discover class destroy game

I agree with you except I think old unis are more hit by this change than new unis.

New unis will be temporarily broken until they merge into old unis where lots of players will be stronger than rank 1.

The problem is old unis where damage has been done, there's no more merge and as long as this uni is destination uni, there's no fixing it, and there never will be a fix. Also, it's my reason to quit OGame.

Just think about it, remove expo DF, how are those who are behind going to make up the point difference, better question is, when? In 20 years, 30?

I got crashed last May, and I thought to myself "I will build mines until I feel this fleet that I have lost is just pennies". I built mines pretty much until now, and it's not huge but in Fenrir 12x39/32/34 is pretty good.

In fact I'm pretty sure I was number 2 or 3 eco based on mines until whole expo DF fiesta started, based on my calculations, I could restore the lost fleet in about 3-4 days now, if you count farming, in fact I'd get better fleet than what I had easily in that time.

The problem is, I can't compete. 11 months of my work all goes down the drain. I don't want to be rank 1 or anything, but the reality is I won't be rank 500 if I don't choose to do expo in an uni with 500 active players who choose this kind of gameplay.

I won't go into details, as Crvt and a lot of other people have already stated in time what needs to be done. Everything can be read.

What has GF done about this? Nothing. Stomt? lol. "Devs actually read stomt guys!" even though there hasn't been one Stomt suggestion that's actually been applied to the game.

There's also been by now hundreds of posts complaining on how current gameplay works. How many of those posts have been forwarded to devs by CoMas? Or has it just been forwarded to the same people who take a week to implement hyperspace cargo bonus? If so great, we can really expect a fix by my grandson's wedding (I'm 25 btw).

Last 5 updates were marketplace related, which is still broken and it's pretty clear the idea behind the marketplace has always been there and GF has always been aware it will be #1 pushing tool, so the changes itself were only technical, but marketplace pushing is a new reality and the idea has indeed been deployed correctly.

Gameforge doesn't know what it wants out of OGame nor what direction the game should go.

The update isn't near finished, a lot of things aren't working correctly, under the hood maybe, but compared to v6, or lightblue ogame which official version number I don't remember are miles ahead of this mess.

Servers are crashing, new unis barely work from what I read. That didn't stop GF from creating new P2W tools such as 40% 90 day boosters and similar stupid bullshit.

GF should be ashamed for what they did to this game that I loved so much. So many people have invested a lot more than me, hundreds, thousands of dollars, thousands of hours and for what?

This is the thank you an average long time player gets from Gameforge for being loyal in times when browser games are only a subject of laughter and nothing else?

New update has brought nothing but frustration and depression for me, update hype was followed quickly by that weird pain in your guts that you feel when you realize you just lost something you really liked.

On the other hand, I get a social life now, and I'm off OCrack (hopefully).

All in all, we'll see. What was ruined is ruined, even if they remove expo df everyone is going to scrap their ships and that's when the real fun starts and people start realizing true damage done, when those cargos and LFs turn into reaper and RIP fleets no one will be able to take down. Certain players will be literal gods in their universe.

Yup, and you forgot bots doing expo all day and all night. Can't beat them and you can only look at how they're growing at terrific rates.

Couldn't have put it better, in fact all this wall of text I wrote above could have been put into one simple sentence you said, there is no worth in playing this game anymore...

As for ignoring talks about botting, this is why I don't talk about it anymore.

We had a player block his and his ally's systems with accounts that had all same exact mine levels, all multis selling him fleet. All accounts named in this pattern: Engineer Mizar01, Geologist Virgo02 etc.

Player had activity 0-24, lifted fleet always within minutes of getting hit etc.

As for multis, literally no planets outside suspicious player's systems.

I took about 3.5 hours to dig through mmorpgstat, pulled a bunch of stats, explanations to which I got a reply and please don't hold your coffee in front of you while you read this: "it's possible that all these 7 identical accounts are just friends who randomly and not on purpose moved into this player's system".

The player quit eventually, all 7 accounts going into vmode with him, even his allymate confessed after quitting that all of his ally was using illegal software and again, this was not enough evidence for game team.

I complained, of course, but nope, no matter how higher up you take it. No one really cares.

In fact just today I witnessed a serious IRL threat go unpunished and that's made up my mind. When one day, because of this stupid game my life is in potential danger, this stupid "corporation" isn't going to take necessary steps to prevent someone from harming me.

If they don't take real life threats seriously, it's a good picture of who we're dealing with.

They don't give a damn about players. The only right step is to quit, in my eyes, and that's exactly what I will do.

Expo is essentially binary, you either get a fight or not. It comes to that in late game so not much fun for me there after a number of expos done.

But for me it was all about hunting and feeling the thrill so wanting to quit was inevitable, that's another problem, acting like merge is black magic and something undoable, but that's a whole another topic with a lot to be said as well.

Yeah, that's Crvt on forums if I'm not mistaken.

Don't you understand Grimm? 90 day 40% boosters are what this game needs, they will bring balance and solve all our problems, not server fixes, not balance fixes, only boosters.

Can't wait another six months so we get 180 day 50% boosters, it's gonna be a blast!