[GETTING READY FOR 1.4? Dev Q&A Summary]

13 minutes ago, Atmosph3rik said:

 

You can already lose your ship in PVP though.  And someone else gets to keep the ship if they catch you too, so it's not just gone.

 

I think what DU is missing is a way for players to get their feet wet doing a bit of combat.  Without such a steep cost.

 

In other games replacing or repairing your ship is as easy as clicking a button and paying for it.  Replacing a ship is a lot more time consuming in DU.

 

 

True.  Maybe they should just sell pvp ship blueprints at the du ship shop.

[GETTING READY FOR 1.4? Dev Q&A Summary]

1 hour ago, TobiwanKenobi said:

I'm looking forward to trying the PvE and testing the new PvP changes and adding them to my guide. However I do want to mention that if nothing has been changed with alien cores, there will be no participation and so no reason to introduce three more. Very few players are willing to devote so much time and effort to take an alien core and hold it. I expect Legion will claim them unchallenged and sit on them for months.

Plasma-related objectives need to be reduced in participation scale: less time investment, less cooperation necessary(since the game doesn't really support 40v40 battles right now and since the playerbase is dwindling), and less rewards. They need to be small scale, randomly scheduled events, much like asteroids. Or similar to daily, bi-daily, or weekly events like other MMOs have. The current implementation forces way too much time investment, rewards the group with the largest player participation, and also allows continual rewards for no effort or investment after the fighting is over.

 

Yes, even with the current element lives system, there's too little element turnover. Most players have had to replace only a few ship's worth of elements since launch. PvE could become a major driving force for element turnover, so most difficulty levels should remove element lives.

 

Maybe put up a fight instead of complaining about it.  Not Legion's fault you guys lost half your players due to the last spanking that was given.