Next Island DOOM

You're ranting. Why? Are you trying to accomplish change, or just venting frustration?

One is productive. The other is not.

 

well said narf well said

 

seriously need to change ur name from narf to obi-one

 

Majyor eh? :-)

I think in the end NI will be fine, EU will be fine, etc.

Look at Ultima Online. Look at EverQuest. Look at Asheron's Call. In 1998 Ultima Online was supposedly dead. The community was tired of its bugs, leaving it. Its 2011 and UO still has a very strong player base, just as strong as ever.

In 2000 EverQuest was over, according to many in the community. The game was boring, level caps had been reached. The genre was stale, and producing "horrible" products like Lineage, Maple Story, Anarchy Online, and Runescape. 11 years later not only is EverQuest still running, but so are all of those "horrible" products. And they have huge subscriber bases.

Asheron's Call was also a dead game. In 2001 it was deemed unredeemable by its vocal player base, and people moved on. They moved on to WoW, DAoC, and other products. Yet Asheron's Call has put out another expansion, and continues to thrive as a community ten years later.

I was a part of the beginning of all these games, and I have noticed a trend. The trend is not that games fail because the vocal populace moves on. The trend is that the vocal populace tends to move on, and games thrive without them, communities become stronger even, and more diverse. In 2003 Julian Dibbell wrote Play Money, or How I Made Millions Selling Virtual Loot. The topic of this book was the dead game Ultima Online. A dead game where he was able to secure $4000 a month in profits during the previous year, 4 years after the game was declared dead.

So much for being dead.

Let the vocal crowd leave. Let the prices plummet. Let the naysayers move on. EU will continue without them, and will likely thrive. From what I have seen there needs to be some weeding done in the garden here (in EU at large) anyway. There's alot of negativity. Alot of pollution. Alot of people actively working to discourage people from playing.

 

Just call him maggy :)

 

what you appear to have missed, is the fact each planet is a seperate game inside a single universe (platform)

 

that's a;so my bird's name.

however, she's afraid of everyone.

 

Great point narfi. Good to see some one looking outside the box..

 

Ho-hum,

if I may, and as one of them trying to make this planet work...

...how to put it without appearing rude to the eyes of the defender of the "entropian faith" in here. :)

Bare in mind I am usually humorous on my remarks, so please defenders of the entropian faith, bare with me on this one.

After being in Arcadia and seeing its launch, I dont think NI or RT have anymore excuse for throwing players on frustrating situations.

Rocktropia has put its act together apparently a month ago, now it seems to be NI's time so I am holding my comments for (yet another!!!) "official" launch.

I understand where Sid comes from: NI has no original tools, no original armor, no original bps, no original nothing and it was a BIRTH just to get the technician papoo handing the basic bps and books (we had to order or travel to other planets to get it) as it shoud have done just naturally since day one, really. Come on, really.

Not even loot is working well it seems. I have hunted sharks only to find up to 4 "no loot" sharks in a row (just as an example)

Sharks my friends and fellow players! Sharks!

Now I dont know if it is something related to my avatar that in more than six monthes in NI I only got two tiny globals while on all the other planets they seem to fall naturally on my lap, however I find it really odd.

Another tip, not critiscism, as a player, and wondering how a new player would feel, finding no loot as a constant is not only frustrating however also discouraging. You kind of stop it killing the animals after the third consecutive "no loot", oddly enough this also only seem to happen on NI, so is it just my "bad luck"? :)

So it is hard for me as the head of a society to hear from some of my dissapointed formely active members that now must wait for the (next!!!) "official" launch about their reasons they are leaving (temporarely if not forever) the game.

After seeing Arkadia, players can see it can be done.

Now I agree one shoud not be so negative and all the yadayada, however when people put money into something they do expect something in return again, sorry, and just to tell them that they better sweat (when there is no one to buy their sweat) is not really enticing to a game where you put money into.

I care for both Narfi and Magyar, two great gamers on Entropia, but truth must be told: promises promises promises + blah blah blah + shut up and just darn sweat it noob = people leaving = no money put into the planet = planet having no potential for local economy = disgrunted players leaving the game = planet owner unhappy = possible planet fail.

And to state when someone finally speaks up that he or she shoud just shut up and suck it, just dont help either, just saying.

Now I love you all, however, let Sid speak, perhaps they might listen.

Because serious, after Arkadias launch there shoud be no excuse for further delays, and not because I like Arkadia (I like NI) but because they at least showed consideration for the entropian players with bps, weapons, tools you name it all ready and running.

Come on, even their bugs are not really relevant to the general gameplay, I am just trying to help.

And sometimes just not saying anything and watching the whole thing slowly collapsing is just not good enough, perhaps a little push (or perhaps a massive one, and heavens Im good at this) just might do the trick.

Sid feel free for suggesting that NI shoud cut on the slack because it has plenty of it - the consideration is well founded and well deserved as I see it.

And trust me when I say that I am holding myself back on this as I dont wish to sabotage the chances of success of this planet, as I have invested time and money on this planet and I am willing to invest even more - if this planet just kept its promises as it shoud.

Thank you for reading all this, it is not a rant and was humorously ment to HOPEFULLY ENLIGHTEN this slacker of a planet.

I hope you understand that some times protest is needed when the "authorities" dont seem to listen.

I hope as well that all here see I am one of those trying my best to make NI work, but it is impossible if the new players feel cheated. There I said it.

Come on, over four or five consecutive "no loot" for each "loot" (read: Nova fragment) anyone feels discouraged to continue.

 

Well Lord, now that Arkadia has launched SID can say what he likes. Most of us had just reached our wits end with people comparing NI to Arkadia before Arkadia even went live. I am there now and in my opinion it doesn't live up to the hype, although I do like the pistols. That is neither here nor there though. I like that NI launched unfinished, it's allowed me to have a better understanding of the delicate balance of EU. It has also given us the chance to test and provide feedback to the development team. Hopefully Mr. Post has taken our ideas, recommendations and hopes for NI into consideration. Heck if my Shark or Death armour and stats are implemented with my name in the item description then that will beat a dozen new item hofs or even an ATH.