Development Cycle Archive

JustG,

I didn't direct my disgust over the situation to TH directly. For that matter, it wasn't directed to you either.

I understand the time and place for you guys to implement a necesarry game mechanic at the sake of ignoring your playerbase, because you guys know this is good for the game, and people don't know what's good for them.

All this aside, you need to reevaluate what you got going on.

If I could reliably repair my Armor with any sense of confidence, I wouldn't care.

If I could reliably repair my Clothes with any sense of confidence, again, I wouldn't care.

If I could prevent the game from killing me, as opposed to normal death by stupidity on my part, I wouldn't care.

I am a big fan of decay. Big fan of making death sting. However, I now think you guys need to fix some of the supporting mechanics to decay or remove it all together until those supporting mechanics also reliably work.

Please, hear us out here. I don't want it removed again, so people will mercilessly throw themselves into every situation, and find new and exciting ways to beat the system without fear of penalty, but now it's just worse.

I cannot afford to replace armor every week. I can't afford to replace my skill modded clothes every week either.

Fix the repair kits! Give Master Armorsmiths and Master Artisans 100% success rate on all repairs. That can't hurt the game!

TH has done a great job bringing the issues to us. I dont agree with many of the decisions the design team makes, but at least we are getting more feedback than in the past.

Decay has to go. Period!! There are many options available. Corpse runs, increase the wounds that death causes, and increase insurance costs come to mind. Use decay is viable and makes sense in most cases. Make survey tools based on number of charges and make it experimentable. Clothing gets use decay like vehicles or armor. Armor already has use decay. Make furniture color customizable and have it fade to the ugliest color possible over time. That will force people to buy new furniture. When a structure gets damaged due to lack of maintenance do not allow the structure to go back to 100%.

The point is DEVS and you admit it the player population does not want decay on death. Add a poll to the login screen and find out for yourselfjust how much we hate the idea.

Many players including myself will not PvP while decay is in the game. I enjoyed it before decay, but i refuse out of principle. This factionpoint idea is bunk when all you have to do is make no decay while insured. I was warming to the idea of no decay while insured. I think many of us could live with that. I never insure my survey or crafting tools nor my clothes. I only insure my armor or BE clothes.

Possible solution? Will they use it? No.

#1 Damage from battle as it should be.

#2 Damage from decay even when INSURED which should not be.

#3 My armor is damaged and in attempt to repair it the condition is lowered or it is possibly destroyed and is a chance we take. I think you could add in a higher success rate and lack of condition loss if done by an armorsmith if you want to "Show the love." .

that still does not excuse TH's pushing for a proffession screwing fire extinguisher without even talking to the commando community.

and it does not excuse the rest of you devs for not only going along with it but also for not even fixing the rest of the commando arsenal (which if TH hasnt communicated to you what has been posted in all commando related forums for MONTHS, it means the flamethrower was the ONLY working weapon).

excuses and apologies are nice, but worthless. actions talk. act. FIX the commando before you nerf it.

no, better yet, how about you READ the commando forums. Its obvious NONE of you, TH included, DOES NOT.

Interesting to note the opions that areposted here only show about what %10-%15 of the people think.