The Great Turning Point

[Radament]

i'd like to see new players stay , instead of getting frustrated from the first 15-20 levels and quit because they get bored getting chainkilled  at spawn by gay cav.
There was a solution some time ago ( EU_5 ) where those levels were less frustrating and you could enjoy some peasant skirmishes but now this frustration encourage new players to leech xp cause they feel useless in battle with their stick  .
I saw a thread that suggested lot of solutions to this and new players are not like us in the 2010 when even if we were peasants we keep playing cause was a baby mod , they quit cause bored and go play dota instead or leech hoping to be not catched by admins.
This obviously don't solve the lack of players base but could help to keep new players.

[FRANK_THE_TANK]

Getting new player would require engagement outside of this community *shudder*. Maybe I have stockholm syndrome but I feel like it will just somehow be worse out there than in here...

Anyway;

Frank's easy steps to fixing shit.

The first char that someone sets to "Hero" should jump to lvl 28 and they should receive a message that sends them to the guide section to read about builds. They should also receive 40k of gold (which is less than you get grinding to lvl 28).

This would seriously help. New players would be able to jump straight into the action.

Consider starting all alts from lvl 20 and giving them 10k upping the gold transfer limit to 10k on all chars.

Reduce the buff from looming shit.

Melee: +1 gives you a speed buff +2 gives you 1 point of dmg to one  +3 gives you increased weight for the heavy arse weapons or 1 more pt of dmg.

Range: Bow/xbow +1 3pt speed buff +2 3pt accuracy +3 3pt missile speed (I've not played range enough to really give good advice on looming it.)

Ammo: Arrows/Bolts They are totally fine.

Throwing: Buff ammo only +1 1 +2 2 +3 3. DONE.

Armour loom buff

+1 1 point increase +2 1 point increase +1 1 point increase and 5% weight reduction (or more).

Also put a hard cap in at 33 (or 32? 33 seems to offer more varied build options which gives people something to aim for and takes a fare while to get to without it being a complete kick in the teeth to the sub 31 crowed) and offer either once a week or once a month respecs.

Cut the strat prices in half. Bring back All Thine Hard Work to give people something else to grind away at and have some fun with but without it being either a drain on the fun of playing the game or strat breaking. I've already posted about how to reimplement ATHW.

We don't even need a strat reset, in fact just cutting the prices would see strat explode into life. Frankly everyone really just wants to take all their shit into the field and have some fun with everyone else but given how fucking long it takes to get the cash together to make an army that will be both fun and generate enough xp to be worth doing... shit just ain't happening.

Oh and as I've said before make strat pay out some c-rpg gold and also make strat pay out 100k of xp just for showing up to battle so that people go to the small battles and fuck about and have a good time.

I think most of us would rather be having fun with strat battles than cycling through the same clunky crap arse maps.

And as cannary said we are a bunch of sperg lords and the game is a grindfest and so on and so forth cannary for badmin 2014!

Do all this and we will have a pretty fun and great mod that will still die, but at least it will die the best version of itself possible.

RON PAUL 2012!!!

[cup457]

Also give tookyourboots all of the level 35+ characters.

10/10 will fix every problem

[njames89]

Stop worrying and stop posting a million QQ m0d iz d3d threads. Everyone knows there simply are not enough bodybags. That being said population is a bit low with some other new games out and people busy with school/work.

Also don't forget that RL has

• Terrible end game content
• A shitty inactive admin
• A bunch of massive bundle of sticks carebears that call themselves countries and keep the lil guys down
• pay 2 win bullshit
• Mars expansion delayed and maybe never coming out
• Earth Server overheating and no one wants to fix the heatsink
• NO LOOMS

[Tore]

http://puu.sh/bTYz9/ac653b14f6.mp3

[lombardsoup]

...at least use FLAC

[Algarn]

Stop worrying and stop posting a million QQ m0d iz d3d threads. Everyone knows there simply are not enough bodybags. That being said population is a bit low with some other new games out and people busy with school/work.

Also don't forget that RL has

• Terrible end game content
• A shitty inactive admin
• A bunch of massive bundle of sticks carebears that call themselves countries and keep the lil guys down
• pay 2 win bullshit
• Mars expansion delayed and maybe never coming out
• Earth Server overheating and no one wants to fix the heatsink

• NO LOOMS

[/list]

Wrong on the last point. Looms are included, this is an example:

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Still, this game is shit, you grind so much time, to finally have almost no comming back on your choices. But got good graphics/fps rate at least, and it's free to play, so, everyone be mostly like "why not, got some time to kill".

[karasu]

• NO LOOMS

What? Plenty o'looms, ol'chap.


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[njames89]

Haha well played both of you. +1

[GOBBLINKINGREATLEADER]

I would like to dedicate this song to the memory of cRPG whom now resides here in the cold, cold ground.

[Harpag]

Lets face it. Mod is daed cuz no war go vs drz in strat haha
Stop qq and focus on rl. Wait one year for MB and in meantime play cRPG. What you expected? Nevereding Xmas? Shut up and grind your alts if you are bored pfff

[GOBBLINKINGREATLEADER]

I just can't fucking wait for M&B 2. I wonder what an estimated release date is.

[darmaster]

420 a.d.

[karasu]

Lets face it. Mod is daed cuz no war go vs drz in strat haha
Stop qq and focus on rl. Wait one year for MB and in meantime play cRPG. What you expected? Nevereding Xmas? Shut up and grind your alts if you are bored pfff

[Gravoth_iii]

I am one of the people who has stopped playing now, not because i feel the game is badly balanced or anything, with the cav nerf i feel the game is close to perfect. No, I stopped because im simply bored of the game. I'll come back eventually, like many others probably i get burnt out, but i come back in 1 or so months and enjoy it more than ever. Give it some time, either it may drop dead completely or people will return.