Hi Commanders,
I introduce myself.
I'm a french player (so, I'm very sorry for my poor english).
I started to play ED the 02-06-2016.
My combat rank is Deadly. My trade rank is Tycoon. My exploration rank is Trailblazer.
I play mostly on private.
The first thing that made me buy and installing this game was some very beautyfull videos about exploration made by Obsidian Ant (thanx a lot for your work man, you make it very very good ^^).
Before playing ED, I played Eve Online during more than 2.5 years. I quit Eve because it became, and still is, a pay-to-win, now. It seems it was not the case with ED, so I was very pleased to start my voyage with you all, Commanders.
I meet a bunch of very nice french people on the french TS that help me a lot to progress in the game.
So, today, I fly Cobra MK III fit to be speed and jump far (my taxi), a full fit Python, an Anaconda and an Imperial Cutter (only for trading).
You must now that I'm ill, suffering of few deseases (its not the place to talking about that, anyway), and that's why I spend a lot of time on this game. When I sat on my ship, I forget my problems.
Before 2.1, I saw NPCs totaly stupids, turning like Kebbab or having absolutely no reactions when fireing them. I saw a bunch of stupid NPCs pirates that interdicted me on SC with local messages without any sense, and I was, very irritated by the Wedding Barge Messages (Nah, joking. So, girl, if you hesitate to mary you, go away and let people do their business in peace, instead of spaming local chat with your moods, or dont be surprise if some players find you and shoot your ship xD).
I admit that NPCs was too easy and I like having more difficulty now with the new IA because, even they could be predictable too, they are more hard to kill at least.
Before 2.1, it was clear. When you wanted to fight, you jumped to a REZ of the level that fit your combat skills, or a CZ like that, or an USS, and fight, and if you wanted to fight harder, you played in Open mode. If you didnt want to fight, you had to don't jumped into that pockets (or played private or solo) and you had no fight, or a few sometimes.
After 2.1, you MUST fight, even you dont want, and everywhere.
First of all, you get interdicted all the time, for reasons AND mostly for no reason !
When I fly my trade route, I get an average of 10 interdictions per hours. I'm not affraid about getting interdicted because I get good to espace and never died because of that. But its not pleasant, its not fun, its not enjoying me at all. Its just too much !
But I get interdicted also when I flew a ship without any cargo ! And a lot of time by "pirates" that wanted my invisible cargo, invisible cargo 'cause there was no cargo and 'cause "pirates" never scanned me before fireing !
And now, its seems we could get interdicted everywhere, even outside the bubble, and by ships that can go outside the bubble in a reasonnable elapse of time to finding you ! That's totaly absurde and not fun at all. When I ran to MAIA to get Meta Alloy for Farseer, I get interdicted 20x during the trip ! 20x !! And about 10 times by the same conda, and few times by FDLs ( !! I was far away, how its possible ?).
If you go exploring, thats because you want to exploring, eh, you don't want to fight far far away from the bubble (most of explorers fly ships that not fitted for fighting). If you want to fly a trade route, its because you want to make some money to fit a ship or whatever, and in this case, being interdicted sometime, why not, but all the time and systematicaly is breaking the game by some way.
I saw the same when I flew to fight on REZ. Being interdicted a lot (too much IMO) just before jumped onto the REZ, by wings of allies or cleans !
And I dont want to talk about being fired by allies, or cleans, in the No Fire Zone. Now, if you want to fly out of a station or when you approach to dock, you take the risk to blow up in instant (its arrived to a friend of my, flew in a Python, and now he is ruined !).
There is a lot of very good stuffs on this release, a lot of stuffs that I love because I think its improve a lot the game.
But being interdicted all the time is not fun at all. More than that, since the super-weaponeries-of-the-dead bugs were not fixed, you take the risk to blowing up in space each time you are interdicted.
Frontier sell me a dream, and I bought a nightmare !
The game is not a pay-to-win but is becoming a pay-to-survive !
Anyway, I'll wait few weeks to see how the things will go, but at this time, I play less that before 2.1. I realy hope that Frontier will do something ASAP about those anoying things, because we all are here to play and having fun, not to be boring and anoying, or at Top Gun school. If Frontier want to sell a game that could fit to every game style, ok, so in this case, Frontier, put on space the differents pockets to having all those differents gameplays, and make it clearly identifiable.
Thank you, Commanders, and FDev, spending your time to read my moods, and fly safe !
I introduce myself.
I'm a french player (so, I'm very sorry for my poor english).
I started to play ED the 02-06-2016.
My combat rank is Deadly. My trade rank is Tycoon. My exploration rank is Trailblazer.
I play mostly on private.
The first thing that made me buy and installing this game was some very beautyfull videos about exploration made by Obsidian Ant (thanx a lot for your work man, you make it very very good ^^).
Before playing ED, I played Eve Online during more than 2.5 years. I quit Eve because it became, and still is, a pay-to-win, now. It seems it was not the case with ED, so I was very pleased to start my voyage with you all, Commanders.
I meet a bunch of very nice french people on the french TS that help me a lot to progress in the game.
So, today, I fly Cobra MK III fit to be speed and jump far (my taxi), a full fit Python, an Anaconda and an Imperial Cutter (only for trading).
You must now that I'm ill, suffering of few deseases (its not the place to talking about that, anyway), and that's why I spend a lot of time on this game. When I sat on my ship, I forget my problems.
Before 2.1, I saw NPCs totaly stupids, turning like Kebbab or having absolutely no reactions when fireing them. I saw a bunch of stupid NPCs pirates that interdicted me on SC with local messages without any sense, and I was, very irritated by the Wedding Barge Messages (Nah, joking. So, girl, if you hesitate to mary you, go away and let people do their business in peace, instead of spaming local chat with your moods, or dont be surprise if some players find you and shoot your ship xD).
I admit that NPCs was too easy and I like having more difficulty now with the new IA because, even they could be predictable too, they are more hard to kill at least.
Before 2.1, it was clear. When you wanted to fight, you jumped to a REZ of the level that fit your combat skills, or a CZ like that, or an USS, and fight, and if you wanted to fight harder, you played in Open mode. If you didnt want to fight, you had to don't jumped into that pockets (or played private or solo) and you had no fight, or a few sometimes.
After 2.1, you MUST fight, even you dont want, and everywhere.
First of all, you get interdicted all the time, for reasons AND mostly for no reason !
When I fly my trade route, I get an average of 10 interdictions per hours. I'm not affraid about getting interdicted because I get good to espace and never died because of that. But its not pleasant, its not fun, its not enjoying me at all. Its just too much !
But I get interdicted also when I flew a ship without any cargo ! And a lot of time by "pirates" that wanted my invisible cargo, invisible cargo 'cause there was no cargo and 'cause "pirates" never scanned me before fireing !
And now, its seems we could get interdicted everywhere, even outside the bubble, and by ships that can go outside the bubble in a reasonnable elapse of time to finding you ! That's totaly absurde and not fun at all. When I ran to MAIA to get Meta Alloy for Farseer, I get interdicted 20x during the trip ! 20x !! And about 10 times by the same conda, and few times by FDLs ( !! I was far away, how its possible ?).
If you go exploring, thats because you want to exploring, eh, you don't want to fight far far away from the bubble (most of explorers fly ships that not fitted for fighting). If you want to fly a trade route, its because you want to make some money to fit a ship or whatever, and in this case, being interdicted sometime, why not, but all the time and systematicaly is breaking the game by some way.
I saw the same when I flew to fight on REZ. Being interdicted a lot (too much IMO) just before jumped onto the REZ, by wings of allies or cleans !
And I dont want to talk about being fired by allies, or cleans, in the No Fire Zone. Now, if you want to fly out of a station or when you approach to dock, you take the risk to blow up in instant (its arrived to a friend of my, flew in a Python, and now he is ruined !).
There is a lot of very good stuffs on this release, a lot of stuffs that I love because I think its improve a lot the game.
But being interdicted all the time is not fun at all. More than that, since the super-weaponeries-of-the-dead bugs were not fixed, you take the risk to blowing up in space each time you are interdicted.
Frontier sell me a dream, and I bought a nightmare !
The game is not a pay-to-win but is becoming a pay-to-survive !
Anyway, I'll wait few weeks to see how the things will go, but at this time, I play less that before 2.1. I realy hope that Frontier will do something ASAP about those anoying things, because we all are here to play and having fun, not to be boring and anoying, or at Top Gun school. If Frontier want to sell a game that could fit to every game style, ok, so in this case, Frontier, put on space the differents pockets to having all those differents gameplays, and make it clearly identifiable.
Thank you, Commanders, and FDev, spending your time to read my moods, and fly safe !
