Upcoming "Revival" patch

[Rebelyell]

Buffed.

Heavy Board Shield too?

[Bjord]

So, neither.

Time well wasted

So you only played cRPG with the hopes of one day getting a special badge or medal so that newer generations will look up to you and tell their friends "Hey man, look! That guy played cRPG when it was dying!"?

If so, then you most likely wasted your time.

I don't know what to say, maybe I'm the weird one. I feel like I can live with zero appreciation as long as I get to play this game while it's alive and kicking, with fresh and green newbies joining on a regular basis, with their cute questions about all the mechanics and "how-do-i-get-gud-threads". People who are just as excited about cRPG as I once was.

I don't care if these newbies look up to me and say "Wow! That's Bjord! He's an oldmy old friend!". What I care about is that even if I'm not playing, the community will continue to grow (for the better, hopefully) while our own game comes closer to being finished and one of these days everyone jumps into the new game with just as much eagerness and enthusiasm as we used to back in the days.

So really, mate, if you feel like you wasted your time here, then all I can say to you is this - Well, fuck.

[Lord_Bernie_of_Voodoo]

Harald, just send me your address so I can suck your penis for hours upon hours.

[lombardsoup]

So you only played cRPG with the hopes of one day getting a special badge or medal so that newer generations will look up to you and tell their friends "Hey man, look! That guy played cRPG when it was dying!"?

If so, then you most likely wasted your time.

I don't know what to say, maybe I'm the weird one. I feel like I can live with zero appreciation as long as I get to play this game while it's alive and kicking, with fresh and green newbies joining on a regular basis, with their cute questions about all the mechanics and "how-do-i-get-gud-threads". People who are just as excited about cRPG as I once was.

I don't care if these newbies look up to me and say "Wow! That's Bjord! He's an oldmy old friend!". What I care about is that even if I'm not playing, the community will continue to grow (for the better, hopefully) while our own game comes closer to being finished and one of these days everyone jumps into the new game with just as much eagerness and enthusiasm as we used to back in the days.

So really, mate, if you feel like you wasted your time here, then all I can say to you is this - Well, fuck.

You live up to your reputation.  This mod MIGHT have another year or two with people like you in it.  We need more of the older players like yourself staying.

[Lord_Kitazawa_of_Voodoo]

There's only one thing missing from this thread.... Kaoklai's downvote!

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Thank you for reduced level advantage, let's hope it saves the mod

[Bjord]

You live up to your reputation.  This mod MIGHT have another year or two with people like you in it.  We need more of the older players like yourself staying.

My reputation? I think all the old farts reading your post are laughing their asses off right now.

I wasn't always so agreeable, but in my later years I have learned to appreciate my time here in cRPG for what it was, rather than what I wanted it to be.

Anyway, this Revival patch is a stroke of genius by the top dogs. It makes me happy to see the devs love the game just as much as we do, but then again that's nothing strange considering they've been doing it for free for 4 years now.

4 years of dealing with incessant whining and bitching about everything they do, yet continuing because they love this game just as much as us.

[Jambi]

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Hear Ye! Hear Ye!

In order to bring joy to new as well as old players we've been hard at work on a new patch. Although it might not seem like it, we've been enjoying Warband and cRPG for over four years now. Naturally, we've experienced both great highs and lows in this time. Recognizing that more than mere item tweaks are necessary to keep cRPG healthy we have focused heavily on sustainability.

We are still fine-tuning a few things and there might be some changes here and there. Once the patch has settled in we need your help to spread the word so it can live up to it's internal working title - "Revival".

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1. Levels & XP

The required XP to level up will be considerably lowered. Less grind for new players, more options for old ones. You will keep your current XP and your level is adapted accordingly. If you have a retirement title it will be grandfathered. Every character gets a free respec without penalty.

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Level	Before	After
2	3,000	1,000
3	18,375	2,071
4	34,173	3,328
5	50,502	4,814
6	67,503	6,573
7	85,349	8,654
8	104,259	11,112
9	124,512	14,009
10	146,455	17,418
11	170,528	21,423
12	197,286	26,118
13	227,425	31,615
14	261,825	38,041
15	301,595	45,540
16	348,129	54,282
17	403,188	64,460
18	468,987	76,297
19	548,319	90,048
20	644,701	106,007
21	762,569	124,514
22	907,507	145,955
23	1,086,553	170,779
24	1,308,577	199,497
25	1,584,752	232,699	"Peasants" start from here.
26	1,929,158	271,061
27	2,359,534	315,358
28	2,898,233	366,482
29	3,573,418	425,455
30	4,420,577	493,450
31	8,735,843	737,078
32	17,784,806	1,322,333
33	37,332,277	2,143,519
34	80,873,140	3,696,450
35	180,977,644	7,999,020	Retirements start from here, 1 LP. The new STF level.
36	418,780,850	24,759,164	3 LP, Veteran.
37	1,003,125,954	110,099,555	5 LP, Master.
38		657,839,195	8 LP, Grandmaster.
39		5,047,436,449	13 LP, Legendary.

2. Items and game mechanics

The arrival of new members to our team has allowed us to compose a long list of feature updates, balance improvements, implementation of some 40+ new items and roughly 30 mesh and texture improvements. All marketplace offers will be removed when the patch arrives.

• Aggressively improved balance of mounted ranged mechanics.
• Improved horse balance to better reflect the survivability–offensive capabilities trade-off.
• Several tweaks to the wpf and weight penalties have been made to better establish balance between Strength and Agility builds.
• Reduced damage values for bows and throwing weapons to maintain current effectiveness with increased levels.
• Raised difficulties for weapons at risk of being abused with large stacks of Agility and Weapon Master. More improvements can be expected on this subject in the future.
• Adjusted frames in the polearm overhead and right-to-left swing animations to minimize "insta-hitting."

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3. Respec

The respec will become a lot less restrictive, allowing players to change their builds more often.

• Penalty lowered to 20%.
• A free respec without penalty once every 7 days (subject to change).
• The free respec cannot be used on your current strategus hero.

4. New players

One goal was to make it easier for new players to catch up to us oldies. They should not have to become no-life-grinders to kick our +3 asses.

• The first character of a new player will receive a "starter kit" (exact content TBD).
• New characters will now generally start at level 25.
• On retirement you will still start at level 1, but your peasant life will be drastically shorter.

5. STF

The level for STF will be increased to 35 and they will not come with 10k gold anymore. This allows us to lift the various restrictions we had to put in place for them to avoid abuses.


6. Auctions

The "Training Lesson" auction will show up more frequently and it can still be used to respec any character without penalty (e.g., your current strategus hero). The "Blacksmith Services" auction will be replaced by an immediate action you can execute anytime on one of your masterwork items, giving you 2 LP.


7. When

Very soon.

Big overhaul, followed by another 4 years of balacing the game.
Community revival hype, by eyecandy patch with pretty pictures. New game coming out soon? 

[Bjord]

Big overhaul, followed by another 4 years of balacing the game.
Community revival hype, by eyecandy patch with pretty pictures. New game coming out soon? 

Wow, nice job!!!11

Can't believe I never saw this, I think you just uncovered a big conspiracy here!!

[Jambi]

Wow, nice job!!!11

Can't believe I never saw this, I think you just uncovered a big conspiracy here!!

Bjord, there is no such thing as a conspiracy... get real. You told us you have changed. This patch might actually work out nicely, dont be such a hater. 
i for one am hyped! Dont be such a negative Nancy. Be more like paula the positive.
CRPG will be awesome, and the balancing patches after will keep it dynamic, and ontop of that we prolly get a new game soon too. How can you be such a Debby the Downer, thinking its a conspiracy.

[Bjord]

Bjord, there is no such thing as a conspiracy... get real. You told us you have changed. This patch might actually work out nicely, dont be such a hater. 
i for one am hyped! Dont be such a negative Nancy. Be more like paula the positive.

I... I don't even...

[Jambi]

I... I don't even...

Yeah! its mindblowing isnt it! Hype!

[Jambi]

I will never leave this game mod or comminity , i agree with you i would like to see populated servers with new players, im just saying that IF they are already changing the lvling system they should not forget the ppl who invested lot of time and hard work to become such a high lvl and now just with one patch to destroy that. I hope you understand me.

Last time when there was an overhaul in the xp. the current xp of players would be compensated too the new xp/level table. At least thats how it sort of worked last time. Read back on some of Macropus his posts on this thread.

[lombardsoup]

My reputation? I think all the old farts reading your post are laughing their asses off right now.

I wasn't always so agreeable, but in my later years I have learned to appreciate my time here in cRPG for what it was, rather than what I wanted it to be.

Anyway, this Revival patch is a stroke of genius by the top dogs. It makes me happy to see the devs love the game just as much as we do, but then again that's nothing strange considering they've been doing it for free for 4 years now.

4 years of dealing with incessant whining and bitching about everything they do, yet continuing because they love this game just as much as us.

Just don't want it to be an "announce a patch but then do nothing because interest is waning" thing.  Too many communities have fallen prey to this.  Not going to bother if its all just going to go to shit anyway.

I'd donate if they made another method available besides what's available.  Not too comfortable with giving them my personal info

[LordBerenger]

Might check it out just for a 15 athletics troll Flash build. Or 15 riding couch only build with courser.

[San]

Hey san, any chance that you are able to update this thingy to reflect the wpf changes post-patch? Would be super appreciated.

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This link works for anyone? Updated it to work for what it's going to be like.

https://gist.github.com/smj72/bd81b6fd62ff2b8b5a89/raw/3b9614871e2dc61190c85b53b530bebc5f98a488/cRPGInfoAddon.user.js

Source: https://gist.github.com/smj72/bd81b6fd62ff2b8b5a89#file-crpginfoaddon-user-js