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HeetCrusher wrote: »

Was wondering for the XP grind if it needs adjusting a little to accommodate newer players. Like maybe have level 10-20 be similar to 1-10 that ways for new players joining that are not in a guild right off the bat time to explore and enjoin the game. Because if the grind is too much I feel new players will walk away. Now I understand this is an MMO, but most people don't join in a group already. They meet people in game. Just a thought. I want it to grow and be successful but making entry too hard or a grind could be a negative effect.

Laetitian wrote: »

Dolyem wrote: »

Good post.

Flying in Sieges=not bad/interesting gameplay that allows players to focus on leading the groups around to objectives

Flying literally anywhere else is garbage for the game. It allows for massive advantages in Open World PVP, and even huge advantages for getting around to different resources to gather quickly.

Gliding down from elevation can be fine within reason.

I yearn for the day when you'll learn to understand that anything individual players do shouldn't matter to you, because competition in groups is what the game is about. The rest is just the connecting interval from one group experience to the next. And if you can't take down the mayor in your 8v8, you needed to bring another player. /thread.

Phoenix77 wrote: »

I know what I’m discussing here is years away of being relevant but I would like to have my concerns heard now that we are still in development and the team can create things with having some of the following in mind.What kind of content can the team release post launch that doesn’t disturb the balance of the game? To clarify, a common addition of expansions is to add:
1) new zones which makes the world feel emptier and emptier, look at wow for example, 70% of the world or more nobody visits, it’s just a forgotten land of an old expansion barren and lifeless.
2)new classes which disrupts the balance of roles and the 8v8 party balance the game was designed upon. For example if the 9th class is a dps now there is lack of healers.
3)new level cap makes previous gear accomplishments irrelevant, messes up with intended time to level to max and creates inflation of numbers, look wow for example at some point a single hit would do hundreds of thousands of dmg which is silly.
4)new systems I can’t see any problem with that if they are evergreen systems and not placeholders for an expansion
5)new race no problem here but prolly a lot of development time? Maybe with the rise of the ai systems not a big deal? I don’t know.
6) something I haven’t thought(maybe you have?let me know)
Possible solutions:
1) release new zone while simultaneously destroy equal amount of zones but because this will make a lot of ppl upset another way to do it would be to have a rotation where not all zones are playable and at all times the maximum amount of playable zones remains the same. How that would work with the in game narrative? I don’t know maybe a zone is occupied by void forces and another one takes its place
2)this is basically a math problem that if taken into consideration before release it would be easier to tackle later. Also check the statistics if parties are struggling to find healers release a healing class etc.
3) to be honest I can’t think of a way an increase to level cap won’t create problems in the long run but feel free to tell me if you have a solution.

Anything else you can think of in terms of content post launch and a way to integrate it to the game without disrupting its balance please enlighten me!