Hello, I played SB for a little over a year on Aeria game, it was quite fun. The futuristic bikes and mechs were a big selling point for me. I had managed to get a decent setup, not top of the line but good enough to have a fighting chance at pvp, and then the news of the game shutting down comes and I was devastated. It was around that time I heard about this server starting, but I was busy with work and eventually forgot about it, until recently. Starting from scratch again years later, I do have a few questions and appreciate any help.
1. The site doesn't look like it has the regular web shop like from Aeria games, where they sold different items on different weeks and months. I say this because as a brand new player getting started is the hardest part, basic equipment can only take you so far. Quite frankly the equipments in the marketplace is so overpriced it would take years of money grinding just to get one thing, very inefficient. I know pay to win is at the discretion of the player, but I would settle for upgrading a fast bike first as a starting point. That being said, does this server have such web shop, perhaps once in a while, or just the in-game shop?
2. Is the drop rate for rare items dramatically increased? Every few minutes I would see global messages of some player getting a string of unique equipments, is this why you guys don't have the web shop because the game is saturated with rare items already?
3. On average how many players are playing? I ask this because no one seems to be playing the pvp maps like Janus or Turnpike, which seems to suggest there's very few low lv players around. Meanwhile, I guess those quests that requires you to join those matches will just have to remain in the quest log uncomplete, correct?
4. This may be a bug or not. I bought 10 narak to increase the success rate of upgrading my bike, and for some reason instead of being 10 separate pieces it was all stacked in one slot in the inventory. So when I drag it onto the enhancement slot it only fits 1 slot instead of 4. I can only think of 3 scenario: Either the enhancement will use the max number possible (4), it only uses 1, or worse case treats the stack of 10s as 1 and eats it all. I'm hoping it's #1, given how many people frequently upgrade their stuff this couldn't be a serious bug, some clarification is appreciated.
Thank you for your time, and happy to be back in the game. Cheers.