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    just an opinion, but isnt nc atm just as open as when it would be open source? hacks everywhere... the people that want to cheat can cheat now anyway, would it be that much different in an open source client? perhaps it would make it easier, but easy and easier isn't that much apart...
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    what a waste of space there not going to do anything..
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    Quote Originally Posted by Marx
    @FN, haha, someones been playing the Global Agenda alpha too, eh?
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    I have no idea what you are talking about good sir.

    Anyway - I said recreate NC zone by zone, but yes, a huge seamless world would be nice, but I am not sure of the practicality of creating one persistent world that large. Let's just say there are other alphas out there right now boasting that, but the performance is NOT so great. I'd rather have smaller, STABLE zones than one huge one. The only real problem with zonelines is how they are designed, imo.

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    Having a look around the forum, it appears that there hasnt been a patch in a year, and thats a very long time for no new content, no bug fixes, no possible exploits fixed and gives the impression that the game is abandoned.

    I play FFXI, well, did, still do sorta on and off, and every 3 months they have an uber patch which not only addresses job balance, adds new abilities to jobs, but adds tons of new armour, new zones, pretty much a mini expansion in itself, every 3 months. A couple of days later they have a patch to fix the things they missed, then maybe another patch to fix other stuff they may have missed, always in GMT prime time mind you, every patch day the servers are down till about 11PM UK time from aboug 3PM... bastards.

    KK doesn't have the development funds, nor the staff levels of a company like SquareEnix, nor do they have the product name of Final Fantasy. What they do have is one of the most... whats the correct phrase... I guess if KK were a person, most of its player base would be KK's stalker. Fanatics, thats the word, stalker is a good Friday night

    I know with the current financial troubles of KK's parent company, money is in about as much supply as Paris Hiltons chastity, and that is why they should leverage their community of fanatical fanatics.

    The game needs new blood, it needs new players to start, it needs old players coming back, I'm pretty sure I didn't get an email from NC saying "NC2 is currently free to play, if you haven't been banned, come back and play, you'll get a free cookie!". But getting players back is only one side of the story, you need to be able to keep them. And you can't do that unless you give them new shiny things to play with, and KK doesn't seem to have the development team to be able to give lots of nice new toys to keep people occupied.

    If you look at the world map, 2 factions control the entire map, thats just wrong in so many ways, so that needs to be addressed, how can the game encourage op fights, are op fights even possible with such a low population?

    Cookie cutters rule, back in the day people spent hours experimenting with their set ups to get the optimal set up, then they would go out and kill people, then go back and refine their set up, which kept them busy, cookie cutters shouldn't be an optimal set up, people who experiment with their set ups should be rewarded for their efforts by finding a set up that works, but each set up has to have a weakness, there shouldn't be a perfect set up for any char which gives you the optimal resists against all forms of attack, its the old rock/paper/sciccocosorors, except everyone is able to use 3 hands.

    NC needs a lot of work, and I don't think its work that KK are currently able to do, especially in the current financial situation of the entire planet, except Australia, they were smart and saved their money. KK will be focusing its funds and resources on the other game they are making, whilst NC needs a strong development team.

    Maybe if they can't open source it, they can look to the community for skilled programmers who are happy to give their time into working on solutions which will help the game, people who have been talking about balance since 2001 could design new chips, people who made 8 slots EPR's could sort out new ideas for construction, but without excluding players who joined in NC2.

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    I'd say that what NC needs is not new content, but bug fixes.
    Hey, I know the codebase is terrible, but the sooner you deal with it the better.

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    Well it show's a risk. A risk that needs to be considered and not ignored.
    Fair enough, but doing nothing is a bigger risk.


    How many Patches Per Month have there been since NC2 came out?
    A depressingly low amount.
    I can only remember 10 or so patches since I started playing NC, I'm sure Im low on that number but for the love of Droms, this is silly!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lexxuk
    no new content, no bug fixes, no possible exploits fixed and gives the impression that the game is abandoned.
    To be honest it was abandoned since Gold release.. It failed in marketing and advertisements.. They were respectful to keep it running since it does not cost them money they make back and maybe a tiny bit more on neocron...

    But in the end Neocron will die once a mmo like it replaces it.

    Or if they give me the server files and I will mass advertise 100% free with GM that will take time to ban exploiters and be in the game run some events omg..

    You know how much fun it will be adding in new quests and even on bin files.. Since you can still modify somethings..

    It be a blast... I know you can spawn and stack objects too so just emagine building some crazy fun stuff too for fun and boy...

    Anyways I want on a dream there
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    The only solution I see is merely selling up to someone else.

    I don't see how they'll make any money anymore...

    For starters, no marketing, for How long?
    Noone can make accounts
    No development

    How are new players meant to see the game or even play it.

    It feels a total shambles....

    I simply don't play the game because it just feels totally empty.

    Whenever i tried to start a "community project" of spreading the word of Neocron, either through unlawful forum spamming on major sites, or defacing wikipedia MMO's with adverts of neocron.

    Whatever the method we could do for free, noone gave a shit.
    There's no "Advertisement" pack or pictures available for us to use, so noone can be bothered to make any.

    Where's the motivation?


    If I had the money, I would take Neocron off KK's hands, but right now... impossible.
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    Lets all toss in a couple bucks and buy neocron?

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    How much you think a such game is worth now? I'm poor id offer like a grand but then someone prob offer more and try to make money off it and would fail again...

    I want Neocron to live on and grow. Even if there is no new content free server run by the players would grow fast I know it..
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    yeah but they wont sell it, it will die and stay dead

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    And this makes nobby...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sharper Blade
    yeah but they wont sell it, it will die and stay dead
    so true
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    fuck obama, hoder for president
    make the tax payers pay millions for nc

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    If players is all neocron needs, imo it should go the way of eve-online. Get ads everywhere, on as many gaming sites as possible, and I don't think the player base would be a problem anymore.

    Even if KK doesn't want to pay for it, the players might be able to form a marketting fund from donations to go spread the word?
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    But we all know that with today's society...

    The majority won't even give the game a try due to "ugliness on the eyes".

    Even though i don't see this, Everyone else i try to get into the game ALWAYS says this...

    so meh... say goodbye ?

    unless engine- graphics uphaul
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