Empyre
Domestic Reform
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Posted - 2009.03.24 03:54:00 -
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I got a late start, still hashing out the basics. I left for a little while and now I've played a bit through the newness, so I think I can give a clear, definitive, absolute fact, opinion on the subject.
Thanks. For the first time in my history of MMO usage, an addiction I liken to things like addiction to sex or hockey or movies, I believe a company has subverted the urge to create expansions by simply developing "end-game" content. Not to discredit the content, in it's beautifully free form and price, as to the value it provided or did not provide. They just felt like things were being slapped on, like trying to build the tracks in front of a moving train. Almost every MMO I've dedicated a lot of time to has done the same thing, to it's grave or inevitable retirement.
But Apocrypha actually feels like an attempt to make the game better. The UI finally has started developing a personality of it's own, but still needs mobility in bottom-middle. I swear I saw that either on test or in a dream. Missions, my first love and steady affair in eve, still need work but the interface is a step in the right direction. Take away the standings hit when a mission expires, or better allow choosing them, and we're light years ahead in the right direction. But still, at least it's forward.
Paragraph break to avoid WoT invasion. Sound-balancing and option to turn off turret effects. Genius. Neighbors everywhere thank you. Warp effect, finally.. I feel like travel is actually more fun than it was before. It kind of feels like light is bending around me at higher warp speeds with a longer drive-up and down. That seems more realistic to me. And the POS graphic updates. The day will come when they are dull again, but you've moved that marker waaaaaaayy out into the future.
Skill queue, rock. Still no container like a station container for organizing large amounts of goods, including people and things that don't like containers without the need to reconfigure every time anything happens with the UI, not-so-rock. And I have yet to experience much else with the expansion, but that's my immediate mostly-praise.
Thanks for giving me something to come back for.
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