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Post by SopwithCamel215 on Oct 10, 2015 17:22:29 GMT 1
As a returning player from a year or two ago, it seems as though Kogama has devolved. All the top maps are ugly parkour games that hash and rehash the same parkour archetypes. If there's any PVP it's an aside portion of the map consisting of a flat plain with weapons scattered throughout. Someone spent two minutes on that. Every map is a combination of 20 poorly made sections connected by a hub, and not one great unified map. By the way, just because you scattered a bunch of hovercrafts/jetpacks/oculus bots/portals/expensive weaponry around doesn't mean that it is fun. The leveling system has also caused a good amount of mayhem. The problem stems from restricting basic rights of the player until they reach a certain level. That's dumb. I couldn't publish a map until I grinded enough to get to level 3. Because of the XP regulations, people are heavily discouraged from playing games below 10 players. It's hard enough to get a map started without that kind of discrimination. The marketplace has become flooded with gold. That's dumb. Why would they make models cost a mandatory 10 gold? And avatars 275?! I know why. The devs need money. I get that. That's not really something that's gonna change. But I think the quest for money is overpowering right now. Here are some things you could change to make it less overpowering: - Have models, avatars, and textures available for an amount of silver OR gold.
- Change the leveling system to get rid of the player limit thing AND the XP every so minutes thing. You would get XP by killing players on opposing teams (this would cover PVP), or a lot from getting to flag (this would cover parkour & racing, though you would need to put a good bit of parameters on it like distance from start, time it took to get there... etc.)
- generally move the gold related purchases to stuff like hats and other non-essentials. I have to pay 5 bucks to get the color black.
- Maybe just get rid of leveling entirely...?
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Post by YL on Oct 10, 2015 20:24:56 GMT 1
Would the quest of money still be overpowering if I told you that Kogama is losing money every month because their server costs are huge? They are experimenting different solutions and see what ones get them most profit, it's not a matter of getting more or less profit, it's a matter of making profit or losing money. You also say that the xp per minute feature should be removed, why? This is the feature that new players use to earn xp, if a player is new he/she has less chances to win races or parkour maps which would lead him/her to stay on Level 1 forever. You also complain about the quality of maps in Kogama, why? The players are the ones who create the maps and make them popular, if a majority of people don't like the map it doesn't get popular, that's not something that the admins can change
Also, you aren't going to mention that the amount of xp people earn has been changed to favor new players instead of people who have played for a long time? The xp per 1 minute of playing has been changed from 1 xp to 5 xp, now it's 5 times easier to level up just by playing
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Post by ᅚᅚ ᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚ ᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚ on Oct 10, 2015 21:38:02 GMT 1
Basically, kogama just needs one, HUGE update, that will change these systems entirely.
How will they do it? I'm not sure, but I know darn well that it's what we need.
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Post by SopwithCamel215 on Oct 11, 2015 20:13:12 GMT 1
Yeah... money. Money is such a bother. I think a lot of my irritation comes from how suicidally nonprofit they were a while ago. I don't think it's realistic to do everything on my list, but maybe just a couple of things. Kogama has a really good community, so maybe opening up some sort of donations thing would be a good idea?
Ehhh... I suppose it is theoretically possible that a newcomer will never kill an enemy on the other team, but odds are they will eventually accomplish it. The reason I would remove the XP per minute thing is because then you could get rid of the 10+ players or no XP thing (more on why that's so terrible in the last paragraph). I do see it being a problem though. But what about my final suggestion? Why not remove the leveling system? Now that I think about it, maybe removing it isn't the best idea, because there is some good stuff about it. Like only letting people leave likes on maps after they hit a certain level. I would change the leveling system into just a number of hours somebody has in the game. People could technically cheese it and AFK for a long time, but it would be pretty trivial; they say building up big walls only increases your chances of being robbed, and the best defense is to have nothing to steal. The number of hours you have in the game would correlate only to how much weight your comments and likes have.
I don't think it's quite as democratic as you say it is. The maps at the top tend to be pretty good, but they are kept at the top because nobody wants to play a map that doesn't already have 10+ people playing it. That's the biggest problem I see in Kogama. The system keeps the popular maps popular, and the unpopular maps are ignored. That is not conducive to a good creative environment.
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Post by De Lírios on Oct 11, 2015 22:34:11 GMT 1
Hey, nice to see you again. Yeah, the XP kinda messed up with the game purpose, and the Friends server is empty due to it being a tester server. You should try to play in the international server though.
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Post by ᅚᅚ ᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚ ᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚ on Oct 12, 2015 0:32:49 GMT 1
Hey, nice to see you again. Yeah, the XP kinda messed up with the game purpose, and the Friends server is empty due to it being a tester server. You should try to play in the international server though. But even that server is terrible. Have you seen the games? It's become roblox 2.0. Nobody can make up their own idea. Not just copying avatars or models, but copying the same game ideas, over and over and over. |
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Post by De Lírios on Oct 12, 2015 15:07:27 GMT 1
That's due to XP meaning more than building good content. Remember when XP didn't exist? The bad games weren't that common.
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Post by swarm on Oct 12, 2015 20:42:44 GMT 1
I remember you, yah I agree but I still try my best to get inspired, however it is hard because of the repetitive level desings and poor choices, I will certainly not get inspired by something I have already seen.
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