If anyone not on the Beta is wondering about FD's wonderful new update, here's the lowdown:
Everyone's supposed to test the game mechanic by repeating the same cargo run delivering food to a starport that just wants so many thousands of tons of food. There's a progress bar showing how much has been delivered just like on Blue Peter. In return for taking part you get 5% off metals at the starport for 2 days. If you deliver the most out of all participants you get 20,000CR as well.
And that's it. About 200 people have bothered to have a go at it and the progress bar's at about 6%, and it's not clear if enough Beta players will want to bother completing this pathetic excuse for co-operative play. They should send FD a message by boycotting Beta altogether and get on with boosting their rating in the real game instead. But they'd rather argue about whether the city lights are realistic enough or brag about how they've explored 37,000 light-years of empty star systems in Beta so that they get no credit for it in-game, or something equally irrelevant or obsessively dull.
FD couldn't have made their implementation of co-operative play any less fun or exciting no matter how hard they'd tried. So much for players' advertising their own missions on the bulletin boards, trading with each other, hiring each other, organizing raids, official races and tournament play with entry fees and cash prizes, all the exciting stuff that co-operative play was supposed to be about. So much for co-operative play then.
This is FD's first big update, and it's totally pathetic. There's no reason not to expect more of the same in future.
Oh but at least I finally got my Founder's Decal. But it's not golden or anything.[masked swearing redacted - please avoid this thank you]
Everyone's supposed to test the game mechanic by repeating the same cargo run delivering food to a starport that just wants so many thousands of tons of food. There's a progress bar showing how much has been delivered just like on Blue Peter. In return for taking part you get 5% off metals at the starport for 2 days. If you deliver the most out of all participants you get 20,000CR as well.
And that's it. About 200 people have bothered to have a go at it and the progress bar's at about 6%, and it's not clear if enough Beta players will want to bother completing this pathetic excuse for co-operative play. They should send FD a message by boycotting Beta altogether and get on with boosting their rating in the real game instead. But they'd rather argue about whether the city lights are realistic enough or brag about how they've explored 37,000 light-years of empty star systems in Beta so that they get no credit for it in-game, or something equally irrelevant or obsessively dull.
FD couldn't have made their implementation of co-operative play any less fun or exciting no matter how hard they'd tried. So much for players' advertising their own missions on the bulletin boards, trading with each other, hiring each other, organizing raids, official races and tournament play with entry fees and cash prizes, all the exciting stuff that co-operative play was supposed to be about. So much for co-operative play then.
This is FD's first big update, and it's totally pathetic. There's no reason not to expect more of the same in future.
Oh but at least I finally got my Founder's Decal. But it's not golden or anything.[masked swearing redacted - please avoid this thank you]
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