You are Destroying Neocron.
I agree.
Currently there are only 2 options left for leveling, Rifles and Cannons.
Unless you have a big team, that's it, nothing else. And big teams with similar rank are HARD to come by when the average server pop while I'm on is 2-3%. Most of those AFK idling -SI off somewhere.
I presume you mean negative SL there, but in general, most don't idle it off, as they SL exploit instead, much faster. Reakktor don't seem to be trying to do anything about it, since they went out of their way to make SL exploiting illegal. I thought I read that they removed the bonus to stop people from doing that, yet the bonus is still there, and I've seen people farming them often.
It's also difficult at the best of times to find a team these days, most people are capped. The only teaming being done is often in the truly non-levelling areas in order to complete quests or farm WoC discs.
I haven't seen a single Mele weapon being weilded since the release of 2.2. I see the occasional sword on a Monks back for decoration though.
Aye, Why bother with MC when you have the choice of so many uber cannons (some of them being rather overpowered)?
Pistols on a leveling PE or Spy? All but gone. Ocasionally one in Regeants, but no where else.
Same for rifles. People using rifles will often not bother LOMing until they get truly fed up, as I did. It's too slow and tedious because of most mobs pretty much instagibbing you, or bringing you to red health after a few hits - and that's taking into account best armour, capped constitution, and nanites. Only difference netweem pistols and rifles for levelling is that rifles allow you to stay out of a mobs range so it doesn't ravage you. Yet again I have to repeat the words, PvE is truly buggered. The population is too low to force teaming upon us.
Drones as of today? Completely useless for anything but PvP. I wouldn't quite say they're completely useless.
There's far too many safespots in most sectors that everyone knows about, and therefore, take advantage of. So drones aren't completely useless.
I haven't seen a single low rank PPU leveling since 2.2's release. APU's are almost as rare but again, if you do see one, it's in Regeants.
APU's indeed have been nerfed a bit too much, in that they've become rather boring in the process. They need to be made fun as well as balanced. The same could be said for Melee weapons (and even Pistols as I feel most just fire very slowly). The fun factor is definitely something that Reakktor don't seem to take into account.
There's nothing left.
All those newbies and Vet's who came back to check out 2.2. They're gone aren't they?
Aye, I knew it would happen, and it has. The free time of 2.2 wasn't as bad as the 2.1 free time, but it brought the same results. Things being broken, or relevant items not even in-game (such as nanotools). 2.2 was released before it should have been, and we all said it at the time, but they didn't listen. Even though this is what Reakktor seems to think are high standards, common sense to me and living proof of the server population and server activity says otherwise. It just drives people away. If someone does actually test the tweaks made before things go retail, I'd love to know who they are, so I can plunge a knife into their eye socket.
They came, they saw, they grimmaced at how harsh and "un fun" the game had become and left didn't they? Server pops don't lie...
If you are intentionally trying to drive off as many players as possible so you don't feel so guilty when you pull the plug on the servers, you are doing a fine job. A fine job indeed.
Neocron has some of the best PVP available period. Everyone in the online gaming community know it too. But yet there are only a few score accounts still active.
Yeah, had lots of fun PvP in the game over the years, admittedly none of that for me has been in the last 14 months.
Have you considered asking yourself why?
I wish they would think about this question.
A lot of people I know still have inactive accounts and mine is only active because I won 6 months (which reminds me, I'll need to check if the mass of Reakktor should be thankful people like IceStorm have say 4 subscriptions constantly active while they rarely login or do anything with them. I'm sorry to say I just don't feel the small amount of money for a months Neocron subscription is worth spending anymore, and clearly others felt and do feel the same way.
I login, and actually have to spend the time to find people to kill, and as others often do, ask them where they may be on OOC. Fortunately the NCPD most wanted list and Outpost ownership changes let me know where some of the PvP is, but you can't kill the majority of neg SLers before they SL exploit because you get penalized yourself for doing so. Also, as of recently, a big handful of those are at the place I describe below. Great.
I had various ideas that would never get approved to help let us know where the PvP is, generate statistics, show nifty information, among other resourceful things. To those ideas, all I can say is "I wish", and "shame", as many others have done.
The majority of PvP is now at the Club Veronique zone lines which I find rather dull, as it's only a slight improvement upon the MB entrance. A mass of people running around inside a very small area, of which you can't often hit the person you intend to because of the people running around and getting in the way. Then everyone just zone whores into the safe zone before they die. OP fighting seems to have died down mostly because of ninja hacking and zergs - seems people have eventually begun to lose interest.