Impressions of 5.0 to date

[St.Denis]

Good Points:

1) Money divided by 100 (managed to get rid of a lot of ships). No need to keep transferring cash regularly.
2) New POB capabilities.


Bad Points:

1) IDF has been brutalised.
2) Gallia has now got 2 backwater Systems that have no real point in visiting.
3) Dislike the Gallic Trade Lane effect. I even avoid using them some of the time. Someone else I know says he looks in rear view when using them.
4) Mining, as such, has died (even less people willing to mine).
5) Certain Systems becoming almost 'locked down Systems' with one access and easily controlled by certain Factions.
6) Everything was divided by 100? Really? I suppose PvP related things were, but Economy was divided by 100 and then multiplied by between 3 and 9. You can buy a VHF for about 1000 units of Gin (at the cheapest sell point). It just smacks of numbers 'plucked' from thin air.
7) The cost of making items, in POBs, has shot up with the cost/dispersal of commodities. Was helped by Jammi reducing most requirements by 50%, but again, no 'thought' was put in to this beforehand.
8) No 'thought' beforehand seems to be prevalent throughout this update. The Play Testers must have play tested the PvP aspects to death, but did next to nothing on anything else. Now it can be seen why the previous Devs went away from big updates.


Undecided Points:

1) Not sure about the new Siege Mechanics.
a) When known Siegers praise it, it rings slight alarm bells.
b) I have no idea how much the ammo costs and how much damage they do.
c) With a 2 hour window, how long does it take to reach the maximum damage?
d) I don't see how 6 x 2 hour, to kill a Core 4, is any better than what we had before, as it just appears that the Attackers just swamp the Base with ships very quickly.
e) A Core 1, unless it has nearly 50% health already, doesn't even survive first encounter.
2) Can't see the point of the Atmosphere Entry Point to Tonnerre and the radiation damage that 'guards' the Hydrocarbon Mining Field. Hydrocarbons can be mined easily in other Systems and bought at a cheap price of 8 credits. Maybe another good idea that was rushed at the end and then side-lined.


People may agree/disagree with some of my points, but it is my opinion. I know that some Devs put a lot of work in to this and I thank them for their efforts. But it appears that some others were very lackadaisical in their approach.

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