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FracOMac
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The game is 2D, yes...with that said the game is not designed by a huge company like Blizzard with hundreads of devs and millions or billions of dollars. These admins, who have other jobs to actually live their lives, do a great job at keeping the game interesting and playable for a long time. I am a senior player on Star Sonata and have achieved a large portion of the things that are doable, but there is still a lot that I could do and more planned for the future to be added in.
This game is all about the gameplay. From Uberruns, to doing Dungeons, to administering bases there are a bunch of different niches that you can try to carve for yourself in the SS universe. The Universes have been made much larger to accomadate an increase in teh player-base. There are not thousands of players like the other games out there, so its possible to create a group of player that you can really function and work well with when you play. The game is organized by teams like other games, but the teams are generally 20-30 players, not hundreds of whom you might only know a couple.
The game starts off SLOW...everyone knows this and we all did it when we were new. Don't get discouraged off the bat. A little hard work and simply some time will pay off in spades when you finally get a good foothold and begin to get better at an ever increasing pace. The main thing is that you have to be on a respectable team that has players who are able to give you advise and some help when necessary. Its important though to understand that you need to do the work for your character and that your team will not do everything for you while you just sit back and do nothing. Take suggestions, ask questions, and you will get better much faster than those that join noob teams stay at level 100 forever.
Now, the game is free up to level 20, at which you need to begin paying 9.95 a month (or 30 bucks for 4 months) to continue leveling. Playing as a Free to Play (F2P) character doesn't even scratch the surface of what the game is all about. The admins have understood the lack of really high level comment and have been adding it in which in the recent months has made the game much more indepth and challenging. The newest big addition of "The Serengeti" or the Uber Zone as the players have dubbed it added in many more missions, content, and ships and gear. This place is what can be seen as the "End Game" and has not been conquered as of yet!
My favorite aspect of the game is Bases. Players are able to build space stations, either unattached or attached to moons or planets, in which they can use Blueprint to build items and ships, attach extractors which will harvest minerals and other commodities from moons and planets, and also interact with Colonies that can be built on Planets. Building a base is easy, but properly administering a galaxy filled with bases and mastering it will take a very long time.
It's a given that the graphics of this game are not as good as other games like WoW, but if you give it a chance and actually experience the content past the "newb" stuff I know that most of you will be happily surprised at how complex and interesting the game becomes and how many different avenues you can go down on the road to universal domination!
Give it an honest try and then make up your mind.
www.starsonata.com
My name is ERMAN in the game, toss me a PM and I'd be happy to answer questions and give advise on how to get started.
This site will also help you get aquainted with the basics of Star Sonata:
http://www.lyceumarchives.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Hope you come play, and good luck!
I have, over the years played a large number of MMORPGs all of which I have found error with that was in insurmountable issue for me.
Runescape I found to be TOO demanding and repetative... Mining 1000 coal from 5 rocks SWARMED with other players... even with a Rune Axe and mining 90... there was just always someone with Mining 91 who would follow you around... And fighting in the wilderness... or chopping trees... or fletching... all could make cash but just took so much time and so repetative!!!
Eve online... Asteroid mining and autopilot anyone??? Pfffft.
WOW... English Dictionary Definition "To suck anus and/or eggs that are slightly gone off"
The list could be endless so I will stop there, but you get my point.
Now to Star Sonata....
I joined this and admittedly I started off shooting space rats in an ickle galaxy with a starbase in it in my cute blue Zebu... The graphics weren't amazing and the ai at that stage seemed kinda pokey and dumb... then i started trading between 2 AI bases to make a few millino thinking im getting RICH!!! - I almost quit there... but I persisted as something rang true in my mind telling me that things would be different in the "real uni".
Sure Star Sonata has its major flaws... Like the admins "balancing" the game with Nerfs that certain sections of the playerbase disagree with... there are occasional lag spikes (shortly a thing of the past with the new quad server upgrade) and sometimes there are even rollbacks... but its like a saussage dog... even though it can look and walk weird... it just makes it even more endearing!!!
I am now what would broadly be described as an uber player in my particular chosen skill of Drone Mastery and I love the game. I find the playerbase to be warm and kind and helpful with a few bad seeds mixed in for flavour. The admins are active and your suggestinos actually get implemented if they are worthy!!! Admins run around in the uni and make things interesting in the PvP arena by spawning various Uber AIs for us to practise our killing/dieing skills on!
All in all this is the most complete, if graphically basic game I have ever played and I would emplore all of you to stick with it, join a noob team and become uber... PM me in game for help and assistance as I would be glad to aid you in getting started as would most ubers... We will help you all the more when you go pay2play and pass lvl 20. My player name in-game is any of these... Abbara, Tarikn2, Tarik, HellSpreader, The Insane, The Insanity, Blue Energy... Just click in the chat box or press "T" and then type /w Abbara to PM me of if I have a space in my name /w "The Insane" to talk to me... Just mention that you read this forum post and I will be EVEN more receptive!!!
So head along to www.starsonata.com and download the client !!!
See you in-game guys
Hell hath no fury like mine
So games are just about graphics and not how fun it is? Why would you be here if you want a game with graphics? Just look it up on google images if you want nice pictures.
Exactly...
This is the first MMORPG that actually works... It has sustainability in-built into it because there is SO much depth to the game... I mean, just fitting a scoop to your ship for example... you now have like 30+ different scoops to try for... some have bonus stats to add hull space or reduce shields etc... The levels of complexity allow for such creative set-ups to each ship... and you can own 25 different ships on any one alt at any one time!!!
No other MMORPG offers such diversity... Runescape, everyone pretty much uses Rune / Drag / Mage / Range armours...
There is enough to keep you going for years in StarSonata...
And with Client2 breaching the development horizon now we can expect to see transparence effects, true 3D game engines and vastly improved graphics and memory usage efficiency... If you have a 512 Nvidea Geforce it will use it!!! if you only have a 16Mb vid card it will get the best out of that too...
Graphics are something that I feel developers should consider last in any gaming project... player experience and depth should be the first considerations and JeffL and his team have nailed it with Star Sonata.
Hell hath no fury like mine
Conquer, Defeat, Victory.
Graphics mean nothing. SS is unique from what I've seen. There's so much to do that you can enjoy it even after being a active player for 3 whole years. No other game has even come close to that for me. The fact that it's 2D only makes it better imo.
It's nice to be important but it's more important to be nice
Well... GREAT news!
StarSonata is officially going 3D!!! The new Client2 is getting ever nearer, admins are recruiting more development staff for design and build and QC.
I have now seen some of the 3D ships, Drones and Stations and some of them look amazing!!
Admins have even started a competition for the playerbase to get even more involved in the game! We can design our own ships / stations / Drones and actually have them appear in the game! How many games can boast about the players being this involved! Some of the playerbase are clearly very tallented in this arena. The winners will receive some special items as a reward if their designs are utilised.
There really is no better time to join StarSonata... get up to speed just in time for Client 2! Perfect!
Jeff_L and the rest of the Admin team... We salute you!
Hell hath no fury like mine
OMG i tried this game for 2 days and its the best game of my whole life.
Great game i've played it for 2 years
Tyler,
Haha, nice one!
I have been on the brink of war fo rthe last week as Pantalones have been pitched up against Toxic and a personaloty clash between Teh General and myself has almost tipped the game into the second major war in as many weeks...
It all started when we clashed whilst trying to kill the Dark Curse uber ai, (who drops a very rare commodity used to build one of the best ships in the universe). We all arrived (Pantalones) just before Toxic and we managed to all get to the boss level of the dungeon... Then we all faught the boss, but suddenly Teh General openned fire on my drones as the AI switched his aggression on to them, in an attempt to combine damage with the boss to destroy my drones worth 1billion credits each!!!
Obviously I wasn't at all happy and let them shoot him down to minimal shields before I scooped them back into my cargo hold... to teach him a bit of a lesson in hostile diplomacy...
Not sure it worked because since then we have been tinkering on the brink of war...
Watch this space, but StartSonata is gettign mroe exciting and interesting by the minute at the moment!!!
www.starsonata.com
Hell hath no fury like mine
Game isn't going 3D it's staying 2D but with 3Dish effects. The good thing about this game is the game play and helpful community. I want to add that half the time the helpful community isn't on so don't judge the game until you reach level 20 and have tried joining an f2p team to see how things work.
Yeah, I think our game play is excellent. Now we have hired a contractor to make a new front end with better graphics. After all, flashy graphics are just a technical challenge and anyone can make good graphics if they put in the time. Game play is the really tough part to get right.
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