Bondurant
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Lithose
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Max effective trolling. Other games are currently popular, insult them--when WoW eventually burns people out during it's 12+ month content breaks, Itz cheerleads it....He's pretty transparent. If there was a thread denouncing Nazism, Itz would show up to talk about how many discoveries the Nazis made.
Vandyn
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I think the better lesson is if you allow ways for players to bypass or largely avoid PvP in what is supposed to be a PvP game, a majority of players are going to take advantage of that as much as they can. Also, everyone wants to be a wolf but only if the wolf has clear advantages over the sheep.
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...lawl, it's like you completely missed the analogy so you tried to explain it more but in that case made it make less sense. There is no circumstance in which a sheep has an advantage over a sheep.
"Everyone wants to be in the car, racing the bikes. So long as those bikes aren't faster than the car, that is!"
I agree with your first sentence though.
Tuco
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What's the eagle and the whale?
I think fishing has a good balance of risk vs reward for the wolf and the sheep. The sheep in this case are the fishermen who can earn a fairly consistent and tidy profit from fishing in PvP zones and taking the fish to a vendor to sell. The wolves can earn an extraordinarily good profit if they are skilled enough to form a small group and pick off small groups of fishermen, especially if they tag a fishing boat that doesn't have enough guards. But if the conditions aren't right, they aren't skilled or have too many wolves the profit will drop below what the fishermen get. Plus all the fishermen get to know the wolves and will attack them around the world or attack their guild. It really is some nice gameplay, biggest problem I have with it is that it's in water and I hate water combat.
If we had intercontinental trade pack runs for gold we'd probably see the same dynamic. Right now the wolves who want trade packs have to try to blockade them in safe zones and pull them into war zones which is a terrible gameplay mechanic. I guess 1.7 fixes that and makes sea combat much better.
I think fishing has a good balance of risk vs reward for the wolf and the sheep. The sheep in this case are the fishermen who can earn a fairly consistent and tidy profit from fishing in PvP zones and taking the fish to a vendor to sell. The wolves can earn an extraordinarily good profit if they are skilled enough to form a small group and pick off small groups of fishermen, especially if they tag a fishing boat that doesn't have enough guards. But if the conditions aren't right, they aren't skilled or have too many wolves the profit will drop below what the fishermen get. Plus all the fishermen get to know the wolves and will attack them around the world or attack their guild. It really is some nice gameplay, biggest problem I have with it is that it's in water and I hate water combat.
If we had intercontinental trade pack runs for gold we'd probably see the same dynamic. Right now the wolves who want trade packs have to try to blockade them in safe zones and pull them into war zones which is a terrible gameplay mechanic. I guess 1.7 fixes that and makes sea combat much better.
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Bruman
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It's not just you. I guess I'm a stereotype stupid American or something. I was unable to grok the point of that story.
T3 Hasla is for suckers if you're mage/healer/support. You'll still be needing to find an Epherium club or scepter if you PvP and want to be close to the same level as archers. The real ball kicker is them not releasing the Obsidian weapons.
This is also going to be a real kick in the balls for the armor market. If you're still in Illustrious or GHA, you're going to need to upgrade and fast.
The only real winners out of this are melee (which are pretty much meh until 55 comes out) and archers (who really don't need to be given more ammunition).
"The first Lodestone claimed in each zone confers ownership of the zone to the claiming guild and crowns its leaderLord of the zone.(At which point all other Archeum Lodestones in the zone will be deactivated.)"
So, Lord Tuco shortly?
So, Lord Tuco shortly?
Now I'm not sure if this is XLGames or Trion, but there is precedent for anyone pissed at Trion for this kind of stuff. They did things like this inDefiance:
Yet another reason to not trust Trion [Archive] - Defiance Forums
Not meant to have a turret huh?
Maybe they "misspoke" in ArcheAge as well... /shrug
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Skrigg
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Mind expounding on this statement? I'm pretty new and crafting my way up to make some armor. Currently in just hasla quest gear @ 50.
