Impressions of 5.0 to date

[Culbrelai]

My overall impression is sad. There are a lot of good things, but the practical reality is I am a wee bit bored. 5.0 has forced a total change in the way I will have to RP things, and I still haven't figured out the new PoB systems.

One of the benefits of the old version was you could mine, travel, and encounter players as you went from system to system. If you needed money, you could make it happen. Now, you can pretty much stay in your own system and not have any interplay with others. We are now a whole lot of shopkeepers. Why mine for Gold ore and refine it when you can simply make more credits in way less time it takes to "mine and refine" by buying gold at Arranmore and hocking it off?

The nerf to the barge is really bad. It isn't thought through and no one seems to know what the plan is for it or REFUSES to tell us what is happening. In spite of the anti-barge brigade's claims that it is an Uber credit earner, it ain't 5 times faster than a 5ker. Try about 35% profit over the same time. And you had to really work hard to get the barge, and operate it - the payback is that increase in profit.

Sigh, I have to say my impression overall is very underwhelming. I have done ZERO inRP since the update.

Hard agree with Festus about Barge. Really crappy thing to do to make a money sink and then nerf it to be nearly useless the very next patch.

Also agree with Schxer and St. Denis on all points.

To add there are WAY too many chokepoints and unstable jump holes. If I wanted to fly snubs only I would just play vanilla or one of the many vanilla mods. Unstable jump hole from Tohoku to Omicrons, why? Burgundy to Alpha? Why? Just because? Blech.