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Re: Why are pirates exempt from corruption?
Pirates are imun to corruption cause they pray to Umberlee.
Why is PK'ing different in general when you attack a caravan?
It appears if you attack and kill players who defend one, than nothing happens to you?
Maybe I'm wrong but until now no one even ever said anything refuting back to me on that matter.
Even though lorewise it doesn't make sense. Not even gameplaywise.
You PK someone to steal his loot while he gathered something alone in the world. No matter how little.
If you assault a caravan you are doing the exact same thing and for bigger rewards even.
Yet... this is not seen as "PK'ing"?
Why is PK'ing different in general when you attack a caravan?
It appears if you attack and kill players who defend one, than nothing happens to you?
Maybe I'm wrong but until now no one even ever said anything refuting back to me on that matter.
Even though lorewise it doesn't make sense. Not even gameplaywise.
You PK someone to steal his loot while he gathered something alone in the world. No matter how little.
If you assault a caravan you are doing the exact same thing and for bigger rewards even.
Yet... this is not seen as "PK'ing"?
Dripyula
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Re: Fundamental problem with MMOs I want Ashes to Avoid
Steven is designing Ashes for gamers with a Hardcore-Challenge playstyle because that best fits Steven's playstyle.
Which is why Ashes is now so heavily focused on Risk v Reward (rather than Meaningful Conflict).
Risk v Reward is now the 2nd Design Pillar (if not the 1st).
Steven wants gamers playing Ashes to have to work hard for their Rewards.
"Meaningful" conflict huh? I remember Alliance & Horde players cleaving each others skulls appart in openworld PvP just for the sake of it. Good old times man. This rush is something I will never feel again probably.
But my point was and is always about the longevity of Ashes, which I now came to worry over inevitably.
People cannot be predicted that much anyway of course. When I would be right, I'd say WoW should have died years ago but people play it out of all kinds of reasons.
Mostly addicted one's I bet.
But Ashes of Creation is different.
It does not have that big hype culture community like the Warcraft universe has.
Or the fact that people invested so much time into WoW that they fear to quit now, thinking they will have nothing left after it.
We all know it that Ashes has only one thing going for itself which no MMO ever had before.
And that is the highly reactive gameworld to the actions of the players themself, which is just so fascinating.
BUT... that can become a doubleedged sword quite quickly too.
And that is if people start feeling way too inferior to other guilds, probably consisting out of nolifers.
People quit games over this and those who remain are the most ugly and toxic gamers you see in all games or gamemodes within such games.
# "Sea of Thieves hourglass mode"
I experienced more toxicity, hatred and profanity in half a month of playing this mode, than in 5 years prior to the mode COMBINED and that is telling something.
People can try to ignore it or act like they do not understand what I am saying.
But I doubt anyone wants Ashes to become "the most toxic MMO" that has ever existed.
And if elitists will be too powerful, this is what WILL happen most probably.
Hence my suggestion to give the nolifers a server where it will make sense to play +4 hours, or +8 hours and up to infinity and more, within a single day without experiecning a heavy restriction.
As in... if your playtime exceeds +4 hours for the 4 hours servertype, or 8 hours servertype and more, that you simply cannot gain any experience anymore, or ressources etc. *for that remaining reallife day!*
I say give players the ability to choose between such servertypes.
They will make their choice, will have to live with it and cannot blame anyone anymore what happens afterwards on their server.
And the probability of people experiencing PvP on an even playingfield will maximize.
If not this might become a sh*tshow with the occasional, pitiful slaughters, potentially followed up by massive ragequits, followed up by stuff no one wants to see.
I had deathtreats and more thrown at me in WoW already in 2005/2006.
And nowdays people are even crazier than ever before.
The best worse case is a ragequit and one subscriber lost forever.
The darker cases we do not even wanna know about.
Nothing speaks against the different servertypes.
Only elitists would hate them, thinking it might deprive them from overly easy victorys.
For instead of facing dozens of casuals they might only encounter guilds of equal skill and nolife'ness as themself which makes every battle actually exciting.
But I say more fighting less gloating.
Make people work for it indeed. Not just in a PvE sense.
Casual players should not become "mobs" for the psychos of every MMO.
Dripyula
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Re: " Endgame " in Ashes of Creation ( Video )
One wheel, two wheel, red wheel, blue wheel…some are thin and some are fat, some are tall and some are small, this one has a little star, my what a lot of wheels there are…
All mmos are a hamster wheel, just find the one you think is prettiest.
All mmos are a hamster wheel, just find the one you think is prettiest.
CROW3
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Re: Asmon day 1 in Verra after his first Death
Asmon has been somewhat good at saying "this game is just not for me, but I'm glad it's trying to do smth others don't" lately, so I hope he manages to say the same. But I'm sure that his audience will still trash on Ashes for its design, even if he does say that.100% Asmon is almost the opposite of the target audience, and as soon as A2 opens and he finds out about Death Penalties, PK, Caravans, Mules, Open World competition, Node sieges, Naval content etc his negative opinions will influence the masses trash on the design, a lot more than his current "game has no art style" takes, I hope StevenSharif is ready of this
NiKr
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Re: Asmon day 1 in Verra after his first Death
100% Asmon is almost the opposite of the target audience, and as soon as A2 opens and he finds out about Death Penalties, PK, Caravans, Mules, Open World competition, Node sieges, Naval content etc his negative opinions will influence the masses trash on the design, a lot more than his current "game has no art style" takes, I hope @StevenSharif is ready of this,
and PvP should absolutely be enabled for A2, maybe just dont have PvP from level 1, have people finish a tutorial quest first ending with a big pop up about corruption and PvP and enable it at level 3 or smt
and PvP should absolutely be enabled for A2, maybe just dont have PvP from level 1, have people finish a tutorial quest first ending with a big pop up about corruption and PvP and enable it at level 3 or smt
Liniker
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Re: Welcome! Introduce Yourself Here
Hey everyone, veteran MMO player here. Started back with Asheron's call 1 and 2, EverQuest and several others. Asheron's Call 2 probably sits most fondly in my heart. Been playing Wow since 2004 as well.
Really looking forward to this. Is there anyway to get a key or access these days?
Really looking forward to this. Is there anyway to get a key or access these days?
Erdrickk
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Re: Welcome! Introduce Yourself Here
Yooo! I bought founders before it expired! I've been following this game for a while and slowly stopped playing my regular MMOs (FF14 and WOW) in anticipation for this game.
I never could get into games like BDO and Archage, as they had a ton of issues with progression and monetization for me (they could be different now) but this game has been a great blend of sandbox and traditional MMO from what I've seen. Looking forward to Alpha 2!
I never could get into games like BDO and Archage, as they had a ton of issues with progression and monetization for me (they could be different now) but this game has been a great blend of sandbox and traditional MMO from what I've seen. Looking forward to Alpha 2!
Kerchew
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Re: Asmon day 1 in Verra after his first Death
10000% pvp. Well, at least on release. I'd imagine A2 will have pvp disabled for quite a while, so he'll die to mobs there. But if he does play on release - he gets killed before he exists the first location (unless they disable pvp there as well).Do we have bets on how Asmon dies first?
PvP or PvE?
I hope PvP isn't off for the launch of A2, I want to see the chaos. lol
Vyril
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