(11-26-2019, 10:44 PM)Haxus Wrote: This is a game that simulates technological progression. The player should start with subpar technology. It's one of the things that drives them onward. In fact, the player starts with practically nothing at all.
Should I get rid of melee and gunpowder based weapons? Doesn't everybody just want a laser rifle? Why bother with all that silly stuff in between?
our community is really quick to forget just how much messing around new players tend to do, and how long you can spend pre-wormhole and pre-warp just... figuring things out and messing with all the items. that's literally like half the game. i played hazeron for dozens of hours back in, like, 2011 when it was harder to find information on how to play, and i don't think i ever got above maybe TL 5 or so, and before 2017, i'd never even made it to another solar system. the fact that you can accidentally strand your ship in another system by making a ship with just the Wormhole P drive is a part of the game's charm!
i fully believe that if the playerbase hadn't become smaller, thus allowing me to join weltreich and foxtail and learn from their leaders what the endgame is like, i wouldn't have ever figured out half the shit in hazeron
this is ALSO why i think it should be harder to share patents, though. you can skip a HUGE part of the trial and error by having an advanced empire dump their patents to you and then the game is a breeze.