In the end, the only thing not too boring in this game is pirating and pvp combat in an area called Sedina 8. And I have witnessed pirates killing in pirate space, as well as Nation space. You don't have a prayer, no matter what they say.
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Oh, the pirate ship and their weapons are WAY better then yours, plus their fighting techniques are better. If you run from the pirate and get blown up (most do), then you have to do all that boring stuff, again. There is nothing worse then doing all this freaking boring mining, then boring travel, as your missions, just to have some pirate, with attitude, find you, demand payment … or blow you up. There are actually a bit of fun, at first, but then they soon get boring. To gain better weapons and ships, and gain experience, you have to kill a lot of small bots. Travel is so bad, that you might go to sleep if you have to take a convoy 1/2 way around the universe, taking over 20 minutes. Sure, you can find a plug-in to hold the tab key down (i, nfinite turbo) but it is very tricky to use. To go from one side of your nation, to the other, takes over 12 minutes of holding down the tab key, as you go from one jump to another, and seeing very few other ships. Then, it is boring, boring, boring, as you move from rock to rock, waiting for the cargo bay to fill up. Mining for minerals is big in the beginning of the game, to gain money and levels. And, I can tell by the number of newbies that log on and then leave, never to be seen again, that the tutorials are terrible. All you care about, in the training tutorials, is the last paragraph of the that mission. Nobody cares much about all the politics. Tutorials are training missions And let me tell you, they wrote a book of junk you have to read to take the training mission. To get started in the game, a person needs to take the tutorials. That’s what really attracted me to the game, was the flight dynamics and the ability to get “good” at it without having to slog through endless missions in a futile attempt to accumulate exp.Īll in all, I think the game is definitely worth a look, though whether it’s worth it to pay for the subscription is up to each individual user. While they are needed to purchase certain weapons, ships, and to take part in some missions, for the most part a good pilot with a weak ship can easily outfight a weak pilot with a strong ship. It is also one of the few games that does not rely on experience points to get you anywhere. Getting money in-game is ridiculously easy, so it’s really no trouble at all to re-ship and re-arm after being destroyed a few times. It’s generally pretty easy to avoid them, though, and either way, the game doesn’t penalize you for getting blown up as much as other games do. If there are ten users active, you can bet that at least seven of them are pirates. Speaking of blowing each other up, by far the biggest pastime in the game is piracy. And a lot of the people that are on, aren’t interested in the role-playing aspect of the game, and are just there to blow each other up. I can go for hours without seeing more than one or two people. But there currently aren’t too many users, and the vastness of the universe means that the few people that are around are generally spread pretty thinly. It’s good because you get a lot of variation in what you can do, a lot of places that you can go.
The in-game universe is pretty vast, which is both a good thing and a bad thing. It has a good role playing factor to it, and mixes both computer-controlled NPC characters with actual, real-life, people.
Vendetta feels a lot like what Space Rogue or Elite would feel like, networked. I remember thinking, at the time, how awesome it would be if the game were somehow networked, so that the people that I was interacting with, or trying to blow up, were real, actual people, rather than computer-controlled drones. They were excellent games - particularly Space Rogue - and mixed the best parts of role playing along with space-based combat or spaceflight simulation to make for some really excellent gameplay. Back in the old days, I used to play games like Elite, Sentinel Worlds, and Space Rogue.
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