It might be that you don't have any compatible basewears.

Your outerwears are NGS spec (easy to tell by the light grey background of the icon), so they only work with NGS spec basewears. I'm not sure the default basewears for NGS are compatible, but I wager they aren't.

IIRC, basewears with an icon on it are not compatible with outerwears, whereas basewears without are. But I'd have to check ingame to make sure.

I got all of them to 20 by now (except ranger) and I've settled on Fighter/Gunner. That's mostly down to weapons.

Twin Dagger just feels good and intuitive to use, both in the air and outside of it. You can cancel just about anything at any time, got vertical tracking and you have a lot of inbuilt movement so that smaller enemy movements don't lead to you getting out of range. Your mobbing is awful, but for that, I find Assault Rifle the most convenient, Gunner just provides it with a better passive than Ranger.

I really wanted to like Jet Boots, because I played that almost exclusively in base, but I can't get over the fact that I have to mash the attack button again because holding it triggers Intensity.

The rest... either the style didn't fit my character, I found it clunky, or there's minor things that irrationally irk me.

A part is simply that we got access to photon dash and jump. The faster you move, the smaller any given distance will appear, as it simply goes by faster, just as if it was simply a smaller distance.

Another part is the fact that every place you need is condensed in the main street, so you're not even using the entire city. Base has spread its facilities out more (and it had more facilities as well).

Plus, base was using windows and vistas to great effect - The big wings, the thrusters, the stars and ships outside as well as the city area at the bottom, all merely inaccessible decoration, created the illusion that the part you were in was merely a fraction of a giant spaceship/base. NGS cannot do that to the same effect due to the open world design, as Syan stated.

And I doubt any of it is gonna change much. But there might be more facilities, eventually.

I find it a bit iffy. Jet boots anyway.

Since there's no more perfect attacks, I'm used to hold normal attacks now. And with Jet boots acceleration, that's, uh... I mean, if you get to the end, it's intensely satisfying seeing that huge number. But that is probably best reserved for when the boss is downed, so I'd honestly rather have it as an additional skill that I can bind to a different mouse button and keep the normal basic attack function. As it is, using basic attacks not aimed at getting acceleration up gets a bit too mashy for my tastes.

Beyond that, I don't have much gripes yet. Might add some later when I get more familiar with it.

@Miraglyth said in So are NGS forums just not happening anymore?:

[...] or if the intention is to keep it visible for 6-12 months and then delete it.

Probably that, although I doubt they got a timeline for that yet. But it's kinda inevitable, once it's no longer in active use it'll eventually be seen as dead wood to be cut away.

Personally, I'll see it as a good opportunity to stop procrastinating reading this forum and instead do something more productive. I like Discord for its voice chat quality, but I only intend to engage in that with people I already know well and only on special occasions (like raids). I never got much use out of it otherwise, it usually devolves into idle chatter and memery, which is fine for something like a private guild discord meant for socializing, but I can't see it as a replacement for a discussion board.

Similarly, I like reddit for sharing short video clips, screenshots, fanart and witty one-liners, but especially when a discussion goes back and forth, it just quickly vanishes in the comments as it shifts ever further to the right and leaves long trails of empty space behind. Moreover, I regularly experience issues with copy&paste.

So... yeah.

@The-Merfox said in Improving the community:

Considering the fact it's been disabled after not even 3 years in use, I don't think it was working very well either.

It's not exactly a system suitable for a huge playerbase. Regardless of vote, every case had to be approved by a GM in the end (if only to decide on the severity of the punishment) and the sheer amount of GMs you need for one of the largest playerbases out there is just too much of a cost. Waiting for reviewers to vote on the cases also made things fairly slow, since there weren't a whole lot of them (and when you add an incentive to get more, well... a lot of people just blindly hit punish to get the rewards).

Pretty much every company would have looked at automation there.

I just want an option that hides other people entirely tbh.