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  1. Posted

    2 hours ago, Genobee said:

    That said there have been plenty of signs and chances for them to go in a different direction. All the warnings were there clear as day yet they forged ahead. I'm not very happy about that. It just doesn't make sense to me. It wasn't going to be a moneymaker from the start so.. why?

    Indeed. New contacts would have been a safe bet.
    Still, APB is starving for fixes & new content of any kind, so I can't really complain they try to salvage G1's project while 3.5 integration is getting done.

    Really bad analogy:
    Let's say you buy someone's house while they're in the middle of making a carrot cake.
    The cake is almost done, just need to add the icing.
    Everybody coming to your housewarming party said they dislike carrot cake.


    Do you:

    1. Throw away the cake?
    2. Try to tweak the cake so it looks like a chocolate cake? Everybody likes chocolate cake these days!
    3. Complete the carrot cake and hope that someone will want to eat it?
    4. Put the half-done cake in the fridge and try to finish it someday, hopefully? (It might not be edible when you come back)
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  2. Posted · Edited by Talla

    This new mode isn't the main dish we were waiting for. Everybody seems to agree on that.
    Still, from a developer perspective, making a new feature with the tools already available at your disposal is a great way to get familiar with the codebase.

    This is a necessary step that will increase the pace of meaningful updates. Now, let's just hope the focus will align with the community needs.

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  6. Posted · Edited by Talla

    5 hours ago, Genobee said:

    Miscommunication - the single biggest killer of APB in every iteration of its life.
    [...]

    I could go on like that for ages.. point is people and their bullshoot are what led us here. You can argue about the details all ya want, but a repeated collapse of communication with a touch of looking out for ones self at the cost of everything else did the game in. 

    I agree with all of that.
    A good blog from one of RTW original dev: https://lukehalliwell.wordpress.com/2010/09/15/where-realtime-worlds-went-wrong/

    I personally left APB:Reloaded under G1 management because of poor execution / lack of meaningful changes.

  7. Posted

    1 hour ago, Kewlin said:

    IMO this is something that should never happen to APB. So much of APB is about having fun with customizing shit to your hearts content, and if there starts to be any sizable amount of limited time cosmetics in APB the game will quite honestly start to suck.

    Hey, we finally agree on this.
    I remember we discussed Limited-time content before LO took over, in a thread concerning redistribution of the Asylum skin.

    Also, thanks Matt for acknowledging most of the concerns we voice out on the forums. A+ PR management.

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  9. Posted · Edited by Talla

    Glad to see you're still around.

    Everything you just mentioned, I feel the same way.

     

    I once thought threads like these were valuable. Giving feedback is the way to get closer to the APB we all want to play.

    In reality, the demands far exceed the studio's capacity to deliver.


    Asking for meaningful changes through a forum post, most likely... Un coup d'épée dans l'eau
    I wish they'd follow OSRS content-voting model.

    Or at least introduce a better way to measure player feedback. Something less time consuming and more accurate.

     

    I'll just keep checking the Admin tracker every once in a while, see if the game manages to rise again.
     

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  11. Posted · Edited by Talla

    I can vouch for those guys. All of them have been very implicated and caring for the game.

    Pretty confident their testing & reports will be of the utmost quality too.

    Main problem with OTW has always been finding enough people to playtest at the same time.

     

    Thanks alot guys for helping APB recover from its dark era.

     

    Let's get there :classic_smile:

  14. Posted · Edited by Talla

    10 minutes ago, BXNNXD said:
    i feel like that promotes RMT far too much, something orbit has already said they dont like
    How do you goldfarm APB?
    Create a ramraiding bot?

    It would really ease the divide between paying users & F2Pers.
    Ever heard something along the lines of: "Your Armas CR-5/PDW-57 is OP"?
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  15. Posted · Edited by Talla

    1 hour ago, NotZombieBiscuit said:

    Make it so premium gives you no wait time on trades. 🙂

    That would work.
    Lemme add to that.

    Change ARMAS item sales into 2 kinds:
    1. Mail-sent Items, tradeable to other players after refurbishing. Activated leases cannot be refurbished.
    2. Mail-sent Unlocks, allowing to purchase unlimited lease of an item from a contact. Purchasable for the duration of the account, but untradeable.  (Has the advantage to be deletable from your locker but retrievable, great if you're busting max capacity)

    Why?
    It would be the perfect opportunity to turn the game into a true Free-to-Play, where any player can access any content within the game.

    By allowing Armas shoppers to trade in-game items to other, non-paying players' APB$, you increase content accessibility and boost sales at the same time. For many reasons, some players will never spend a dime in a F2P.

    This would work better if there was an actual reason to accumulate APB$ for players who reached the "endgame".

    You could even sell a "<3 || 7 || 30> days premium" tradeable consumable. I bet that would become really popular.
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  16. Posted · Edited by Talla

    I guess they didn't want to completely devalue using the marketplace, since it's a necessary APB$ sink.

    Trade delays usually are a layer of security in case your account gets hijacked, but it's irrelevant here since you can already bypass it via player-reserved offers in the marketplace.
    Player-reserved offers are also a way to bypass the gold sink since the market tax scales according to sale price (if you are willing to resort to multi-step trading or middlemen).

    Are market bots still a thing in 2018?
     

  17. Posted · Edited by Talla

    12 minutes ago, CookiePuss said:
    Yeah... it was a total patootie kiss fest anyways.
    You know how it is when people see the GM tag, or see Matt in game.
    A natural reaction, especially since it's a new administration. Most players never seen a GM in-game.

    Concerning your complains, try to convey them in a timely way through the appropriate channels.
    Pretty sure the devs were experiencing an information overflow. Anyone would be.

    Question: Which dev in the office is the better APB player?
    Call me a bigot if you want, but balancing weapons requires a good understanding of the gameplay, which usually translate in a higher threat.
     

  18. Posted · Edited by Talla

    That's an optimist deadline you've set yourself. The new pace of progress is refreshing.

    Thanks for being outright on communication Matt. You really well described the challenges left before UE 3.5

    EDIT: To measure player feedback (test districts, live version updates, etc.) should we get polls?

  19. Posted

    Just now, BXNNXD said:
    2 minutes ago, Deftonez said:
    dude theres no freakin way i got RAT'd or keylogged. i have no idea how something like this could happen
    if they had the account email id imagine it would be pretty simple, if tedious, to just brute force the password
    Isn't there a Captcha after too many failed login attempts to prevent that?

  25. Posted · Edited by Talla

    Gold10 is a goal in itself.
    This is a thing this game lacks, goals (medium & long-term).

    Too bad we don't have any archive of the old forum, I'd post a link to the Leaderboard / Leagues thread.

    I wouldn't mind removing visible threat.
    Might alleviate some of the Pickup group (PUG)/Backup toxicity APB is so prone to.

    EDIT: But before that, you want to sort out Threat Distribution in district by forcing auto-join and dynamic instance switching according to MMR.
    Dethreating / Noob abuse is a greater problem than having no high-level goals.
    It really hurts the player retention.

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