yep... the posts above pretty much hit it on the mark.

Damn, I miss this game yo.. Shit used to be soo good till they fucked it up man.

Originally posted by WraithHunter

So basically Cathmor was interested enough in the game that he played quite actively AND joined the forums (are you guys active on the forums of games you wouldn't recomend?), and when he was kicked out (probably because he's such a nice troll) he comes to mmorpg.com to cry.

Your post Cathmor actually made me curious in the game.

I read this post.. and my only legit response was "Go play it."   Which kind of made me crack up.  I feel like there should be a better way to tell someone not to play it.  lol 50% to 80% guaranteed chance your opinion of the game would have been much worse than Cathmors opinion if you had played it.  It was a niche game from the very beginning.. and the only thing that ever made it fun was the freedom and the community.

I haven't even played it in,seems like, a year.. even before all of the updates these guys are complaining about.  But the community got so fucking annoying and unbalanced with it's internet meme to intelligent conversation ratio that it was completely unbearable to continue.  Cause, you know, the game is basically just a cardboard box with guns in it.. and nothing else.

Originally posted by Python9066

Originally posted by Agricola1

Originally posted by Renoaku

Honestly LED, and FDC have the best Leadership, the others have really no Leadership.

 I played FDC and saw the faction leader online twice in 2 months, my clnnies who were online in his timezone and played when I didn't saw him ingame maybe once. They spent all their time playing world of tanks or space station 13 and logged on to dish out punishments probably to make themselves feel better after being pwned in the other games they were playing.

I tried to initiate a no confidence vote on the forums and got capital demoted by him (lose all rank/level and lose all xp you ever made) then got fined (lost most money I'd made and increased penalty points) then I got prived (can't work off penalty points = perma death), couldn't change faction despite being subbed because if you still have gear on the yukon you're perma FDC.

I complained to the GMs but most of them are faction leaders and friends with the other faction leaders so they told me to STFU. I complained to Duplex and he blew me off and gave me a false address and telephone number. I complained to Nexeon, they wanted to help but just don't know what to do about it.

Ultimately it meant I'd wasted about $50 on that game when I could have got the same shitty experience for free. People said to join another faction but to be honest after being treated like utter shit by GMs, DEVs and the publisher I'd rather burn the money than give it to them. In fact I'd give the cash to smedley rather than let those scum have a single dime from me!

FoM logo should be "FoM where you're forced to eat a shit sandwich and smile!"

 

1)  The people that were playing World of Tanks and Space Station 13 were not FDC leadership

2)  You and your friends didnt just try and start a no confidence vote, you tried to start a rebellion within the ranks of FDC.  You were told many many many time, just contact a GM and if they think you have a case they will start it.  Once its started people cant get punished or saying if they think its right.

3)  You dont need privs to work off your penalty points..

4) All you had to do was contact a GM and they would have given you privs back to move your stuff off the Yukon.  Or could have asked a HC member if they could restore privs for you to remove your items

5)  Most of the faction leaders are not GMs, and most faction leaders cant stand one another

6) Well thats Duplex for you.

7) Nexeon have GM powers and could have done something for you, odds are they couldnt be assed.

8)  If a game has a free option/trail its your own fault for not using that first to find out if you like a game or not before paying for it.

9)  The GMs/Dev/Publisers are only good at treating us like shite.

 

 

Yes FoM is shite, I had been playing from pre-MS1 (2005).

In this "new FoM" I had worked my way back up to rank7 (top rank) of the FDC and was running the faction just fine with the other rank7 and the rest of the HC (rank 5-6), when one day a member of staff from Nexeon (publisher) came in to our faction chat and tried to start problem between the lower ranks and HC.  When that didnt work he went on to inform everyone in faction chat that, no matter what they were going to make it so the FDC HC had a higher turn over so that the lower rank would think they had a better chance of getting in to the HC and would sub to the game cus of it (you need to p2p to get rank5+).

Within 4 weeks ever faction leader in the game got together and started an player rankRP event to remove an inactive senate and replace it with a new one.  Everything was going to fine till GM informed people that if they carried on with the actions they would end up losing rank or banned, so many dropped out.  They then turned round and tried to pin all this on the FDC HC and set about removed ever member of the FDC HC and 90% of the rank4 (demoted them to rank and banned them from being promoted).  The CM informed us that they saw the senate as a selling point and would not allow it to removed no matter how bad it was going and not matter how many people wanted it gone.  Later on we found out that the CM had talked to one of the FDC rank7 and told him "We just want people that were HC back in old open beta gone and if you blame it all on them you will be fine" we also found out that the CM was a player back from OOB and had history with old HC.  Anyone that tried to tell the players about this got put in a fourm group that removed posting rights, but as it was not a ban they didnt have to give reseons for it or give a date whent hey would be removed.

Good read and yes, i'd concur with Cathmoor / Schlumpf about what they have written about the game so far, game is shit, it is dying , and nexeon is still banning people without any reason, like me, i just got permanently banned a couple of days ago, for no reason at all, ingame and on forums, havent recieved any reason, so i filed a complaint with the BBB and i opened up contact to a lawyer to file a lawsuit to have them ruined, before i could ever get this far though.

Nexeon responded to the BBB complaint and are now giving me all my money back that i ever paid for premium + packages, this is for 2 accounts for around a year , both were premium.

Only thing i can think of is they might have been watching faction / private chats between people about what you are talking about, and oh despite whatever they say about rules, several of the GM's are lurking around on the different factions TS3 or Ventrilo, and despite the fact that your not supposed to be able to banned on something that happened on a third party program, like talking bout how shit FoM is, they perma ban you, just like that.

And my forum perma ban message was something like "mom allways told me to troll the trolls, u mad?" .....

Only shows me that other people shouldnt have any faith in Nexeon or Duplex.

I've got to say, when I first played this game (during the end of 2009), I had an absolute blast with it. Yes, it was free to play, but I would have certainly paid money for it if they enhanced the graphics a bit and didn't add a bunch of cash shop items. The hyper competitive market system, extreme risk/reward factor that came along with piracy, and crazy mass PvP fights were unlike any other game I've played before. I can still remember rounding two or three other players, having us all run into a horde of miners from another faction, throwing a bunch of souped up grenades and trying to get back to the warp terminal without being gunned down in the process.

As it was I had to quit due to the game massively interfering with my academics. It's a shame that the game has taken a downturn though.

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Back when it was beta... things where so kick ass. Slowly and steadily, the game plumeted. Seriously couldnt take it... someone mentioned that currently the game is like a virtual chatroom? (or something like that)... honestly, its been like that for years... lol.

Left the game when it went purely P2P, tried paying for it once... regreted it. When it turned F2P, tried it a few times and omg... it was horrible.

Don't get me wrong guys, I really love the game, its concepts and all. Ive always felt that the game could be done so well that it would be The next big online game to emerge. Sadly, it will never happened. The moment i heard the news that the game was going P2P, i knew it wouldnt last long.

When it turned F2P, i thought theyd finally done something right... but they screwed the gameplay.

Look at those mmo's out there with micro-payments? They are doing well don't you think? Ah well...

Tried to get in touch with FoM again... and came to this thread to see that it has really gotten worse. Good riddance, tbh...

To those who think of trying this game... don't bother.

- in all honesty