First thing from me, this topic is not whining or something, i created it to find solution with other players and 2238 staff for increasing boredom problem.
There is few points in my opinion why this game get boring very quick:
1. Hey look! you have the same gun as me! (Small ammount of items) - we have few guns, few armors(definetly too low ammount) and few other items, now second part of this point will be in point #2
2. Clone Wars - everything here is the same, the same items everywhere, the same builds everywhere, the same sprites everywhere, the same encounters everywhere, everything is the same, player is just another ordinary little blue guy, the only thing what can tell you he is diffrent from others is just his name, so connecting this point with point 1: ammount of items should be increased a lot, players should be able to customize their PC outfit(yeah we can change a hair, but it is really customization?)
3. Oh god, take me from this hell (Drasticaly decrasing number of players) - few months ago we had 350-400+ players online constantly, now i didn't saw even 300 players online, old players run away to ob2/tla or stop playing, new players finish playing after few days-week, what cause this disaster? lets begin from new players, its almost impossible to stand on 2 legs for new player, they cannot gather hides for tent (low level, hard times finding brahmins in the wasteland, incrased prices of brahmin hides after last changes in bases), they simply can't stand up without help of others, i know this because from time to time i make new PC and play as loner, second problem for them is crafting, runing from mine to city to craft some metal parts/gunpowder without begin robbed and again to mine, then to city, and again some metal parts/gunpowder, then to tent for previous crafted resources and at least we can go to city to craft some ammo, its just consume too much time and players are pissed off, now about old players, they get bored because they have nothing to do here except PvP/PK, good alternative for that was Hub Roleplay Project but sadly because of brainless suiciders and other shit it had to fall.
4. Go to hell, I have my own design of this spear! (List of priorities and players voice) - Lets begin from this "priorities", simply what im trying to tell is that devs create new "features" leaving old ones unfinished, example: crafting - demolition expert 3, now in short of this "players voice", it doesn't matter what player say, dev is always right and this is a problem, devs only listen when half of damn angry wasteland will gather at one point and will throw shit everywhere, problems with GMs activities was known for a long time, but there wasn't done nothing about it, only when lot of guys gathered devs starting listen, now we have solution for this in shape of "overseer2238".
5. My spear is blessed! you understand this heretic with minigun?! (Strange requiments in crafting and old stuff doesn't mean bad) - what im talking about is mining system and workbench requiment, lets begin from mining system, implementing mining sites only created barriers in game style and "improved" alting, why that? simple example: you cannot play/roleplay badass/raider whatever you want without alts, its impossible to enter to mine if you have bad reputation in centrain npc faction, so its only force alting (miners), and now some stuff about workbench - this is somehow connected to new players, its simply stupid that player can craft sledge hammer without workbench but hatched is diffrent story already, also non-profession items crafting, but i will say about it more in solutions part of topic.
Ok now time for my solutions for this problem:
a) Returning encounters where you can mine as before with current cooldowns (i mean here only basic minerals and iron ore, mines for hq stuff should stay as they are)
b) Removing workbench from requiments for non-profession items like: 10mm pistol, mauser, flamer, leather jacket, fibers, gunpowder, alloys, metal parts (i mean here normal ones, not hq), 10mm ammo, 9mm ammo, 12 ga. shotgun shells and all kind of tools like knives, hammers and hatched, because belive me, forcing player to go to town in order to craft basic shit don't incrase town population, it incrase players anger only
c) Creating alternatives for PvP, like... lets call it "random encounter quests", the idea is pretty simple, player enter to some kind of special encounter (but with a lot greater chance of finding it than shelter encounter), also you can improve random cave dungeon and add something similiar like abandoned villages ect, supporting RP projects ect.
d) creating alternative for tent, as i said before its super hard to find brahmin hides for new players and still they should have some kind of shelter, maybe small shack from for example 30-40 wood and some junk would be solution?
e) in order to increase town population you can create something like "vendor feature", players can activate this feature while in town, and they cannot be killed or robbed, in order to prevent players using this as "shield" there should be some requiments like players must have stuff equal to some value, maybe 1000 caps?, what more it have to be usable so players will be able define what they want buy, everything else will have value of 0 or 1, also it would be also possible to trade via dialog option where will be also information about sellable goods
f) incrasing number of items, players definetly need more items, everybody can say that, there is no arguing at this point ;]
g) Player PC customization, add new skins avaible with creating PC window, and also changeable during a game, also here i send devs to point h)
h) Devs, don't be afraid of asking players for help, lots of us will help you without hestinations, if you do not have too much time, ask players for some things like graphics, dialogs, music or whatever else, really we want help but you do not give us oportunities
phew, i finished, this topic is for all, Players, Devs and GMs, please be sure you read this all
PS: sorry for my english and chaotic style ; ]
PS2: I didn't posted it in suggestion section because its general problem
