Realm Tasks More in the Spirit of DAOC

Started 24 Mar 2019
by defiasbandit
in RvR
Realm tasks could be improved. The Flag teleporting doesn't feel like DAOC at all. We want a system that is more in the spirt of Realm v Realm. Zergs are just running in circles around the flags in the center zone. The defending realm has a clear advantage in capturing flags when the realm is in their Frontier. This often leads to the defending realm just teleporting past Gorge, Collory, Yggdra, Uppland, Sauvage, and Snowdonia. We should be RvRing in these zones, not stuck behind milegates because the defending realm has secured all the flags. The realm tasks are just becoming an RP farmfest that hurts the RPG element of RvR.

Why can't we teleport to keeps controlled instead of flags? Why not move the flags and other objectives to the border keep zones so players roam there? If your realm captures a keep during the realm task, and that keep is not under attack, then you should be able to teleport to it. It is a better alternative to the flag teleporting.

The current realm task system is controversial, as evidenced by the poll that was done. The RvR is better when there are more players roaming the entire frontier, instead of jamming eachother at flags in the center zone or at the milegates. We need to be using the border keep zones, they are more than half the size of each frontier.
Sun 24 Mar 2019 9:07 PM by lourock
People keep asking for porting to keeps instead of flags. I wish the devs would at least consider this idea. I think it would be much better then flags and would force more keep defense/offense.
Sun 24 Mar 2019 9:19 PM by Ceen
No one who played OF freeshards longer than a year wants keep fights.
Believe me the open field fights are the best you can get out of OF.
Its not much but its honest RvR!
Sun 24 Mar 2019 9:50 PM by genchaos9
Ceen wrote:
Sun 24 Mar 2019 9:19 PM
No one who played OF freeshards longer than a year wants keep fights.
Believe me the open field fights are the best you can get out of OF.
Its not much but its honest RvR!

I don't believe you. Keep battles were always fun.

Move those flags to the keeps and bring back RvR.

That way we can get some really good dynamic RvR.
Sun 24 Mar 2019 9:57 PM by defiasbandit
Ceen wrote:
Sun 24 Mar 2019 9:19 PM
No one who played OF freeshards longer than a year wants keep fights.
Believe me the open field fights are the best you can get out of OF.
Its not much but its honest RvR!

The focus of the realm tasks wouldn't just be fighting over keeps. Once the invading realm secures a keep, they can teleport to it then roam the other zones doing objectives like flags there.
Sun 24 Mar 2019 11:26 PM by Luluko
genchaos9 wrote:
Sun 24 Mar 2019 9:50 PM
Ceen wrote:
Sun 24 Mar 2019 9:19 PM
No one who played OF freeshards longer than a year wants keep fights.
Believe me the open field fights are the best you can get out of OF.
Its not much but its honest RvR!

I don't believe you. Keep battles were always fun.

Move those flags to the keeps and bring back RvR.

That way we can get some really good dynamic RvR.
no its no fun at all except for ae dot classes with some healers as backup melees just stand arround and hope they wont die from all the ae flying arround and if you dont even have a pocket healer with you as a caster when you want to raid a keep you can also just wipe on some keep guards since you wont kill anything hiding inside, if you arent an archer or a baselinestuner or animist

and then you have the bombs in those super narrow corridors and twf if thats fun when you cant even see anything thanks to all the trolls and what not... no thanks
Sun 24 Mar 2019 11:35 PM by djegu
Ceen wrote:
Sun 24 Mar 2019 9:19 PM
No one who played OF freeshards longer than a year wants keep fights.
Believe me the open field fights are the best you can get out of OF.
Its not much but its honest RvR!

I beg to disagree with you, a good keep defense or a good keep attack when its more than 1fg it's awesome and way more fun than just pushing or kiting in open field.
I remember around 1 month ago our guild was fighting in fens we were stuck at the top and mid the roof under ours, it was easily 4fg vs 4fg, the lord commander changed faction maybe 7 times in a 45mn battle. Sure it's not 8v8 but you still have challenge on how to stay alive, use your power wisely etc. And it was a real blast !

I Personally love every playstyle of Daoc, solo/smallman/zerg/8v8, each playstyle has its uniqueness, its own challenge.
So no, open field aren't the only good fight you can get.
Mon 25 Mar 2019 2:42 AM by antiflagdan
I joined monsterparty's keep take and relic raid earlier today and it was the most fun I've had on this server. Made 40k rps in 2 hrs and had SO MUCH FUN attacking and defending. There was 150+ of us and and hibs really tried their best but we took like 5 to 6 keeps and both relics. Reminded me why I loved this game so much. Realm pride and a faction war that feels legit. Feels like you're fighting for something other than rps and joy over a kill. No game has come close to daoc rvr for this reason. No other game that tried this style of pvp gives the feeling that daoc does. That's why it should be the main focus. The vision of the creators was realm warfare. Sieging, keep attacks and defense, relics.... Large scale epic battles. The other styles of pvp were a thing that existed because of the game's focus on realm warfare. Because of the current "direction" (is there one?), all the styles of pvp are not in a good state.
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