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This game started out good then went straight downhill
Kriminal99
Member Posts: 377
This game started out a really cool PVP based game with an awesome combat system. But apparently the head of the company didn't know what the tail was doing because since release every patch makes the game more and more single player and carebearish. It's not really a good game for promoting team play and without its PVP base its just really bad.
It might be worth it to play as a single player game for a month, except at this point you will not even be able to proceed in the game because you need tradeskillers to produce weapons etc and there are no longer enough players to do these.
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Geez, this is so biased, and basically very unfair towards the game. Why don't you specify that at certain points in the day (low population times), some people have trouble finding tradeskillers on SOME servers.
'No longer enough players to do these', you write. That is a flat out lie, and you know it. That might just be what you want to believe. What's up with you since you left. You just keep searching for things to criticize, to a point where you may not be able to spot the good things. That's how your talk feels to me.
Man...I don't know what server you play on...Pluto and Venus have very low population counts in the early hours of the morning (I'm at -6 GMT) but otherwise it's not hard at all to find teams...and I thought the game promotes team play quite nicely with the boosts to XP gained and things of that nature...if by carebearish you mean the way you're randomly jumped or the way people still do lots of PvP and PK...then yes...it has become more carebearish...or if you mean by the way that they are soon planning on removing safezones then yes...I can see how it is MUCH more carebearish o.O I have to kinda wonder if you ever got out of any of the starter areas i.e. the sewers or anything like that...because your view of it seems rather skewed
About the tradeskiller thing I felt it was the exact opposite.
I played a fella named "Maker of stuff" in Beta and also for a little time in Final, Neocron beta was prolly one of the best ones ive ever been in, there were a lot of ppl and a good ground to lvl a tradeskiller, like me.
When I tried in final though it had all gone a bit bad, there were just not enough customers to support and crafter, (i was a CST btw), and even as i met a few ppl from the beta days that helped me out a bit with tools and money and so I soon realised that i would never reach my former heights.
Grindind in here cost quite a few "neodollars", or whatever they were called
, and sadly i could not afoord my way up to the 100+ skill area when it starts to pay of.
So my guess is that to many people kicked the noob crafter and then complain that there are no high lvl ones, this is my guess only mind you, i only played for a month i final, on pluto.
Yours
Maker
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Originally posted by Jerek_
I wonder if you honestly even believe what you type, or if you live in a made up world of facts.
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There's actually a nice amount of builders...lotta really high lvl ones...and it's been found that the Private Eye builders are quite good...almost better than Spy builders for certain things...the easiest way to lvl a builder is to use combat to get him up there...then LoM over to Construction or whatever skill it is you wanna do...had a friend who used pistols to cap and then lommed over to Constrctions/research/drive
Are you kidding me? I love this game. I don't care what anybody else says.
And for the record, I play mmorpg's for PvP and RP. I don't take well to the carebear attitude.
Oh so you want me to elaborate? hah ok.
PVP in the game is now a complete and utter waste of time and this is what the entire concept of the game is based on. To pvp in Neocron is to waste time and money. Your not going to get anything from it so you might as well play neocron as a 1 player game until your bored of it then play quake 3 to fps pvp because its not going to be any more meaningful than that without any decent reward behind your wins.
Not that you cant even pk now, because have the places you can go where enemies might be you will be instantly oblitterated by enemy guards of some type. This includes more than half the wasteland as well. And trust me when I say this limits more activities than just pvp
By "does not promote teamplay" I don't mean finding a team to fight mobs that is easy. I don't mean that if you go to the caves where people are probably already hunting anyways (only at prime time that is.. heck make that euro prime time) you wont be able to find a team. I don't mean it isn't better to team to fight mobs. I mean there is no incentive for people to combine their skills to accomplish certain tasks such as hacking. If a bunch of people go hunting nearby each other and one of the hacks, they just keep all the stuff themself. If there is a massive pvp battle involving many people, than what pathetic little is dropped by people as loot is actually aquired by some newbie hacker that happens to wander by and pick up the pieces. Not by anyone who earned it.
I forgot to mention as well that this game treats its customer base like complete and utter crap. Players are often treated like children by immature volunteer Mods, GMs, Company officers, and customer service representitives alike. Every patch brings either many untold changes which hurt many players or bugs... whichever... The company takes no responsibility for its mistakes and acts as if every player is responsible for the worst action commited by the worst person.
When it comes to game balance the company has absolutely no clue what they are doing. Every patch sees the classes yo yo back and forth to incredible highs and lows, a problem which could be alleviated with a simple knowledge of mathematics.
Compared to most other games, you will reach the endgame of Neocron very quickly, because the game was originaly designed to be pvp based. This was ruined, so now the game is just really short with nothing to do at the end.
All and all neocron as it is now is pretty piss poor.
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I agree that currently there's not real reward for PvP outside of OP, if you want to call the OP's the reward...the belt should be open to whoever kills the person (whoever did the most dmg to be xact)...and hackable by others...would make a bit more sense
to say half the wastelands are filled with faction gurads is rather and xageration
I've had good luck with NC support when I've had to deal with them but I know a lot of people haven't...they have to treat people as if they're lying until they can prove they're not due to, apparently, people abusing things
Hopefully though DoY will clear up a lot of problems people have had with things in the past...but I must ask you...if you seem to have such disdain for the game...why are you still and active player...atleast I can assume you are since you're still active on the members only forum...if you have so many problems with it...leave the game and find one that you enjoy