was coming. If this does not materially change I am going to tell them it will be a giant waste of money and join them in a different game. This is game breaking to me.

So I was so exited to play today, peeked at Discord then I came over here. What are you thinking. Hey here is this amazing vertex editor but you will really not be able to use it. What is the motivation to play: - Scanning and hunting the hex and mining. Nope - PVP for some yes - Way to boring for me so Nope - Bulding, bigger and more over time. Use to be. What is left? Nothing. It does not take long to use up the proposed new slots combine of personal and org. So I used all my cores under new method pretty quickly. What do I do now? Tear it down and build something else? Answer no. If you are going to limit cores it has to be at least 100 personal and 100 to donate to org. Ord grieifing would be a thing even if people were willing to give them to an org. When you release the game what is the appeal to wide open empty planets. I like going to Utopia to dream big on something I would love to do but realistically could never do now. Tomorrow - no more Utopia. This has to be another cost saving move. Has to be. Do the math and up the subscription fee. As long as the increase maintains a very healthy number of cores I would pay it. Be honest are you on life suppport? This, if implemented, will make .23 feel like good times. I am to upset to event hink about playing today. Instead I am firing up the trainwreck of BF 5. At least I know the crap to expect there.