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Fuel system makes this game an unpleasant experience. Fuel is used for almost everything, from fighting to moving between maps. It's not really fun when you run out of it during combat. Seriously, there's a lot of better free games, that don't favor money spenders THAT much. Am I the only one who gets the feeling synapticon is hoping for easy money? Pay2play stuff is 3-4 times better than free2play here. I'm not going to comment that, or I'd end up using some rather rude vocabulary out of frustration.
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I have played the game extensively and waited till I reached level 20 before I comment.
Overall I feel the game has great potential. But currently there are two major flaws.
1. The training system gives a huge advantage to those who have been in the game a few weeks earlier. Nothing wrong with a bit of value for veterans but this game punishes newcomers.
2. As reported before the ships and items you can buy are unbalanced. So unbalanced that a pilot with a paid ship and cannons can take out in a few volleys a non paying pilot with a 400k ship and good skills and equipment. Again nothing wrong with paying pilots having an advantage but how much of an advantage is an issue. Granted one could still craft the Nighthawk but to get the rare resources needed would easily take a month and Kongregate funbase is not known for its patience.
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Do not play this game.. i played for 1 year spent 200$ Log in one day to find my account completely reset. With no way to contact the developers. Pls Plus this so others know and dont get scammed to.
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Has potential, but the fuel system detracts significantly from the game. Particularly with missions that seem designed largely to consume fuel.
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After playing the first 60 missions I have to say this game is incredibly repetitive, travel to point X (identical to every other region often with the same structures), kill 1-5 "pods" with terrible combat AI amongst a field of other ships in your way, travel back to origin point, repeat infinitely. The only intellectual challenge this game offers is to figure out why the developers felt the need to create an "activation" ability for medicine delivery instead of simple docking.
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I've been playing for 9 days in a row, and half of my daily rewards have been useless +50 exp boosts. I get more exp from blowing up a single ship T.T
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The game is mediocre at best, and then only gets worse when you're trying to play solo missions and some pathetic loser comes along to kill you. But you can't really fault the losers ... the game is designed poorly if the end result is that losers can sit around and snipe players minding their own business in a non PvP area.
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My main and pretty much only gripe about this game is that to play for more than twenty minutes a day you would have to spend real world money to buy more fuel. Sure, when you level up it gives you a free refuel but that really doesnt cut it. They need to put an option in such as at least a 50 percent refueling for say, a thousand credits. Otherwise this game will just become another of those fly by the night money scam operations. Which would be sad considering it is a decent game.
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Thats why people need to pay attention to this games. any game that tells you its free and turns around and asks for money in any way its a scam.
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Really need to remove fuel from the combat system. Its good for jumps, but the combat is just crappy. Especially when you run out during combat.
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This is another one of those online games that gets the balance plain wrong. Its OK for a free online timewaster but its nowhere good enough in its current state to warrant paying real world money to play it.
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Just to let the people of Kongregate know I also maked down my first post declaring that I was enjoying the game. Just a wee bit of premature commenting, it won't happen again I hope. I'm currently at level 13 and I've had enough.
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How is this game rated so well when it's such a blatant money grab? Perhaps some folks are fine with rewarding greed over innovation and skill, but not I. I'm fine with well-made games offering some microtransaction possibilities, I mean heck, that's what Kreds are all about. But the ones that give such a distinct advantage to people willing to part with money so easily, are just ridiculous.
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the game is good overall,but 1 found 1 problem,many ppl are havin difficulty loading the game when it says scene loader postinit
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As a fellow developer of online multiplayer games, I found there are certain defined limits to what you can charge players for, and what you should not. This is definitely crossing that limit. Charge players to buy things in the game that are fun, but not useful. Decorative items, items that let them personalize their characters BEYOND the free-to-plat limit. I think of ROTMG as a good example. You don't need colors to be as good as everyone else in the game, but they are their to make you stand out for the crowd.
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If this game favors "money spenders", I don't think it'll end up having a nice amount of regulars. I mean, compare ships, weapons, etc... of the same level. Money spenders get more than 2 times the "goods".
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Make "botting" punishable!
ArubaDeHoy, a lvl25 player piloting the starter ship @127 hp. Relentlessly attacking Aviv4321 lvl25 @13088 hp. Instakilled, then soon enough healed up to full and do it all over. Endless grind to get dogtags I guess.
He even admitted to having multiple accounts, using that exploit in the game to gain an edge. Developers,, can you do something about this???????
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It doesn't seem this game is playable for non-paying players. After I reached level 20, when I enter a hostile zone for mining, Anteras for example. I found that I would be killed in 10 second, and eventually I used up all of my credit for repairing the ship and need to wait for repairing. As a result, the actual playing time in the last few days is less than 10 minute excluding the training. I believe that many players will be forced to quit for similar reason.
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The base of the game is good. Two big problems I see is there is no way to get more fuel without the player putting up some cash. Big fault. If you want cash then make it a paid game. The regen time on the fuel is just insulting. Don't BS it. The start of the game just has you running around with no good explanation of how the weapons work, Fuel, ect. Auto fire, manual fire, rating the weapons should be clearer like DPS. The tutorial does not explain much and needs to be polished. The game seem fun but the the few flaw I have found (more the fuel than anything) just kill the game. I could see this a 5 star game if its fix up a bit. but for now 1 star, I hate be force to pay after the game starts and 1 hour of sitting to refuel for 15 min of play, I have better things to do.
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Uses the most exhausted and formulaic layout of mmo to the point where I completed the tutorial without reading any text.
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chefcook90 - ok i agree with u that the missions are sh*t but even so go ahead and do bounty hunting they give u so much more exp
antares1127 - yes i understand that we have to use fuel...but at least wait for a few hours and u will have all your fuel back
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I'll say the same thing I do about all these pay-to-play games: get this moneygrubbing garbage off of Kongregate. There are plenty of companies with reasonable premium models, and I don't begrudge them for it. But this is ridiculous. I just don't care about your crappy little Flash game enough to make a major hobby about it, and there's really no reason why I should. One star, with extreme prejudice.
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The fuel's not an issue for those of use who don't want to play all day. The most annoying thing that is going a long way to ruining the game is that you don't get to choose whether you participate in fights against other players. So i'm minding my own business doing missions then get blown up by some level 20 turd for no reason whatsoever, and there's not a damn thing you can do about it. That's why 3 stars and no more.
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Ok I think the honeymoon is over. The fuel issue is starting to annoy me and I agree with the previous posters on this issue. Far too many functions require fuel and a lot of it. I know games like these need the payers to survive but come on.
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I have just started and all the comments here have been about fuel and paying is better than not paying on this game,suppose synapticon'll get any hints?
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Its really annoying when the ship you want to target is in front of something else(like a jumpgate) and when u try to target the ship, you end up going to the object that's behind the ship rather than interacting with the ship
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The gameplay is almost like other flying games I have played. It handles good at times but, in some ways reminds me of Dark Orbit. Question is will this be a multiplayer game co-operation type game or will you be initiating a PVP as well. I also, noticed the Westin's Uniform Council Tyrol and, yea wonders the same do we have another Battlestar Fan. Will have more comments later.. Definitely a game that peaks my interest.
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to all people whining about having to pay to play for more than around 10min... so what?? play for a whilst then play something else on kong whilst fuel recharges!! better yet take advantage of the skill tree and upgrade your max fuel.....
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2 major problems
1.payer ships cost to much
2.payers get to much of an advantage
can you simply get weaker payer ships but a alot cheaper so there are no overpowered payers
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Ive been logging in daily, i have logged in for 34 days in a row and the best thing i got was a 2 hour training boost.
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Wow, finally another game by the creator of Tyrant. When I first saw the greeter person I wasn't sure what to think, but when I got into the gameplay I was immediately hooked. Well done.
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For a flash game it's actually quite good. For the price of tokens it's abysmal. To put into perspective a beginner ship + a full complement of token only upgrades is 60 tokens which is roughly $10. Top Level ships with all the best upgrades meanwhile are 1175 tokens or going through kred-dollars conversion about $150. Compare that to other gaming options. For the price of a single fully outfitted ship you could have 10 months or more of a big time subscription mmo, at least 2 (Could easily buy many more) brand new console/pc games or heck even a game console itself wouldn't be much more.
Granted you can manufacture ships that are close to the same level (still a pretty hefty gap) but that means playing a game that already limits your play time(through fuel) for weeks or months to get the required equipment. I could maybe see paying $20-30 for a ship in a game like this provided there was somewhat more varied gameplay but as is the prices are beyond ludicrous for the quality of game.
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why use the repair bay when you can just click your health and buy it anywhere... repair bay should be cheaper if not free....
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Lvled to max but y is the max so low...i shouldn't reach it in a couple days and there is no real point in buying expensive ships when ur as high as u can go.