No specific level areas and everyone playing together

Hi,

we know, that there are no specific level areas like in most Mmos.
We know that there is some content especially for high level characters, for example bosses spawning for events or dungeons etc., but everyone is more or less playing in the same area.

That means most of the sandbox content like node wars, caravans etc. Is shared with everyone. We know that ashes will require quite some time to reach max level, so my question is what will the game do/what is planned to enable everyone playing together without blocking non maxlevel players from most of the interesting content?

Even when iam level 20 I have a fair interest in my cities caravan reaching another city, or defending my city etc, but what is the point in joining any of these activities when you die after two hits?

For me this is quite an important question that makes the games system work or break. The caravans and nodes are the key features of the game, when it's too much dominated by max level people and the rest has to play first for a month to participate in that, it's not motivating for most of the people and the result is potentially that it will fail.

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Dygz

Test it in Alpha 2 and find out.

George_Black

The pvp in gw2 was optional. That's not what AoC is going for with the flagging system. If a low player "participates in a meaningful way" alongside high lv players that's a sign of a shallow mmo that people will be bored after 3 weeks.

Forget about scaling. What overlap are you talking about? Higher lv players of a node will be at the boarders of the nodes influence, taking on the more challenging environment, to reap the best rewards, while possibly having conflicts of interests with other higher lv players. The noobs will be at the center of the node, basically around the town, taking on weak content.
There has been castle sieges and such in other mmos. If you are low level going there is a waste of time. Go xp and come back a couple months later. We are not going to bring down the power of the players that put in the effort, just so that weak players can participate in the most awesome PvP content that is sieges, which will be once in a while. Screw that. There might be some plants (cannons rams catapults) and crap like that for low level players to use. But when the higher lv comes at them, yes I expect them to lick the floor, and fast.

You want things handed to you and that's the bottom of the line. You can say all you want "it's not motivating for most players" and other lines like that, but hey.. go and look up some quotes from Steven. Be free to delude your self like some others.

Flawed system? Nah mate. You just dont agree with it. People in this day and age correlate their views with the word correct. I find many other games flawed. And my proof that they are flawed is that I dont play them anymore. Why? Because of scaling, dedicated pvp areas and other things that make the whole point of PROGRESS meaningless. And if progress is meaningless in an mmo then what's the point.

Open world pvp doesn't mean that players overlap and so there should be scaling for those that played for months and those that played for a week. Get real..
"Low lvs should participate meaningfully". Ye, they should go level and maybe fight other low lv players. Leave sieges to those with experience and gear.
Btw, AoC isn't the first game with sieges trade runs and what not. How on earth did you come with the idea that low lv players should hold their own against higher lv?

I'm done with you.

Garrtok

Lower level characters will have usefulness in mass combat that does not depend on their level, such as manning siege weapons, helping repair fortifications, bringing proximity-based buffs to key positions, using stealth or scaling walls. These types of things are relevant to the tide of battle and do not require the player to be max-level or have high combat stats.

Thats from the wiki and a propper answer to my question. Thanks alot for your passive aggressive answer.

Warth

Garrtok wrote: »

Lower level characters will have usefulness in mass combat that does not depend on their level, such as manning siege weapons, helping repair fortifications, bringing proximity-based buffs to key positions, using stealth or scaling walls. These types of things are relevant to the tide of battle and do not require the player to be max-level or have high combat stats.

Thats from the wiki and a propper answer to my question. Thanks alot for your passive aggressive answer.

With this being said,

if I (or anybody for that matter), had the choice between a LvL 20 or a LvL 50 to bring along, then pretty much everybody would choose the Level 50 and thats how it should be.

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