That is why the best solution should also be the one that respects old players’ hard work and give them a challenging arena, while making a fun platform for everyone else as well.
It is an universe after all, and everyone should be welcomed.
That’s kinda why I left the solutions as empty in the beginning, since it’s not easy to think of a solution for this universally huge problem.
First of all it is a galaxy, and the competition is the same for all. I was inspired by the top pilots and challenged myself to be better in my skills. To advance in my rank I spent my keys wisely. This is important when you devise a strategy. I find this to be a sound plan in the game and in life. @ChickenGaming you raise good points but making the game easy for some does not make it better for others. Fly safe. Be well all…
IA tried to balance this issue and it was successful a bit.
When a new player joins. He does have lower Tiers. Which means that every mission difficulty is reduced by 50% iirc. And they have the Hatchling starter ship. Which have a high key bonus when finishing the missions. which made the game more moderate for some begineers and then learn their skills throughout the game.
For other begineers who suffers much in their first moments. Well. No Idea for that but thankfully that there are event missions like space race or weekly challenge that are unlimited-ly unlocked which begineers can use to learn skills or farm keys to grow their progress ig.
I remember that in earlier chapters of this game that we earn extra life once we acheieve more score or food or missiles (I don’t remember exactly what casues this). But I wish the same feature could exist for begineers throughout the game.
^you’re either badly misinformed or you worded it really badly. Lower tiers restrict you from accessing higher difficulty missions, they don’t reduce difficulty.
Make the hatchling have automated/implemented extralifes-
Oh, welp. Sorry for that mistake. Missing out on stuff while being away from the game for months is fun. Guess that neither of us were completely right, tho Baron was closer to the truth.
It’s fine. Though it’s known that it’s not better to say anything have details about it. But apology accepted.
My initial solution would be to try and make it so whenever you invest keys for something, you’d always get more better things in return.
This should make a positive feedback loop of: do missions, get better gear which you can use for harder missions, rinse and repeat a couple times, which ultimately leads to getting better ships, learning more mechanics like Shady Dealers, item rarity, and so on, then persues to get that, … leading to a way way better experience of this game for newbies, while at the same time, reward veterans with a higher key gain overall.
This may sound simple but the details on how to actually come up with such a thing isn’t that easy.
A solution I got so far (which isn’t fully complete, but has a huge potential):
This way, players that either surrendered or failed (due to aformentioned issues) won’t have the issue that’s been addressed, and can simply start again (with a nerfed score bonus due to unoriginality penalty, of course), while those who persisted on and managed to win such a game will get a large key gain, since the key gain then will be the keys awarded, plus the “bonus keys” used to buy back the stuff you’ve lost.
EDIT #1:
This also gives the players more incentive to use the “consumables” and have fun with it - as of right now, it’s pretty fun to use, but most people would probably not do it since it costs alot of, well, keys.
That’s why I never have any of that on me
(except from the Sattlites since those things are a 1-time investment, which I like alot)
Of course, doing this has one downside I could think of:
It means that all investment in Shop items ultimately leads to a good ending for the player,
but some may like having to think where to spend your keys, and to spend them wisely.
I wanted to cover this problem too, but I have to leave this open for now since I can’t think of a simple solution for this just yet.
tl dr.
if you have 0 keys then you get negative keys???
No…
Eh you can play recent mission to refarm the key
Um, no. What that means is dying can be devastating for new players who don’t have a built-up key bank since extra lives would be relatively costly for them. It can be worse if said new players are inexperienced and will die more often since they’ll have to invest more into lives rather than buying new equipment or skills.
It would be wise for begineers to play easier missions in either the galaxy or event missions like Easy and Medium Weapon Training and Daily missions. Some of weekly challenges waves. and space races.
I wish every beginner can think like a pro and know all about the game’s systems to figure out that this is a good method to start off with.
I mean, I only realized the Moron Railgun is supposed to be my “starter weapon” about 10-20 hours in.
And the game can’t tell you this information directly either, since that has a lot of long-term bad effects towards the player.
Telling you to do this, get that, do this to go here … is not viable at all, as when those tutorials end, the player will be left without a goal, not knowing what to do next, and simply abandon the game as they think they’ve done everything already, while there’s still a massive galaxy to explore, things to do, events to enter, …
It literally does. Have you read Moron Railgun’s description in the shop?
In Clash of Clans, the base building and strategic war game (whatever players consider it) that has been released almost 10 years ago, they have only very recently (end of June 2022) make this very major change: all armies are completely free to train to encourage players to try new strategies risk-free (it used to cost in-game resources that can be easily collected), only takes time to train (depending on your level, an army used for attacking may take 30 minutes to 1 hour to train, training time has always been the thing since 2012). See more here: Home Village Changes | Clash of Clans
We can do any of the following:
Give new players 500 keys to start (if I remember correctly, you start with very few keys awarded from exploration plus 50 keys for completing the tutorial). This should help new players buy some stuff, and while they lose lives they will likely get more experience that this no longer becomes a problem.
Going extreme like Clash of Clans, unlimited free extra lives, unlimited free special weapons, unlimited perishables. But in exchange for this, there should be a new tier requirement to unlock each and every mission item in the game (with some exceptions like Extra Lives, classic Missiles and Mines available at the beginning) to encourage progression to endgame tiers. The only items that are in the store would be galaxy exploration items, spacecrafts, spacecraft parts, satellites and weapons. And you are still restricted to the number of slots as usual. But this requires a lot of rework for all existing items.
@MaybeOrandzaIdk not being able to fly advanced missions will save you keys by letting you know that it will cost. When I fly a new mission I fly with no mounted equipment and see how much of a challenge it is. The tier level tells me which way to attack these annoying chickens and be successful and on budget. It also saves pilot frustration. I guess it is all up to the pilot. Be well all…
Ok that’s not very related to what I said and I already admitted that my info wasn’t correct.
This is what I mainly do now since the consumables are so dang expensive to refuel every time, even after 80+ hours of gameplay.
I kinda hate the “unoriginality penalty” whenever I do this though, since if I die, the mission is gone, and if I redo it right then and there (since I waste no keys on restocks as I don’t use any consumables),
I have to do everything again, and when I eventually succeed, that penalty stops me from getting the points I woulda had for trying my best.
(Sure, points are kinda worthless beyond tier 99, but still, it feels bad)
So if the pilot follows this method to play the game, it makes this game feels like Geometry Dash, but way harsher(and more frustrating if you get the win after a few fails), with music that’s not designed for multiple repeats, so most new people are leaving after 2-3 hours tops.
It’s fine if you’re not trying to get a huge fanbase for the game, but for an online game to stay afloat, having a small market is not ideal at all.
Having less people that actually likes the game = less people that actually want to pay for stuff, the price that IA could use to further develop the game + server prices, etc…
Plus, players (especially new ones) should be encouraged to try out all the new stuff in the shop and have some fun with them. What’s the point of having those items if you’re not supposed to use them?
If they want to do the more serious things we got competitive challenges like the Galactic Cup and the Daily/Weekly Missions, and even IronMan.