Just started playing again and I was wondering...

[unreal]

I think it's about time my Spy had a hair cut too. Paying 10nc.

[Kain]

Glad to say I am really enjoying being back in NC.

Spent 1 year away playing WOW till I became sick of the itemisation, sick of the terrible crafting system, sick of the whole toon feel. Went to D+D where I'm loving the dungeons

Now the core of my old clan are back in NC its so much fun. Even like the FSM / FDB changes. Though I keep getting lost in DOY.

Shame all the old bugs are still arround.

One final question, why do the DOY bots attack my le'd FA char in the squares arround the dump ? Was a little suprising !

[Toxen]

The game went through a period where everything was been handed to doy on a plate, things like all their city GR's been guarded by 120/120's and not having any back door or unguarded access into DoY while NC has several unguarded GR and backdoors including the secret doy HQ's in PP and OZ (still), while it was prolifically easy to get into NC if you were DoY, quite literally you could see TG at CA HQ GR. The area's around DoY were guarded by the DoY bots compared the area's around NC been guarded by one or two randomly placed non roaming storm bots and then there was the TG canyon issue, at the start of NC2 it was basicly a large dungeon of raptors with some smugglers and out of the way appartments, and was no longer the TG base of operations not a single TG guard. After a short while that got handed back to TG and the mobs removed this cut off access by NC folk to certain items that could only be obtained by smugglers there (loosing smugglers in NC became quite common later on theres still a whole host of lower level items only available to doys, and not just the faction items). If that wasn't bad enough they then got a GR in what was there secret HQ, basicly giving the dome a forward base to send raiding parties into the unguarded NC ganking people in the now non safe zones of the inner city.

The DoY bots going haywire was sort of a balacing in my opinion because the community was nagging at that point that the game was been pushed in favour of doy. Jokingly just before it happend i droped the line that doy bots would soon be attacking doy into my sig, to wind doy up hadn't a clue it was actually gonna happen though.

Still a number of balancing issues to be dealt with, one of the things i rember been promised for NC2 was that both doy and nc would have secret tunnels into the city NC's always had those its about time DoY got theirs

[Kain]

Shame in one way, the dump was my favorite hunting grounds towards the end of NC-1. Nice mix of Mobs, the tunnels to play in and, after that event, a gogo, a gr (out only) and a garage. Its a bit different now.

But times change, still looking for somewhere safe(ish) to level our pro-city non le'd chars.
We have made the decision to move to NEXT, we were TT for the whole of NC-1 but towards the end we became disillusioned by the in fighting between TT and Biotech and the general way TT story was feeling.
Back then that was the point at which we started our FA le'd chars.

Anyway with the FSM changes and our love of building vehicles coupled with the speed at which we get them blown up the TT move to NEXT got our vote.

Brief comments on DOY / NC balance and access:

I was surprised at how easy it was to get into PP3 while doing the FA epic, I had more problems getting into TG canyons!

But anti-city had it easier in nc-1 not surprised they continued that when NC-2 came out. It got worse the closer DOY came to opening. It being almost impossible for us to get to the NE of the map and the anti-city lot being able to watch the DOY / Stormbot fights without anyone shooting at them.

Least NC isnt a bombed out shitehole full of rotting zombie borg type guard thingies.

Kain

[unreal]

The game went through a period where everything was been handed to doy on a plate

"Went" is past tense. Everything is still handed to DoY on a plate as we speak.

one of the things i rember been promised for NC2 was that both doy and nc would have secret tunnels into the city NC's always had those its about time DoY got theirs

NC does but one of them seems to be blocked off, and the other, takes you through the secret (either Tsunami or Black Dragon) HQ - which means it's full of enemy 120/120 guards. Yet another easy access hidey hole for anti-city.

The biggest problem with Neocron is that guards are everywhere, and along with parashock, raids, and any sort of fighting is stopped instantly. It's one of the largest factors that produced the current carebear community. Dying in an honourable fight is one thing, but being glued to the spot with an incredibly slim chance of defending yourself to be killed at ease is another.