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SOmething that wasnt explained yet. Will sieges and keeps/castles all be instanced?
Nomatica
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Can we invade any castle we want too or make any keep or castle in the land of conan? or will everything be instanced that way sorta like instanced housing? If so that will really suk
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Nothing in the Border Kingdoms is instanced. That includes the Towers and Battlekeeps. Its all open pvp.
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A time will be set by those guilds that hold the land in the border, to allow others to attack and them to defend. Read more in the official website...
And this makes the implementation of an oceanic server more critical......
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Are you saying a guild can attack only in a certain time frame? If so where is the sense of suprise just curious?
It's called RL and should allow for some sleeping hours and some working hours as well. Our lives should not revolve around the game and not everyone has 24 hours to spend in the game. Especially the M+ people this game is targeted to.
I sure hope that time restrictions on castles sieges are implemented. Better yet, make it a weekend event like it was in Lineage 2.
Read the FAQ that they just recently updated. THe guild that owns the Battle Keep sets a 90 minute time frame during the day (anytime in a 24 hours of the day) in which they elect to open up their keep for attack. It's up to the attackers to rally their troops and attack during that time.
I don't see the need for oceanic servers with regard to this as if the aussies take a keep they can set it to be "open" during their peak times which will cause NA/EU players to be up at weird/off hours to even attack it. Seems that would work in the aussies favor. *shrug*
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Sure if thats what style you like. As far as being a life outside of it you can even without a time frame. Just don t make it your life. To me when i m playing i want the sense of suprise, not some predetermined time. If you lose the keep when you re gone then rally up the troops and take it back. Since you have to wait for a certain time to do so that might be more restrictive. Oh well bad implementation imo.
That is why we need an aussie server. So that all of us on the same time zone can play against each other, so that NA/EU players no need to wake up at that weird hours.
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Sorry, I feel like writing that in every thread where people make claims about any game being bad, far from finished, or developed by money-crazy bastards. I'm just kinda amused by these posts by now.
As for the Border Kingdoms, as far as has been released, the Border Kingdoms will be one big Zone (as opposed to Instance), and the Battle Keeps will be scattered throughout this large Zone. So no, it is -not- instanced, but yes, it is one big seperate Zone. Hope that helps.
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they want to prevent guilds from getting on at 3 in the morning and just rolling the city. i think its very smart to implement that. its still a surprise. if its safe to assume guilds won't be raiding it everyday. besides wouldn't you want a challenge?
Guilds will be setting 90 minute time frames that start at 3am server time. This will eliminate most any other guild from attacking because the attackers will all be sleeping. Then the same guild will get all butt hurt and blow up the forums when someone actually does hit them at 3am and they then log in to find a burning heap of rubble. lol
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well if you ask me i think all should be open to attack at any time if you think the people "from the land down under" (yes its a men at work song i love it ) will take over you keeps when you are away in bed sleeping and dreaming of new things to doin AoC well get a few in your guild use people from around the world to help you out dont just be well i only play with US/UK people... lets bring back the MASIVE MULTI PLAYER in MMO i am sick of US only server or UK or ASIAN only screw that! i love to be able to log on late at nite if i want to and see ALOT of people on keeping the world alive!!
Hmmm, it seems there is some mixed feelings about the system they apparently want to use to prevent keeps from exchanging hands every day. I don't know, I personally think it's a rather well thought out system. Even EVE Online has a system like this. Sure, you can attack enemy Stations/Outposts whenever you like, but if the enemy isn't stupid, he has a certain resource in the towers (Strontium), which causes the Outpost to go into a so-called "Reinforced" Mode for an amount of time depending on how much Strontium you have in it. In that reinforced mode you cannot further attack the Tower, regardless of what you do, giving the defender time to gather forces to actually defend their station.
Both systems are valid, in a way I would say and they more or less promote challenging sieges. After all, a keep taken with no one defending it, would be pretty boring, wouldn't it? So instead, attacking guilds actually have to accomplish something to take the enemy keep. I personally think it's a good idea.
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Ok don t get me wrong i understand why they re doing this but to me and many i know like the element of suprise. The persistance feel leaves when this is done imo. I mean i remember back in DAOC we would be off doing a Darkness Falls raid deep into it and guard spam would come up, we would notify the raid and alliances and promptly go to help said keep. That to me is fun. Now this is how i feel and everyone can have their opinion but where is the sense of suprise in this system? Basically as i understand this is basically guilds can set up a 90 min time frame when they allow to be attacked. Correct me if i m wrong. So around this time frame they can g off and raid , pve etc so theres no real risk factor involved until the time comes. Also, yes it might be a pain in the ass to wake up and see your keep taken but with this system it seems to me that it s like a line up at store. You lose it you have to wait your turn to get it back? Hell no i would promptly attack back asap if it was taken from me and my guild. Anyways thats just how i feel, can t please everyone i guess.
i disagree... yes it would be more realistic in the game sense, but if you get rewards and buffs for taking keeps i think everyone should have to earn it. i think they are trying to create epic battles by doing this...
think about it, if a guild could just wait a few hours till its late and just roll the city and get their buffs, why wouldn't they? yes its more realistic but its not promoting the skill and challenge, which to me is more important. just my opinion.
just wondering if anyone supporting an open time frame siege support a harsh DP too? i think its a good idea. just want your thoughts
Fair enogh and thats what i mean different opinions:) As i stated i feel the complete opposite. I like the challenge of taking things back and if some guild does it while were all aasleep then oh well , we ll just take it back or have fun trying anyways.