Ok, I understand that EGS as a whole is a WIP...little tweaks here, bigger tweaks there but who's brainy idea was it to take the good POI's off the starter planet? I've been on a bit of a break from EGS but since I'm working from home yet again, I thought I'd get back into it. I fired up a seed I'm familiar with just to take a look at the changes of 1.3 and low and behold my assembly yards are gone. In it's place are some meager little POI's that have 3 spiders, 1 horror and a scorpion in them. The loot, for the difficulty of the POI, isn't too bad but the XP sucks. Any of you that have seen my posts know I admit I suck at FPS. Do I die in the Assembly Yard? Hell yes I do, constantly, but is the XP worth it? Most definitely! I could get a crapload of levels in that place allowing me to get my shielded SV up and running so I could go into space without getting reamed by drones. Not to mention the salvaged parts. It was like Christmas in there....T3 & T4 extenders, furnaces and constructors for days! It was well worth spending the majority of my time with my face flat on the floor looking for my backpack. Eleon, can we compromise on this issue? Can we have at least 1 of the old POI's back on the starter planets? Please??? <end rant>
They gave too much high end loot and were too hard for the starting planets. You could get everything you needed from them and never had to leave your starting planet which is not ideal for game progression. And because they were hard they were a trap for new players. Overall this is better I think.
I haven't played for a bit... Working on the above principle, does this mean that the dreadnoughts and other hard space ships have been removed from the starter system as well?
Yes, they were. It's in the release notes, at line... line... wait... It's in the release notes. Edit : In the "misc" section, 33rd item down : - Changed: Deactivated SpaceBaseDefense (SBD) and OPV vessels in Starter Orbit
Yea, the loot was kinda OP but that's what allowed me to get off the planet, not stay there. Ah well, c'est la vie, guess this old dog is gonna have to learn her new tricks elsewhere...lol. I am glad though that the nasty stuff has been removed from space, now I just have to play whack-a-mole with the darn drones out there.
Oh I'm well aware, I have no trouble getting off the planet pretty easily. I should have said, "allowed me to get off the planet with higher quality ships" rather than just "allowed". It's much nicer heading out into space with a T3 shielded CV than it is a rusty tin can built on a wing and a prayer. That's the only point I was trying to make.
