Games OF returns?

[Everz]

http://www.postcount.net/forum/show...ming-for-Pictish-Event-(Maybe-new-zone-or-OF)

 

[Raven]

Hasn't that always been the message if you try and bug through?

OF wont bring back old DAOC btw, it will just mean you get zerged faster.

 

[Everz]

Hasn't that always been the message if you try and bug through?

OF wont bring back old DAOC btw, it will just mean you get zerged faster.

Not usually, it just ports you back out.

Either way.. OF is OF, still be good to see the old girl, especially if it comes with marfach and such.

 

[Mabs]

OF has always been "in game" and its always been glitchable-to, they arent going to bring it back

the CSRs arent even working any more

its in maintenance mode

 

[Poag]

Its in "see how long we can leave this thing alone and it still makes money" mode!

 

[Mabs]

Its in "see how long we can leave this thing alone and it still makes money" mode!

exactly

they are currently running with 5 CSRs. of whom only ONE can ban people for -any- reason, and he has to witness you do whatever it is, so its becoming a bit silly :v

 

[Coldbeard]

Just close the shithole called Labyrinth already

 

[br1te]

Hasn't that always been the message if you try and bug through?

OF wont bring back old DAOC btw, it will just mean you get zerged faster.

You say that but it will.

But you would also need to close labby or change it to something like DF, or put the entrance within each realms frontier dungeon, or simply just remove the bindstone. Lab is horrible to play in, horrible skins, horrible layout. It's RvR dumbed down for idiots and it detracts from real RvR in the frontiers and thins out the numbers.

The keeptake zerg and lab mongloids will zerg emain, fg/soloers/small man goes to hw/odins how it used to be. SOOOOOO many people would come back if they brought back the OF layout the action would be sweet for weeks, 100x better than the bollocks you get now which suits one type of playstyle and one only. Whether it would last would be another matter but whatever happens it would be better than it is now

 

[Mabs]

You say that but it will.

But you would also need to close labby or change it to something like DF, or put the entrance within each realms frontier dungeon, or simply just remove the bindstone. Lab is horrible to play in, horrible skins, horrible layout. It's RvR dumbed down for idiots and it detracts from real RvR in the frontiers and thins out the numbers.

The keeptake zerg and lab mongloids will zerg emain, fg/soloers/small man goes to hw/odins how it used to be. SOOOOOO many people would come back if they brought back the OF layout the action would be sweet for weeks, 100x better than the bollocks you get now which suits one type of playstyle and one only. Whether it would last would be another matter but whatever happens it would be better than it is now

lol you do know its MEANT to be a zerg based keep siege game? its not an e-peen 8man wank-a-thon. much like the retards who squat at Nethuni South in labby "dueling" aka organised RP farming claiming to be pro

 

[Coldbeard]

I'm with brite on this one. Roam now and you will either find a ridiculous zerg or nothing, any change would be welcome. I for one would like laby to be closed or just removed. Laby represents everything this game is NOT about and as said it drags people away from what should be the main rvr zones. A change in frontiers would be more than welcomed, i'm fed up with the bridges, water and keep shit. 8v8 is where this game really excels and is worth playing for a lot of people, it's not about removing the zerg and keep warfare, I can understand people wanting to do that also and i'm all for diversed rvr, but there needs to be decent alternatives, which there isn't.

If they cared they could blow some fire into the dying embers of this game, but hell freezes over sooner than EA making such a move.

 

[Soazak]

You say that but it will.

But you would also need to close labby or change it to something like DF, or put the entrance within each realms frontier dungeon, or simply just remove the bindstone. Lab is horrible to play in, horrible skins, horrible layout. It's RvR dumbed down for idiots and it detracts from real RvR in the frontiers and thins out the numbers.

The keeptake zerg and lab mongloids will zerg emain, fg/soloers/small man goes to hw/odins how it used to be. SOOOOOO many people would come back if they brought back the OF layout the action would be sweet for weeks, 100x better than the bollocks you get now which suits one type of playstyle and one only. Whether it would last would be another matter but whatever happens it would be better than it is now

As much as I want that to be true, internet games (MMOs in particular) are not about that any more. Lab is perfect for this generation of PvP. No one wants to wait for the action, and everyone wants it to appear skillful, when in actual fact it's designed to be easy. Everyone wants to feel like they're awesome at the game, no one wants to be farmed like they were in old frontiers, when that shit happens people just log off and go play something that makes them feel good about themselves

It would definately bring back lots of people, but it would be short lived imo when people realise it's not like it used to be, like the Origins/Ywain announcements

 

[Raven]

So everyone plays casters then?

 

[Coldbeard]

It's beyond me how they decided to nerf banelord

 

[CorNokZ]

Mainly because of warlocks and bonedancers?

 

[Raven]

It's beyond me why they gave warlocks and bonedancers banelord

 

[BloodOmen]

Its beyond me why they added ml's to the game in the first place, herpy derp it'll be a good idea really!.... X years later they're still doing U-turns on past mistakes ¬_¬

 

[Soazak]

Its beyond me why they added ml's to the game in the first place, herpy derp it'll be a good idea really!.... X years later they're still doing U-turns on past mistakes ¬_¬

Yup, their problem was they always thought they knew better. They would never back down on their mistakes and just built ontop of them until there was litterally no other way to go other than a u-turn.

 

[Raven]

In principle I thought master levels were a good idea and I think they were trying to extend the progression of a character, aside from realm ranks without adding extra levels to characters...personally I think just adding levels and re-jigging abilities every expansion is a pretty lazy way to do it. In practice it was a mess with some lines being obscenely over powered and some being near useless. I also liked the idea of artifacts but some of the original requirements and spawn timers were just daft. In saying that, I loved doing master levels the first time round.

If TOA had launched in a better state, closer to what it is now, then I think DOAC would have survived much longer than it did and would have been a far better experience than it was.

 

[Everz]

If ToA was actually developed more (like it should have been) then it would have been a success. The PvE was not nearly as bad as it was made out to be, it actually required some thought which was good, I honestly miss farming cloudsong for hours.. and the satisfaction of figuring how to do the likes of Tartaros/AT/Erinys with a chanter/ment/druid combo was pretty satisfying. The death for DAoC was NF, the amount of people quitting within a week was unreal and extremely noticeable.

It was a horrid design at the time.. remember you could port to every keep then, the boats took much longer and roaming became null and void as it became a mission of hoping for flaming building to flaming building.

OF needed changes but it was the best, MG's needed to be destroyable and maybe a few minor adjustments to keep (pbaoe not going through for e.g. ), may open up Emain a tad bit more as it could get tight. I miss being able to go to Odins knowing I'd find certain 8v8 and then HW knowing I'd be able to happily solo or be a tit roaming through HoC or Dodens.

It's the one thing (imo) that would draw people back to DAoC from all walks, my only concern is that OF with the classes that are available in this day and age would be a much different prospect, but it is one I think that would be worth trying.

 

[Sneakers<>Matriarch]

You say that but it will.

But you would also need to close labby or change it to something like DF, or put the entrance within each realms frontier dungeon, or simply just remove the bindstone. Lab is horrible to play in, horrible skins, horrible layout. It's RvR dumbed down for idiots and it detracts from real RvR in the frontiers and thins out the numbers.

The keeptake zerg and lab mongloids will zerg emain, fg/soloers/small man goes to hw/odins how it used to be. SOOOOOO many people would come back if they brought back the OF layout the action would be sweet for weeks, 100x better than the bollocks you get now which suits one type of playstyle and one only. Whether it would last would be another matter but whatever happens it would be better than it is now

Brite speaks the truth.

Personally I would return for OF zones.

What always drives me away from daoc is NF and laby.

 

[Sneakers<>Matriarch]

If ToA was actually developed more (like it should have been) then it would have been a success. The PvE was not nearly as bad as it was made out to be, it actually required some thought which was good, I honestly miss farming cloudsong for hours.. and the satisfaction of figuring how to do the likes of Tartaros/AT/Erinys with a chanter/ment/druid combo was pretty satisfying. The death for DAoC was NF, the amount of people quitting within a week was unreal and extremely noticeable.

It was a horrid design at the time.. remember you could port to every keep then, the boats took much longer and roaming became null and void as it became a mission of hoping for flaming building to flaming building.

OF needed changes but it was the best, MG's needed to be destroyable and maybe a few minor adjustments to keep (pbaoe not going through for e.g. ), may open up Emain a tad bit more as it could get tight. I miss being able to go to Odins knowing I'd find certain 8v8 and then HW knowing I'd be able to happily solo or be a tit roaming through HoC or Dodens.

It's the one thing (imo) that would draw people back to DAoC from all walks, my only concern is that OF with the classes that are available in this day and age would be a much different prospect, but it is one I think that would be worth trying.

The Pve encounters on their own was pritty decent, ml3 raid was a pain though.

Biggest problem was the item imbalance I think, toa gear vs classic gear and how it made you litterally a free kill facing someone with a bit of toa items vs your old SI template.

 

[Coldbeard]

Rvr is quite horrible at times. Laby is more annoying than ever. Sometimes there would be like 120 people in NF, and half the numbers in laby. It's draining too much people away from what should be the primary rvr zone, with it's degenerated non-daoc like pvp.

 

[Sneakers<>Matriarch]

Rvr is quite horrible at times. Laby is more annoying than ever. Sometimes there would be like 120 people in NF, and half the numbers in laby. It's draining too much people away from what should be the primary rvr zone, with it's degenerated non-daoc like pvp.

Yah, for me if they put in OF zones as they where planning to do some years back, they could keep Laby. Personally I'm not so much for forcing others to take part as I am fore giving people good choices of what to do when they actually come online.

If one wanna be a degenerate and run around with his WL and add on ppl in laby then fine as long as I can have some good oldschool daoc rvr in OF zones. Sadly I suspect the move to OF zones will litterally NEVER happend

 

[Dvaerg]

Rvr is quite horrible at times. Laby is more annoying than ever. Sometimes there would be like 120 people in NF, and half the numbers in laby. It's draining too much people away from what should be the primary rvr zone, with it's degenerated non-daoc like pvp.

Remove bind stone in labyrinth

YES SIR!

 

[Dvaerg]

Would also change the prices on greater mythirians perhaps, cause they would probably be easier to farm.

 

[Coldbeard]

There are like no roaming groups anymore, even if there are groups out they just stick to zerg or run 2fg on stick. RvR is usually just each realm having a zerg running around taking keeps and towers.

 

[Kalph]

They need to just do it already. Create a brand new OF server and make everyone relevel up.

 

[Baldir]

Don't think they would bother making a new OF server. It would cut the population up even more.

 

[Baldir]

The last news i've heard about OF is the new lvl 50 bg that look exact the same as OF emain.
http://www.postcount.net/forum/showthread.php?21769-Old-Frontiers-Is-Coming-Back

Edit: but is probably fake though

 

[Coldbeard]

new lvl 50 bg

... would be so unfathomably stupid