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thanks for the info about the engine, I'll see if it can get removed from manufacturing lists and inventories. This will probably happen after the content update a week or so from now. I can assure you we don't play favorites. The people who got it were probably just very active or in large guilds that shared the info with them. Let's all remember that the Solar Sail 8 was a bogeril item, and that if you can get it from something other than a bogeril mob or mission that's probably a bug. Bugs happen and we'll deal with them. Just alert us to the problem and let us know if it gives somebody an unfair advantage. No need for flames, we'll take care of it.

I was thinking up ways for Xipe Totec to be more dangerous and I thought, what if something in the sector caused your scan range to decrease while you were in it's area, similar to a radiation effect? That way when the oni and bio rippers come to get you it will be harder to see them coming and you'll have less time to react. We could add the same effect to other places like gas fields, planets and other dangerous sectors.

wasn't it 50 refined cupidium, not conorium? I spent a little too much time feeding the bunyip and leading it to kill the macro miners...

because stability and login problems are more important, right tienbau? though when your head hurts from bashing it into your keyboard too many times while trying to fix those problems, ore guardian timers could use a little attention

that "you must stop moving to mine" message can be pretty annoying, especially when you aren't moving and have to begin moving then stop again to be able to mine. But yes, there are higher priorities for our server developers. However! if you are annoyed by ore guardians that are respawning frequently to interrupt your dance, I am working on making them more level balanced and less constant.

should be rid of the blue ships in the next update.

I think Mimir's main question is "Can we replace the skill missions and hull upgrade missions that are in the emulator with the skill missions and hull upgrade missions that were in live, provided we have the information?" I'm not Byakhee so I can't speak for him, but I know many of his hull upgrade missions are extremely complicated. If I made a really complicated set of missions there'd be very little chance I'd toss the whole thing and recreate the live missions, though I might be willing to modify the missions to make them more like the live missions. so to that question I answer: Telling him to toss the hull upgrade missions will probably not happen (I certainly wouldn't toss a mission I put so much time into). You might be able to get him to replace some of the unconnected skill missions with enough specific evidence or you could convince him to add elements from the live missions to his current complex missions.

[quote name='gretl' timestamp='1301974552' post='38257'] And the game is always the same: if someone says or remarkes anything the "Team" doesn't want to hear, there's always the same procedure: Kyp answers in a way which shows he really isn't interested even to listen or think over the post carefully C-Del is up to say just what Kyp wants to hear Maniac hits the goal to say something to show he's with the "TEAM". and Lannister? thought he were an advocate for the players, but seems he makes the loudspeaker for the T As a matter of fact: Mimir didn't say that Byakhee's missions affect the stability of the server, he just pointed out that if there are so many things to do, why putting time in changing game and not first trying to get it running with the original content BEFORE you go on with content changing? Changing the content at all means you change the game from a player focused game to a mission focused game (from excellent one to a pretty bad one imao, lots of better mission-based games on market) And what about the original story-line? If you change the game there is no chance to get all the stuff ingame the westwood-studio was up to bring in further. All the enb-missions kept alot of running, mining, building etc. no need to blame the progen-players and tell they won't do that running, mining, building... I for myself always kept doing it till the missions were done, but what for? Check the wonderful Bogeril missions: a great technology was born remember the Maelstrom mission: how many runs and stuff were needed: i think neone was tired to grind it and do all the runs for it but the aggrippa technology: a great idea but at the end to get the blueprint for a lv3 shield or a lv2 one if you go further... which neone wants for using ... guess the market cries for it.... But even Agrippa technology were nice at all if we had at least the original Enb-Content fixed and running stable. And so my Question too: Why wasting time for bringing in new content BEFORE the game is properly running???? Mimir, you hit the point! THANK YOU VM [/quote] I do appreciate that someone brought it up, I've heard a lot about progen frustration lately so it'd be good to know what people think. byakhee is a content dev like me. We do not work on skills so a lot of the big problems we have no control over so we might as well add new content when things seem to be running smoothly. much of the "live" content we have no information on so we cannot recreate it. We have to create new content because of this lack of info. We go a bit outside of the box at times, but the reason we do it is to keep the game unique and interesting.

I've heard a lot of players don't like the missions, so I'm less concerned about whether or not it's like live and more concerned whether or not they are enjoyable for players. I haven't done the missions so I can't say much, just saying what I heard.

I didn't write these missions so I'm unfamiliar with the structure, but could we just offer a reward as a blueprint of that item instead of the item itself so there would be no risk of losing it?

by the way, what would you guys think about the whole "ore A is only found in A sectors and ore B is only found in B sectors" thing? pros to this system: - if you're looking for a certain ore you don't have to mine other ores to clear the asteroid - you can't sit in one sector and mine every ore of that level - easier to mine and not fill your inventory cons to this system: - frustrating for players with no knowledge of which roid fields are where - you can't sit in one sector and mine every ore of that level - makes some ore fields much less desirable (like ones with no grail water)

we had a problem with purely level 9 fields creating level 10 roids which had nothing in them and were glitchy so that's the main reason why there aren't too many purely level 9 fields. I think this bug is fixed though I am unable to check it because the dev server is down. I hope to get more level 9 fields in jenquai space in the next update.

well that and jenquai shields are generally lousy. They have some nice buffs, but the capacities are very low. With Jenquai having good devices, devices can usually make up those buffs. The only ones really worth building would be terran shields.

silly article, the monuments are in glory's orbit, not cooper or glenn

the chance was a way to be a little more forgiving on greedy looters. It makes being greedy more of a gamble. You could either choose to try and loot with a chance of getting killed before you can escape or you can choose to not loot at all. If there was no probability in that situation you would have to choose to not loot at all(provided the mobs stay in the general area). I can understand if you assumed it worked 100% of the time and that caused incapacitation or problems in the future. Maybe we can add a system message when you loot while cloaked to warn players it's not a 100% deal. the percentage might be a bit off, but I still think it's a good concept.

about the looting in cloak thing, my reasons: - you should have to take risks to be greedy - fold space could be used as a get-away for looting - it doesn't really make sense to be able to loot something while cloaked - makes looting require some decision at times instead of being guaranteed these are not necessarily permanent changes and if they are extremely unpopular they may be removed.

they mentioned us briefly but didn't give any details. some comments were helpful info about the emu, but one in particular was not. we should probably clarify, since we were mentioned in the article. I don't really want to make an account for a website I never visit. maybe another staff member could

I see no reason why players should not use this command

I haven't really noticed that much here lately, but I'm sure it happens. Usually negativity and arguments concentrate in a single thread which usually end up as a waste of a read so I tend to avoid those especially if it involves subject outside my realm of development. I'll see what I can do about the JD issue, thanks for reminding me.

they display a giant heart graphic on your ship so if they were really powerful shields you would want to have it on constantly. that would get annoying after a while. also, I had to re-equip mine to get the graphic to show up after I left dock.

thanks for reminding us. for a limited time you can buy them at net-7 in the bazaar. they're a bit pricey, but they're one of a kind. I don't know why you specifically mentioned the 8 and 9, are the other ones available or were you trying to keep it simple? anyway, if you find the heart shields available somewhere besides this vendor please report the mobs/missions they are coming from.

we're getting off topic. let's get back to monoceros discussion please expanded bogeril divinin rods to give more reason for people to kill bogeril?/do bogeril missions?

getting really close, like nearly inside it, and retargetting is how I do it. I just made the mission step description a little more specific with the method I described here. Hopefully that works. Not exactly how the mission should be done, but it's the best we can do with it for now. if getting right up to it (as close as possible) and retargetting doesn't work, try logging out right in it then logging that character back in.

or we could just add more levels to the bogeril divinin rod and make it comparable to the sculptor and miner devices. looting useful gear is usually more fun/rewarding than buying it and it's already there, just not too useful.