Thank you for proving my point Stigbob, Riverside thought I may have been unfair in my representation of your replies.
First the straw man. I am not annoyed about this update, I haven't played in a long time since I wrote my salt filled opus ages ago (did have a look but couldn't find it- shame, it was comedy gold because I was pretty upset at the time and you would have had a field day with it, and rightly so)
Mind you this was thousands of hours into both game play and responding to FDevs requests for feedback (the first time), organising (with countless others) representatives from each power (at FDevs request). Pirates and Imperials and Feds and even the space hippies and bankers were all in agreement and hoped that things would change (spoiler:they didn't) and FDev admitted they had wasted 1000's of peoples time on a game that they hadn't thought through, had released prematurely, and didn't know how to fix without breaking something else (Deja Vu?).
I know from your replies you have no knowledge of this and don't care (even though you seem to care a lot) but I won't let you rewrite history to make a point (assuming you have a point beyond "Hurr Durr, buyer beware").
I've told you this was never about value and quite the opposite, I think the business model and legacy promises are one of the biggest reasons we find ourselves in this mess and am happy to pay a monthly subscription to be free of both, but agree I am one of many and it is an unpopular idea.
Whether you like it or not, this happened, and then happened again though I wasn't a part of it, before Sandro became a marked slave and went dark.
We didn't imagine it, Fdev pretended they knew what was happening and we just hadn't worked it out at first, then they admitted we were right and no one knew what was happening and they had been talking out their asp for over a year, but they were on it now and with feedback and patience we could hold hands and fix it together (Kumbuya).
That was called communication, albeit a little late but hey, communication right, it will be OK, and then nothing happened except for a change they made that made 5C worse. So the only outcome from all of that work from players, given free of charge and after having already been told all vast efforts up to now had been wasted, resulted in FDev making it worse.
I lack the patience to get burnt twice so I wasn't a part of the second round, but many people from all powers tried again, some proposals were made by Sandro and then...........
So that is the experience of Power Play, over nearly 5 years, and the main reason that people only use it for the modules, which in themselves create a balance issue but I won't digress. It is also a perfect, years long example of exactly what this petition is about and exactly what you have tried to bury with 50 pages of Hurr Durr, as if your lack of understanding of what others are talking about negates reality (spoiler: it doesn't)
There are many other stories that I have read but do not have direct knowledge of so, unlike some, I stick with what I care about and know, Power Play.
My points are facts, backed up by thousands of posts, over nearly 5 years, including posts from FDev themselves, if you don't believe me may I respectfully suggest you do one of two things before you start wasting more of peoples time with replies to questions nobody asked.
1) Pause for a second before your next asinine reply and do what you always tell others to do and check what FDev have actually said vs what they have done in THIS instance, twice.
2) Stop commenting on others experience (to the point where you have made this thread 50 pages longer than it needs to be) when you have admitted little knowledge of what you are talking about in regards to a negative experience in the areas that interest you, whilst ironically laughing at those that do.
I haven't signed this petition for a number of reasons, the first of which is I gave up on petitions in life a long time ago and decided to use historical analysis instead, this tells me this petition is a waste of time but I am here in support and agreement and in the hope that I am wrong, but I agree with you that this wont affect anything, sadly.
I am not ashamed to admit that despite my absence, the experiences I created with my fellow players, (allies and opponents), were so good that I'm still here hoping FDev will show some pride, and take responsibility for the clusterfunk that was an official release nearly 5 years ago, and actually do something to fix it, other than words, or at least have the balls to remove it because they have admitted it is broken years ago.
It is also the culture and foundation of all of their other subsequent issues, as once it became OK to just let Power Play die, they just kept building on a code and vision they already knew 5 years ago was becoming unwieldy and causing them to not release working features they understood and could control in a professional manner.
This is documented proof of why many now feel that FDev are full of ship, in the case of Power Play they have had nearly 5 years to follow through, as they have publicly stated they will, at least twice, and yet.....
So no "matey", we didn't imagine it, it isn't trivial, it was official and still is and still doesn't work 5 years later, but you know that already or you would have been man enough to address the questions, instead of talking about cheese (I'll take the tasty ad hominem on a straw man cracker thanks)... which by the way even with your 10 year plan deflections we are into the main course, don't forget to leave room for dessert
