Current state 2.0 Skyrama

Hey all, I want to talk about the current state of Skyrama again. You can agree or not, keep in mind this is my opinion about the game.

Future is approaching:
We have heard that for months, if not a year. Most of us know there is no future for this game, the game is dead. Especially when there is no event active the game is dead. I can know it because we run a discord group for Skyrama with 1100+ members, several days nothing is being discussed. We still are facing several game issues what frustrates us all, it just doesn't get fixed. 'Code is complex' blablabla, you guys know this before releasing this launcher. Why not invest in rewriting the game from the ground up and eventually release it on Steam?
Current problems:
This game has no grind. Especially at high level with thousands of planes it gets repetitive. Send out - Receive - Land - Fleet expand everytime. Everything forces you to expand because there is nothing else to do. I just miss the option to grind this game for milestones, other token system (black market), new quest/story missions. Just make the game more rewarding. Why do we still receive 900 aircoins and 2 aircoins if you level up from 91 to 92? it is a joke.
Several years ago SAM (Skyrama Airport Manager) has been introduced. Most of you guys know what I am talking about. An extern program to make our lives on this game a little more manageable. You guys know we use it, but doesn't do anything about it. It could have been implemented several years ago in the game. Why we use it because the game is SLOW, very SLOW. it is shockingly bad. And the current gameplay speed reduced the motivation to play this game.
The lack of server speed improvements and the green light bug are still active. Why can't we set our own duration for how long we play during the 'green light' phase?
After all I want to talk about the recent content that has been released. It is good that they at least are trying but everything is AI-generated nowadays. It is boring and not unique. The same 'new' event planes gets released with a different color or layout. The reduced time in the recycling hall is nice, but not good enough for high levels players. They want to see a scrap option with Aircoins.
We know that keeping Skyrama's servers running probably costs Bigpoint very little. This is evident from the lack of investment in gameplay improvements. Simply forwarding our messages is not enough. We've heard that response countless times before, yet nothing has significantly improved over the past few years. If there is still a dev/dev's working on this game please get in touch with us.


Kind Regards,
Daan-PL

 

Hi all, I would like to also voice my concerns as a new player for perspective.

The state of the game is very worrisome. The engine is old, I get that but no one is stopping you from redesigning the game in a different environment like you did with your other titles (dark orbit, farmerama) in Unity engine. The first and most important thing about a game is to be playable without bugs/lags.

That will actually take some time and money so lets put it aside for now and look at a few other things you could do with minimal effort to make the game more enjoyable.

1) More space. Expansions are some of the most valuable upgrades you have to look forward to as you level up but the end at 81. After that there really isnt much to look forward to. A couple of planes in the shop (that are for the most part worse than event planes design-xp wise) and thats about it. You guys increased the level cap by 100 but they are all empty levels.

2) A monthly calendar or at the very least update the items in the luggage spinner. New items on the calendar/updated luggage could be:
24h QS / +1 slot on a random hangar / parts needed to construct L planes / air cash etc.

3) Speaking of L plane parts you should make more L planes available for construction and not just L planes but all types. Another fun idea is that each event a new plane is up for construction with plane parts that we can collect only during the event. And to expand on the "construct your own plane" idea how about customizable flight times on the planes we construct? Some people might want their plane to be 8h some 16h some 24h. Make the exp/gold scale depending on what you choose and voila. Your own personal plane.

4) About events. I see no reason as to why there isnt an event running at all times (especially when its the only content the game actually has). I am not saying a new event with new planes should run all the time but reruns of events and old planes absolutely could. A structure of 6 weeks new event with new planes - 6 weeks old event with old planes sounds reasonable and at the very least there is something always running (especially for new players that are missing tons of planes).

There are plenty more ideas that I didnt list (like air alliances) because I wanted to suggest only things that are very easy to implement right now with minimal effort. And the fact that you arent doing any of them is problematic.

The community might not be big, but quite a few of us converse daily and we all want the same thing. For the game to do better. Old players that have stuck with the game for so long and new players that are drawn towards it despite all the flaws clearly see a lot of potential. Even with minimal effort you can tap into that potential so why arent you?

Kind regards, a new player that wants to see the game succeed.

 

Hey,

It's gonna be interesting to see what happens in somewhat near future when Skyrama Island Survival aka "Skyrama 2" got shut down few days back. (Even tho that was most likely a calculated move)

I really do have a good reason to believe that there were some actual plans to improve Skyrama 1 at the start of this year and at the end of 2025 but clearly Bigpoint's management shifted their focus yet again so I wouldn't really expect much.

I already talked multipleee times about why Skyrama at it's current state is incredibly flawed game model but fixing that would really need a full project rework and guess what, that needs an approval + financing from the management and quite a big team.

Obviously the support team is aware of the border line cheating people do with automation programs but until it's not hurting the servers then there is no reason to do anything about it as mostly whales use that and they are the top 0.5% who bring most of the earnings. This is also for example how Raid Shadow Legends operates and many other MMO games. Is it a good thing? Most likely no but it is what it is. They simply don't offer support in case of any related issue to the software. I don't know where they would cross the line but I suppose until you don't circumvent the server side checks in any way then it is what it is.

As much as I wish for some content update, I already stopped believing that much more will ever change with the game. It's at least nice that some planes are being added to the normal store, that's something I kinda lobbied for so I'm glad that it went through and we received store updates after many years.