@Nuebot said in Server Pop declining?:

@GM-Deynger said in Server Pop declining?:

Yes, but our Terms of Service are adhered to and we don't over-moderate. We would lose the trust of the community and therefore lose the chance of having valuable community sentiment expressed on our Forums.

The "trust of the community" is also lost when you allow trolls to run rampant and derail any and every thread with personal attacks and other such inanity. People are bringing their personal, and petty, grudges across multiple threads and generally showing a flagrant disregard for the rules and seeing virtually no punishment for them outside of the occasional moderated post here or there. You don't "over-moderate". You kind of barely moderate, but I'd say this forum is also in dire need of some low-level moderators on clean-up duty in charge of tasks like consolidating repeat threads into similar topics and taking out blatant white noise "lol im just trolling" style posts as have been want to pop up frequently here and there.

That being said, this isn't the purpose of this topic so this will be the last post I make about this forum's moderation here and I apologize for this particular derail.

@Subject-Astra said in Server Pop declining?:

You guys have zero patience. Have you played an MMO before?

One of the biggest issues, regarding "content" in this game is that right now there's no real carrot to chase. For most classes the badge weapons either are the top tier weapon, or the alternatives we have are, at best, sidegrades and the effort involved in earning them (grinding super low drops farming SHAQs) doesn't really feel that worth it to a lot of people, especially when considering that the first "actual" content drop (likely to be the invade or slave NT weapons, if I'm making any random guesses) will be much better. People always get restless in MMOs when there's nothing new to chase. In, say, WoW or FFXIV the instant people get the new raid on clear they start clamoring for new content, and games like Warframe are in a perpetual state of trying to keep up with the demands of players hungry for new content. This is amplified by the fact that we don't really have any sub-grinds at the moment either, crafting isn't in the game yet and since 12* units aren't either, aside from getting multiple rings in preparation for them most people are either just going to get an effective 11* unit set, or grab some saikis and sit comfy waiting.

And when people feel like there's nothing to do in a game, they're less inclined to play it. Most people I know log in, do their dailies or weeklies, then log out because outside of running Tower Defense for the nth time, it's just a big game of why. Unless the new TD has something neat in its drop pools, there's nothing to really gain but excubes, and given how many of us burned out on TD in JP, it's just kind of not fun to be subject to it again and again and again, honestly. I've mentioned it would be nice if they had more variance in their UQs before, but they've shown almost no interest in doing that, but they also give almost no incentive to run the new UQ. I don't think the game is in any danger of dying or losing much of its population for a serious length of time. People are just kind of spinning their wheels waiting for a big update though, waiting for "soon" to happen.

Sounds a lot like SEGA criticism to me...

@GamerKillance said in My current problem with this version of PSO2:

Well if we're getting what JP has by years end the OP gear will come from vendors or collection sheets. Not to mention affixing said gear.

If only they had updated the sheets ONCE since closed beta..

@Z0DIAK-BRAVE said in PC - Release date (Specific Date Information Request):

actively trying to limit its potential.

If the mods are passing things along as mentioned, tell them that it's 2020 and for a company to be successful nowadays you need to be transparent with you playerbase, whether that info be good or bad.

But... they "use" twitter.

That was nonsensical enough for me to simply ignore you.

@ERICK001BC So why take an automobile? Walking will get you there "eventually". Why cut down a tree with a chain saw? An axe will fell it "eventually". Why use a lighter, when rubbing 2 stick together will start a fire "eventually"? I'm guessing you're under 40 simply based on the fact that you are ok with "eventually".

Nobody is paying 9$ a pop for "eventually", they pay it for results.

@ERICK001BC said in 400% rare drop:

@SpeedierJam1135 said in 400% rare drop:

Too bad the number we are dealing with isn't zero. We don't actually know what it is, but its definitely NOT that.

Always great too how people ASSUME it's a tiny number and then say things like "math" to explain it away even though a booster would boost the rates of the ENTIRE drop pool and not just a single item (which they refuse to ever acknowledge).

Also.. if all you have ever run are 50's how exactly are you in ANY position to comment on the performance of a 400?

No, i know it's not 0, but it's a number so small I stopped worrying about them with these types of games. just put on boosters, enjoy playing the game and make a quest out of it. Enjoy the game by playing it and EVENTUALLY it will drop and you will be even more happy when it does. They you will have a void and you will have to repeat with a different item. Numbers don't matter that much when your enjoying the hunt.

So a complete lack of ambition is your approach to achieving things.. got it.

@PrinceBrightstar said in My current problem with this version of PSO2:

To those that say there's nothing to do, how many titles do you have? I'm currently at 369 and I have no plans to stop getting more because I know the time investment I put in now will pay out when I'm not scrambling to get more titles when rewards are unlocked when the max is raised from 250. Late game JP side requires tons of them to get items you need to get the most powerful weapons in the game. Unless you have unlocked every single title in the game, there are still things to do. Some may take longer / be harder / are pure RNG than others are but there are things to work towards.

..367, though I stopped caring about them after I got my wings. I will also never get the summoner ones since I leveled it as a force because I'm not a 14 year old girl and have no desire to deal with a lazy pet class. I do agree that there's more to do, but honestly most of it will fall into place organically WITHOUT me going out of my way to literally kill 5 million mobs.

@Nuebot said in Server Pop declining?:

@GM-Deynger said in Server Pop declining?:

I am tempted to close this thread due to the frequency of one-on-one attack posts and infrequency of posts that are on topic that I'm seeing.

Far be it from me to tell you how to do your job, but if specific users continually derail potentially productive threads with rule breaking behavior, wouldn't it make more sense to remove them from the equation rather than close a thread that could still be useful to the community?

Does this very comment not attempt to derail the thread?

@Chiryuu2609 said in Reserving some Quest Triggers for new PC Players:

I think best ship will be the new ships, you will have more new people on the server and you will have opportunity to better enjoy your time. But I may be wrong.

REALLY good point! If one wanted to avoid the majority of the xbox players new ships would definitely be the way to go (also be avoiding an economy stacked against you).