angryranger posted:

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Pigherding and goofy hats, mythic's core competences.

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Tulkas_Reborn posted:

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I would never go back to the original DAoC, but if a DAoC II was developed and released I would give it a try


The three sided team game play for PvP (RvR) was a good start but it had one serious flaw. Because the situations were different on each server, every time a balance fix was attempted it made things worse for some of the servers.

[colorurple]Three-sided is a great RvR concept. You are slightly correct about corrections for one server not necessarily being great for all servers but in general the realm populations were similar across all servers. Still it would be a good idea for the game company to have in place the ability to make adjustments for individual servers.[/color]


Eventually there were so many fixes and so many new classes, skills, spells, weapons etc. that the game became unplayable.


Start over. Get back to basics with the classes and equipment. Expand on the realms to no less than 5 and create some type of treaty system so that low population realms can team up (even group up) to combat the higher population realms.


This way each server can be adjusted to it's unique situation by entering into or leaving treaties. (There should also be a series of levels to the treaties, not just one covering all).


[colorurple] I agree that Mythic should start over with DAoC2.


I disagree on expanding the number of realms. There are a few reasons.


First, teaming realms has a terrible flaw. Once a realm is teamed together, you can never separate the friendships that are created. Once players begin discussions on Vent, separating the realms because of a change in realm population will not separate the teams that have formed.


If players have never joined (via vent) with an opponent realm, there is a very low probability they will search out players from the enemy realm and join together on Vent. Once players from opposing realms have been joined together and formed bonds, formed methods of communication outside of the game, etc. . . (once the jinni is out of the bottle) control by the game company to separate them, is lost.


Second, spreading players over more realms thins out each realm, which limits the ability of each realm. Even though the Frontiers may seem to have lots of players, each realm may not have the minimum necessary to achieve critical mass needed for the Frontiers to be viable.


Third, more realms means more problems balancing each realm.


Fourth, building zones costs time and money. Making changes to something that causes coding problems in each realm has the problems associated with the change increased with each additional realm. The added cost eventually adds up.


Sorry but it is better to limit the realms to 3 and allow players to spread over the three rather than have 4 or 5 or more realms. I see minimal possible improvement by having more than three realms and I see a huge potential for additional problems by increasing the number of realms.[/color]


I Loved DAOC for the first year or two but after that it went downhill and as far as I can tell never looked back.

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kxsleeper posted:

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Its actually funny sheet,a lot of us are simply asking for less,not more. The poll says it all....

Kinda weird when u think about it,how many times do u go through life and ask for less??

Itz that simple...

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