lapazjim p.

This game used to be allot of fun, but now if I could give it a zero rating I would! The game has changed so drastically that if you do not spend hundreds of dollars you will take forever to get anywhere in the game.So many of the new items DO puts out cost money and I believe are overpriced for the game. They add items at different times throughout the year and also add new items on events. However their adding these new things usually results in more game problems. True they do get it fixed EVENTUALLY, but its the overall problems they create.
The support is almost non-existent at times and they appear to totally care less about any problems you may have. Again however they do EVENTUALLY fix it sometimes quickly and sometimes in a month or so.
Dark Orbit is saying that they have a "Fair Play Initiative,"but it is doubtful as many players continue to cheat and DO does nothing about them. I personally have written in about 20 times on one player with three ships all doing the same thing at the same time over and over again and yet the answer you get is their so called "SCRIPT"is collecting evidence. Well 5 months later the cheater is still there cheating away. Almost every player in the server has seen the players cheats and talked about it.It appears however that the DO support answer is basically "we don't care and its not our job!"Well maybe they should learn to pass it on to the appropriate people that can take care of the cheats.
DO has lost very large numbers of players over the last 2 or so years.At first they most likely did not realize the actual numbers of players that were leaving the game.So DO'S answer to the problem is to merge servers to increase the number of players in each server. Now mind you when DO first started it had one server for each country or given area.The game expanded with more servers due to the increase in the number of players was so great. Eventually with the changes and the adding of more money items DO has started their own downfall.So DO in 2018 has started eliminating servers and merging them with each other in an attempt to save the game. I do not believe this is the answer and their end will most likely come in a year or so.
Then you have the Multi Company Clans that are almost 80% responsible for many players leaving the game.In most servers there are usually between 2 and 10 Clans that actively dictate the game to all other clans and players. This has caused a problem with very many other players not being able to participate in the events put out. They will shoot anyone not in their clans away from the alien ships to be destroyed to get the benefits of teh event. Thus only one or two clans benefit from the event with its rewards and thus also making them stronger. HOw many people want to play a game that you can not participate in completley. Yet DO says they do not care.The other problem with these clans is that they love to shoot new players and so many new players just give up. There have also been many of the long time players leave the game because of what it has become. What it has become is a costly game, a game where MCC' S have taken over the servers and only allow those they feel should participate get too and worst of all a game filled with many cheats and yet DO has not felt the need to correct anything.
Recommendation: Do not even bother starting to play this game.It is no longer what it was and or worth it to play. By all means do if you like to play a game that you are dictated to by others in the game, spend hundreds of dollars to achieve a better ship only to be killed by the upper players still and if you wish to see cheats or even maybe cheat yourself.The game is no longer as enjoyable as it once was and fairness has gone out the door!