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Voice/sounds menu navigator, F2P, crystals, etc...

Nov 23, 2014 Basilisk123 link
Greetings to developers and gamers!

I wish to introduce you a few suggestions for a game and I hope some of them will be considered:

1. Enable optional voice menu navigator (male voice from tutorial would be fine) and maybe digital sound for clicking (check for example doom3 main menu sounds)
2. Free to play users, should be able to earn/gather crystals even if they achieve maximum licences (4/4/4/4/4) for buying ships. Mine opinion is that, introducing crystals for F2p users was unnecessary, especially if they (f2p users) cannot earn/gather more (as i tried). I did gather few crystals after killing dentek bots and now not even that, mining trading nothing. It would be nice to see instead of crystals, introduce a more expensive ships in credits. I think many of you (especially developers) would agree that, is more profitable to keep users (even f2p) in game long as possible, as they could have good impressions for a game and developers - above all, so there is more chance (as longer they use game) to pay lite or premium subscription. I think its not good business move to restrict everything for f2p users, as the business goal is attracting new subscribers.
3. It would be nice to see cockpit camera style look.
4. In PDA screen background should be logo of players nation (Serco, Itan,UIT)
5. Introduce a politics. It would be great if players can advance in their faction society and hierarchy, for example, if UIT player reach high level, vote once a monthly in senat about important decisions.

Thats all for now, i hope some of this ideas would be considered in future updates... Regards!
Nov 23, 2014 abortretryfail link
For #3, try /videtoggle
Nov 23, 2014 Basilisk123 link
You mean turret camera, I know for that option, that is turret camera first person look from menu mentioned above. I meant true cockpit view, as in most flight simulators games, but ofcourse to be simplified for phones and tablets.
Nov 23, 2014 Keller link
A true cockpit view would allow us (the pilot) to look around. As it is we can only look straight forward, relying on the HUD FoV and radar to keep baddies in view, when in reality, pilots track their targets visually while in a dogfight. There's much less of a disconnect. People who actually SEE their surroundings in 3 dimensions would benefit. Most usually only see a compressed 2 dimensional version of the world around them. They can excel in the current VO interface, while handicapping those whose brains track the world in 3D.

You can get an idea of which type you are by looking at the moon at night. Do you see the moon in the sky, as though it were pasted up there, or do you literally see the Earth, Moon, and Sun as 3 objects in a triangular relationship as though they were merely balls suspended in your living room? I'm sure you can get the difference now.
Nov 24, 2014 genka link
Nov 24, 2014 abortretryfail link
^ Excessive crystal use.
Nov 24, 2014 rochelGoyle link
yea theyre just not doing it right...its puff puff pass...not puff puff indiscriminately.
Nov 24, 2014 Pizzasgood link
Keller, all of what you just said is orthagonal to the OP's desire to have his view obstructed. Besides which, VO already has support for the Rift. You can also achieve a useful approximation by holding turbo and using mouselook. If that's not good enough, you could make a suggestion thread asking for an optional freelook mode that would allow you to bind your view controls to additional buttons/axes while leaving your ship controls active, similar to what they do for the Rift.

But like I said, that's off topic. The OP's desires are much simpler: he just wants some anachronistic clutter to block his view like back in the bad old days.
Nov 24, 2014 abortretryfail link
Nov 24, 2014 greenwall link
1. Isn't there already a clicky sound for buttons? There used to be a far more annoying tonal pulsey sound, which I'm glad they did away with. As for the voice menu navigator, I'm not sure what benefit this would serve?

2. So F2P people can't earn crystal after reaching max licenses? That does seem odd...

3-4 would be fine

5. Would be cool, tool...

This constitutes as a "I've played VO for a bit and this is what I think..." thread... of which we've had many (and I've posted my own... probably more than once). But historically, suggestions have always been more effective as singular posts, and not combo posts. Just fyi!
Nov 24, 2014 Basilisk123 link
I said OPTIONAL voice menu navigator and clicky sounds. That means a player can CHOOSE between turning ON and OFF voice navigation, and clicky sounds. I still think it would be a nice touch in game, especially if it can be turned on and off by player in game.