Postby Roger Wilco Jr » Sun May 03, 2015 1:21 pm
I think Jaegers is dead - abandoned and/or should be disbanded. I haven't seen most of the original members in months and when Beast shows up these days he plays in solo and ignores the forum. When we were supposed to have an in-game meet up in Alioth a while ago, afaik I was the only one that bothered to show up. I also think a lot of players have just stopped playing the game altogether. I've been playing 5 months, and it's the first game I've played in years, but I think most gamers don't usually play a single game anywhere near that long.
Jaegers was never meant to be a full time job. So if I want to spend time trading or exploring, and then help out with a Jaegers mission when I have the time, that could be fun. But when there are no new missions and when the background simulation is still so broken that doing missions doesn't change anything then it all seems kind of pointless. Apparently you need to play in open and/or bitch & whine on the main board and then maybe Frontier will go into the game and change things manually. It seems that it needs to be an official FD community goal for things to work as expected.
Maybe power play will change the way the background simulation works, or maybe not. And until I hear more about it, I still think PP will need to be played in open, and I've sworn off open as long as FD continues to support the assholes over the majority of their customers who just want to enjoy themselves.
So for now I'll just continue to do my own thing and work on my various ranks. Maybe in 6 months or a year FD will get the game working to the point that it is ready for the public - maybe they'll even have the Alliance Navy up and running. I'll check out the CGs, but I don't know if I want to mess with the Zaonce situation now. These goals should really last weeks or months so you don't have to instantly drop what you're doing just to participate.
With Spring here, and Summer coming, I have less time to play, spending more time outdoors and doing yard work and etc. It six months, when it gets dark and frozen again, I just hope the game will still be interesting and worth playing. In the meantime, it's possible Jaegers will make a come back, but I'm not holding my breath.
-Cheers, and see you in the game.
It's time to give this another go.