Gear
Can't get enough of FH
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The last couple of weeks I have noticed some degradation in the Hibernian rvr. It is true that since the beginning of NF we’ve been pounded quite a lot and on a regular basis (Mids had their share too tho). Albs have the numbers to fight two wars at the same time, there is no argument against that, and the teleportation system makes things even easier for them. At the same time, lacking numbers = lacking claimants. Every so often we take some towers and there’s noone who can claim, as every guild nowadays already has something.
This situation has been coupled with the departure of many players for various reasons, too much change, loss of in-game friends, boredom (happens after some time). Others despair and are not willing to keep on fighting, as reports of 100 albs on nged while a /who 50 gives a number of 150 online tents to bring you down.
Most blame mythic for fucking up the game. I on the other hand, thank mythic for finally introducing some strategy into daoc.
So what you had in OF? Lets see the different options available out there.
Form a group in DL or one of the portal keeps and start some mindless roaming. Kill everything on sight, enjoy some good fights of course, but mostly nothing more than some mindless running around. Sometimes, one could bother enough to take a keep or two to open up df, or even take some people to ff so mids would come out and play, but that was only on some rare occasions and mostly organised on guild bases.
Casual players were mostly screwed as getting toa-d is a pain in the ass, however is a requirement in order to compete effectively out there, hence a prerec to join a proper group. Casually formed groups were formed within 1 hour and split within 1 minute after encountering a formidable adversary.
Anyway, you get the picture. I wont expand more as I don’t know much about group play myself.
In NF you have a landscape that really matters. You have supply chain, teleportation, endless possibilities to enjoy rvr in many different ways. True, those ways might not bring as many rps as in the old style emain, but is everyone playing the game just to farm as many rps as possible? Forgive me if I get this wrong, but it is a game, hence something that we should enjoy, have fun. The status of your character (rp wise, ml wise, etc) is not reflecting your real life status. If you think that it does… well that’s plain sad.
I am definite that most of you have played and enjoyed strategy games in the past. Of course in that situation you’re able to control everything alone, not needing to persuade people to do what you want to do. Still this is the extra enjoyment one can derive from daoc, strategy in a mmorpg environment.
I’m trying to inspire some out of the box thinking here. Let’s see what’ll come out.
This situation has been coupled with the departure of many players for various reasons, too much change, loss of in-game friends, boredom (happens after some time). Others despair and are not willing to keep on fighting, as reports of 100 albs on nged while a /who 50 gives a number of 150 online tents to bring you down.
Most blame mythic for fucking up the game. I on the other hand, thank mythic for finally introducing some strategy into daoc.
So what you had in OF? Lets see the different options available out there.
Form a group in DL or one of the portal keeps and start some mindless roaming. Kill everything on sight, enjoy some good fights of course, but mostly nothing more than some mindless running around. Sometimes, one could bother enough to take a keep or two to open up df, or even take some people to ff so mids would come out and play, but that was only on some rare occasions and mostly organised on guild bases.
Casual players were mostly screwed as getting toa-d is a pain in the ass, however is a requirement in order to compete effectively out there, hence a prerec to join a proper group. Casually formed groups were formed within 1 hour and split within 1 minute after encountering a formidable adversary.
Anyway, you get the picture. I wont expand more as I don’t know much about group play myself.
In NF you have a landscape that really matters. You have supply chain, teleportation, endless possibilities to enjoy rvr in many different ways. True, those ways might not bring as many rps as in the old style emain, but is everyone playing the game just to farm as many rps as possible? Forgive me if I get this wrong, but it is a game, hence something that we should enjoy, have fun. The status of your character (rp wise, ml wise, etc) is not reflecting your real life status. If you think that it does… well that’s plain sad.
I am definite that most of you have played and enjoyed strategy games in the past. Of course in that situation you’re able to control everything alone, not needing to persuade people to do what you want to do. Still this is the extra enjoyment one can derive from daoc, strategy in a mmorpg environment.
I’m trying to inspire some out of the box thinking here. Let’s see what’ll come out.
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