"State of the Game" - Mark Jacobs, instanced RvR and more

[Ballard]

Instanced Rvr!! DO you know what that means!! if it was fgvfg It may mean buff bots wont be useful!! or at least if you take em it will be 7 vs 8.



Overall:

Sounds good. If its 50% of what I hope it will be good for the game. That coupled with the 'ease of play' changes in 1.71 and 1.72 would be enough to make me stay alot longer.

Instanced RvR is definetly the highlight. Will be interesting to see what variations are avaliable. Maybe a small dungeon for 1vs1 or 2vs2 steather action would be good. and the more generic fgvsFg

 

[Nausilus^^]

With clustered RvR servers, what about the people who play different realms on 2 servers (which must be the majority of players who plays 1 realm on exc and another on pryd)? Will they team up with some on the 1 realm, and fight the very same people on the other realm?

 

[old.Whoodoo]

And Whoodoo.... nothing like a nice generalisation to prove a point eh?
I have never raved about any game.
I have never played SWG.
I have never had to come back here and eat humble pie.
I have however posted that it is my hope that the competition will cause DAoC to become a better game.

Sorry to generalise, but when I read positive things GOA / Mythic shout publicly, then start to scroll down to see how long it takes some arse to type "WoW" in a sentance, it makes me cringe to read on in fear the thread yet again gets hyjaked by "Im leaving for wow fo!!".

And just because my post happened to follow yours, does not mean its pointed directly at you, its directed at the thread itself, dont take things out of context.

One thing with Instanced RvR, will this mean people willactually start playing Shamman as chars again, not just BBs?

 

[Ballard]

One thing with Instanced RvR, will this mean people willactually start playing Shamman as chars again, not just BBs?

Aye that was my second thought. Could be another subtle change to make BB less desirable. Still good for pve but you will possibly be able to compete without em. esp if there is a less than fg instance.

 

[Neffneff]

They sound like some awesome ideas. my thoughts of coming back for catacombes are getting stronger

Im still yet to see/play a game that even compares with daoc for it's overall gameplay/graphics and just general almost spot on ness. after all mythic are not gods, and as such new implementations and ideas take time..imo gif them credit for what they have accomplished..a game that has run for nearly 3 years and people are still so impressed with it that it makes them winge n whine.

 

[Koyochi]

With clustered RvR servers, what about the people who play different realms on 2 servers (which must be the majority of players who plays 1 realm on exc and another on pryd)? Will they team up with some on the 1 realm, and fight the very same people on the other realm?

To avoid any problems with that, they could cluster us with a random german and random french server less chance to mix accounts up that way.

 

[MesS°]

Shit mate thats absolutly priceless.
Three times I've read it and I'm still laughing.

Im still waiting on the facts ur baseing ur QQ's on tho...

 

[scorge]

I don't honestly think clustering Excalibur with Prydwen will make any difference, maybe if there was 3 or 4 english servers it might balance out. But 2? thats not going to have much of an impact.

Thats if we ever get clustering, remember GoA cant even do Account splitting never mind shared RvR clusters.

 

[scorge]

To avoid any problems with that, they could cluster us with a random german and random french server less chance to mix accounts up that way.

Although there is the possibility of people logging in alts to farm RPS

 

[Morchaoron]

They will design it so that buffbots can be used, you honestly believe they would throw away 25% of their subscriptions (bot accounts)?

Especially after they've been through all the trouble to make it possible to easily dual-log characthers..

 

[Helme]

Bring it on Mythic

 

[mightybunny]

I think the clustering idea may never reach europe.

Some servers in the us only have a player base of around 500 peeps in prime time.
Think it's for those servers they are making this clustering thingie.
BTW if we are in big keep fights we alrdy lag our asses off. What is it going to be when we cluster servers and do rvr then?

 

[Nausilus^^]

I think the clustering idea may never reach europe.

Some servers in the us only have a player base of around 500 peeps in prime time.
Think it's for those servers they are making this clustering thingie.
BTW if we are in big keep fights we alrdy lag our asses off. What is it going to be when we cluster servers and do rvr then?

Yea you got a point there.. last night when there was A LOT of rvr going on (zergs from both hib, mid and alb) in albland, I had trouble keeping 2 accounts logged in.. would go LD on one, and then log back in just to go LD on the other... such trouble

 

[Ballard]

They will design it so that buffbots can be used, you honestly believe they would throw away 25% of their subscriptions (bot accounts)?

Especially after they've been through all the trouble to make it possible to easily dual-log characthers..

No I think they will limit the instance to a set number of people (just like catacombs) so if you bring a buff bot you lose an active player.. Buff bots will still be 100% effective in normal rvr and pve just not 100% effective in instanced rvr. I would still keep my second account in these circumstances.

 

[[TB] Benedictine]

You cant fix what is permanently broken (TOA...)

 

[Javai]

It would make sense to cluster together servers that have different low population realms - though how that fits with the anti-crossrealming stance is hard to see since nothing to stop you rolling an alt on the server you are clustered with.

But since both ideas have very little detail to them just yet its premature to start screaming how bad it will be

 

[Ballard]

You cant fix what is permanently broken (TOA...)

Once again people who dont play daoc yet for some reason still troll these boards try to hijack threads. This was a discussion about NEW stuff if you wanna whine about TOA do it in a different thread.

 

[raid]

You cant fix what is permanently broken (TOA...)

they already made big changes to arti leveling... rest of toa could be fixed REALLY easy and fast, only need a couple of simple but significant configuration changes to arti pop timers & scroll drop rates.

 

[Fana]

You cant log 2 characters on the same account at the same time so that will take care of most of the trouble of people "pl'ing" their own characters by killing another of their characters repeatedly for rp etc. You can already do this if you own 2 accounts, and people have tried it - those who were found out were banned etc, as its very much against the CoC.

Anyway, daoc in a 6 months+ should be interesting again:
Instanced rvr zones
Easier artifact leveling
Easier master levels
Free levels, gold and items for new characters leveling up
Better gfx
Funnier PvE in catacombs

Looks promising

 

[Cirventhor]

Very interesting changes here... might make it worth reconsidering WoW, although these changes prolly won't be here until at best summer 2005 I suppose. Oh well, can give WoW a serious try in the meantime.

 

[Pohjan Poika]

afaik catacombs is due release first quater -05

 

[Dreami]

mebbeee mebbeee

 

[Minau]

Cluster thingie sounds cool, Instanced arena stuff sounds idiotic. I dont wanna know where/how many/who is inc. The thrill of a suprise jump is kickass.

 

[Cylian]

Second, as always Mythic has been listening to its player base and we know...

err, lol ?

naw, ROFLMAO! sounds more like it.

 

[Naetha]

Hmm I read clustered servers as custard servers....I know which I'd prefer!

<hides bottle opener>

 

[Mastade]

i surely just hope they mean a fg vs fg irvr - or else no problems will be solved, albs will just be zergx2 and hib will just be outnumberedx2

 

[Chilly]

i surely just hope they mean a fg vs fg irvr - or else no problems will be solved, albs will just be zergx2 and hib will just be outnumberedx2

ignorand ****. Hibs have problems mustering 80, not 8. try using your fucking brain before you talk shit. in fact, fuck off.

 

[Svartmetall]

ignorand ****. Hibs have problems mustering 80, not 8. try using your fucking brain before you talk shit. in fact, fuck off.

Hehe, looks like someone has issues...

 

[Aoln]

Report him for being offensive!

 

[Poon]

ignorand ****. Hibs have problems mustering 80, not 8. try using your fucking brain before you talk shit. in fact, fuck off.

Tis always the zerglings that feel guilty and start ranting ^^