hello everyone. i've been gone for a few months, i got burnt out of building but have recently started to play again.
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i had hoped for the game to make some strides game play wise but there really aren't any in fact it's even worse. so i popped down to the forums to take a look at the updates and the forums. and what do i see.
Transporters and racing. while these two are not necessarily bad things they really aren't anything the game needs RIGHT NOW. when i came back i built some new ships. i was amazed at how little lag there was when i put massive turrets on a ship. so i brought it out and did a little combat test. i spawned i 50 small ships just to see how efficient the turrets were and the game immediately dropped from the normal 390fps to a crawl of 3 and my single player started getting error messages. i quickly used the delete function in mass spawning tab and wondered what the hell was that. as i used to be able to spawn up to eight thousand of these little 8 mass ships
and still get more than 40 fps. now i had though something went wrong. my install must have a problem
so i backed up my ships, deleted the game, and installed a brand new client. i then fixed all the settings and tried it. and there was still the terrible lag. with a brand new map and client. i went hmmm thats not right. but instead of reporting it right away i tried out the turrets against a single target. immediately there was no lag aganst the single target. but the turrets were completely broken(yes i built them right)the turrets would randomly lock up and shoot off into the space at nothing. if a turret aimed more than 105 degrees up it would start shooting out of the back of the barrel in the gun though the ship.
Somewhere along the way ai was broken
Ai is super laggy right now. more than ever and it doesn't even work right either
i used to be able to spawn ridiculous numbers of ai and not have a single problem
but now even small numbers of ai lag terribly but it doesant just lag. the ai is broken. they wont use more than one weapon. they randomly take off to other sectors while firing on you firing so innacuartly that even with say a giant waffleboard of machine guns they wont hit.
The Game still has no gameplay
The game right now is a one trick pony. theirs nothing to do besides build and it is in my opinion that the devs are currently going in the completely wrong direction no one wants to roleplay(okay a few people)right now no one needs transporters(still a cool feature). and the game doesn't need racing the ai is so broken that what little gameplay their was it's now all gone
Fleet ai needs to be a thing
you used to be able to have massive amounts of ships with little lag. this was before the rails update i think
but now the ai is worse in combat than it used to be and it lags the hell out of the game
currently there is little to do but build, people want to be able to fight these awesome ships that they make but cant due to the current state of the ai
people want to be able to fight large battles. not just two massive capital ships that go mano e mano
they want fleets of multiple ships with hundreds even thousands of fighters darting in between(we actually used to be able to do this but not anymore)
and we need a fleet ai to controll multiple ships to make these battles easier to make possible
(also being able to send out swarms of mining drones would be cool)
The difficulty of ai coding
i understand that coding ai is a particularly hard and slow thing to to do but it's also a thing that needs to be done it cant keep being put on the back burner and ignored when update after update keeps breaking the ai and making it worse.
Fleet ai would probably bring a lot of players back and many new faces
the introduction of a fleet ai would give people something to do and it would most likeley bring a lot of players in the game as something to do other than build
The new bug report site is terrible.
the new bug report site is difficult to navigate and use and deters people from actually making bug reports.
Examples
i had hoped for the game to make some strides game play wise but there really aren't any in fact it's even worse. so i popped down to the forums to take a look at the updates and the forums. and what do i see.
Transporters and racing. while these two are not necessarily bad things they really aren't anything the game needs RIGHT NOW. when i came back i built some new ships. i was amazed at how little lag there was when i put massive turrets on a ship. so i brought it out and did a little combat test. i spawned i 50 small ships just to see how efficient the turrets were and the game immediately dropped from the normal 390fps to a crawl of 3 and my single player started getting error messages. i quickly used the delete function in mass spawning tab and wondered what the hell was that. as i used to be able to spawn up to eight thousand of these little 8 mass ships
and still get more than 40 fps. now i had though something went wrong. my install must have a problem
so i backed up my ships, deleted the game, and installed a brand new client. i then fixed all the settings and tried it. and there was still the terrible lag. with a brand new map and client. i went hmmm thats not right. but instead of reporting it right away i tried out the turrets against a single target. immediately there was no lag aganst the single target. but the turrets were completely broken(yes i built them right)the turrets would randomly lock up and shoot off into the space at nothing. if a turret aimed more than 105 degrees up it would start shooting out of the back of the barrel in the gun though the ship.
Somewhere along the way ai was broken
Ai is super laggy right now. more than ever and it doesn't even work right either
i used to be able to spawn ridiculous numbers of ai and not have a single problem
but now even small numbers of ai lag terribly but it doesant just lag. the ai is broken. they wont use more than one weapon. they randomly take off to other sectors while firing on you firing so innacuartly that even with say a giant waffleboard of machine guns they wont hit.
The Game still has no gameplay
The game right now is a one trick pony. theirs nothing to do besides build and it is in my opinion that the devs are currently going in the completely wrong direction no one wants to roleplay(okay a few people)right now no one needs transporters(still a cool feature). and the game doesn't need racing the ai is so broken that what little gameplay their was it's now all gone
Fleet ai needs to be a thing
you used to be able to have massive amounts of ships with little lag. this was before the rails update i think
but now the ai is worse in combat than it used to be and it lags the hell out of the game
currently there is little to do but build, people want to be able to fight these awesome ships that they make but cant due to the current state of the ai
people want to be able to fight large battles. not just two massive capital ships that go mano e mano
they want fleets of multiple ships with hundreds even thousands of fighters darting in between(we actually used to be able to do this but not anymore)
and we need a fleet ai to controll multiple ships to make these battles easier to make possible
(also being able to send out swarms of mining drones would be cool)
The difficulty of ai coding
i understand that coding ai is a particularly hard and slow thing to to do but it's also a thing that needs to be done it cant keep being put on the back burner and ignored when update after update keeps breaking the ai and making it worse.
Fleet ai would probably bring a lot of players back and many new faces
the introduction of a fleet ai would give people something to do and it would most likeley bring a lot of players in the game as something to do other than build
The new bug report site is terrible.
the new bug report site is difficult to navigate and use and deters people from actually making bug reports.
