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« on: February 12, 2014, 06:03:17 pm »
Hello dear community.
I'd like to discuss the "grind factor" of this mod with you.
Fact is, this is an old mod, from an older game. Most old players have already enough heirlooms on their possession or access to them by armory, by simply joining a faction.
At this point, the main struggle is focused on new players, it still takes too damn long to level up and reach an acceptable point to proper gameplay. This either makes them simply give up on the mod, or become frustrated for several hours of real life time while grinding up.
Another issue is the difficulty on getting access to a non-selfdestructing respecc.
Currently you have either of these 3 options:
a) the respecc option, which means you lose 50% ( !! ) of your total experience points, meaning the loss of several dozens/hundreds of real life hours (which by definition is already mindblowing), leading to even more grinding afterwards;
b) the retire option, which while being a good option to new players, leads to a full grind since you start at level 1, again;
c) buy an auction (which costs at the very least, 1.5 million ( ! ) cRPG gold., which at this stage is either done by leeching in-game, or by trying your luck in the jew market place, whereas a handful of jews hold the monopoly, making it a very difficult task.
For really high level characters, this becomes even more complicated (and such is my case), since the solutions above can't be really called as such, for the most obvious reasons.
So, balance changes will happen, builds will become unviable or less viable, and no one likes to play with a gimped half assed character, leading to either stopping to play mod completely, or make use of new grindfest with alts or STF characters (modest stale lvl 30 for gold profit only, aimed at casual gaming).
I truly believe having easier access to respeccs will also help on dealing with the game balance, making it easier to a player to adapt and counter the constant FOTM class migrations, as we are used over the times.
Conclusion: this rant above is simply aimed at making the dev team realize that the time to grindfiestas has passed over the years, and has it's toll on the database, with the wish having both grinding eased and easier access to character respeccs.
Thank you for your time.
The forever trial admin,
karasu.
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