Egosoft please help me understand.

[CBJ]

I've removed the insults and unpleasantness from this thread so that genuine discussion can continue. One last time: criticism is acceptable, insults are not.

[Masochisto]

My usual answer to people who complain about the series and say it could be better is...


Send a sample of their own good programming to show how they would improve the game.

If they can't programme , then stop complaining.

But now there has been so much negativity from some that I will add...

No one is forcing them to play the game.
Go and find a game that they enjoy .

I think criticizing the game is valid, and it is part of the evolutionary process that provides Egosoft with some of the feedback they need to make better games.

The issue with this thread s that the X series is just completely incompatible with multiplayer. While the OP may regard this conclusion as "lazy", the conclusion is still valid. The computer and the player play by different rules in the X series. If it were multiplayer and the first player to login on release day placed silicon mindes on all the high yield silicon asteroids then what would other people do? That player would have a huge advantage for the rest of the game...

There are many community members that have improved this game and smoothed over many of its warts. If you have only ever playerd Vanilla X, and have never had a modified game, then you have not played the best of the game. Try on of the rebalance mods; they are a beautiful thing.

[Alan Phipps]

The Egosoft X series up to and including Rebirth is never going to be multi-player - a stated fact after years of consideration of the suggestion and for business reasons clearly known to Egosoft, so sheer 'laziness' surely cannot be an issue.

There is a body of players who like the thought of a multi-player space empire sim (perhaps of a similar look and feel to elements of the X series). How big that body is and how much it would be prepared to spend on such a game is unknown to us but will surely have been at least market-assessed by several big gaming developers with multi-player game experience. Has any such company approached Egosoft for further joint development investigations or is considering developing one with a broadly similar theme separately? - No idea.

To the multi-player base - it is the latter type of company that you need to be providing your feedback and wishes to - you know who they are.