Game Director Letter – March 2014 Discussion

[Phil77]

I could not stand to smile reading about actual test of fight skills in pvp from a player with demo, DT and ranger as toon in signature

haha spot on.

ps. DT no easy

[tapwater]

Also, why CE? Why not one of the other two Border Kingdoms or all three?

I agree. Could at least rotate through all three.

[-tomhet-]

therefore for now we are going to only enable the PvP Festival in the Border Kingdoms (Cimmerian End) on Crom.

stands to ask 2 things:

will you finaly remove shamefull shrines of bori?
will daily quests work in CE on crom?

[CirithGorgor]

will you finaly remove shamefull shrines of bori?

There are currently no plans to remove any features.

will daily quests work in CE on crom?

yes, during the festival week, we think focusing the time frame will work out better on Crom in the long term rather than having them always available there.

[-tomhet-]

There are currently no plans to remove any features.



yes, during the festival week, we think focusing the time frame will work out better on Crom in the long term rather than having them always available there.

whenever i meet a new player in pvp he always asks whats fastest way to get pvp xp and i have to tell him farm rocks.
maybe one day you will understand how this afects player retention or maybe game will die out with this shamefull mechanic as a long standing monolith to what pvp should never be , wich is in case its not obvious : tradeskill farming should not reward pvp advancement.

least you can do is make shrines of bori pvp content, by making the shrines receive body parts instead of green pve materials.

the 3 border kingdoms deserve at least 1 daily quest to hunt players, they are designed as pvp areas and they should have at least 1 pvp daily quest.

thx for taking time to answear anyway.

[Kurt2013]

Or at least reward people for staying and fight, once their peaceful bashing is interrupted. Right now, there is just loss of nerves, time, resources and missed xp involved. This might be different, if the map was actually more fun, but at least for me, it isn't. It is too big and open for it, so usually the fastest cheatzerg wins (and the altars are too easily destroyed or captured, making resources lost). No tactics involved or available (at least for those who NEED the pvp xp. you can not expect them to ride tigers with pvp7+ gear).

You can also tie the rewards from a shrine cap to players and enemies in the zone or "recent kills". If no one is around, then a cap will give just pve resources (randoms involving at least one rare), renown, the pvpxp buff and some minimal amount of pvp xp (90 instead of 9000 maybe).

[Sarcopthes]

The problem is that too many peoples is completing game already. Too many peoples have full T4, 10.PvP level and full AA. Nothing to do in game more...

now you can work on your pvp skills

[Slith]

yes, during the festival week, we think focusing the time frame will work out better on Crom in the long term rather than having them always available there.

This is smart. If Crom had same pvp questing as Fury then why even keep PVP/PVE setting for servers

[-tomhet-]

This is smart. If Crom had same pvp questing as Fury then why even keep PVP/PVE setting for servers

its not smart at all.
they should just merge all serveres together, no one is going to fury.

[Slith]

its not smart at all.
they should just merge all serveres together, no one is going to fury.

new pvp content once per month on Crom or daily on Fury...no, you know what, some just *might* want to go back to Fury