X2-Illuminatus wrote: ↑Mon, 10. May 21, 22:13
I mentiond this on the last page, in case you missed it.
Obviously, our focus lies on bug fixes and plot stoppers first.
Thank you guys, truly, for following it up. I just want to make sure that the team knows they are not underappreciated while we keep complaining.
To summarize our frustration easily: if the Teladi can befriend everyone, why can't the player?
We are not complaining because the game is no longer "easy" or "not exciting enough", we are complaining because the notoriety system is such a foundation of the game, that no matter how the players want to play the game, they cannot go around it. Changes to such a foundation requires the whole game to work with it, and right now, we are having a game largely similar with AP but with FL's notoriety system.
Traders can't even trade like a Teladi.
I did manage to maintain positive relations with the major races, provided that I 1) no longer do any mission for anyone except Teladi 2) still be enemy with all corps except MMMC 3) still be enemy with the two pirates.
I don't believe that's the canonical "trader" gameplay the team envisioned.
I don't play like a pacifist. In AP the terrans were my official enemy. But that was fine because 1) that was my choice, 2) that was not DYNAMIC.
I can blacklist all terran sectors, set terrans to enemy, treat them like the Xenon, treat their sectors like Xenon sectors, from the very start. It was not necessary to DYNAMICALLY check notoriety every now and again, in case my ships been selling to the wrong faction a little too much.
A hard floor for dynamic relation hits would have been fine. Like, the player will never go under -1 from relation hits resulted from relation gains with other factions.
Or, make the hit a fraction of the gain and/or be rank specific. Right now, it's as if the allies would hang anyone who rescue a German citizen in WWII.
FL is so good but I can do nothing but exploring the sectors. If I do missions, trade, build, fight, do piracy, etc., 40% entities of the game would suddenly turn into xenons.