I agree. I like the mod, but they need to up cash income or something for new players. I love a good rpg but even after hitting 30 all I could afford was basically shit compared to what most people have. I was shooting multiple arrows on people for them to just truck through body hits and oneshot me with a quick swing. It didn't take long for this to drive away a few friends playing, thus ending this mod for me. I'm really not sure how you should fix it without saying boost the beginning players with little to no gear. Maybe some sort of formula applied to characters with under $XXXXX amount spent? I'm honestly not sure, I just know I'm sure as FUCK not dying 1000 times just to get one kill. Not. Happening.
My first gen I had a set of medium armor (heraldic mail with surcoat, mail chausses, mail gauntlets and a nordic something helmet (30 head armor)). I had a courser, a heavy lance, a heater shield, and a scimitar.
I was able to ride my courser on my first gen for about half the time between level 25 and retiring at 31. I was footman a lot of the time to be able to afford riding my horse. After I retired I sold my heirloom point for like 450k, and was able to buy a +1 courser for 350k. Your first generation you should be trying to make enough money to buy a full set of equipment, and then you should be working to get to level 31. Sell your loompoint and then buy a +1 and make some money (hopefully 100k or more).
Once you're not worried about making enough money to still buy equipment, then I would say having a 30-40,000 total gear loadout cost will still allow you to slowly make money (as long as you're not staying at x1 for too long).
If you're still trying to make money and still want to be able to fight, you should be wearing around 20-25k total gold for your gear. You can still wear medium/light armor and have a good melee weapon. True you won't be able to wear heavy armor and still make money, but that's the point of the game. You accumulate money as you play, and those who have accumulated money and have some money saved up are able to use the more expensive gear.
I'm sorry you think that the game should be catered to your short time of playing (a week or two at most to get to level 30). Some people have been playing this mod for 2 years, so if we catered to people who have been playing for 2 weeks, it would be a very different game.
Before you start raging and complaining, maybe you should have tried to post in the beginner section of the forum asking for help. Most factions will allow newbs to come into their teamspeak or ventrilo and ask questions (if you go to the faction hall section of the forums, most clans have their teamspeak info public, and you can just join right up). You could have used the forums as a resource, there's a TON of information which can be hard to parse, but there's so much good information out there. Start with the beginner section, read the FAQ's and guides for noobs.
There's two different character calculator's for calculating your stats and skills so you can get the most efficient build possible.
Raging on the forums is not an option if you want to actually pick up the game and learn.
Your attitude reminds me of the WoW-era of gamers who think everything should be catered to them and that they shouldn't have to have trade-offs for anything. I'm guessing you're also the same kind of person who joins an FPS game and doesn't even look at the options or keyboard mapping and just jumps in expecting to rape.
