sawachika
Old Alpha
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After this recent incident, I think its high time for MA and its management to really sit down and think about the whole future of Entropia Universe.
Where do you think your heading with EU? How are you gonna steer it towards that vision? Is it gonna be just another game in the sea of games? Will the game cater to casual/careless players, will it be for the serious/careful types or will it still be for all kinds of players and everything in between?
But most importantly, will it still be RCE or will it change towards the micropayment "cash shop" kind?
Why am I posting this? Because I kindda get this feeling that after ten plus or so years, you've "appeared" to have lost your way.
Too little was done and most probably too late, resulting in what happened now....a 120k PEDs mistake.
Players have already been telling you about it since months or even years...that something was wrong with the deed auctioning...and inherently puts players at risk when selling them. You should have nipped it in the bud when they were still in the "thousand" peds region.
But now, you've gotten yourself in between a rock and a very hard place.
Saving MJ (which was good imo) meant that you've betrayed those whom you didn't save in the past (helen and the rest that I can't remember).
Though I rightfully think that you should do something about them too...but frankly....it might be tough since too much time have passed. Most probably you should compensate them somehow....on a case by case basis imo.
But anyway, back to the point...
Will this game still be an RCE?
Should you decide that it remains as an RCE, then you will inevitably be faced with even more of such situations in the future.
Next time, it will be something of the value of upwards of 300k PEDs or more.
Where will it occur? Who knows...
Maybe it might be another auction deed error, maybe it might be someone carrying lootable stuff from one planet to another...through PVP space...and due to some bug, ends up losing that much of a fortune despite using a mothership, maybe it might be a trust scammer who was able to get enough players to "invest" in him so much so that he's amassed that much money and then runs off into pvp lootable to get himself "looted"....thus hiding behind the "all trades are final" clause (who knows....but it will surely happen).
What then will you do?
So long as the game continues to involve cold hard cash and stays as an RCE, such a situation will surely happen.
Clear guidelines have to be set.
- When will MA start to get itself involved? In what sort of situations (due to bugs or player's mistake)?
- What sort of time limit before the case is deemed "overdued" and will no longer be entertained?
- At what sort of PED ranges (from thousands or tens of thousands onwards)?
- What sort of costs will it incur (on the player)?
- And most importantly, how (through mediation or hardcore interference)?
After that, let the players know about them (the guidelines)...so they could judge for themselves whether it is "worth it"...to revert that "costly" mistake.
TLDR;?
Its time for you to do an overhaul for EU. Fix the bugs, revamp the auction, reinvent PVP lootable (planetside and space) and most preferably....put in some fail-safes...in areas whereby people could possibly make costly mistakes.
For instance, when traveling into PVP space, convey to the player how much of what he's bringing is "lootable" and what sort of TT values will he be "risking".
Simply putting "this is lootable and that isn't" in the item info window...doesn't cut it.
When involving high valued transactions, "force" the players to manually "key" in some randomly generated words....or their own "personal" pin or something....would allow enough time for that player to "READ" what he's doing?
Stuffs like that should probably work as a good enough fail-safe, imo?
- End of Rant -
Addendum:
https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/...-and-discuss&p=3539487&viewfull=1#post3539487
Where do you think your heading with EU? How are you gonna steer it towards that vision? Is it gonna be just another game in the sea of games? Will the game cater to casual/careless players, will it be for the serious/careful types or will it still be for all kinds of players and everything in between?
But most importantly, will it still be RCE or will it change towards the micropayment "cash shop" kind?
Why am I posting this? Because I kindda get this feeling that after ten plus or so years, you've "appeared" to have lost your way.
Too little was done and most probably too late, resulting in what happened now....a 120k PEDs mistake.
Players have already been telling you about it since months or even years...that something was wrong with the deed auctioning...and inherently puts players at risk when selling them. You should have nipped it in the bud when they were still in the "thousand" peds region.
But now, you've gotten yourself in between a rock and a very hard place.
Saving MJ (which was good imo) meant that you've betrayed those whom you didn't save in the past (helen and the rest that I can't remember).
Though I rightfully think that you should do something about them too...but frankly....it might be tough since too much time have passed. Most probably you should compensate them somehow....on a case by case basis imo.
But anyway, back to the point...
Will this game still be an RCE?
Should you decide that it remains as an RCE, then you will inevitably be faced with even more of such situations in the future.
Next time, it will be something of the value of upwards of 300k PEDs or more.
Where will it occur? Who knows...
Maybe it might be another auction deed error, maybe it might be someone carrying lootable stuff from one planet to another...through PVP space...and due to some bug, ends up losing that much of a fortune despite using a mothership, maybe it might be a trust scammer who was able to get enough players to "invest" in him so much so that he's amassed that much money and then runs off into pvp lootable to get himself "looted"....thus hiding behind the "all trades are final" clause (who knows....but it will surely happen).
What then will you do?
So long as the game continues to involve cold hard cash and stays as an RCE, such a situation will surely happen.
Clear guidelines have to be set.
- When will MA start to get itself involved? In what sort of situations (due to bugs or player's mistake)?
- What sort of time limit before the case is deemed "overdued" and will no longer be entertained?
- At what sort of PED ranges (from thousands or tens of thousands onwards)?
- What sort of costs will it incur (on the player)?
- And most importantly, how (through mediation or hardcore interference)?
After that, let the players know about them (the guidelines)...so they could judge for themselves whether it is "worth it"...to revert that "costly" mistake.
TLDR;?
Its time for you to do an overhaul for EU. Fix the bugs, revamp the auction, reinvent PVP lootable (planetside and space) and most preferably....put in some fail-safes...in areas whereby people could possibly make costly mistakes.
For instance, when traveling into PVP space, convey to the player how much of what he's bringing is "lootable" and what sort of TT values will he be "risking".
Simply putting "this is lootable and that isn't" in the item info window...doesn't cut it.
When involving high valued transactions, "force" the players to manually "key" in some randomly generated words....or their own "personal" pin or something....would allow enough time for that player to "READ" what he's doing?
Stuffs like that should probably work as a good enough fail-safe, imo?
- End of Rant -
Addendum:
https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/...-and-discuss&p=3539487&viewfull=1#post3539487
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