Poll: Why aren't you playing in HS more?

[Arry]

Instead of guessing why people aren't playing, let's get some data on it.

 

EDIT: Added checkbox for people who are playing all the can and are enjoying themselves

 

EDIT: Added checkbox for reset killing people's interest.

Edited June 9, 2011 by Arry

[spidernl]

Instead of guessing why people aren't playing, let's get some data on it.

 

Options one and three, with three being the most important factor. Although 'conquest' isn't necessarily the answer, Hyperspace is just getting old. Needs change. The question is just what change.

Edited May 25, 2011 by spidernl

[Dr Brain]

You don't have a check box for people who are playing.

[P Nut]

You don't have a check box for people who are playing.

That's the joke.

[Arry]

You don't have a check box for people who are playing.

Added it.

[Deathmonger]

I'm not playing because I'm spending all my free time on this forum reading about why people are not playing. I don't have time for anything else.

[P Nut]

Can you add the option 'Because SpiderNL nerfed my build'? Edited May 26, 2011 by P Nut

[Cheese]

sounds like option #2

[lotharl]

option 1. I don't mind playing with low population, 1-2 others is fine with me. Its the 0 population making me go elsewhere.

option 2. It's the team killing/clearing with engine fail INSIDE the bases that is lame. I don't understand why engine fail has to kill team mates in the first place, much less inside a base where they intentionally clear the whole team. Too easy for trolls to abuse this.

[Cheese]

the team killing with engine fail

 

theres only one faggot that does this

lots of people wonder why faggotbarz wasnt banned long ago, and lots more that wonder why engine fail kills anyone besides the dumb fag thats too dumb to use it properly

 

 

 

guess its just that teamkilling was never against the rules or anything

 

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Edited May 30, 2011 by Cheese

[Arry]

lots of people wonder why faggotbarz wasnt banned long ago...

I don't know about banning him... but...

 

Foobarz teamkills for nano kills. He safelames for nano kills. I think a fitting punishment would be to make him start over with nano every time he's caught doing illegal or lame crap for kills. Nano isn't the problem.... foobarz is.

[spidernl]

I think a fitting punishment would be to make him start over with nano every time he's caught doing illegal or lame crap for kills.

 

Heh.

[omni]

Zone is dying cuz no one duels me anymore.

[Swift Warrior]

No time + time woulda been used on job applications and work + world of tanks is much more exciting + im catching up on my 5 months of anime backlog from the most assrape university term ever where I got screwed over by pretty much all group members in all courses + doing research jobs for professors while being paid less than minimum wage

[Sketter]

You need to throw in there;

I worked to hard on my last build - i don't feel like remaking it so i lost interest.

[omni]

Every reset just gets too repetitive and boring. Whats the point of building your ship just to have it disappear after a few months, after which you'll just have to play for hours and hours just to build the exact same ship again.

[spidernl]

Every reset just gets too repetitive and boring. Whats the point of building your ship just to have it disappear after a few months, after which you'll just have to play for hours and hours just to build the exact same ship again.

 

Think about what would happen without a reset, before posting silly things like these please.

Unless you honestly think that a zone where everyone has '$toomuchtospend and a ridiculous amount of experience in their account' is fun.

 

Must be great to start in such a zone. People instantly give you millions, and then all you have to do is play for a few weeks to get the experience to spend it.

I'd argue the only thing that stopped the zone from dying years ago is the reset.

[Sketter]

Every reset just gets too repetitive and boring. Whats the point of building your ship just to have it disappear after a few months, after which you'll just have to play for hours and hours just to build the exact same ship again.

 

Think about what would happen without a reset, before posting silly things like these please.

Unless you honestly think that a zone where everyone has '$toomuchtospend and a ridiculous amount of experience in their account' is fun.

 

Must be great to start in such a zone. People instantly give you millions, and then all you have to do is play for a few weeks to get the experience to spend it.

I'd argue the only thing that stopped the zone from dying years ago is the reset.

 

 

I wounder how RPG games make it with out their resets then.

Talk about silly things.

We all know resets are a temp fix. It fill in a bit of freshness before the zone reaches an apex to which then a player can reach within months with nothing more to achieve. (another reset?)

 

To much to money to spend? You hindered your own point when you said "play for a few weeks to get the experience to spend it."

I have never had a problem with having the funds to pay for my own items. The zone flag games and money kills already reward at a generous rate, by when the time you have the exp, you have the money.

This only doesn't work of course of you prefer to use more then one ship - but even still - you would still have the funds to start a second class ship and to add a few buffs it, by the time you first ship is buffed.

 

The problem is lack of high end content.

When i got to 20k exp (even at 15k) in 3 months when i was hardcore, that was it. There wasn't anything more to work towards (of potential value). All i could do was flaunt around in the ship(s) during flag games, for that was all that was left.

 

There is merit to be said about the resets. It does give the zone a second coming (how many has there been anyways?) where as i said, will give you the freshness. But there is something fundamentally wrong with the idea of "there needs to be a reset, to save the zone." It's short sighted, not long term, and perhaps means that the achievements of the zone (as great as their are) are short, and thus short lived.

 

To imply/state that comments made about dislike in resets, with dismissive, and judgmental remarks, is very narrow minded thinking, potentially structurally damaging, and limiting.

You have people here that tell you a reason why they don't play, and you dismiss their answer as if it's made up, and left for other reasons. Or so as implied.

 

 

You have a variety of reasons to why people don't play. It's not a pick and choose which you think are correct.

Edited June 7, 2011 by Sketter

[Arry]

You need to throw in there;

I worked to hard on my last build - i don't feel like remaking it so i lost interest.

 

Added this option. I would encourage people to revote if this fits them.

Edited June 9, 2011 by Arry

[Arry]

Every reset just gets too repetitive and boring. Whats the point of building your ship just to have it disappear after a few months, after which you'll just have to play for hours and hours just to build the exact same ship again.

 

Think about what would happen without a reset, before posting silly things like these please.

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To be fair he didn't suggest having no reset, he just mentioned it as a reason why people don't play. And it's a valid reason for not playing even if there is no reasonable alternative to the current scheme of things (ie resets).

[Arry]

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The problem is lack of high end content.

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I think the results of this poll clearly show that there is no single problem with HS that people aren't playing. People come for a variety of reasons and their reasons for not playing now are just as varied.

 

Instead of saying the problem is lack of high end content, I would say that adding high end content addresses as specific issue.

 

The problem we have is lack of resources (ie skilled developers with time). Every idea that comes down the line has to be filtered through this bottleneck. We need to be considering ideas that don't take a ton of coding to complete. And really the best ones to determine if there's gonna be a ton of coding involved is the developers themselves.

 

If we're going to come up with any solutions, a cooperative attitude is needed. Developers shouldn't be overly critical about bad ideas, but simply explain logically why they won't work. And the rest of us need to be respectful towards the developers and come up with ideas that fit within the constraints they provide.

 

I've seen a few new items pop up recently. It's not impossible to have your ideas implemented in hyperspace.

Edited June 9, 2011 by Arry

[Sketter]

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The problem is lack of high end content.

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I think the results of this poll clearly show that there is no single problem with HS that people aren't playing. People come for a variety of reasons and their reasons for not playing now are just as varied.

 

Instead of saying the problem is lack of high end content, I would say that adding high end content addresses as specific issue.

 

The problem we have is lack of resources (ie skilled developers with time). Every idea that comes down the line has to be filtered through this bottleneck. We need to be considering ideas that don't take a ton of coding to complete. And really the best ones to determine if there's gonna be a ton of coding involved is the developers themselves.

 

If we're going to come up with any solutions, a cooperative attitude is needed. Developers shouldn't be overly critical about bad ideas, but simply explain logically why they won't work. And the rest of us need to be respectful towards the developers and come up with ideas that fit within the constraints they provide.

 

I've seen a few new items pop up recently. It's not impossible to have your ideas implemented in hyperspace.

 

 

Yes, i did say at the end that there are a variety of reason why people are not playing.

 

Perhaps i wasn't clear enough on the point you quoted.

It shouldn't have been an implication that it was the only reason - it was meant to address the key factor of being able to max out in 3 months with nothing left to do.