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[geldonyetich]

I don't know about your game, but it certainly ruins mine. Not by inflicting heavy losses, mind you, or by destroying vital infrastructure. It ruins my game by forcing me into this exceedingly annoying chain of events. Then it's wave after wave, and I can't go and do something else for more than 30 min, because that's when the next wave hits.

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What else would you call it, when a game mechanic kills the entire joy and makes you not play the game? What else is it, than ruining my game? It might not be as bad for you as it is for me, and that's fine. But for me it is bad, and is in no way, shape, or form an exaggeration. I mean every word of what I said.

I would call it a mental attachment. Commonplace delusion. Which isn't an insult towards you: to delude ourselves into our attachments is to be human.

Truth is, your game is already ruined, you just don't know it yet. Let's say you have your stability. You grow your empire fully out, unopposed by something like the Existential Crisis. How many hundreds of hours did it take you to get here? How many more hours will it take for you to realize it's all for nothing? Your ships going through the same motions, day after day, making largely inconsequential numbers going up. Your magnificent safely nothing more than the bars of your mental cage trapping you in the same room as monotony?

What a difference a change of perspective makes.

It's this endgame monotony that the existential crisis ought to target, in my opinion. And leaving you alone in your cage is probably the worst thing they can do.

[geldonyetich]

I'm sorry. It's just tricky to provide the feedback requested about the existential crisis feature when we don't have much context about what it is intended to accomplish.

• General Feedback on the crisis system as a whole

What is it supposed to be as a whole? We can tell you what we see in the game, but without much context we can only speculate how to interpret it.

• Feedback with regards to when the crisis starts (player readiness for example)

Well, we haven't been told what it's fi, so we're going to end up debating whether or not we're ready for it without much sense of what Egosoft is going for here.

• Feedback on the strength of the Crisis or individual ships

What's the intended goal? Are they there to provide a meaningful fight? To be something we can defeat easily? To knock us back to the start of the game and painfully rebuild?

• Feedback on how relevant the location is for the player, where the crisis appeared

Relevant in what way? When they appear out of nowhere and go for our weakest holdings, what is the point? What were you going for here?

This might look like bickering, but we're trying to figure this out. If the developers aren't setting these definitions, are they asking us to? Well, if so, debate is inevitable.

[CBJ]

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