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Cyde

First off, let me state my opinion that Starvault desperately needs to sort out its priorities. Yes fluff is needed, and the hunger/cooking system is decent enough but what really bothers me is the mount system. Way too much effort has been put into this and tbh it's completely superfluous, the mounts were fine as they were, now they have more variety but they feel broken and ultimately seem like a waste of time.

Six months was put into the Dawn patch, and realistically, what was added that's going to keep subs? What part of Dawn gave anyone more reason to subscribe?

You're right, I cant think of anything either.

Sorry to be so negative but seriously, SV, priorities.

Combat

I've already made a thread regarding this but I want to see two tiny changes to the melee system, just to make it less of a hit trade, because nobody likes a hit trade. (except Derik.. maybe.)

The fact is I've spent the course of the server war dressed in a cronite armour set and wielding an ogh sword and I just feel like if someone jumped me alone, I could casually wait til I was 50% hp before turning around and dealing with them, because I can tank a ton of hits while hitting like a truck – perfect for this combat system. I know there's a shit load of money worth of gear in that set up, but seriously, it ultimately shows that the system is way too gear based, and that sucks.

Let block interrupt a charge.

If I'm standing with a swing ready to hit someone and suddenly need to block, I should be able to adjust to a block instantly. I see no logical reason for this not to be in place, it makes sense completely in game terms and real terms. This increases the requirement for quick response times.

Decrease counter-attack charge and release time.

A complementing system for the adjusted block is the increased efficiency of counter attacks. Think for a moment what a counter attack essentially is. You are aiming to suddenly take the enemy completely by surprise and remove their ability to defend. Right now, counter attacks are essentially an average swing with a little more damage behind them. A definition of them in this game would be, 'not enough'. Counter attacks are lightning fast, damaging assaults. They are the only special move, make them rule combat by significantly decreasing the time it takes to charge and release them. Make it take lightning fast reactions to block them so that the ones who shine in duels are those who can block and counter effectively. Hit trading will also be eliminated with this change.

Two minor changes and you've got skill based combat again.

Territory Control

I think territory control is hugely important and should have received a lot more attention by now than it has. Again.. priorities.

Keep Capture

Currently, it's imperative that you remove the standing keep and put one up in its place if you want to take over territory. This is both a massive investment of money and and a massive investment of time. Both of those are significant factors when it comes to turning a force from taking over territory. So no one bothers.

Keeps need to be capturable.

First of all, I think that guilds in ownership of a keep should not be able to decline a war dec. Once at war, the attacking force can capture the keep.

At 10% hp the doors to the keep are broken down and if the attackers pay 1000g for a transfer deed they place it inside the keep and after an hour of the person carrying the deed being alive inside the keep the keep passes hands.

SOMETHING like this, it's not easy to think of a good system and it really needs discussion but idk, something along these lines.

Incentives for control

It's my personal belief that every palisade in the map should have some kind of unique benefit to it. That way there is an incentive for conquering guilds and alliances to take everything, or, if they aren't up for that, there might be increased trade between guilds of the unique materials.

The materials should be rare and valuable, each with its own benefit. It could be raw ore, or wood, or animal materials. Whatever it should be there should be somewhere within the palisade where things can be farmed (with appropriate depletion/respawn rates)

I doubt any guild has the motivation to conquer the entire map, but if they did, at least it would be rewarding.

Also, taxation needs to work, and each house should be required to pay an appropriate amount of money to the resident keep.

Finally, I think that members of the guild that owns the territory should be immune to the guards of the territory, no matter of their flag. Also, everyone within the territory should be killable by the resident guild without any repercussions.

In time I'd also like the system so that the resident guild can define flags for individual players when they entire the territory. For example, a player who is flagged as innocent in one territory could be flagged a murderer in another, etc. But this I think can easily wait.

Reasons for prioritizing these ideas

Of course these ideas are completely in favour of PvPers and completely neglect the peaceful individuals of the community, but I think that the PvP aspect of the game is and will always be the ruling factor. Also, guilds should be hugely important as should territory control. Currently neither are, and this needs to change. Big conflicts always bring a new spark to the game while they last, and if guild wars and territory control could work then finally the PvP might have areason. And people might finally stay.

Cyde

i sensed a subtle jab at SV's lack of experience there.

If you're speaking legitimately can I ask you why you think good times are coming?

At the rate the development is going I'm seeing another 342984 months spent on alchemy and breeding, by which time yet another developer or two will have been dismissed to cut costs, at which point Henrik Mats and Seb the remaining devs will look at their to-do list and move on to implementing something like...horse shit to accompany horse piss.

And yes I'm being the negative nando today, I just need to get my frustration at the devs out of my system that's been building up over the past 3 weeks. It pains me to see a complete lack of communication from Henrik and makes me think they're blind to the fact that some of us object to their development plan and direction.

meh.

Cyde

i sensed a subtle jab at SV's lack of experience there.

If you're speaking legitimately can I ask you why you think good times are coming?

At the rate the development is going I'm seeing another 342984 months spent on alchemy and breeding, by which time yet another developer or two will have been dismissed to cut costs, at which point Henrik Mats and Seb the remaining devs will look at their to-do list and move on to implementing something like...horse shit to accompany horse piss.

And yes I'm being the negative nando today, I just need to get my frustration at the devs out of my system that's been building up over the past 3 weeks. It pains me to see a complete lack of communication from Henrik and makes me think they're blind to the fact that some of us object to their development plan and direction.

meh.

queeni

why this happans unilaterally?

why they see all, but we see noone?

why admin's can't do anythink? i sure that admin see all that happans while in a battle..

and while next time it repeat again admin's do nothink? and then what is the essence of the game?

fix it, punish the perpetrators.

why when they see what happens nonsense does not stop the battle?

20th July 2011, 23:51	#40 (permalink)
queeni Newbie Join Date: Jul 2011 Rep Power: 0	why this happans unilaterally? why they see all, but we see noone? why admin's can't do anythink? i sure that admin see all that happans while in a battle.. and while next time it repeat again admin's do nothink? and then what is the essence of the game? fix it, punish the perpetrators. why when they see what happens nonsense does not stop the battle?

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