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Originally Posted by kaplin42
So I just got an email, and it seems that they are finally doing PVP space battles, which should have been in the game from the very begining. Have there been any other significant updates or any other reason to even think about coming back?
How is the economy, the population, the lag? Did they ever fix the last boss of the first raid?
In short, is it the same crappy end game from 2 years ago, or has it gotten any better? |
I can't really talk about the economy, I'm not sure what would be characterized as good or bad, but the population has been steady and growing for most of the year. They consolidated down to 8 "megaservers" a while back, they're all standard to heavy load every weeknight, heavy on the weekends. I rarely have to wait very long to do anything, whether it's fp's or PvP, and I'm in a guild that's basically just me (meaning I can't ask guildmates....). Sometimes if I'm playing in the middle of the night groupfinder might take a few minutes, but usually during the day and particularly in the evenings, GF (either PvP or PvE) tends to pop, if not immediately, in 5-10 minutes.
I sometimes (but not often) hear people complain about lag, but I've never experienced any in the 2 years I've been playing.
There's now 55 levels in the game, there's, what, 7 ops now, all with SM and HM, and most with NM. There's a number of instanced daily/weekly areas between 50 and 55, with new ones being introduced every few months (ATM it's Black Hole, Section X, Makeb, CZ-198 and now Oricon which was patched in 2 weeks ago, along with two new Operations). They've introduced rated 4v4 arena PvP (still in preseason) as well as 4v4 unrated arenas which pop in addition to the regular 8v8 pvp modes.
I play pretty much 7 days a week, I still haven't started running ops yet (although I plan to soon, I just finished gearing a character for it) and yet, to be honest, I already can't find enough time to do everything I want.
And the new space combat looks like it will be a lot of fun. It's basically completely separate from the ground game with a completely unrelated leveling system. There should be more information about that coming out gradually over the next 6 weeks or so - as I understand it it's still in closed beta, not on the PTS yet for the rest of us. It's scheduled to launch for subscribers at the beginning of December. F2P players will have to wait longer.