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I'm not even bothering to check the higher level hulks anymore as Ive yet to find a lv7+ prototype item. Either I have very bad luck and only get scraps with 100+ I've checked or people just cherry picked them.
Hello,
I am betting players are cherry picking the hulk fields as the drop rate right now is way high. We are working on getting it ballanced. I will say that it is "VERY" stupid for players to cherry pick the hulk fields as what you will end up haveing in the end is nothing but junk in the hulk fields! In fact I have been checking the hulk fields and watching players mine them and if I catch players cherry picking the hulks I will start making hulk fields dissapeer! Cherry picking the ore fields is one thing, but the hulks are a different thing altogether and if players are going to be rude to their fellow players I will just do away with the hulks altogether! Now before I get those players that want to give me a long drawn out reason why it is ok to cherry pick the hulks save your breath as cherry picking the hulks is not something that should be in the game. One way to fix this problem would be to only have hulk fields with 1 hulk in them and make them so hard to find that you will never think to cherry pick them! Is this what eveyone wants? The bottom line guys is it is time to stop being rude and if you find a hulk field, clear the damm field! Just like the ore fields you get a clear bonus for doing so. TTYL :-)
Merlin
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I'm curious.
By what math did you calculate that there is 3 times more ore than is needed?
I ask because if your maths is good as your spelling - we may need a recount
Ok funny boy, I hope you never have to ask me for help some time! Since I am the one who does the ore field I should have a good idea as to what is or isn't there. Oh by all meens please correct my spelling for me again!
Merlin
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Hello,
Ok, time for me to weight in on this topic. There is more then enough ore in the game right now to make everyone happy! In fact there is problliy 3 times more ore then is needed and I still have 1/3 of the sectors to go. Miners are "Explorers" and that is what you guys need to do is explorer! If you do not have my ore list get it and it will list the sectors that have each ore. Compared to the rest of the things in the game that have issues, ores are not one of them and if you are not getting enough ores then you need to look harder because they are out there! TTYL :-)
Merlin
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your da best merl...
oh and I dont know what Whoopy Twang is... but damn im gettin excited
Hello,
Lol, sorry about that! It was a phrase that my 1st wife used all the time! Whoopy Twang meens to get all upset or freaked out. They use that phrase in the Denver area alot! TTYL :-)
Merlin
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I was in a field the other day and thought that I found the motherload. Even though most of the stuff was lvl 3 or 4, I had a beam, a PL and an ML plus ammo for both and an engine (never did find a reactor
). Which got me to asking, I noticed that the engine was much better than any other engine (PM or not) of the same level, which would make sense for a prototype. I had also heard that the prototype reactors were pretty decent too, but I was just wondering why the weapons seem to be so underpowered? Maybe not underpowered but average powered. The beam that I found was like 142% and the damage output was comparable to the Ocelot but had a 6 second reload as opposed to the 4 second reload on the Ocelot, so the DPS would end up being a lot lower. Is this something that is going to be looked at?As Merlin said, this whole thing is a work in progress and I have to say how awesome it is that Merlin likes to just throw stuff out there first and see how it works and adjusts as needed on the fly.
Hello,
What is the big difference in the beams? One word: Range! TTYL :-)
Merlin
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Hello,
Ok I just read Lionmanes post and all I have to say is, "Have you done any mining in the game yet"? Most of what you wrote about was about players stealing the clear field bonus and that is not possible with the way it is set up. The way it works is lets say Player A pulls from 60 roids in a 100 roid field and Player B pulls 20 and Player C pulls 20. Player A would get 60%, player B 20% & player C would get 20%. If you would have done just alittle checking you could have saved your fingers some work! :-)
I am always running around in the game checking out ore fields and most of them are untouched 90% of the time. I still have atleast 1/3 of the sectors to still do the ore fields in so as to some kind of "Ore War" I don't think so. Since I started doing the fields there has hardly been any complaining about players camping out ore fields because they do not have to! As to all the big bad mobs, well most of them are gone also as I am getting things setup for when pop rocks come into play. The fields that do have mobs should be able to be handled by a solo or small group of toons. I have done alot of work to try to get the ore fields setup so that players will want to mine their little hearts out. All I ask is that before you make such a long post about alot of things that really aren't a problem is to check things out and you will see alot of your concerns are just not there. Believe me I am not picking on you, but I just don't want the players to get all "Whoopy Twang" about problems that just are not there. TTYL :-)
Merlin
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After playing around this weekend I'm liking the new hulks... Just a few observations though:
- It's a cherry-picker's dream. Many of the fields I come across have already been comed over and I end up just clearing the field just so it'll respawn for the next person in a few hours. I'm glad debris stacks.
- I'm finding a lot of prototype equipment in the lower level fields (lvl6 down). In one field (Jove Ruins I believe) I found two lvl5 and one lvl6 proto-engine in addition to a bunch of misc proto-weapons + ammo. It just seems like they are dropping too much. Maybe seed in some more mundane items to thin them out.
- Are the unidentified items in game? I haven't seen any yet and I used to like them in live. It's like unopened presents and you're just dying to see what's inside.
More as I think of them.
Hello,
The subject of cherry picking has been beaten to death and I for one do not like cherry picking, but I got such flack that I really don't care anymore if players cherry pick or not.
The % of the items in the hulks will be changing over the course of the next 6 months as I fine tune the hulks. Alot of the Dev's take big swings at things as to where I like to make small changes to try to get things right, of course this takes time I will say on the next push alot of items are being added to the hulks and that will make getting the same thing twice next to impossible.
Have no cule as to what an unidentified item even is! If you are talking about the "aa" items then yes they will be going in sooner or later. I know everyone is in a big hurry for stuff to get put into the game and work correctlly, but this is the real world and to get stuff just right takes alot of time. I spent over 50 hours over the weekend putting together the item list for the hulks and will spend countless hours seeding the hulks as well, so sit back and enjoy it now as once things get ballanced out you may long for the days when you could find all the good stuff instead of maybe getting 1 or 2 like in live. TTYL :-)
Merlin
- It's a cherry-picker's dream. Many of the fields I come across have already been comed over and I end up just clearing the field just so it'll respawn for the next person in a few hours. I'm glad debris stacks.
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That Mordana were going to be in this push, by a dev....when they weren't. All joking aside, I think that stuff alluded to in game should not reflect on any content patch if there's no chance for it to actually be there. Quite a few players got their hopes up for new mobs to kill and new drops with this patch due to the ramblings of one person. I will not name names, and I will not speculate on stuff I did not witness through chat in game, but I will say this. Please don't lead us on, if something is scheduled to release in a patch then don't build it up to a point where expectation is higher than what is actually there.
Hello,
Well I have been hearing this same thing for days and all I know is that nothing was ever said to me, at a meeting or anything about any new races/mobs coming into the game! I would addvise not always believeing what you hear unless it comes from something that is posted on the forms. If you don't want to name names as you put it that is fine, as it is not that importain. The thing you have to remember about a grape vine is offen the grapes turn out to be sour now and then. Take my word for it that when something new like that comes into the game all the players will know it, but for now the server/content dev's have enough to do to just get the basics all done first and before anything else new is added I think it would be better to fix all the stuff that need fixed first right? TTYL :-)
Merlin
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Hyperia is the Terran Scout's faction. Admiral Herrera was being associated with Good Earth Trading Company, a.k.a. GETCo. He is in fact the EarthCorps Warriors Class Leader, same as Vinda for the Progen sentinel, or Merjan Kathrada for Jenquai Explorer. I will set him correctly now. It'll go across with the next patch. It's your system, but if you want them to go to someone in their class, then you'll need to change it.
Hello,
Sounds good Kyp. In fact I will make the changes right before the next push and will get a list from the 3 race leaders (Kyp, Kenu & Freak/Mr
as to who really is the class leader for each class. I probilly should have done that instead of trying to figure it out my self, but I was trying to get it done as soon as I could and was already holding everyone up. I am sure the players will not have any problem with changing who they give the suits to. TTYL :-)Merlin
Just thought of something, on the suits are they tradeable? If so I would see how my JE might want to trade some Jenquai suits with a PE for some Progen Suits, in order to turn them in for the apropriate faction.
Hello,
Yes, suits are tadeable! TTYL :-)
Merlin
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I only have one question, why are you sending the Scout to the Terran Enforcer class lead to trade items?
The equivalent person would be India van Helkein-Naverre for the scout. She is the class leader for Hyperia.
Hello,
I did do some checking and made sure that each NPC was part of the faction that they were giving out. To my surprise Admiral Herrea is part of TS faction so that is why we sent the players to him. If this is a mistake then it is a mistake in the NCP database that the server is reading. It would be easy to fix this if indeed a mistake has been made. Just let me know if you want it changed. TTYL :-)
Merlin
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Well if it hasn't yet been pushed (I didn't get to check yesterday, was trying to finish something and was necessarily afk) then note that someone asked for an extension prior to the push. I won't mention names to prevent a patch-day lynchmob but it will go in as soon as that person has finished and one of the individuals that do the push are available to do so.
Hello,
Well I am the guilty one and if they want to lynch me they can go ahead! lol Tienbau & I wanted to make sure some thing to do with the hulks were in and tested fully so that when the push did happen things would be right from the start. I feel it is better to "Fully" test things "Before" pushing them to the play server, just wished that was the case all the time. Anyway, I have been testing out the new stuff and everything looks ok for the most part. TTYL :-)
Merlin
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Sounds great! I noticed tonight one of the Dev said the current AAs were for code testing - are AAs back in hulks now (all or most of them) or are they being added later?
Hello,
Not sure yet how those will be handled. TTYL :-)
Merlin
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Hello,
Ok, one of the bigger things that is happening with the content push is hulk fields are finilly going into the game. 3 of the items you will find in the hulks a called Half-Eaten Space Suits. There is one for each of the 3 races in the game. Now what do you do with these suits you ask? Well we have setup a NPC system where you can trade in those suits and get faction towards the 9 classes of toons. You also get trade XP for them as well. Each suit is worth 50 + class faction 1000 trade points. So as an example, lets say you are a JE that needs good PW faction, look at the list below, go to that NPC and turn in the Progen Suits. Lets say you are a PP that needs good TT faction, you would turn in the Half-Eaten Terran Space Suits to the person for TT faction and so on. So to put it in a nut shell there is now a way to get good faction for each of the nine classes without having to do major grinding. The 3 suits are:
Half-Eaten Jenquai Space Suits Lvl 8
Half-Eaten Terran Space Suits Lvl 7
Half-Eaten Progan Space Suits Lvl 6
There are 2 ways to get these suits, 1 is from the hulks and 2 from ??? <Evil Grin> Come on can't tell you everything! lol
Ok, here is the list of NPC's for the 9 classes:
Class | NPC | Faction | Sector | Station | Where
JE | Fujiko Ohiya | Sha'ha'dem Explorers | Capella | Paren | Lounge
JD | Shou Shen | Shinwa Warriors | Sirius | Prasad | Main Lobby
JS | Master Sevti | Sharim Traders | Jupiter | Joves | Main Lobby
PW | Markus Kahn | Centuriata Warriors | Vega | Arx Tiberius | Main Lobby
PE | Vinda | Sabine Explorers | Endriago Pl | Pourvenir Mons | Main Lobby
PP | Zieg | Collegia Traders | Mars | Arx Magister | Main Lobby
TT | Lady deWinter | InfinitiCorp Traders | New Edinburgh | Somerlad | Main Lobby
TE | Stephanie Baird | EartCorps Warriors | ABA | ECS Dauntless | Main Lobby
TS | Admiral Herrera | Hyperia Explorers | Planet Zweihander | Jagerstadt City | Main Lobby
Now you will also start to find many usefull items in hulks as well. Like live, the non-stackable items will have a Quality rateing from 80 to 180% and a Structure rating from 50 to 100%. Example: you pull a lvl 5 RR out of a hulk, instead of it having a 100/00 on it it could be 150/75 (Quality/Structure). Now to get the structure to 100% is easy, just install the item and dock at a station and it will get repaired to 100%. The Quality rating will stay what it is when you pull them so you could get a Unquie, non-man item 180/100. You will find almost all Prototype items in hulks now as that was the way it was in live.
Now to save the 10 million question "Why are the hulks not responding" here is the timers that are set for the hulks:
Starting explorer/miner sectors (JE,PE,TS) 30 minutes
Lvl 1-3 hulks 480 minutes (8 hours)
Lvl 4-6 hulks 960 minutes (16 hours)
Lvl 7-9 hulks 1440 minutes (24 hours)
The reason for setting the timers on the long side was to make sure the game doesn't get flooded with to many new items. Now nothing is set in stone and we may decide to either shorten the timers or even make them longer. We are also working on the drop rates so you might see small changes there. I will also say that I am putting together a very long list of items that will drop out of hulks and you will find different items in Jen, Terran, Progan & Independant sectors. It will be kind of like the loot drops where there is a common drop list and a rare drop list. Ok, that is about it for the hulks. I hope I have answered some of your questions have you have or will come up with the hulks. Fell free to ask questions, but first re-read this posting to see if I covered your question. Now you may all go back your normal lives! TTYL :-)
Merlin
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Hello everyone,
I am giving everyone at this time an open invite to The Shadows Guild. I am also please to announce that The Shadows have now broken off into 2 seperate guilds and the new guild called: Shadows Elite CL (150) It is the guild that our 150 players move into and I am please to say we now have about 30 to 40 toons in the 150 guild.
So if you are new or just unhappy with the guild you are in or would like to talk about mergers let me know. You can PM me here in the forms, in game or come and join us on Team Speak as most of us use TS as our main line of chat.
Benifits: Complete team work, fast leveling if that is your cup of tea. Vast player knowalage & we do many raids. Most of your members have very nice stuff and we have builders that build 99% of what is in the game at the moment. We have groups out mining, combat & exploreing on a daily basics. Another big benifit is that member get up-to-date details of my night chasing Riddick around the map! This has become a very fun event for myself, my guild member and I think Riddick himself looks forward to me playing cat & mouse with him!
So once again if you are looking for a new or different guild you can call home without all the BS then give the Shadows a try! I promise you will not be sorry if you do.
TTYL :-)
Merlin
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I'm curious about how the majority of your leveling occurred. I realize most everyone will have done several of the options - but which got you the farthest?
Hello,
Well lets just say I go about starting a new toon different then most. Alot of players jump right into combat from day 1 as to where I get all the grinding out of the way first and by doing so I can level a toon pretty fast. I did a test a week or so ago and started 2 new toons, one another TS and TE. Now with the way the server is at the moment there is ways to level a toon very fast and I will be working on curveing some of the ways to level a toon to 150 in a week. Lets put it this way, if you get help from your 150 guildies, you can level trade to 50 in the first day and el to 50 in the 2nd day. I will not list the ways here as I am going to try and fix them as that is way to fast. Now if everything was the way it was in live if you put your mind to it you should be able to get to level 150 in a month to 2. TTYL :-)
Merlin
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Hello,
Not a clue, can't remember how to get to 150! lol TTYL :-)
Merlin
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Hello,
They have toyed around with raiseing the lvl's past 150, but there is a problem that would come up. Since the highest mob's in the game are cl 66's, you could never raise your combat higher then 76. Before raiseing the level's up, we would have to raise up the level of the mob's, get alot of higher lvl sectors, missions and so on. With the way the game client the way it is now and you could never raise your equipment past lvl 9 you would find it very hard to battle say a cl 75 mob. It is a nice idea, but I know that touching the Player client is a no-no so you will probilly never see the levels go past 150. TTYL :-)
Merlin
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minimum warp distance is currently 5k, which is what I'm informed it was in the live game. It's easy to change though if required.
Hello,
I remember you could warp at 1k or higher in live. I use to mine a lot in live and I also warped to each rock. TTYL :-)
Merlin
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I have never played E &B. What is the easiest class to start off with? I am looking for a class that will solo well, fight reasonably well if surprised by mobs and can do mining?
Hello,
IMHO I feel that the TE (Terran Enforcer) would problie be the easist Race/Class to start with. Most of the other races are most specialize as to where the TE is a strait forward combat toon. TTYL :-)
Merlin
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The content is being seperated out from hull upgrades, that is currently being done.
But there will be a teething period (which could mean for a bit none of the flavour missions for progen will be available)
Those on the PTR should try and contact Anjuren Khan in 61 Cygni for a level 50 HU.
For every hull upgrade there will be a short mission. The operative point here is Short. Maximum 10 steps. And will be a payment.
Hull upgrades will run in paraelle until migrated over.
The content is not just Agrippa, there is a lot of other content too. Agrippa is just the current content.
Hello Mr Byakhee,
You & I have not spoken for a long time, but I feel I must jump in here. From someone who is on the play server many hours a day and hides the fact I am a Dev so I do not have to keep answering the same questions, "Can you help me with the Progan missions"? Byakhee, you really need to listen what the players are telling you and stop all the double, confussing mumbo jumble! They are not saying they do not like your missions, but just not to tie them into the HU's! I feel as do about 95% of the players that just getting to the lvl that is required to get the HU should be the mission! I know that I will probally never start another Progen unless the long confussing missions are removed from the HU's. I hear all the time, "Oh man, I need to go get my HU, wish me luck." What players should be saying is "Thank god I get to do my HU and get a better ship" I for one do not do hardly any missions as that is not why I play EnB. I know some players love missions, but most don't and it is really not fair to make everyone who want to play a Progen spend countless hours doing long drawn out HU missions unless they want to. If you gave players the choice of choicing to do long drawn out missions or See Kerr, pay Kerr, go to shipyard, I think you would find around 90% of the players doing the latter. Believe me I am not putting you down and do think that you have some interesting ideas (most of the time), but just need to listen to what the players are saying to you. TTYL :-)
Merlin
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Lets see.......the peeps from buildersinc and Vancorp will object but I ask you to consider removing guilds from this stress test as its only a stress test and those two guilds have corrupted the game to the point where if you are not in them its a pain at best and no fun for certain. Points to be made- the leader of builders needs some counseling or meds as evidenced by his in game posts - look at them? the guy is nutso?????
Vancrap has figured out how to use macros to camp key spots 24/7 just to deny any others the opportunity to enjoy higher lvl spots in the game. Devs need to look into this as its a fact. Devs look at your game and what's going on??? Its nuts! You've either got a power hungry nut job ruling who gets what built or some other whack job guild exploiting what you can loot here for their own limited use which is crazy. Open this game back up to the "common man" or you ARE going to loose more and more members. Its not fun for most of us and MOST of us have no interest in joining a guild ruled by a nutjob in order to have fun or some whackjob guild that invests their time in working good spots not for their own fun but only to DENY others from having fun. Deny is the key word her buds. Think about this...... we actually have, in a great endeavor of an emu by cool peeps working to make a great game live again, that have losers camping with robos and macros that are ruining the game for most......... what's up with that? As a someone that has and wants to continue to donate to the cause this is just wrong!
Hello? Denial is not just a river in Egypt!
Hello,
Ok 1st off I know the leader of Builders Inc personally and his play style might not be the same as yours, but calling him a "Nut Job" in a public form is totally uncalled for! As most players know I am not only a Dev, but a very active player in the game and I check out camping spots all the time and yes some of the players are there more then others, but I have not seen the kind of problems you are describing. I will over the course of the next several days watch alittle closer to see if there is indeed a problem. I will ask that you refrain from calling other players names as I am sure you would not like the same in return! TTYL :-)
Merlin
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Hi... can you please put Reya's rd rep back to where it was prior to the crash so I can get into QAR... I actually only need to get on there to buy hellbore ammo... but would prefer not to have to bug people each time I need it... thnx...
Hello,
You can buy that ammo in Mercury sector at the station there. TTYL :-)
Merlin
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so do we all have to open tickets to get faction fixed? why not just put all faction back to where it was... ok well can you reset Reya's rd faction back to where it was so she can get back into QAR to buy hellbore ammo...
Hello,
You can buy Hellbore ammo in Mercury sector.
Merlin
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Hello,
Remember everyone "Stress Test"! TTYL :-)
Merlin
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Ok fine, starting tommorrow I will start changing the hulks! If you are going to be this narrow minded then so be it. I will not debate this any longer and if you want to openly say you are going to cherry pick then I will make it so cherry picking is not possible! Each sector will have 1 and only 1 hulk in it, Go ahead and cherry pick it all you want to Mr Tyran!
Merlin