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Toxic
Vice Admiral
Joined: October 16, 2003
Posts: 18
From: Central Florida
|  Posted: 2005-08-18 09:35
Ive played this game on and off for the past 3 years. The level of fun has signifintly droped after we started to steer twards the metaverse. I always enjoyed the rotating map server. Im asking if it is possible to re-open the routating server again. ( The Newbie server with unlimmited rank.)
Thank you,
Toxic
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BackSlash
Marshal
Galactic Navy
Joined: March 23, 2003
Posts: 11183
From: Bristol, England
| Posted: 2005-08-18 09:40
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On 2005-08-18 09:35, Toxic wrote:
Ive played this game on and off for the past 3 years. The level of fun has signifintly droped after we started to steer twards the metaverse. I always enjoyed the rotating map server. Im asking if it is possible to re-open the routating server again. ( The Newbie server with unlimmited rank.)
Thank you,
Toxic
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Nope.
Been asked before,
Survey says! (Tael)! : "No"
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A few days ago several people started posting in a thread wanting the FA/GA server back. (Ironicly within 2 days of it being restarted, the thread was deleted by the original poster...)
People apparently forgot that the FA server died once the Shipyards came out. Noone wanted to play on it anymore, so it was retired.
Contrary to the staffs attempts to remind everyone how it was them that abandoned the FA/GA server, the posters to the thread waxed lyrically that returning the server would be a monumentous event and herald in a renaissance era for Darkspace...
Thursday night the server went back up, Friday it had a handful of players, Saturday rarely more than a couple, Sunday it sat completely ignored... All the while the MV had 50 or more people on at a time...
Thus in the end we find FA/GA abandond by the players ago and the stark reality the staff was right regardless of persistant counter arguements by many posters to the initial thread was apparently embarressment enough for the initial poster to delete his thread.
We'll be taking the FA/GA server down again shortly. This is the third time we've gone through this drill, hopefull we wont have to expend the resources to set it all back up again later in order to prove the era of the FA/GA scenario are long since past...
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EVERY 6 months this comes up, and every preceeding time we tried it and within 3 days Admiral is either empty or down to a small handful of players that do not justify the server resources which are better utilized augmenting the Metaverse.
The players themselves by their own actions have killed Admiral. So no its not coming back. Look at the older posts and you will find the same thing over and over again.
Thread Locked as its been addressed redundantly enough.
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[ This Message was edited by: BackSlash (Give F Clothes/Box) on 2005-08-18 09:55 ]
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Tiffy Rando
Grand Admiral
Joined: January 19, 2003
Posts: 354
From: Austin, Texas
| Posted: 2005-08-18 09:41
Problem is that well with SY's and the enourmous res costs to build ships... these servers just don't work properly...
Typically you spend the entire time in scouts and frigates.
Or if you do get an SY up then someone caps the last flag planet, and then poof map resets
Or it resets anyway cause it takes like 3 hours to get an SY up anyway in these things.
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GothThug {C?}
Fleet Admiral
Joined: June 29, 2005
Posts: 2932
| Posted: 2005-08-18 09:42
the newb server was locked down after several Grand Admirals were N00b Farming for kills, hense why it was locked at LT commander  they are NEVER bringing back Fleet or Grand Admiral Server so quit askin them
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BackSlash
Marshal
Galactic Navy
Joined: March 23, 2003
Posts: 11183
From: Bristol, England
| Posted: 2005-08-18 09:42
Dont forget, DarkSpace was always designed to be playedi n the MV.
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Nim *
Chief Marshal
Courageous Elite Commandos
Joined: September 05, 2004
Posts: 295
| Posted: 2005-08-18 09:56
Click on the link below:
http://www.darkspace.net/index.htm?module=forums.php&page=/viewtopic.php?topic=33850&forum=1&22
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Captain Sternn
Grand Admiral
Joined: March 18, 2004
Posts: 225
| Posted: 2005-08-18 12:24
Yeah DS is better with MV play however there are alot of players that like to play scenarios...maybe if the maps could be set up with shipyards and resources in the safe zone you wouldn't have to spend half the time or more building a shipyard and gathering resources only to have the map reset.Perhaps after DS is doing better that could be an option , but for right now i'd say efforts need to be concentrated on the MV.
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Southpark
Admiral
Joined: February 25, 2004
Posts: 132
From: Texas
| Posted: 2005-08-18 12:27
the problem i have now is, i can't play in the mv(its down), i can't play in newbie, because i can't gain pres, i can only lose pres
and i can't play anywhere else because.. there's no other option.. whee go darkspace!
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Arcanum {C?}
Cadet
Joined: June 25, 2005
Posts: 222
| Posted: 2005-08-18 13:08
You do not lose prestige in Newbie if you cannot gain prestige.
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Coeus {NCX-Charger}
Admiral, I can't read,
Sundered Weimeriners
Joined: February 16, 2004
Posts: 3635
From: South Philly
| Posted: 2005-08-18 16:10
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Ok, everyone who was in the "Whens the next Admiral thread gonna pop up?" pool owes me 5 bucks... pay up suckers!
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Feralwulf
Grand Admiral
Joined: January 24, 2004
Posts: 1729
From: sitting somewhere drinking beer
| Posted: 2005-08-18 16:28
I had 2005-08-18 09:35 Coeus. 
YOU had 2005-08-18 09:36 YOU pay up.
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Coeus {NCX-Charger}
Admiral, I can't read,
Sundered Weimeriners
Joined: February 16, 2004
Posts: 3635
From: South Philly
| Posted: 2005-08-18 17:09
Whaat? I had late august!
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Fatal Rocko Willis
Fleet Admiral
Fatal Squadron
Joined: March 01, 2003
Posts: 1336
From: Kentucky
| Posted: 2005-08-18 17:20
Now if there is a problem with the Newbie Server it is this...
#1 - I am not sure about you but I can get a SY up and running in less than 3 hours. Now the only thing you have to worry about is materials. That may take a bit to get running at first.
#2 - If not mistaken the Nebie Server only runs 3 hours... why not bump it up to 4 hours? An extra hour would help releive the whole idea about not enough time to do this and that...
#3 - Rank is set to Lt. Commander, correct? Would it be a hard thing to bring it up to Captian? This would allow a Newbie to attain the rank of Captain. This would also allow them to experience all the support craft (Transport, Engy, and Supply ships). This would help them in the MV overall..
#4 - you may not be able to gain regular prestige, but you can still gain Bonus Pres...
Rocko
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BackSlash
Marshal
Galactic Navy
Joined: March 23, 2003
Posts: 11183
From: Bristol, England
| Posted: 2005-08-18 17:25
@3, yes it would hurt it. since you can get cruiser at Captain.
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Fatal Rocko Willis
Fleet Admiral
Fatal Squadron
Joined: March 01, 2003
Posts: 1336
From: Kentucky
| Posted: 2005-08-18 18:52
Well accourding to the DS Manual, no Cruiser is available till 2nd Rear Admiral... I think it has been updated since the new ships are there and it gives the specifics of what ranks they need to be at to use them.
I am just qouting what I see in the Manual. If the Manual is wrong then I hope someone fixes it.
Rocko
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