Spikes

I think the toughest part of all the exams in general is all the squirming around that the AI ships do. Make one wrong move and you're stuck in an endless ring around the rosie with the ship. New players will have a very tough time learning the ins and outs of the AI mechanics. Granted, I don't think the exams and the final are really meant to be done in rapid succession, especially not the final.

No more wipes until the next wipe amirite?

More than likely whatever day/time is most convenient for the Russian time zone.

At least the Apple Stand is well made!

Will the wipe be done on a weekend, or will the devs mess that one up again?

YUP.

We had to see it through to make sure it worked. Can't make assumptions when testing. Take it back.

Nah, it isn't cheating. Cheating would be utilizing measures unavailable to anyone else in the game. Anyone with an alt can utilize the exploit. I do think something should be done about it, but not cheating. I like the idea of frontlines, but it's going to severely limit RVR. It would be interesting to still be able to attack county capitals behind the lines, but at a much bigger difficulty. For example, each "layer" you go back, the required hostility points to set the PB doubles. So if you're attacking a county capital 3 counties away from your closest port, you'd effectively have to grind 60K BR worth of hostility missions. Instead, you'll just see PBs for the same ports over and over with no variety.

How about another map wipe but on the weekend so everyone can participate?

Thanks for defending us, tough to defend ourselves when Admin banned 90% of VCO.

I agree. They can release redeemables for the rank XP increments.

Hell even make the max rank a year wait for the hibernating crowd...cya in a year!

I guess so. I haven't invested the hours other people have so I feel more for them. But I don't want to be forced to PvP because Combat Orders are gone, or I could spend hours chasing around Open World ships or one of 250 people that are online. I get that Combat Orders made it super easy to get XP, but for the more casual player that was nice to be able to hop on for 30-40 minutes and grind, not stare at the ocean in an empty server for that long. But hindsight is 20/20...if you upset your supportive player base and they all quit, you don't have to support the game anymore. Win win perhaps?

Not all MMO games do this. And the ones that do I'm sure didn't guarantee to allow testers to keep multiple aspects of their progress and later down the road renig on that guarantee.

Well...reviews are supposed to be truthful. I'm not going to lie.