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Closed Requests / Re: Banned?

« on: July 27, 2011, 07:14:17 pm »

No.. lol I was quite shocked when it happend to be honest.  I was in voice chat with some of the other noobs in my clan and went into WTF mode pretty fast.  Next time hopefully the novelty of it will not be there so I will try to keep my wits about me.

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Closed Requests / Banned?

« on: July 26, 2011, 07:06:59 pm »

I logged on to the cRPG_North_America battle server today for some small man since there were only two guys on it.  I logged in and immediately a ban poll came up.  As there were two of them I lost 66% to 33%.  I spectated the map prior since I was a late arrival and they were just sitting on opposite sides of the map in rags to, I assume, farm gold.

Seems sort of exploit like to sit there and vote ban anyone that comes in so you can farm gold. 

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General Discussion / Re: Why do we even need upkeep anymore?

« on: July 26, 2011, 03:06:18 am »

As you're using both a 1-hander and a polearm, I would question what your WPF is in each. If you have low WPF in a weapon, your chance of breakage is MUCH higher than normal. With only 27k worth of gear you should be making money.

I have 141 wpf in 1 hander and 1 in everything else save throwing where I put the leftovers.  Just realized that the spear was better for unhorsing cavalry than the throwing weps so started using that.   I can just stop using the spear on no cav heavy maps I suppose.

Does anything mitigate armor breakage?   It seems my armor likes to break alot and together.  Either Im repairing something small or everything so it feels. 

And I played tonight with that set up for several hours and Ive made 1850ish gold it looks like.   Will start trying it without the spear and see if that helps any with the sink.

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General Discussion / Re: Why do we even need upkeep anymore?

« on: July 26, 2011, 01:41:16 am »

Bullshit, an average player can break even with 46k worth of gear if they have a sufficiant buffer for the bad days.I usually keep it around 30-35k to make a steady 8-10k a day and if u sell ur looms u can just ignore ipkeep tbh.

Well as I am a first generation player I have no looms to sell, and honestly I would like to keep mine and better my gear.  But I can assure you I steady lose money and I am using 27.090 cost.

Current gear is :

Khergit Guard Helmet, Heraldic Mail, leather gloves, rus cavalry boots, a broad one handed axe, a brown kite shield and a red tassle spear.     And I promise you, No bullshit, I lose money.  Perhaps its my build but there is very little info on what effects upkeep and how often stuff breaks as far as I can tell.   Again I am a new player and this is my first rodeo with Mount & Blade.  Like so many others I am learning as I go.  But I will admit is frustrating to have to change out of my gear and into my one shotable armor.  If thats a game design so be it.. but its a poor on imho.

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General Discussion / Re: Why do we even need upkeep anymore?

« on: July 25, 2011, 05:17:10 am »

Could all this be sorted if perhaps you got added gold along with the extra XP each time you retired?   That would reward the longevity of a player.   Those that play and cycle thru a few times would have most of the pain mitigated for their time and effort with regards to mid tier armor and weps. 

Still keeps it expensive but some point you would be at least profitable in the 25k range while keeping the sink for those that come out in an all plate on plate pony set.  Despite what some people say, the current system still bleeds coin for me with 23k in gear.

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General Discussion / Re: Why do we even need upkeep anymore?

« on: July 24, 2011, 06:38:01 am »

I am a new player.  First Generation and all that.   Been playing for about three weeks now and as a new player I can tell you the upkeep system is balls.   I have a lowly 22k in gear at the moment and I still cannot keep my gear repaired.   If the items are supposed to break infrequently, I cant tell.  Some matches I will have my entire suit of armor break along with a weapon.

I can tell you as a noob, its frustrating to not be able to wear mid tear armor and make cash.  And yes, I suck.  I am comfortable with the fact that I am learning.  So no breaking news there as to why Im constantly in rags.   My single point is that it is very disheartening to have to wear rags and get one shot by folks in plate simply because random breaks in the armor.   What really gives me the red ass is it seems that there is no minimum game time before breaks occur.  So if you play early AM on a server with 12-14 people and the match ends quickly, you just get extorted out of your money because the matches arent long enough. 

I get the upkeep bit and why its "needed" to keep people out of high end armor all the time, but when you cant use mid/low end armor and weps without having to revert to rags for an hour or two something is off.  I don't claim to have the answers or a fix.  But I do know this the current system is not new player friendly at all.   My $0.02

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General Discussion / Re: patch .230 sucks

« on: July 11, 2011, 05:41:14 pm »

^^

As a new player myself, I am struggling to make gold.   I will admit I didn't bother to read any instructions I just bought it off Steam a few days ago and jumped right in.   After playing and buying some kit, and lets be honest as a 4 day old character you can buy some nice gear.  Nothing super sexy but its easy to pick up a chain suit and a decent sword.   However I can no longer afford to use them.   So all my armor is back in the vault at home while I run around in the starting clothes.  I am still using a decent cavalry sword and a shield along with some frenchy throwing axes.   The problem at the moment is, with just 4 pieces of gear, I lose cash or break even most of the time.

Oh and I have never been good at this in any of my 4 days of playing.  Its crazy how good some of you are with your timing with blocks and attacks.   So as a new player, who understands I am in over my head with the learning curve for this beast, I can say very easily the current cash generation/sink system is a touch out of whack.   

Since winning fights is not gonna happen for some time and lots of practice, at least let me get some new shiny gear so I feel like I am progressing. 

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General Discussion / Re: Repair Costs

« on: July 11, 2011, 05:04:40 pm »

I am a new player so obviously I don't know how things used to be but I can tell you that I no longer wear armor.  I use the noob duds because I wanted to save up for a decent horse.  But there is often times I lose cash with only a shield, sword and throwing axes equipped.  No other gear.  They are decent items those three so if two break on me in a round,  I have had to pay 800 in single fight.   Probably not much for some but its wallet busting to me.   So even the new players are feeling the pain that all the veterans are complaining about in matches.