actually sc's staff have seen reason. There's a sort of official soundpack you can now talk about, this being you can ask on the newbie channel for a link and won't get yelled at. The link for it is randomcorner.me , and it'll probably stay around for a while. Plus it sometimes also gets updates so new things do get sounds. Things like atmo scooping and the rift have sounds now, and ground combat has been further enhanced with sounds so you know more about what's going on, such as when speciffic enemies prepare to use abilities, this is helpful if you want to interrupt their preparation and stop them from healing and stuff.

Hello, everyone!
Thank you again for your wonderful wonderful ideas and reviews.
I can't repeat enough how much you giving me your time to do this makes me feel proud. Proud to be someone who can make a difference.
Already, many features have been implemented that are turning Cosmic Rage around from the collision course it was on onto a fantastic and fiery future.
I usually, and will, do this in the new releases thread, but I wanted to draw your attention to certain changes that came about because of you spectacular people.

*All changes and announcements are now spell checked before they get posted
*spam on twitter has been reduced
*The home planets are now typo and spell check free, and others are being swift to follow
*background checks have been implemented to help tackle the typo catastrophe
*the website is being updated, so far with the activities page having been updated and the index page ripped out and revamped
*trash collecting now has some random rewards that you can get
*in chargen, the longer menus have been split, such that you now get a list of the 5 most popular, with an option to view the full list, and so reducing clutter and time
*an alts curve to make it easier to level up
* large bank balance transfers
*better message board formats
*and more

Those changes are all because of you guys,. I also have some personal notes to deliver:
@dark as always, your ideas are the boss and top of my list. some inspiring ideas and you can guarantee we'll be snatching them up.

space combat: We are working on a tactical space combat, as I discussed in a previous thread a while back, including line of fire, big ship sizing verses small ship speeds, ETC. To ensure absolute implementation with no hiccups though, we're taking it, very, very, slow,

@nocterness:
Again, some good criticisms for me to chew on and digest, so thank you for that. I must admit being more than slightly disappointed, both yours and madam nightshades names make me think of a god and goddess, and part of me was really, really looking forward to seeing if you guys were going to make a unique  and exciting fantasy mud to really shake up the place. Often, I've noticed, space muds go through phases of popularity and, I sadly, think we're in a decline again, hence I was hoping... anyway, enough about that.
I hope you find your Cosmic Rage experience to be enjoyable, both of you.

Again, thank you everyone, and I'll do my best to keep Cosmic Rage to an exceptional standard.

Okay, I was a player of CR when it first came out, I've played off and on over the past couple years but I've always had one majorly huge issue with the game.
My issue is the rp. Basically, I log on the game to play the game as in do the activities, build my factory, build my ships, level my character. When I'm doing these things, I like to talk about it, and I don't like to talk about it in some weird in character setting that I'm not at all comfortable with. Don't get me wrong, for people who enjoy rp, all the power to you and I hope you have all the fun in the world, but their are many many people out their who don't like rp and play a game for the enjoyment of the actual gameplay itself. But in cr, not only are you encouraged to rp, but in some instances you are actually forced to rp. Some day, try saying something like, wow I just filled up 3 mineral holds with minerals over ooc, and see the grief you get for it. And then keep it up, and you'll get warnings and banns.
I'm saying this simply because you created this thread asking why people don't play and what you could do to get more people to play, either offer an RP free mode, or when you want to do rp events, maybe have an rp instanced area you move all the people who want to rp in to or something so the rp isn't interrupted by the people who just want to play the game. I have a feeling your games playerbase would double or more if it catered to people who don't want to rp as well as the people who do, cause no offense but I am pretty sure the rp community is smaller then the community who just likes to game for gaming.

On the rp question, I don't have a problem with rp itself in Cr since rp and none rp channels are separated fairly well, and as a player who is primarily a none rp person myself I appreciate that.

That being said, I do think the newbie channel and character distinctions are a little strange being as if you ask a question like "where can I find such and such" on the newbie channel it's counted as a question that should be Ic, or if you need a longer than one line answer to something.

it would be helpful if perhaps people were a little less militant on the newbie channel in terms of question answering methinks.

In terms of rp, one thing I really like in flexibel survival is the way characters are given in game rewards of xp and salvage items for rp. You don't need to do anything major for this, just use the say command to speak in a room with characters and the "pose" command to do something.

It's also an fs tradition that some places, especially one particular lobby close to a newbie entrance), are sort of an unofficial rp hub, so even if your not naturally an rp person you can just duck in there and say "hi I'm feeling tired!" or something like that.

Rp rarely happens in fs over channels, even though the universe allowas radios.

it'd be great if A, cr had some official places for people to go and do rp which tended to have a character or two hanging out there to rp with, and B, cr had some sort of reward system to encourage people for doing it.

i'm not against rp in a game, but getting into an established group on an ic channel, especially one where my character is essentially just listening on a radio network to conversations between established in universe people and doesn't have a clear way in does not encourage me to get involved, where as wandering into a galactic cafe or similar likely would, especially if there was a chance of me getting points out of it ./

I also would like to see some in universe encouragement of discussing in game activities in a universal way, so that situations such as the one darren mentioned above were less likely and being able to say "hay I was just out of sector  and I had to abandon an asteroid since a bunch of vacus were chasing me"  be encouraged, not discouraged, this is also where making the activities a bit more varied would be nice,  manifestly the more variety in objects, events etc there is, the better players can construct histories for their characters out of those events.

Hello everyone. I'm going to way in here and please don't take this the wrong way, cosmic rage is okay and all that, but if you really want to check out a really cool mud that's coming out some time this year, do yourselves a favour and go to starmourn.com and sign up for the newsletter and read up on the blog. This is a mud that's been built from the ground up, wonderful ship ideas and everything, and it's going to be much more lifelike than what we've currently got out there now, and it's being built by iron realms entertainment, the same good folks who brought us such muds as achaea. I'm quanshee on there by the way, and I'm a paladin living in targossas and am loving it. I love iron realms muds because they're wonderfully story driven, and the worlds are so lush and well put together. Again. I'm not knocking anyone who plays cosmic rage, if you like it well then by all means have all the fun in the world with it, I won't hold it against you. If you don't like iron realms, that's okay too. We're all individuals here and everyone doesn't have to like the same thing. I sit and watch gameplay videos of star citizen and almost cry, (not really,) because I haven't got the vision to sit and play that game or live in that world. So for me, starmourn is the next best thing if we can't have something like star citizen. I still plan on making the attempt on going to citizen con and attempting to at least try to speak to Mr. Roberts about making it accessible. Have a wonderful day to you all, and there's my two cents for what ever they're worth.

I've checked out the starmourn site and I believe signed up for the news letter, however again I'm not sure on this one, especially  Ironrealms' fiasco known as legends of zork.

I've heard a lot of conflicting reports about ironrealms games, some sighting their worlds and mechanics as superior, some  calling them pvp hacks, some noting that in character advancement is waaaaay ott as Ironcross said, others mentioning that their games do boil down to pay to win in the end, while others mentioned less than access friendly travel systems and mechanics. Actually I have been meaning to try one or other of Ironrealms games out for myself to determine my own opinion on the matter.

In terms of Starmourn though Ironrealms have had a checkered enough past and reports to make me at least approach anything they're doing with a little caution, besides, I've learned myself over the past   decade or so of watching audiogames development that it's a bad idea to count your games before they're coded and your usually better  putting your time into what is in front of you than always expecting jam tomorrow.

This particularly goes for cases when a developer of an established game is asking for feedback as is occurring in this thread, since however good starmourn, or stellaraeon, or some as yet unnamed space mud in the future might be, Cosmic rage has a major advantage over all of them being that it's up and running now and in the process of improvement, where as any future game not only needs to be released, but needs to be established as having developers willing to listen to their players, and then put the time and effort into improving their game.

the thing that repelled me from this game is the fact that i can't run it on my laptop. xd.
but i think i will try it wen i get to my dads where my other comp is, could you post a link?

Thankfully, StarMourn will not have studying or anything like that. Actually, the game will by RP Encouraged, a first for IRE games. I'm not going to sit here and say that it's going to be amazing, but it will definitely be better than any of these space Moos, carbon copies of themselves really, starting with Miriani.
StarMourn's space combat system seems far more easier than any of these combat systems, only having to deal with two kind of weapon types, among other things.

hmm wierd i will try again

Hi there
@grryfindore Thank you for your words.
Indeed, I am working on a few ideas to improve planetoid harvesting and nebula harvesting, to the effect of making them "different"
Tis a work in progress, as they say.
Never the less, we now have another host, so the pace should pick up some what.
I must admit, I struggled to come up with a way to respond to the posts regarding Starmorn. I remember getting an invitation to be a coder on there a few months ago and refusing... the format of the post, if nothing else, is a bit of a slap in the face, but hey, take the good with the bad and everyone elses constructive feedback is sure helping Cosmic Rage a lot!
As a side note, we have also introduced a feedback command to the game, in order for people to give us feedback on features, changes, announcements or actions taken by the hosts from within the game itself!
thanks so much.

Hello there Nathan, karate25 here. I'd like to sincerely apologize to you my friend for coming across so harshly. I have indeed played cosmic rage, and I have never ever had anything bad happen to me in the game, but after awhile, it just seemed like a miriani clone somewhat. I'll explain what kind of gamer I am so that maybe this'll help you understand where I'm coming from. I'm a totally blind gamer who loves to watch gameplay videos on youtube of other of our sighted counterparts playing and enjoying video games and virtual worlds, and I sit here and wish with all of my heart that I could make characters and live in just a few of these virtual worlds. Star citizen being among my top choices of dream worlds that I would like to inhabit if only I had enough usable vision. Planet colypso is my second choice. Unfortunately though, I'm only able to see light, not nearly enough to live in virtual worlds such as these I assure you. Which is why I've been looking so forward to seeing starmourn come out for us all to play. My posting about it was absolutely not meant to be a slap in your face, and I apologize if it seemed as such. You're looking at a gamer who's trying his best to talk to these developers and using what little knowledge that I have to get hold of them and politely explain our plight in hopes that some of them, like our friend Karen Stevans from ea games will come alongside us and work to make accessibility happen for us. I know this is a slow process and it'll require patients, but I truly believe with all of my heart that we'll eventually get there. I'm pretty certainly going to be taken on as a live usability tester this week working for a company called my blind spot, and be earning a good income. One of my goals with this new income is to pool enough money so that I'd be able to attend Citizen con, and hopefully get a chance to speak one on one with Mr. Roberts about just this very issue. Not saying it'll happen mind you, but here's hoping. I'm sorry for this rambling post, but your take home message from it is that I am sincerely sorry if my post came across as harsh or as a slap in the face. Have a wonderful day to you all.