New Player: First Impression of Discovery and it's learning curve.

[Karlotta]

I see this brought up to so many times and it just makes me chuckle. People who suggest buffed NPCs were not around for when they actually were buffed, and too dangerous for server interactions. Long story short, it was so bad that you couldn't RP because you'd have to focus on not getting blown up by annoying NPCs, and pirates would be unable to pirate at lanes because they'd have to keep leaving to restock on nanobots, and lastly NPCs had a really irritating impact on PvP encounters (Omicron Delta was the worst, as any group fight would be marred by high level Noma snub NPCs). If you want a PvE challenge, do missions (you can spawn high levels of NPCs whenever you want and get rewarded). They are already challenging enough, even in groups. But the real challenge of this game doesn't stem from NPCs, but rather seasoned and organised players instead.

But NPCs are the only combat that new people can enjoy, because they get massacred within the first few seconds of any PvP encounter.

And yeah, I was around when NPCs were buffed. Playing was MUCH more exciting and rewarding then. It IS possible to buff them only in some places and to totally remove them where they're just an annoyance, you know. Missions are balanced in a way that they are either to easy or impossible from someone playing alone, and the first weeks are commonly spent playing alone. People who just log when someone calls them on skype have no idea how lonely and boring it is to play discovery without skype nowadays. It wasnt that way in .84 andd .85.

People are also responding to the review from the perspective of someone who already knows everything about the game. Just telling one person who tells you about a problem "do this to fix it" does nothing to help with the fact that everyone starts playing without knowing the "fixes", like they dont know how missions are balanced and where to find the right ones they will enjoy doing.

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