Glorious Alpha Two Testers!
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You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
For our initial launch, testing will begin on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific and continue uninterrupted until Monday, January 6, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. After January 6th, we’ll transition to a schedule of five-day-per-week access for the remainder of Phase II.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
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Anyway, the boundaries between insanity and genius are said to be rather blurred for a reason.
:D
Oh Boy...thats some wall of text.
I'll get back to that later.
Promise.
sadly, I don't rn.
I apologize if it's too long, but I shall not put chains to limit them! (Ω―Ω)
They can declare themselves passive, neutral, aggressive.
Rather than have the system do it for them.
The problem i see with that is people can switch from state to state at leisure.
And thus game/exploit the system with ease.
Eg I switch from aggressive to passive mid-fight because I dont like losing.
Theres others, but the point is giving the players control over this, also gives them the ability to abuse it.
Duelling as a 1st past the post system rather than unto death.....dont mind.
Has its merits. Especially with death penalties.
Player based betting on outcomes of events.
I have no issue with this, or rather had no issues until the onset of the stock market.
Read only metrics to garner progress is not the same as write aspects that influence events (eg stocks/shares).
Corporeal vs Ethereal damage/energy.
The greatest problem is nearly always an OR function is used.
You suck at one or you suck at both when you try and hybrid.
There is no AND mechanism in the system so no facility to balance them properly.
eg Energy vs Strength rather than
Energy skills vs energy/strength compound skills vs strengths skill
No company to date, has addressed this properly.
A or B or C or D
A & B balanced
A & C balanced
A & D balanced
B & C balanced
B & D balanced
C & D balanced
A & B & C balanced
A & B & D balanced
A & C & D balanced
B & C & D balanced
A & B & C & D balanced
Thats only 4 attributes, but it actually defines 16 potential distinct hybrid classes.
Are you talking about tuning weapons to class as a secondary rather than secondary skills ?
Didnt quite follow that.
Attack speed.
This is another area where many modern games are broken by animation cancelling.
Any finely balanced system that are speed dependant are instantly broken and unbalanced.
Many system are based of cost/hit with preset cool-down rather than damage/second.
Until system fully utilise dps hps or mps as the basis of costing,
you can never really have a truly dynamic system.
That means things like power vs speed has to be intimately related compound attribute.
Raising one lowers the other to keep the dps and costing in check.
TL;DR
I think Ashes has already gone a long way to what you desire.
I dont think their system design can accommodate the rest from what we know.
They can declare themselves passive, neutral, aggressive.
Rather than have the system do it for them.
The problem i see with that is people can switch from state to state at leisure.
And thus game/exploit the system with ease.
Eg I switch from aggressive to passive mid-fight because I dont like losing.
Theres others, but the point is giving the players control over this, also gives them the ability to abuse it.
Duelling as a 1st past the post system rather than unto death…..dont mind.
Has its merits. Especially with death penalties.
Player based betting on outcomes of events.
I have no issue with this, or rather had no issues until the onset of the stock market.
Read only metrics to garner progress is not the same as write aspects that influence events (eg stocks/shares).
Corporeal vs Ethereal damage/energy.
The greatest problem is nearly always an OR function is used.
You suck at one or you suck at both when you try and hybrid.
There is no AND mechanism in the system so no facility to balance them properly.
eg Energy vs Strength rather than
Energy skills vs energy/strength compound skills vs strengths skill
No company to date, has addressed this properly.
A or B or C or D
A & B balanced
A & C balanced
A & D balanced
B & C balanced
B & D balanced
C & D balanced
A & B & C balanced
A & B & D balanced
A & C & D balanced
B & C & D balanced
A & B & C & D balanced
Thats only 4 attributes, but it actually defines 16 potential distinct hybrid classes.
Are you talking about tuning weapons to class as a secondary rather than secondary skills ?
Didnt quite follow that.
Attack speed.
This is another area where many modern games are broken by animation cancelling.
Any finely balanced system that are speed dependant are instantly broken and unbalanced.
Many system are based of cost/hit with preset cool-down rather than damage/second.
Until system fully utilise dps hps or mps as the basis of costing,
you can never really have a truly dynamic system.
That means things like power vs speed has to be intimately related compound attribute.
Raising one lowers the other to keep the dps and costing in check.
TL;DR
I think Ashes has already gone a long way to what you desire.
I dont think their system design can accommodate the rest from what we know.
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Sorry if it offends you, but did you even read it properly? Your whole text don't make much sense to me about what I wrote, can you read it again and see if it's that I made a mistake I'm not aware of? (Since I can't find it...)
Also, about attack speed, I didn't intend it to break the game, but you can't make a agility based class like a rogue to have the same speed as a tank or a mage, can you? It would take away the immersive touch instantly, I mean, Hunter/Assassin/Ranger classes always are faster than most other classes, be it in evading and/or movement/attack speed, I don't see how it would break the game.
So well, can you give me more detailed info based on what AoC devs have said in all their livestream so far? (My suggestions and ideas are mostly based on what they've said so far).
Communication is 50% explanation and 50% comprehension.
so...I guess I dont understand.
/shrugs