Well, indeed I haven't been there since a long time ago.
Blockinlick first thank you for the time you spent playing. I'll try to answer to every point.
Is English your first language?
You got me, I'm french.
-The game at first seems to have nothing to do, because
1. The map is so wide open
2. Quest givers only start giving quests when you hit a certain level and there's no way of knowing what levels they are.
3. There are only three quest givers
-One quest giver gives three quests and the others give one. After that, I cannot find anything else in the game to do except farm Raditz and Piccolo for XP to level up.
-Can't see a Ki-bar. Only way to view how much Ki you have is to open the character screen
-Can't figure out how to use consumable items.
-Your guide says you can use Zenies to buy things, but I can't figure out how
-Server synchronization is really buggy
-Clicking on things in general is really buggy, partly due to the buggy sync. The "Get 4 Thyme" quest was irritating because of this, because you have to just mash left click until it finally picks it up.
For the bugs or the game in general, don't mind. I closed it because as you said, it misses a lot a of thing and working on a 2D game takes too much time for nothing, so THIS project is abandoned, however I'm working on another thing. I'll tell you more at the end.
-Lastly, XP progression seems either completely linear or too linear. What I mean is, I feel like I'm gaining the same or roughly the same percentage of XP towards the next level at level 37 as I was getting at say, level 5. This will be problematic once you start adding more difficult enemies, because people would rather farm Raditz in 1 hit for the 30% bar of XP than any other more difficult enemy you add, unless you give an absurd amount of XP. Next thing you know, people are farming THAT boss in 1 hit, because they're leveling up so fast. It's bad for pacing. Each level needs to take at least 25% more XP than the previous one to sustain a good pace.
The XP isn't completely linear, as after awhile, Raditz was giving me about 20% of my XP bar instead of 30%. That's still WAY too linear in my opinion, though. Unless you plan of characters getting multiple levels from each kill later on, that needs adjusted.
It's not linear. It's a second-degree polynomial equation. I wanted to try another pace. The maximum level was supposed to be 1000. It used to be common on IWC and Frog Creator games (I don't know if you know these game engines). I thought it would be even more annoying if the level-up speed was like WoW, which have a very slow pace.
I played it as long as I did, because I saw that the Top 3 power levels were 2800, 1100, and 860. I decided to shoot for that 3rd spot and I got it (I am Tsukine... get it, Zucchini?). Then I stopped playing.
Since the 3rd highest power level in the game was obtainable within a couple of hours and this game has been running for at least a week, I'm assuming that's all there is.
Haha, I repeat : thank you for playing that much
. I have to admit that it was the point. Ranking systems are supposed to stimulate players. My personal account was not in the rank, I think the first one is my second account, but I can't answer for the other 2.
I realized early on that, of the stat points, Energy netted the most Power Level gain, so by the time I hit 2600, I had Energy strong enough to 3-hit Raditz.
At this discovery, I started using the energy attack. Then I started running out of Ki and realized that I haven't put a single point into Ki or HP.
So I wondered how much Power Level putting a point in Ki would net... it was over 120 for the first point and about 60 by the time I stopped.
So then I dumped all my points into Ki from that point and beat the top Power Level of 2836 by a whole 1,000 with 3876
Power level calculation is based on a fighting style logic. If you want to be a physical attack dps then you will have to maximise your force and your speed. If you want to be a "magical" attack dps you will have to max your energy and ki, and if you want to be a tank, you will have to max you hp and defense. Try to max all your stats and you will be weak in pvp, so will be your power level. But if you focus on one fighting style, you will be strong and so will be your power level. Mathematically, power level will be the sum of the geometric mean of force and speed, the geometric mean of energy and ki and the geometric mean of hp and defense. Maybe someday I'll do a full presentation of this.
Still can't figure out how to use consumables or if there's anything to spend Zenies on yet. I have over 100 Dodo Steaks and I don't even know what they do. I have over 6,000 Zenies and seemingly nothing to spend it on.
Unfortunately, the game isn't developed enough for this.
It even has microtransactions, which is totally illegal and will get them shut down. Lol
They can even get a cease & desist for using intellectual properties.
I don't get why this is illegal, except for the intellectual property. Look at the mass of dragon ball fangames (some are profitable), I don't think they all have the rights. But I know it's not a proper answer.
They want 15-30 dollars for the most absurdly broken items... that is, if it wasn't already easily possible to achieve peak character performance.
One of these items, and mind you- you can wear 3, adds 2500 HP and 500 Force.
To put this in perspective, my character that 3-hits Raditz, the strongest enemy in the game right now, and can't even take damage from Raditz, has 103 Force, 80 Defense, and 100 HP.
Wtf am I gonna do with 500 more Force and 2500 more HP??
It's called "incentives". Beginers aren't supposed to buy items like this. It's, as you say, too powerful. Selling it 1 USD would be pretty strange at this stage of development. In the future, if the game would have been mature enough, I would have reduce the prices.
As I said, I'm working on another thing, more interesting I think. Take a look at there :
https://dragonballforums.com/threads/wip-aftermath-amateur-3d-mmorpg-inpired-by-dbz-universe.1060/
I note what you've said. I'll try to not repeat my errors. I hope you will keep this passion you have
Have a nice day ! (I'll try to come more often on the forum, I didn't know you were so active).
...from an old kid who wants to make his dream come true.
