I enjoyed the event except for a thing.

bigne88 wrote: ↑

Thu 24 Sep 2020 11:43 AM

Greetings devs,

congraz for the nice event, it actually made me reinstall daoc and logging again on Phoenix; it was really fun levelling at good pace doing nice PvP 5v5; everyone I played with was really happy as well.

Sadly something ruined almost completly this amazing event, the same as is ruining the server: heavy stealthers presence, both archers leeching from every side of the map or useless rogues autogrouping for visible groups. This, for me, is unacceptable!

I left Phoenix since the change of archer classes, because it was impossible to have a nice 1v1, small men or 8v8 without having a boinch of morons adding from behind of a three. The summer is gone and I decided to try again, but for what I saw and what I heard, stealthers are still killing this nice server.

For the event: you cpuld have locked out from the event zone stealrher classes or make a map just for them. And dont even let me start with the archers avusing exploits to shoot from the CK to the outside.

For the server: archers especially are a plague and you know it. Reroll your awfull patch you tailored for them. This stealthfriendly behaviohr will bring nothi g good.


See you after christmass I guess. Ill give another try.

Hard as nails to make an mmorpg, even reworking an 20 year old project with the power of a hamster wheel, a few dedicated programmers, and hopeful hearts. Now, put players into a battle environment.

In a real, medieval battle experience, you'd have (overly simplified):

Heavy Cavalry
Light Cavalry
Heavily armored footmen (Pikemen, sword/shield, etc.)
Lightly armored footmen (lightly armored freemen, peasant draftees)
Archers


You would, in effect have, The Battle of the Bastards...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClGXIaPZzOw

Now, be thankful you don't have to deal with cavalry, let alone all of the mechanics of a real, medieval battlefield, where, in order to have a chance at winning, you'd need an extraordinary leader, massive communication, and formations effective enough to change on a moment's notice (or the blast of a horn)....the closest we get to this is the BG, and depending on if you're Mid, Alb, or Hib, your experience will vary wildly. Presently I believe the food chain is Hib >< Alb >>>>>> Mid, insofar as numbers and dedicated, consistent leadership.

What you're experiencing is a videogame's attempt to give you a semblance of the above, except in our world it's (From an EVENT perspective):

1-5 players, most of which probably don't feel like reading, typing or speaking, half of which (at least) are probably stoned.
No cavalry.
Archers, who, if they usually tried to group with a 5 man, people would CONSTANTLY disband in order to find a group without you (this happened to me on a scout, ranger, hunter....).

So, the elitism of the game itself ended up forcing players to band together with their archers. Voila, you got the archer death groups, which, even in a remotely real-world environment, would decimate any half-baked group of 5 people (other than heavily armored).

So, it's all a matter of perspective. What you played - what I played, is about as good as it can get.

/cheers