For whatever reason I can't post any more on the NC forums after I cancelled my account and upgraded to NC2
I can read every post but I can't reply or vote in the polls.
I pretty much agree with ya FN. playershops is a must and item tracking is a no-brainer.
I find myself logging in for like 5 mins then going to do something else. I'm really not enjoying NC2.
They absolutely need to get Player-shops sorted out. I hate, absolutely hate, this Faction specific stuff atm. But if player-shops were in it would be a lot better.
Reasons I hate faction specific items;
1) With 12 different factions and less than 600 ppl online at peak times (250 when I log on), NC is a very small MMO game. To require me to sit on trade and hope that one or two of those 250-600 ppl are in one of the other 11 factions, that I need stuff from and willing to trade with me, is just a big time sink, imho. Its bad enough if you have to find a resser or cst to build stuff, now you have to have liscenses and possibly a special part only sold by faction x?
I know it is supposed to increase player interaction, but I am used to playing NC a certain way and this faction specific stuff is making me play it entirely different than I want to. I liked it the old way.
I have always been completely self-sufficient when it comes to building stuff. If I want a 5 slotted holy heal, I set down for several hours over maybe several days, until I got it.
Now, I have to have someone get me the liscenses and possibly a special part, that can only be bought from a certain faction?! You know how many holy heals you have to make in order to get a 5 slotter? Same goes for any high-level spell or weapon that isn't rare. Its not more fun to make those weapons now, I thought that was the point of playing this game, fun? Now it just takes longer and no matter what (unless I have other chars in all factions) I am forced to rely on someone else. Very little fun for me there.
2) Even if I wanted to sit on trade for hours looking for the right person to help me get the item, I probably wouldn't be able to read the damn message mixed in with all that spam. So, they make player interaction a must but don't do a thing about fixing the spam or even putting in a DoY trade channel?
3) People say "now faction sympathy means something". Hate to say it but no, it really doesn't. Every person or every clan is just going to make a mule char that they can kill for symp.
What they absolutely need to do to fix this imo;
1) Playershops, playershops, playershops.
2) Any runner can buy from any FSM that they are
allied to, as long as they have 90+ symp to that faction. This would ease the pain of finding some one willing to sell you what you need.
3) FFS publish a list of what items can be bought from what faction supply managers. Should have been published in beta, but it
needs to be done now.