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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.
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Azherae
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This post turned out to be unhelpful feedback since it doesn't align with Ashes' design or the expectations of currently-engaged forumers (so, no point in discussing it).
Those who are concerned for any reason that I removed it, the original text is quoted further down, I'm changing this one to be clearer about the fact that I'm no longer committed to discussing or refining it since it's so out-of-alignment.
Also fine with the post just being deleted by mods.
Thanks to everyone who helped me.
Those who are concerned for any reason that I removed it, the original text is quoted further down, I'm changing this one to be clearer about the fact that I'm no longer committed to discussing or refining it since it's so out-of-alignment.
Also fine with the post just being deleted by mods.
Thanks to everyone who helped me.
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The respawns could be smth like "2 pieces of leather, a set of weapon materials, some food, some glint" and all of this will be used per death during the war's events. The defending node would be able to buy discounted respawns at the start of the war by combining node storage items and tax money. And mayor commissions should include at least one "war prep" tasks at all times, and it'd be on the mayor to decide how high the chances of a war happening soon are.
The "at-discretion" thing is nice imo, so I'd definitely like to see that as well. And I think that my suggestion would add a more strategic outlook on this mechanic. Do you risk losing more respawns or do you give up a fight in the war to save more respawns for later.
We could even have specialized respawn mats, where dpses could die more often than tanks, or vice versa.
1- I think your first question is flawed. the 30-70 split seems to me like you would separate objectives between "do this pve only activity" and "kill each other". the whole war and events are pvp. even if you separated the warring groups and made them kill the mobs for blood and gather the flowers and deliver them to the base without the interference of the enemies, it would still be a PVP event, since the win condition isn't to kill mobs or gather flowers, it is to do so before your enemies. also, considering what we saw during the showcase, you will be doing these things while fighting enemies. fundamentally, there wont be any pve activity during the node war.
maybe what you mean is some separation where you either kill mobs or chop trees, or you kill players. but again, even then, you are still competing against other players.
2- for your second question, I don't care about a small group having a chance to shine in a fight vs another small group for an objective during a node war. node wars are meant for large scale battles. the only reason something for a small group would be implemented is to force a certain type of player to have a small scale fight.
you can still have small scale fights. is all about player strategy. if there is one big zerg in the map, you can split your forces and kill mobs at different spots or gather the flowers. the big zerg cant be everywhere at once. you could also send a couple of parties away from the zerg to get objectives at a different spot in the map. i like that currently these things arent forced. being in the zerg or away from it is more about players strategy, which is a great thing IMO.
3- once every 4-8 weeks or something. node wars require preparation, but we will also have castle sieges, bosses and other things to do in the game that will also require preparation. if the wars are too frequent, this can get annoying. now you will have to spend all your time trying to prepare for the war instead of doing the other things you want to do in the game. the wars also last several days
also, destroying a node is a huge thing, it shouldn't happen too often.
id like something along the lines of 1 week (or maybe just a few days) of war without the events (so you can kill each other without corruption). then about a week (or a few days) of the events. then a couple of weeks where the declaration scroll cant be farmed. then, after that, the system opens up a way to farm the declaration scroll, which make take a couple of more weeks to be farmed.
4- don't care about the rewards. just something that isn't 100% necessary for progression
I agree with @Depraved on the first point, it’s almost moot to create a proportion of PvE/PvP tasks. The scope of a Node War is entirely pvp. All collection and kill x robber tasks are in service to pvp objectives to achieve a pvp goal.
If we’re talking Node Sieges, where PvX is much more emphasized, I have a totally different perspective.
Node Wars remind me of ‘Hell Let Loose’ (worth some time playing) which has large scale team objective play.
To your point about limiting firepower on the field, you could employ more powerful weapons (longbow +10) or multipliers (oil of impact aka grenades) in limited quantities that can be crafted using finite material harvested during the war or found on the field. Meaning you could allocate resources to respawns (using your idea) or more powerful weapons - some blend of the two - as a strategy.
I still think it would be best to add two other elements - terrain advantages/disadvantages, and player roles that can buff their team when alive and debuff their team when killed. Those two things would create richer battle strategies.
Also, for all that is good and right in Verra please add a capture the flag mode for Node Wars.
for example, you can say ok we need 2 archer parties, 2 mage parties and 1 melee party. or maybe 3 archers, 1 mage 1 melee. maybe we just want rogues on the melee party, or maybe just warriors, etc.
players who want to organize should be able to do so, and players who don't, shouldn't be forced or excluded because they don't have a character that meets some weapon or build reqs.
Rip Steven's dream of having a pvx game
pvx is different. you can still have some activities that ar eonly pvp or only pve. but a node war is literally a PVP activity, because the win condition is to beat other players, even if you are just killing mobs or chopping trees to do so.
when steven says pvx he refers to doing things like fighting mobs and fighting players. you could be fighting mobs (which is a pve activity on its own, without adding a win condition that requires you to beat other players). your goal is to level up or farm an item and to do this you have to beat the CPU/AI. then another player comes and can fight you, now you entered pvp mode.
your condition to level up isn't to beat the other player, its to kill mobs. you are temporarily competing to kill said mobs with another player. the enemy player is a temporary obstacle. note the word temporary here. this is why the game is pvx. you don't queue up for an instance or a battleground / arena to do pve or pvp. they can both happen at any time and you are entering and leaving pvp or pve mode constantly (I'm using pvp and pve in this sentence to describe fighting mobs where your objective is to fight mobs or to fight players where your objective is to fight players).
Node sieges are PvX without question.
I'm confused you are having this take. In a PvX game end goal is to beat another player yes lol. The PvX means there is PvE included as well and not just players. He has been very clear on this, doing the objectives will get you plenty of points, and if no players show up you will get even more points based on objectives.
If your farming can be stopped by a player - it's a pvx activity, no matter your goal. And if an event uses pvx activities as its content - that's a pvx event. Just as Ashes is a pvx game because majority of its content is pvx.
In other words, the war still has pvx rewards.
1:04:50 about phase rewards
1:14:15 war rewards, with final one being "enabling pve content"
A new boss is a start, but I’m hoping for a lot more PvE-ish impact. We’ll see. I’m ok with large scale pvp battles for the sake of pvp battles too. 👍
It's not worthwhile feedback yet.
Might never be.
The golden words are Intrepid's not mine, so I might not interpret them right. So for this one:
What do you believe the perfect balance to be between PvE and PvP objectives?
I'm not the one defining 'PvE' here, and I did make some assumptions, yes. Is it that you think the 'correct' answer is 0-100, because all Node War events are (or should be) PvP?
I just checked vaknar's node thread, and you are right. those are his words, not yours. in that case, I believe vaknar's question is flawed (or incorrectly phrased?). node wars are pvp by default, since the win condition is to beat other players and other players are also an obstacle.
the way he Is asking seems that he is trying to say that there will be some separation of activities where the players have to fight other players or fight the cpu/ai without playing interference. but even then, you are fighting the cpu/ai to win the war vs players, not to win the war vs the cpu/ai.
if we are just talking about activities with or without the potential player interference, id prefer player interference 100% of the time. then I can strategize and decide to fight the players or be sneaky and gather those rubies, etc.
I think they mean things like a pack level 52 elite mobs that is designed for a party of 8 level 50s to defeat, defending a capture point or something.
As opposed to just a blank capture point that is only contested by the enemy team and not NPCs.
Personally, as per my other post, I think all the objectives should have PVE Mob packs designed for a specific group level/size and can only be attacked by Objective Parties who will be the "PVE" groups in this case. All extra players will be PVPing as a way to assist the Objective Party, but can't agro the mobs or do the Objectives.
It's harder to say because Steven did also answer that there was a possibility of instanced points within the Node War, where some smaller group goes into a miniboss instance.
I don't think it was entirely clear if a rival group of equal size could follow them.
I think I agree with you, considering that... I don't know enough about the system to give an answer to the question without explaining a bunch of stuff, even more stuff than I explained for the second prompt.
Having reread your responses to me/the other prompts, I feel moreso like it was actually better not to address them in the main thread.
You've been really helpful in getting me to see the difference in the way even these questions can be viewed in the context of a PvP game, so I think as of now, I am back to 'don't actually have feedback'.
I think that's what Vaknar is asking about. How many pve objectives should there be and how many pvp. Both can have the other side of the scale, but their core activity is one or the other.
This is why I keep saying that the activity itself is what matters, rather than the final result/goal of the overarching event.
yes but the thing is, even if you are fighting mobs, you are doing pvp. the goal is to kill those mobs before your enemies do. its still competitive activity. player vs player. the goal isn't simply to kill the mobs (pve activity) the goal is to kill the mobs before your enemies do (PVP activity). wether your enemies interfere or not, this still a PVP activity.
the only way there could be a true pve activity in a node war is if the outcome of that pve activity didn't affect the war, which makes no sense since its a war between players. that's why the question makes no sense to me.
i guess vaknar just means the ratio of killing mobs vs killing players.
I think he said that not gonna happen at first, but they might add something like that later on, but most likely not.
its not a pve objective. the objective in the video was to get 100 rubies or 100 drops of blood from mobs. why? to advance to the next stage (casting stage) faster than your opponent. you could also kill other players and take the mobs blood or rubies. its a war objective, not a PVE objective. the win condition is to do it before your opponent does. on top of that, they can interfere and hinder your progress. that smells like pvp everywhere, not pve at all.
If the objective required any pvp activities - you couldn't finish it w/o doing that pvp activity, but that is not the case.
The "1 pvp kill = 1 point" is a purely pvp objective, because you cannot finish it w/o doing pvp, but you can definitely do it w/o ever coming across a mob or any gathering location.
Are all nodes created equal? Is it possible to build a metropolis in all of them at the same cost? Do they all contain all end game gatherables at exactly the same level (in the same quantities)? Is this the same for all types of node, in all biomes? Can I get say the very best end game ores out of a level 4 mountain node, and have the very best forge for weaponsmithing in the node if it is a military node (say)?
Or are the best minerals going to be obtained from a level 6 mountain node, and they may not be obtainable on servers that don't have one?
I know it is not directly related to the showcase, but it does seem like something that would help make a nodes go to war in order to get an increased yield from gathering/questing in a neighboring POI.
Otherwise I can't see the point of this limited war.
all objectives in a node war are pvp objectives. you are slowly turning into noaani xd.
forum has been weird lately. nooani and me agreeing on one thread and arguing with u, then you him, dygz and azheare fighting each other on another thread instead of fighting me. are we suddenly in the twilight zone?
lets say you are shooting hoops. you can shoot 10 times and if you miss more than 3 times, you are out. you need to score 7/10 to win (kind of like how 70 is a passing grade in school). that's a pve activity.
now, lets say you can shoot 10 times, and there is another player at the other side of the court also shooting 10 times. whoever scores more times win. in case of a draw, whoever finished his shots faster wins. this is a PVP activity.
in this 2nd case, you are doing the exact same thing as the first one, which is shooting the exact same ball into the exact same hoop at the exact same court, yet one activity is pvp and the other one is pve. so yes, the end result, the obstacles and the win condition matter to decide whether something is pvp and pve, not just the activity itself.
not all nodes are the same, and you get higher level stuff and content form higher level nodes. not all the node scan reach max level, or even the 2nd highest level.
Personally I kind of agree with this take. The Node Wars as shown seem to work for a scripted group vs group scenario. But the incentives don't really seem to be that great from an actual game perspective.
Taking over a chunk of land is clunky. I'd rather the Nodes have stable borders and just do a flat 5% Node Contribution leech for 14 days or something. Stable Borders give the Nodes more identity. Also less programming hassle.
You "declared a war", but no one came to fight you. Would you consider this a pvp or a pve activity? Because that's what can happen in node wars. And you'll still win, because the basic rules of the game do not require the presence of the other players during said activity.
Hell, even the war declaration itself doesn't require their presence, because you could declare a war on a node that has just lost all of its citizens and simply hasn't decayed yet.
So, as I've been saying, the activity becomes pvx if the absent side of the pvx scale shows up, so if you're killing mobs and players show up to either kill you or the mobs - that's pvx. Same with gathering, same with war objectives, etc.
But the activity itself is inherently pve, because that's what you gotta do to win it.