Capital ship nerf

I agree with species382..... remove viral... turn everything back to the way it was... A.miner ships were fine before hand... i still miss my old G.Lictor...

For new players to come into the game, GC really need a face lift, updates on balancing/nerfing ships doesn't attract people. But if Stephen wont dedicate staffs to revamp the look of GC, people will just get bored and leave...and if you go to games total and see that UC has 400 players online and GC has 100 odd player online... it doesn't take much to know where the more serious gamers will go first, GC will just end up getting new players who are most likely to be free loaders. It is really a vicious cycle that I believe only an update on the visual element and added functions will break it. Maybe even a new race can be added when the new update is here, to end the Viral Rule on the top ranks.

compared to WoW and other games like that, text based games are falling by the wayside due to the `wow gee...look at that i just took that guys leg off!` style gore and graphics.

We all play this game becuase most of the older players were here before all the major other competition was around, now are thus hopelessly addicted. Those players are now starting to leave due to alienation and the game changing to be something completely different to what it was when they played and thus don`t enjoy it as much anymore

The new players may hang around and get hooked, but most of the time get turned off due to either no graphics, hardly any story line, lack of support/corrispondance from the creator except about a new addition to the family and a handout of turn based imbalancing artifacts (no lets not go there...). Another turn off for new players is us...as a whole GC players are very hostile to new players and are more likely to simply say on of the following:

RTFM

STFU newbie

or simply ignore the request for help or just making a smart allic remark that is usually derogitory for the new player.

This turns them off and they go off to play something like runescape, ogame or WoW/Guild Wars (yes I know the games I mentioned will be edited out but don`t really care)

Now OT:

The nerf will be interesting to see how it effects general game play over the next month or so. Maybe not needed and a simple shield reduction/damage reduction or some other thing may of been better, but this way it only impacts the ammount of time you spend building, not forcing you to relearn a new set of shield mods like 6-8 months ago.

Just remember....could of been alot worse, though also better too.

Good and the bed.

Lets wait and see before hurling abuse though

Sexy Post!

Edited by Maraudian on 2007-09-27

a player base that, might I add, isn`t that big to start with.

Isn`t the decrease in players also because of Stephen falling down on the advertising? Or has the entire text-base mmorpg player base checked out sfgc and decided it sucked?

Well cutter, if you read the forum here, you find excellent examples of all argumentation fallacies up to now described (http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/) and probably a whole bunch more....
You for example now try to "Appeal to Authority", and as authority you choose well yourself. Its a fallacy in the first place and a very crab.pily executed in the second....