Solo highend pve instance - Phoenix Freeshard

Sorry my bad English ....
Is it possible to think of introducing a single player pve instance similar to the group ones with feather release and all that you get with DS, HoH etc?
It is not easy to get into pre-built groups used in HoH, DS and now it will be so in Celestius as well.
If you usually play solo and if you don't know the English language perfectly as in my case (discord is always requested and unfortunately in my case I understand very little in chat let alone speech) it is almost impossible to participate.
I understand that it can be useful for personal growth to listen and learn and I swear that I will work on it ...

but usually the third mistake for lack of knowledge of the language what I learn is "incapable! Clumsy! Fa@@@@@!

I think I've tried every Pve encounter since Daoc was born in 2001 and same for Phoenix server but for now I haven't been able to do either DS or Hoh yet and I think it will be the same with Celestius.

Thanks for all!

Ric

Wed 31 Mar 2021 2:55 PM by Irkeno

What realm are you playing on? I know lots of very patient people who are usually willing to help.

What is your discord?

Thu 1 Apr 2021 11:06 AM by Rockrose

Hello and thank you for your response.
I can play with fully equipped characters in any realm. My historical and primary realm is Midgard and I have various characters fully equipped for both rvr and pve.
My Discord, which I use very little because a little out of my habits and ability to both set and understand is Rockrose.
Also I often connect from the same room shared with my wife and I don't want to disturb her or not have a chat together.
In addition to the possibility of doing some test runs and of this I would be very happy, what I wanted to highlight anyway is that it could be nice to also include the possibility, as for the old instances of Catacomb if I remember correctly, to allow those who maybe want a evening connect with times and ways that reconcile with work and family commitments in some mission that goes a little beyond the normal pve and that maybe some more shy or less social player might find interesting.
It's not far from choosing to sometimes rvr as a group or zerg and sometimes maybe even use a stealther.
Personally, I still think Daoc is a realm vs realm game and consequently I like the massive rvr as my main activity but I don't contest anyone who wants to play in 8vs8 or 1vs1.

Sorry again my google / english

Ric

Thu 1 Apr 2021 12:38 PM by

gruenesschaf

There are no plans to introduce solo content.

While solo content is the modern way to handle mmos, it would either force us to make this content trivially easy so that all classes could do it, scale it per class or exclude certain classes by it just being impossible for them or to add what's "required" to those classes. None of those options are appealing from a technical point of view alone.

Then comes the social aspect: the only case where any kind of solo content makes sense is to give people something to do in the off hours while looking for a group. If the solo content is in any way relevant that it competes with any of the group offerings it is pretty much antithetical to an mmo that's based on group synergy.

Thu 1 Apr 2021 2:09 PM by Rockrose

@gruenesschaf thank you very much for the answer, I also agree on many points and I think it is correct not to implement something that could not offer the same opportunities to all classes and all players.
But it is something that already happens with the creation of the current specialized groups in pve instances.
I also believe that doing activities in a group or in BG is much more beautiful and in line with the philosophy of the game even if I believe that single activities cannot alter the game too much, it already happens with stelther in rvr but fortunately there are still realm vs realm or 8vs8 activities.

Could it be possible to create events or to add a random modality to the current pre-established group modality also for these events?

As is done for 5vs5 events and which perhaps would allow everyone to try these contents without necessarily participating in an organization or in exhausting call waiting by seniors that are often not compatible with the times of a passionate old guy and with family like myself

No worries otherwise, this game continues to enjoy me after 20 years and you are doing a great job.

Thanks

Ric