Dan,

You have made a great game so far but as of late you stopped posting stuff in the forum and stopped talking to us and giving us formation on what your doing. I miss the days when you where super active in the forum with us and talked with us about new ideas and such. I mean if you look several of the very first posts posted in the Suggestions and Ideas thread you will see how active you used to be. Now you hardly ever post on anything and when you do its just one line. (Though I am very glad you posted on my last thread here. lol)

Don't get me wrong there are a good amount of things you came out with that we like but not nearly enough or often enough. Its like you got the bases out and made a ton of cash off of all the stuff from them and just stopped caring. It seems as if you are just milking the game now.

However there is something that I think that can work that will make us all happy and allow you to still not post as much. Here is my idea. You come on here and post a 4 or 5 things you like or think we will like and next to them you have the ETA if you would start working on them. Then you allow us all to vote on them and allow us to decide what we would like to have added. Then you make that into the game and a day or two after the project is done you post some more with the ETA's and allow us to vote again. This will allow us to:
1. Know why it is taking so long to come out with another idea.
2. Feel like we helped with the ideas.
3. Are being listened too.

So say one of the posts you put up have these options:
1. New planet types
2. New NPC group
3. Upgrade old NPC's
4. More badge items
5. More medals

All of which would have the ETA next to them so we would know how long it would take to do the one we pick.

Then say the mass amount of players pick number 2. For the next X weeks (what ever the ETA is) you would make up a whole new race of NPC's and implant them in the game in that time. This would include new common, uncommon, rare, elite, and boss NPC's. As well as new arti's to go with them, missions, and what ever else would be needed to make them into the game. This way we all ways know what you are working on and when to expect it to be out. Heck even if you do this just once every month or two it would still keep many of us active and many of us interested in the game. As long as you kept it up of course.

To finish I just want to see this game get back to its former glory. Back when players where writing good reviews of the game and wanting to play the game. I want to be exited to be playing the game again and hear what you are thinking and put my word in what I'm thinking. As do a lot of others that I talk to in game.

Thanks for everything you have done till this point Dan and I hope you don't take this post the wrong way I just want to see all your hard work succeed.

Everyone else please feel free to post on what you think of my idea and how you would feel if Dan did something like this. Thanks!

Well put.

+1, I have sent dan many messages to tell him to get involved again, told me to be excited about the Halloween event... Being forced to NPC is not what I call fun and exciting.

I don't know I really enjoyed the NPC's he put out. It made many legions very active again and got people exited to play the game again. I'm personally hoping that is what legion missions do as well. But no one knows when the legion missions will be brought out and that is what I don't like. I want to have a time line to follow things like this so I know when I should plan on staying up all night to play because of new stuff. I also want everyone to have a vote on what they would like to see next in the game. Even if its not a huge thing just so he is all ways working on a little side project to keep us active and happy.

-1 Dan is doing a good job, people are expecting too much too quickly. Enjoy the stuff he does release, if everyone just didnt rush through everything and took their time enjoying the content, the game isnt going anywhere, stop trying to get the best guns/ npc mods etc as quickly as humanly possible.

well, there is the bane ally too

thou that's even a bigger pain for ppl who dont football

@ Mojo Very nicely said.
@ Dan i cant speak for everyone but just 1 or 2 comments a day would suffice for me. just comment here and there and just talk to us once in a while.

This again. Ok I'm going to say this again for your sake. We at the top have been playing for years. We did not rush up here we just played the way that was fun for us. And it just happened to get us this high up. And we thought that maybe just maybe we who have been playing the longest would keep getting new stuff since, after all, we helped come out with a lot of the stuff you have now in the game (much of which we never did get to see since we where higher in rank when we suggested it for lower ranks). Like someone else said in the forums, this is the only game I played that punish's hits high end players for being high ranking and doing what he clearly wanted us to do (hence the leader boards). So I do not think that this is asking to much. I'm not asking him to spend 24 hours a day on this game. I'm asking him to just keep something on the side to work on and to let us know whats going on and a decent time frame on stuff. Also to talk a little more then what he has been doing. So before you go on how this is just another high ranker who's crying thing please take the time to really read what I said and know that I'm really only trying to help the game as a whole and make everyone happy not just high ranks.

i believe i posted an identical suggestion way back here..

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=29004

Well put ....... actually very well put.

Seems like the only way to get anything done is to have a bunch of us come in and here and complain.

I personally don't want to complain at all.
Proof of the excitement not being enough is the amount of people who have quit playing.
I'm not talking about low levels that started and figured out it was too complex.
I'm talking about hardcore players that have played the game for over two years.

One that comes to mind is FRAIL. I never liked the guy but he outgrew the game and there was nothing left for him to do.
No more npc's to kill .. no more excitement.
The main one that comes to my mind is Nocifer DeathBlade. He's a real life Rocket scientist that works for NASA.
He started DOO/ Disciples of Orion with Krauzen when the game was pretty much new. I was fortunate to be an officer then.

He later started the Dysonians when we were forced to have a legion cap and rightfully so. Our legion was way too powerful because of the organization of a huge force.
He was excited for the first year as we all were. Some thought the bases were a disappointment and got bored expecting it to be VERY exciting with graphics or other new things.
Maybe something more drastic .. I don't know.

It's not that nobody likes the game or doesn't enjoy it but it needs to make a step to the next level whatever that may be.
I'll tell you what keeps me going not in any specific order :

1). Getting and making new planets. Not just stealing them but making more productoin mainly. Honestly I don't thrive on others misfortune especially if they paid real money into a planet.

2). PVP : Killing, hacking and raiding to get my ship stronger and to move higher on the leader board.

3). Keep the legion in order alive and kicking.

4). Making sure that I get all of the modules on my ship. I don't want to miss out on anything.

5). Killing NPC's for drops so they give more options to make things and do more things .. in other words ( Give me options )
A). I don't want to kill them too often because I don't want to level too fast as quite a few others and outgrow great NPC's.
I could be at the top somewhere right now but I " choose " not to for that reason only.
The game will die when we all outgrow NPC's that keep us interested and give us drops that we will never stop needing.

6). ..... Hmm maybe I'm waiting to see what's next and waiting to see something to blow my mind to make me want to play this game for another two years.

To the guy that gave Mojo a negative on this thread.
Dan has made a GREAT game. One that has my only attention right now out of many in the past.
However there is always room for improvement and just as the rule applies to an owner of a shop or store the customer is always right.
That person my not be completely in the right but there are plenty others who have great ideas and opinions that need to be looked into and probably added.

There is a lot of talk about Dan not caring as much as he used to because he's not as active in the forums.
I personally don't know but what I do know is that we want to stay excited and not given enough time to get bored or to lose interest.
On Dan's behalf he has made some great improvements without a doubt but I think we're all waiting for a big LEAP ....... or a series of things to do to keep us busy in different areas.

Mojo great ideas ... I mean that.
And Dan I love your game but I wish you'd blow my mind

if you compare old threads to more recent ones Dan's activity has decreased a ton. personally all i'd like at the very least is for some communication between the players and Dan. it takes 5 minutes to come on the forums and comment in a thread or 2 which isn't all that much to ask for.

id suggest for hacking and raiding, the amounts you receive should be MUCH higher. i can hack someone whos rank 1100, and what do i get... 1100 pts.. big deal. not worth it no matter how you look at it, ditto for raiding.. i want to be stealing 2-5K worth of minerals or arti points.. is that a lot for some folks, yup, should their be an actual loss associated with someone having high action count and being zeroed. HELL YES

Sorry but this is not a thread to post your ideas for Dan. Please make a new thread if you want to do that. This is just about getting Dan to be more active and how we would like to see that in the forums/game. If you have an idea that would get Dan to talk to us and for us to get our ideas to Dan in a good and organized way then you can post that here but I don't want a bunch of other things here.

Also thanks Rick for the post. I agree if the high ranks would have more content not nearly as many would of left and I think the game would be much better off.

Give Dan a galaxy legion twitter!!!

I haven't been playing for more than a year, but what I have seen is slow development in terms of content, the only real "new" thing I've seen is the GTC (which leaves something to be desired). I still spend money on the game, but there's a lot that can be done.

It seems that Dan made his money, and is now less motivated. It's a common theme in the software/gaming industry actually. The next step for him would be to sell the game to someone else.

He used it about a week ago

[quote="Xx Blitz xX"]Well put ....... actually very well put.

Seems like the only way to get anything done is to have a bunch of us come in and here and complain.

I personally don't want to complain at all.
Proof of the excitement not being enough is the amount of people who have quit playing.
I'm not talking about low levels that started and figured out it was too complex.
I'm talking about hardcore players that have played the game for over two years.

One that comes to mind is FRAIL. I never liked the guy but he outgrew the game and there was nothing left for him to do.
No more npc's to kill .. no more excitement.
The main one that comes to my mind is Nocifer DeathBlade. He's a real life Rocket scientist that works for NASA.
He started DOO/ Disciples of Orion with Krauzen when the game was pretty much new. I was fortunate to be an officer then.

He later started the Dysonians when we were forced to have a legion cap and rightfully so. Our legion was way too powerful because of the organization of a huge force.
He was excited for the first year as we all were. Some thought the bases were a disappointment and got bored expecting it to be VERY exciting with graphics or other new things.
Maybe something more drastic .. I don't know.

It's not that nobody likes the game or enjoys it but it needs to make a step to the next level whatever that may be.
I'll tell you what keeps me going not in any specific order :

1). Getting and making new planets. Not just stealing them but making more productoin mainly. Honestly I don't thrive on others misfortune especially if they paid real money into a planet.

2). PVP : Killing, hacking and raiding to get my ship stronger and to move higher on the leader board.

3). Keep the legion in order alive and kicking.

4). Making sure that I get all of the modules on my ship. I don't want to miss out on anything.

5). Killing NPC's for drops so they give more options to make things and do more things .. in other words ( Give me options )
A). I don't want to kill them too often because I don't want to level too fast as quite a few others and outgrow great NPC's.
I could be at the top somewhere right now but I " choose " not to for that reason only.
The game will die when we all outgrow NPC's that keep us interested and give us drops that we will never stop needing.

6). ..... Hmm maybe I'm waiting to see what's next and waiting to see something to blow my mind to make me want to play this game for another two years.

To the guy that gave Mojo a negative on this thread.
Dan has made a GREAT game. One that has my only attention right now out of many in the past.
However there is always room for improvement and just as the rule applies to an owner of a shop or store the customer is always right.
That person my not be completely in the right but there are plenty others who have great ideas and opinions that need to be looked into and probably added.

There is a lot of talk about Dan not caring as much as he used to because he's not as active in the forums.
I personally don't know but what I do know is that we want to stay excited and not given enough time to get bored or to lose interest.
On Dan's behalf he has made some great improvements without a doubt but I think we're all waiting for a big LEAP ....... or a series of things to do to keep us busy in different areas.

Mojo great ideas ... I mean that.
And Dan I love your game but I wish you'd blow my mind [/quote

+1

+1

I like the idea Mojo, but it might be asking a little too much in some ways. The idea however, is great IMO

As for Varun's comment...I could not agree more. Personally I don't need Dan to do anything crazy, I just see what happens, as well as how I feel, when Dan takes a minute to comment on any single thread. We ALL get a bit of excitement. His "presence" means SO MUCH to all of us true fans and lovers of the game. When he goes silent for long periods of time, I think we all just want a very small idea of what is going on. Sometimes I feel like he has forgotten about us, and the game. I know this isn't the truth, but sometimes it can feel that way.

What I am saying is...in a nutshell, is that I don't want Dan and his team to kill themselves and get burned out...but a little bit of comm and updates, and the types of small things that he used to do when he clearly had a stronger passion for the game. Nothing makes my day like when I check out forums, and see Dan post or even comment on someone's thread letting us know just a small bit of information, letting us know he is here, and he is active. I COMPLETELY trust in his ability to add the right content, when the time comes for it to ready for release. I am just saying, in the meantime, don't have to get "personal" and be our "buddies", but just be present, and let us know that you care, and maybe some insight as to what you are working on/the progress/what you would like from us/etc, etc.

I am content with this game, still, tho it has lost a bit of excitement. I do however feel that Dan is busy at work, getting the next holiday content ready to fly, and Part II of the timed mission, and other things. He even seemed excited to tell us that a couple weeks ago in a former thread, letting us know he wanted this to be an outstanding holiday season for GL.

Hello Dan, thank you for a great game that I cannot help but love to play...and I hope you hear us in our pleads for more from you - as in, let us know how you are doing, and what type of feedback helps you, and how we can possibly motivate you to interact more so we can better understand the state of the game and community.

Suggestions List/Coming Soon webguydan 15469 Fri Mar 11, 2011 10:14 am webguydan

Would love to see this thread updated regularly again.