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Go away with your fearmongering misinformation spreading.

9 out of 250 doesn't sound like the whole studio…? It's shitty for those 9, for sure.

What? Adding idle character animations not enough content for you? It's so funny they put that at the top of the PTR notes XD. When the game is currently being ravaged by bots.

I'd say you are alone in this feeling.

Riverlands are surrounded by mountains, the entire continent is surrounded by ocean, each desert ZoI is a different form of desert to the point you can recognise the nodes from a screenshot almost anywhere in the node, the anvils and the jundark are anything but easy to traverse, and thats not counting the mobs. and the tropics are just that, islands and water with various differing inclines to them.

Maybe if you only ever move around the riverlands between New Aela/Joeva/Halcyon/Winstead, then ill agree its 90% flatland, but everything east of the aelean divine gate is drastically different.

as for your idea of complex tunnels, thats the underworld that is planned, albeit the scope has gone from an underground continent spanning the whole world to certain choke points, its still the same concept (and that massive shift does make me sad too)

as for thoughtful traveling, once you've found paths then you dont need to find it anymore, if anything i'd say we would benefit from a fog of war until we explore the map in that area, let us actually explore you know?

after slogging to 25 once. i tried to lvl a tank and i couldnt get to even lvl 10 without quitting. killing one mob at a time for over an hour for a level under level 10 is just bad. the difference in gear between initiate and adept is too steep. almost quit on my first 25 pre lvl 10 but i hit 10 and got adept gear and the game got way better. either buff initiate gear or nerf low level monsters. as a tank i should be able to pull 3 to 4 at least same level mobs and be able to kill them without having to eat food between every pull. its a miserable slog.

mobs need better drops throughout but especially at low levels. the difference gear makes is so huge that without it the game is not fun at all.

if u wanna keep players alts are a huge factor.

1. Bots, this problem is just ridiculous. They steal resources from actual players, they effect the economy. the other problem is, it is allowable to kill a player and loot their items, however kill a bot loot their items and get banned. So botting is encouraged. Hmm.
2. Crafting is ridiculous. the amount of materials needed to craft a item is out of line. for example to craft a Scaldplate radiant chest piece you will need 152 coppers, one piece of armor. Now if you want to craft it in any rarity consider the time spent farming the materials, thats not including the other materials needed. Also the limits on apprentice, journeyman, and master are terrible.
3. Stability, and lag spikes. This is unacceptable for a game that has been in development as long as this one. I understand it is a Alpha, however stability should be a number one concern. getting timed out while mining, lumberjacking, or just traveling is bad.
4. Why do I have to hide my helmet, cape every time I log in, or relog because I was disconnected, timed out? Bad QOL.

These are issues that should not exist in a quality game like AOC is trying to be. There should be active in game GM's that could directly address some of these issues. I really want to like this game.

1. There is a severe imbalance between classes when it comes to mob grinding, Warriors are head andshoulders above others right from the startthey can AoE 15 goblins in the newbie zone at Level 4, a featimpossible for other classes. Their solo grinding capability in the late game is far beyond the reach of anyother class. Archers play like complete jokes, with nothing but useless skills; all those fancy jumpinganimations are nothing but flashy fluff. Summoners' pets are mind-numbingly stupid and lack anysemblance of Al.
2. The crafting difficulty of the three equipment types is grossly unbalanced. Spawn points for tamableanimals are extremely uneven-some areas have dense spawns that attract hordes of players, while mostareas have few or even no spawns at all. This makes the entire process from hunting to leatherworking gearcrafting excessively challenging.
3. Food with quality bonuses comes with exorbitant costs, a cumbersome crafting process and huge timeinvestment, but the bonus effects are barely noticeable. Meanwhile, the market fails to offer reasonableprofits, making it pointless to waste a ton of gold and time on crafting them.
4. There's a severe shortage of mobs and dungeons. As time goes by, everyone ends up enslaved by life skillsGathering, mining, logging, fishing, hunting--doing these repetitive tasks day in and day out is just likehaving a full-time job in the game.