"Recently, with the addition of 0.9.0, the game has taken a turn for the worse.
The weapons system has been dumbed down immensely to cater for new players with little to no skill and quickly becomes tiresome and old after about a day. The intention was to broaden players’ horizons and get them to use different weapons, but this aim has been missed by miles.
Progression is painfully slow: it takes over a month to reach Rank 12, not even the final rank in the game, and the patch has slaughtered it completely. Players now have to reach the maximum ‘synergy’ level for their ship in order to progress, and the previous reputations system - whilst slow - was much faster.
The financial system of the game is horrific: The game went from a true F2P with mild P2W traits to a full-blown P2W.
I advise EVERYONE not to spend a penny on this game. It’s not worth downloading this 800 megabyte waste of hard drive space."
My opinion in a nutshell.
NOTE: After reading the page itself, I have discovered that it is STARGEM that is the developer, and GAIJIN the publisher.
Honestly, I can’t say I’m surprised. While there have been good things from this patch, I’m just one of many players that got screwed from it as well. Before, I had the option to buy and T3 ship in the game. Now? I have no options. Basically all that reputation grind… thrown out the window. The devs basically hit the reset button on my account, leaving only the one ship line I’ve had a chance to buy intact.
:dntknw:
I would really like to see some sort of compensation in order. Not because of pain and suffering (lol) but simply because in terms of progress, many pilots are now WAY behind where they once were.
I think a good middle ground might be to simply ignore grind to a certain degree.
Example: Once you purchase a Rank 9 ship for a faction, the game removes all synergy requirements for ships rank 6 or less. This means you could buy your way to rank 6 in a new tree, but then you’d have to grind up through ranks 7, 8 and 9 as normal.
I think a good middle ground might be to simply ignore grind to a certain degree.
Example: Once you purchase a Rank 9 ship for a faction, the game removes all synergy requirements for ships rank 6 or less. This means you could buy your way to rank 6 in a new tree, but then you’d have to grind up through ranks 7, 8 and 9 as normal.
Maybe make it so that when you get a R9 federation ship, you can buy all federation ships up to R9, but jericho must be newly grinded?