Hi Commanders,
After several reviews over the last year of player numbers/ interest in the dMw community, I feel that the time has come to place the game on the "no longer float our boat shelf".
The combination of lack of engaging wing play, steep learning curve for new and repeat adopters and story that is largely community driven just is not attracting attention from our members.
As of the end of March the admin team will disband and the forum will go into the area for old and unsupported games.
I'd like to thank Arithon and Sneakytiger for their help in supporting the community, especially when introducing new players in the early days which took time, patience and somtimes self control. You guys have done a great job.
For anyone still interested, there is a group within Mobius that Arithon and Ranualf play in that I recommend for casual play. Also the Winters powerplay groups we support are always welcoming, perfect for open play and pvp lovers. I will continue to support them and also try and help the in-game dMw Alliance faction maintain order in ZTA.
If you would like a blast at wing missions tap me up.
Thanks all for the fun and support over the last 4 years!
Cheers,
Albert
Thanks Albert
You've done a cracking job leading this game and have successfully pulled it back from the brink several times but long-term it's not a runner. Thanks SO much for all the hard work and effort you've put into this game. :thumbsup2:
I can only echo what Pen has said above. Thanks, Bert :thumb:
Thanks for all your hard work and mate you have done it proud. I did have fun when I managed to get on and thanks for all the help and support with teaching me how to play it.
What this rabble have said. Good work mate. Decision makes sense. That said, I'll hopefully hop on for some runs with you when I'm back! :D
Indeed, thanks for the effort Albert (and Arithon & Sneaky), all good things come to an end (or the 'no longer float our boat' forum section).
Thanks Albert and Arithon, I had the most fun while it lasted because of you guys.
Like you say, the game is an enemy to itself when it comes to teamplay content and most community missions were just grinding. The game is still an excellent, engaging game and is by no means "dead", but didn't quite hit the mark with enough players on the co-op to remain "supported".
Albert is ever enthusiastic about whats coming up and drumming up interest with the material they gave.
Arithon was a great official ambassador for us and the game, he got dMw added as a faction.
And Sneaky helped newbies out as well as making us all cringe with his ill advised engagement in a high level combat zone, with his shiny new Anaconda armed with a pointy stick and no insurance money, it was memorable.
Still has a chance of resurrection if it gets those co-op elements sorted.
Invite open to all to try the new co-op missions mate.
And your retrospective is pretty much a true account.
I also recall Sulky taking a ship he should not havd into a hi-res.
Overall it was a 1000 hour+ kickstarter. Can't complain.
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For the time I played here, it was good fun and well led, so thanks!
Quote from: Liberator;430108Arithon was a great official ambassador for us and the game, he got dMw added as a faction.
Yes, thanks for bringing this up. Arithon does deserve a special nod and thanks for this. It did make it really special having our own faction within the game.
Loads of great memories from this with you dudes, looking forward to the next great space adventure with you all!
Extremely disappointed to see this decision.
Federal Liberal COmmand is still a vibrant discord community.. for those who wish to still participate - either as FLC members or as DmW survivors.
In what way does this affect the game or what does not 'support' mean in this case? Because dMw doesn't have to (or even can) keep a server for this, isn't the required effort rather small compared to many other. I hope it doesn't mean nobody plays this anymore.
I still play and I have done all my mission to dMw in ZTA as before.
I believe that means they arent organizing anything formally to keep ED as a viable faction in-game
Extremely disappointing. As I keep saying.. if the community here would show up to FLC's Discord server.. you might re-kindle your love for the game.
Quote from: Aquilifer;430687In what way does this affect the game or what does not 'support' mean in this case? Because dMw doesn't have to (or even can) keep a server for this, isn't the required effort rather small compared to many other. I hope it doesn't mean nobody plays this anymore.
I still play and I have done all my mission to dMw in ZTA as before.
Glad to hear it.. Are you at DmW's discord server? I've been in there keeping what remains of DmW's ED community up to date.
What makes a game 'supported' differs dependant on the specific game in question and it's own game mechanics etc. A MMO like World of Warcraft would be run very differently to something like CS:GO. But basically a Supported game has a Game Leader and possibly some Game Admins, a server if required, maybe a Discord Channel and/or dedicated forum. Basically the dMw community puts in some effort, resource and occasionally money if required (to rent a server for example). The Game Leader/Admins might organise specific activities and events within the game, plan raids, manages player roles, create or provide maps or missions and generally and actively promote the game within the community. Basically someone puts in work and effort to provide an enjoyable gaming experience depending on the specific game and it specific requirements.
A non supported game is one where members of the community play the game in question, but nothing 'official' is organised by the dMw and we provide no specific resources, money or server space for the game. Some games we play quite a bit but don't officially support.... or that just don't need official support, include World of Tanks, World of Warships, TF2, Minecraft and L4D2. Over the years we've supported many games that have grown to be very popular but eventually have declined in numbers as new games take their place. There are actually only a handful of games - CS:GO, Arma 3, Racing and WOW that have lasted over the long term.
ED is a game that basically doesn't have a large enough player base within the dMw to warrant being officially supported. But there are certainly dMw'ers who do play it just like there are still people playing GTAV, GW2, TF2 etc.
I've archived the Gold, Red and Green Elite Badges, as Elite is no longer a supported game. I'm happy to leave the forum here, but if there's no activity here I'll move the forum out to the Games of Old Section
Leaving it here might get some people to show interest, especially new members.
Moving it to the archive would zero the visibility of the game. Perhaps we should have a Space Sim section which would contain subsections of Elite and SC?
That's a good idea. As I said I'll happily leave the Elite forum here as it does as you say, advertise it's existence. Much like how the Star Citizen forum is a placeholder for when that game finally launches rather than being active with posts.
My only concern is having a message board with lots of dead forums showing zero activity. It's not a good advert for anyone coming to the dMw website for the first time. One or two forums for nostalgiaor for games that we're on hiatus from (WOW) is fine, but not too many.
Quote from: smilodon;431567My only concern is having a message board with lots of dead forums showing zero activity. It's not a good advert for anyone coming to the dMw website for the first time. One or two forums for nostalgiaor for games that we're on hiatus from (WOW) is fine, but not too many.
Sort of off topic, when I came back after my 5 years away I noticed how quite a few sections of the forum had not been posted in for a
long period of time which was a bit disheartening.
The bricks and mortar section at the top of the message board is by design not regularly updated as it mainly information. Console games is the only forum with a last post date of 2017 and pah that's console games, who cares :D
'Web Development' is a bit of an oddity and maybe I should retire it. Everything else is April or May 2018 which is good.
Quote from: smilodon;431576'Web Development' is a bit of an oddity and maybe I should retire it. Everything else is April or May 2018 which is good.
*coughs* not many people see that one, it can be retired.