(12-24-2018, 03:50 AM)Ikkir Isth Wrote: Definitely against; any tech solution needs to be some continuous effort with a product that directly gets used in manufacture. No reason to re-implement old broken solutions.
So you would rather have no solution at all than an imperfect solution? Because right now we have no solution at all. There is no progresion, patents are a minor distraction that's only good for a day or two. This is the same thing that happens whenever a discussion of the progression in Hazeron comes up. "That idea is bad. We need something that does [insert criteria here]. What that is, I don't know". That's how we ended up where we are right now, everyone hated on the TL system but no one suggested any viable improvements, then we ended up with the QL tech system. Everyone hated on that too, but still no one suggested any possible improvements. They just said no, we don't want that system, it's bad. And in the end, Haxus listened to the people hating on those systems and gave us what no one wanted, by removing them altogether with no replacement.
The reason we keep ending up in these shitty situations with the game getting shallower and shallower is because everyone is all too eager to hate on parts of the game they don't like, but they have no idea what to do to fix it!
(12-24-2018, 03:27 AM)AnrDaemon Wrote: Tech level system, being finite, is inadequate for a sandbox universe which is SoH.
Your "group of experienced players" could do the same with TL32, just pulling the ready set of disks out of their coffers.
The presence or absence of "TL system" changes nothing for "experienced players" you're so afraid of, but it makes an artificial deterrent to new players. The key word is "artificial", not "deterrent", as you might have guessed.
Ok big man, you're always so keen to shoot down any suggestions, so what would you do? How would you fix the game's shallow progression? I trust that with all the negative opinions you have about other people's suggestions, surely you've worked out a perfect solution to every problem the game is facing by now?