It shows how retarded people are. After some time they actually started to believe the lobbyist bullshit they were writing.
And yet, here I am, a living proof that lobbyism works. cRPG is not dead yet either. Was playable at 4 am on EU last night..
If anything, I think the mod slowly dies because it is so goddamn hardcore for new players. Average player skill is through the roof, and for a native player, he can too easily excuse that on gear and level advantages, and still be partly right.
cRPG in the current metagame, with the current loomed up 31+ player base is pretty well balanced inside its little bubble.. It's just a nightmare for noobs and people with lives to get into it atm. The balance has to take a holistic approach to the game, and balancers should be prepared to rework the whole system if we want to see more players.
Complaining about clans is a wrong turn I think, as this is one of the very best things in cRPG, and is also one of the reasons we still have so many players.
* I would rather make it easier for people to join and create clans and lead them into our wonderful and friendly forum community..
* Face and deal with lameness, and focus on good gameplay as a whole. I'm sorry to say it, but xbows, HX, too random and powerful cav is plain lame. (Archery is fine imo)
Short description of lameness: - I think people doesn't like to die when the reason is sudden and beyond their control. (Bumped or 1shot by Ninja cav, 1shot by xbows)
- When there is nothing they can do about the enemy (HA, previously running archers)
- When rounds draw out because of certain ego's and playstyles that allows it.
- When 1 kind of build (AND ARMOR CLASS) becomes too powerful and dominant. Everyone wants to be unique, but if it becomes too minmaxed and hardcore, one is forced to loose or join 'em
Now, I think some of those examples we already fixed, but there are still plenty to deal with. Especially rebalancing builds.
Then there are some easy things we can do to attract new players, as well as bring back old ones:
- Double XP sundays (Just to remind people how much fun cRPG is!)
- Rent a dedicated TS server for cRPG, where all clans can have their channel for free. I'm rarely in Nord channel i.ex, since then I'd have to leave nditions TS.