0.5.5.0: you to decide

[Sandersson Jankins]

This all makes me very happy, and I completely love 95% of what you have done, 4% I am unsure of but am willing to see how it plays out, but 1%... the grinding for silver... well, I can't do that.  I already play cRPG as much as I can, and I don't want to start with 150k less silver than the people who have a lot of time and are willing to play DTV.

since supply and demand will be easier to accumulate (although still people will buy it all the way down to 0 and wonder why the fuck the village sucks like idiots) making silver should be easier. shit, i played for a hour and a half or so and i only got 3k silver. that ain't shit, i'll get 10x at least or more than that off one trade run

[Bryggan]

since supply and demand will be easier to accumulate (although still people will buy it all the way down to 0 and wonder why the fuck the village sucks like idiots) making silver should be easier. shit, i played for a hour and a half or so and i only got 3k silver. that ain't shit, i'll get 10x at least or more than that off one trade run

Yeah, but you need silver to do a decent trade run- horses, gear and goods.  I have 15k that I earned in about 10 hours today and yesterday.  Next week I won't have near as much time... I probably won't even get 5 hours in, so I'll be lucky to have over 20k.  That's just enough for 100 mules.  Meanwhile there will be guys starting with around 200k, who could easily buy 500 mules and arm their men and a crap load of goods and start doubling and tripling their money in days.

I don't want to be a peasant just because I can't get on my PC for 4 or 5 hours a day.

[Pandemomium]

Guys, sorry for offtop, but why the fuck shitty Mercs are popular and Crpg is dead? WTF?

[traxits]

Guys, sorry for offtop, but why the fuck shitty Mercs are popular and Crpg is dead? WTF?

finally someone's asking the real questions

[Turkhammer]

The grinding for silver and men is obviously to force players into servers.  Having to play 4 hours daily is too much for most people. 

[Yeldur]

The grinding for silver and men is obviously to force players into servers.  Having to play 4 hours daily is too much for most people.

Don't know whether it was the case but that's the sort of feeling I got as well, though it doesn't appear to have worked if that was the case

[Sandersson Jankins]

i really couldn't have said it better than havelle. it should be working, but it ain't. funny enough, with nearly nobody playing NA1, the low-pop bonus is insane for generating strat silver lmao

[Turkhammer]

Yeah but strat won't be any fun with few people in it.

[Sniger]

The grinding for silver and men is obviously to force players into servers.  Having to play 4 hours daily is too much for most many people.

comments similar to this is something ive encountered a lot in many other games. this mode is time consuming yes, it is the nature of this mode and many other games. once you did not have a problem with it.

[Turkhammer]

comments similar to this is something ive encountered a lot in many other games. this mode is time consuming yes, it is the nature of this mode and many other games. once you did not have a problem with it.

The fact that you say you've encountered similar remarks does not reflect on whether this is the best method or not.  I would say it's a problem for most people since very few players are populating the servers.  I did not have a problem with it previously because I did not have to grind to get started in Strat.  I started with some money and some men, not at 1 & 1. 

[Finse]

People overreact on the 1 silver and 1 man start on strat, ive barely played anything, already at 20k, its a few hours of player thats all, and if people dont have time  for that in the timespan of a week, then they damn well wont have time to do strat battles or be active on strat (and yes i know its in the browser and you dont have to sit down for hours, but strat and cRPG is connected, so playing the game has too be a factor of the earnings and how effective one can be on strat. This isnt a browser based mod after all.)

[Sandersson Jankins]

The fact that you say you've encountered similar remarks does not reflect on whether this is the best method or not.  I would say it's a problem for most people since very few players are populating the servers.  I did not have a problem with it previously because I did not have to grind to get started in Strat.  I started with some money and some men, not at 1 & 1.

i don't really think that the lack of population in NA or elsewhere is due to people not wanting to "grind" to get started in strat. firstly, its just playing the game. grinding is playing the game. it ain't killing a bunch of shit mobs or waiting for spawns of some shit, it's just fighting, killing, and dying with your internet friends.

maybe half plus or minus a few of the "regular" players in NA1 don't give two shits about the strat map. they'll play in battles to style on people but do you really reckon there are numerous individuals thinking to themselves "damnit i want to play strat but HELL with this one week of grinding i just won't play instead"?

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also ya i understand strat is gonna blow dick with so few players if nothing changes, thats part of why its really funny to me that i was sitting playing 5v5 or less for an hour and a half before a few more ppl got on. its "what the fuck am i doing right now" humor, you know?

[Bryggan]

Strat has always driven cRpg.  The mod has died a few times, and it was always when people started playing strat again that the mod fired up.  And a lot of people who would play strat made the choice not to grind, and now they won't play because so many others will have a huge head start on them.

[Ikarus]

ding dong

whats with the moddb announcement