A suggestion to lower the amount of ranged without nerfing anything

[Mlekce]

Get a shield,lol.

[Xant]

then tell me, why do you think this is bad idea?

oh hey look, i will say this is a bad idea myself, if you can come up with better, okay?

Because you can't have a game with classes and leveling and persistent characters and then arbitrarily tell people they suddenly can't play their character that they've spent all that time on.

[Molly]

Just make all the ranged players wear a special badge... Then a little bit later on force all the ranged players to relocate to the ghetto.  Then round them up and bring them all to "ranged camp"

Really? I mean... wtf... some people in this community are just broken.

[Nightmare798]

Because you can't have a game with classes and leveling and persistent characters and then arbitrarily tell people they suddenly can't play their character that they've spent all that time on.

why not?

lets see, we have few choices

1: dont limit anything and let the ranged play as they please.
2: limit them to certain number by class
3: nerf them
4: OPs idea
5: buffing cavalry
6: buffing movement speed
7: buffing shield coverage

thats all i can think of right now.

[Boerenlater]

I support Molly's idea.

[Eugen]

its a EU1 idea. it must have been communist... (what was it again? I even replied to it... but... what do you support witht the words: "do uselses posts increase with the amount of archery?" ?)

[Bulzur]

Since my main is a range, this doesn't concern me at all.

Though it would mean not being able to pew pew all thoses noob alts, or level 30 stf. A shame, really.


You just know there's some "time" where you just can't play if you're a melee (even with a shield). When 80% of the server is range, and that there's not a single cav, the 20% melee are just moving targets. And... no. It's not fun being a moving target. So, they quit. And all newcomers will also quit, untill those range leave.

You just "have" to get a range alt if you want to play on eu1 at this hours. But at the other hours, it's totally bearable.

[Tibe]

I dont know. I get a feeling too that its a bit chocolatechipcookie-ish. Its basically beating rangedplayers with a stick and making them look like the problem.

[oohillac]

This would royally fuck over NA, which is already scarce archer- and crossbow-wise.  Ranged keep the cavalry and strength-stackers in check.

If NA doesn't remember the fabled Time of No Ranged At All (Except That One Guy Who Wears Samurai Armour and Carries a Shield Too) roughly two years ago, half the teams were Courser lancers and NOBODY HAD FUN

[Havoco]

It's pretty obvious the game needs a completely new dynamic as far as class popularity. Fat chance of them adding that to crpg though.

[Prpavi]

This would royally fuck over NA, which is already scarce archer- and crossbow-wise.

Sounds like LaLa land!!

Back on topic, I don't really support the idea, if you allow alts and skip the fun then you must allow all the freedom to the play as you wish, other option would be to disallow alts which is utterly chocolate chip cookie and I don't support it.

[Templar_Steevee]

Many players are whining about range all the time "they are too many, too stronk" but as an archer I can say that lots of them are asking about to get shot.
Running in the open field in a straigth line or standing still are not a good ideas.

Try to use terrain to minimize posibillity to get shot, also if you are aware you can dodge arrows, it's not so hard (it's harder to dodge bolts but still possible)

Some of you will say that impossible to not get shot, and sometimes it's true. I can say that sometimes there is so many cav on a server that I can shoot max 5 arrows before i die...

[Kafein]

Way to attack the symptoms and not the problem. That would only penalize people that have melee mains and hide the problem further, discouraging any change that would actually solve the cause of the problem.

I say let's invade the servers with as much ranged as possible until something gets done.

[Sharpe]

Just make all the ranged players wear a special badge... Then a little bit later on force all the ranged players to relocate to the ghetto.  Then round them up and bring them all to "ranged camp"

Now at this camp, will there be fun activities? Like Evade the Enemy Calvary, Target Practice, and my personal favorite Using your Arrows as Shanks: A Guide to Prison Life and you.

[Nightmare798]

This would royally fuck over NA, which is already scarce archer- and crossbow-wise.  Ranged keep the cavalry and strength-stackers in check.

If NA doesn't remember the fabled Time of No Ranged At All (Except That One Guy Who Wears Samurai Armour and Carries a Shield Too) roughly two years ago, half the teams were Courser lancers and NOBODY HAD FUN

polearms keep cav in check. archers miss them pretty often.