Re: Vast Horizon
Having gone through the soundpack earlier, I'm...kind of meh on it.
I'm still deeply cynical of it, maybe that's my cynicism that oh all space games are just meh and boring, and part of it is going of of how the site is, I'm just not sold on it. I get it, it's in beta. I get it, but touting activities every space game has as 'unique' doesn't grab me in the least though. I can lok past the odd misspelling, I mean, I played CR and SC and Promo and Miri and a lot of other space MU* over the past decade, and they are all dull as hell.
Tel me something. How can you have an RPI game when it's you alone in your ship doing activities? If it turns out to be levelless then okay, that's fair enough, but...how exactly /can/ you have grinding for levels (which let's face it...people in this community are going to do) and mix it up with RPI being a requirement exactly?
I'll probably end up giving it a go on Thursday but...I just fear it's more of the same. Something I was pointed to when talking with staf on another game about limiting OOC interaction was, and I genuinely didn't think of this, it's a way to not only ensure people stay IC, but to limit ways to get a hold of staff or bitch about things you don't like on the game. I assume there'e +requests and such for geting hold of staff and the usual oh crap I broke everything please help this is urgent OOC stuff....but I'm kind of amazed I didn't even think of the whole hey, this can be looked at as a way of keping players from bitching too much side of things.
Oh and also, I'm going over the site again, and the more I read the more I'm cynical. Like @28 said it takes time and effort to make an online game, even a text based one, okay maybe they did throw the soundpack together in a few minutes, but that doesn't give a good first impression really. Add that to the site and I'm just already going in with a low bar realy..
EDDIT #2: I'm just saying I want something different like Fed II or....Cosmic Cutlefish before that died out, I don't want your generic cokie cuter here's a ton of activities, here's a ship, go have fun type one. I want something actually....interesting and actualy engaging to play that's not go here, type command, a bunch of messages, now do this 50000 times to get cash/points/etc, because to me that's not fun. That's a job.
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