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Now I didn't say follow the migration of mobs, you could if you can predict where they are going but I meant bring new
Mobs to the area, change their hang out locations and maybe have nothing spawn in that area at all based on time of day and what not. My main concern is people staying in 1 spot and not being social or moving and enjoying the lore and everything the game has to offer, everyone wants to do their own thing which is great but keep the world turning is all I'm saying
<div class="d4p-bbt-quote-title"><a href="https://www.ashesofcreation.com/forums/topic/steven-said-game-will-have-no-grind/page/2/#post-23961" rel="nofollow">Malic-Valdon wrote:</a></div>
LOL so a developer of an MMO at kickstarter says there will be no grind and youre all in?
Come on folks, some of you have claimed to have played MMO’s for decades. There is always some form of grind, you keep players on grinding until you can produce new content. Dont be bad consumers, trust your instincts and your histories.
No grind in an MMO, come on man. LOL
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I don’t understand what you mean. We’re not here to promote “no grind” mmos. Many of us in this thread are already backing the kickstarter and supporting the game. My instincts tell me that this game has the potential to be very good, so I support it.
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I dont think I could possibly be any clearer so if you dont know what I mean I dont know what else to say.
Thank you for the reply though, see you around the forums.
<div class="d4p-bbt-quote-title"><a href="https://www.ashesofcreation.com/forums/topic/steven-said-game-will-have-no-grind/page/2/#post-23961" rel="nofollow">Malic-Valdon wrote:</a></div>
LOL so a developer of an MMO at kickstarter says there will be no grind and youre all in?
Come on folks, some of you have claimed to have played MMO’s for decades. There is always some form of grind, you keep players on grinding until you can produce new content. Dont be bad consumers, trust your instincts and your histories.
No grind in an MMO, come on man. LOL
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I don’t understand what you mean. We’re not here to promote “no grind” mmos. Many of us in this thread are already backing the kickstarter and supporting the game. My instincts tell me that this game has the potential to be very good, so I support it.
[/quote]I don’t think I can be any clearer and if you didn’t know what I meant then any elaboration going forward would be folly.
Thanks for the reply though, see you around the forums.
<div class="d4p-bbt-quote-title"><a href="https://www.ashesofcreation.com/forums/topic/steven-said-game-will-have-no-grind/page/2/#post-23961" rel="nofollow">Malic-Valdon wrote:</a></div>
LOL so a developer of an MMO at kickstarter says there will be no grind and youre all in?
Come on folks, some of you have claimed to have played MMO’s for decades. There is always some form of grind, you keep players on grinding until you can produce new content. Dont be bad consumers, trust your instincts and your histories.
No grind in an MMO, come on man. LOL
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I don’t understand what you mean. We’re not here to promote “no grind” mmos. Many of us in this thread are already backing the kickstarter and supporting the game. My instincts tell me that this game has the potential to be very good, so I support it.
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I don’t think I can be any clearer and if you didn’t know what I meant then any elaboration going forward would be folly.
Thanks for the reply though, see you around the forums.
How many posts have you had eaten today? LOL
I don’t think I can be any clearer and if you didn’t know what I meant then any elaboration going forward would be folly.
Thanks for the reply though, see you around the forums.
Come on folks, some of you have claimed to have played MMO’s for decades. There is always some form of grind, you keep players on grinding until you can produce new content. Dont be bad consumers, trust your instincts and your histories.
No grind in an MMO, come on man. LOL
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Grinding is usually the hallmark of a themepark mmo that can't keep up on releasing new content fast enough for its players, so they put in systems to slow down player progress with repetitive gameplay. What the devs for AoC are trying to do is to put in a non-linear progression that branches into many different things to do that you be overwhelmed with choices. You can of course repeat doing the same thing if you chose to but you can also do many other things which all contributes to the game in some way.
Now I didn’t say follow the migration of mobs, you could if you can predict where they are going but I meant bring new
Mobs to the area, change their hang out locations and maybe have nothing spawn in that area at all based on time of day and what not. My main concern is people staying in 1 spot and not being social or moving and enjoying the lore and everything the game has to offer, everyone wants to do their own thing which is great but keep the world turning is all I’m saying
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THIS.
this has summarised all my feelings.
grinding is fine and all, but make it so that it requires some actual skill to play, not just repeating the same dumb AOE over and over.
and definitely not on the same spot
The more different type of stuff you can use to progress, the less of a Grind it will feel in the end.
which from my core perspective is killing particular mobs in an optimal location spawn zone or repetition of specific content for exp.
Occasionally these areas are also contested for viable farming and reputation
I can't say from personally experience in the past that any of these scenarios were 'fun'
and typically were detrimental to the whole world/community/economy health.
I am not opposed to the 'grind' but I feel that a diminishing returns principal should be in place to keep the player moving and engaged with the greater environment and put a handbrake on any possible exploitative aspects of typical grinding...
My point is not to brag, just to point out that grind is a very vague term.
My point is not to brag, just to point out that grind is a very vague term.
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Not really vague.
The common feature is doing monotonous work to reach max level as fast as possible.
Literally grinding out progress.
I think what Steven means with the no "grind" is that the game may not be like Black Desert Online/Lineage 2 where you need to kill 100000s of mobs to level and that is really the only way to level. I am sure in the game you can kill mobs to progress, but they want to add other ways to progress and a lot of things to progress in. I highly doubt the game will be without some form of a grind
Do caravans sure xp up there.
I think we are all thinking there will be no grind but there will always be.
You just get to choose how you want to level.
We are not forced to grind like lineage or the Korean games or Everquest.
It's going to be the best of both worlds.
It's all relative. Generally for the most of us in Western mmo's the grind isn't that bad but it doesn't mean people love it.
Though, looking at this thread it seems like most don't really mind if there's something to get out of it / it's optional. It's mainly forcing players to grind to level up for a long amount of time that people take issue with and I think that's what Steven was referring to overall.
Choices.
So I suppose that I agree with most here. Intentional grinding because it gives more exp/hour or I want 1,000 oak logs NOW is my choice and not "Grind By Design".
The common feature is doing monotonous work to reach max level as fast as possible.
Literally grinding out progress.
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So like I said, it's really vague.
There people who think WoW in it's current state where you can max level in under a week is grindy.
That said, there are different ways to make grinding more rewarding/less of a chore.
I was quite impressed by the Dark Fall: Unholy Wars level/prestige System where you had to grind prestige from all sorts of activities in the game (combat & noncombat) to gain prestige at certain thresholds, which you could in turn use to unlock active or passive abilities, from an improved dodge roll to higher health regen. Maybe they could find a compromise between a levelling system and a prestige system?
Another option would be something like what bdo attempted (unsuccessfully) to do, where you gain beast mastery for every monster of a kind you've defeated. Since the story is all about learning of an ancient civilization you could be rewarded for gathering information about monsters by killing them or locations by completing quests in them and in turn being rewarded by the growing city's zone you are doing these things in.
There are ways to make it fun/rewarding, but at the end of the day MMOs and grinding goes hand in hand in one way or another, which isn't necessarily a bad thing in the first place.
<div class="d4p-bbt-quote-title"><a href="https://www.ashesofcreation.com/forums/topic/steven-said-game-will-have-no-grind/page/3/#post-24433" rel="nofollow">Rune_Relic wrote:</a></div>
Not really vague.
The common feature is doing monotonous work to reach max level as fast as possible.
Literally grinding out progress.
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So like I said, it’s really vague.
There people who think WoW in it’s current state where you can max level in under a week is grindy.
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as it was said, you can never really please everyone. Even if you could grind to max level in a day, ppl will still say it's grindy.
I personally feel grinding should be optional, and the mid-game should essentially be as much fun as end game,as in I can make contributions even when I'm in mid-game levels, although it won't be as high as if I was end game.
Also, one thing I never really understood. Why does everyone want to rush to the end-game so fast? it's not like you become a god end-game or super-skilled or anything like that. in fact you only learn to crowd control well.
<div class="d4p-bbt-quote-title"><a href="https://www.ashesofcreation.com/forums/topic/steven-said-game-will-have-no-grind/page/3/#post-24433" rel="nofollow">Rune_Relic wrote:</a></div>
Not really vague.
The common feature is doing monotonous work to reach max level as fast as possible.
Literally grinding out progress.
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So like I said, it’s really vague.
There people who think WoW in it’s current state where you can max level in under a week is grindy.
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lol
Touche
BUT if they mean no gear grind at all then I'm kinda sad. GW2 did that -> all gear is basically equal and I felt bored and had nothing to do very fast. I want to feel like I'm progressing my character the whole game, not only while leveling. I want to feel enouraged to run end game content for my own personal-only gain, not only for my node/community gain :P.
I hope they can make me feel like that.
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Yep FFXI had the same setup. I agree that this type of grind was fun because it really was and you got to know the people well you were playing with. Also during the days before WOW we didnt rush to end game just to raid. People forget that in games like FFXI and SWG and even UO while a grind existed most players didnt grind because it was very boring. Just take the Holocron Grind in SWG where you could grind 30+ classes just to get a Jedi. Most people gave up after a short period of time. In UO and SWG yea people maybe did do a bit of a grind to max a certain skill, BUT they didnt grind to rush to end game. They played the game and as they played the game their character became more powerful and then they took on more powerful mobs.
I think the problem comes from the race to raiding where grinding comes from.
<strong>My thought:</strong>
I think they will try to do they same quest style like Guild Wars 2. All quest are different and you aren't able to do the same quest in the same way again so every quest will be unique and since the quest isn't repeatable it isn't grinding.