[ Closed ] Why does Runescape have so many players compared to Faldon? (Page 1 of 4)

when i firststarted looking for an mmorpg to play it took a LONG time to find faldon

faldon needs more advertizement on mmorpg sites!

yup  ive told my freinds about it 1 started playing and the other is selling his runescape acount

i found faldon quite easily on mpogd.com but i think the biggest factor keeping people from playing is slow and unreliable downloads in the past, a one hundred and something meg download for a 2d game, and the fact that when you play a new mmorpg, in general people are helpful and there is lots of map space between pkers and newbies....not the case in this game....if i hadn't played alot last client, i wouldn't play the game now i don't think.  but i tire of typing endlessly about this game's shortcomings, so i'm going to stop now, have fun.

what the hell are you babbling about man?

Oh, so because my posts are lengthy, I am allowed more posts? What? God damn kids. . .

last client somehow worked well for me, although ar hacking, wall walking, and speed hacking ran rampant.  not to mention the char stealing between cyborg getting the pfiles and tyrelis keylogger, alot of people lost their stuff. and like i've heard mentioned alot, there were boats for a bit...i have no clue why they were gotten rid of.
but on the bright side the level curve went way up around level 200 so not too many players got to 300 which kind of kept things even.  also there was a newbie pk spot and a higher level pk spot, which kept things a little seperated.  also last client never ran for more than a year or so without a wipe so things never got out of hand.  but last client vets from the client before would say the same things as we're saying now about the client before....
but dont get me wrong, this client is fun it just needs a few things fixed and revamped and it would be a great game.

i still would rather just see a few things fixed this client as opposed to reverting back to old client....as much fun as i had last client. here's a few random issues i'd like to see adressed in this client...

-the ladder needs to be completely redone....there's nobody legit on any of the ladders anymore...exept a few legit players who have high levels.

-i'd like to see def and shields become more useful. maybe come up with some sort of equation that would allow def+shield ac give a full block on some hits....kind of like agl last client

-more quests that require a little more then fetching a few rat furs or something.

-i'd like to see drops add and spread out more among the monsters.  some monsters drop nothing and give lousy exp...hense making complete spawns useless, while some monsters drop way too many items too much, meaning they get camped far too much.

-obviously zhack and npc hack should be taken care of somehow

-i'd like to see guards be much stronger, almost unbeatable...this would deter people from pking in main towns and force them to move the pk spot away from main spawn point.

-certain skills need to be redone...like enchanting and healing(which i believe was mentioned before). we should have some enchants that aren't religion based too.

-i'd like to see religion redone to be more useful....maybe have some religion specific quests and items...also the spells for religions should be made effective...like ffeet, fwall, and just about all pali spells. also i know mumblee mentioned a revamping of rep...maybe make that religous based too...blue for pali, red for undead, and make like green or something for druid or something.

-drop rates of carp and bs-able items should be dropped or gotten rid of completely, seeing as how they render these skills useless.  also as much as some people would hate it, i'd like to see the banker that repairs weapons and items desposed of, or at least have the price raised way up....this just causes people to keep the same items forever meaning more and more come into the game when they drop but none go away making uniques, once again anything but unique.

-*dare i say it? *gasp* wipe the server.....then give the citizens a week or two to play by themselves again(seeing as how they pay for the server and all) then let everyone back in fresh and new with no cheated items or gold...

-i'd also like to see organized events that are well planned and involve playing the game and not answering trivia questions....more soccer would be great *hint *hint

there are a few more things i could add but i have to run, maybe if i feel inspired i'll add them later....have fun guys.

oh yeah, and faldon's soundtrack should be changed to the complete works or sonic youth  8)

Ahh posted message twice. See below.

that would work too...

also, there are way too many guild halls in this client...alot of players, like myself, have a guild hall for their personal chars only. they're cheap now(nowhere near the 20 mil+ they cost last client).  one thing that was neat about last client was the fact that if you leveled enough and became powerful enough, you could join a guild with a guildhall, and that was a big deal to a new player....
just a random thought..

Yup, that is very true. Last client, I was in 'Shining Force' guild which had a guild hall with a pool (to fish), trees (to lumberjack) and a mine (to mine).

Guild halls should cost more and not have rent.

Hey thats a really good point.  I think renting is a fine thing, but everything else in this thread before that was a really great argument.

I know that. But not too long ago, before all the new GMs and new GHs, that problem did exist. There were homes owned by people that hadn't logged in for a year.

When my C ran out months ago, I owned the biggest house in Faldon, there was no house-rent at the time. And that house would have been mine forever, had rent not been added (which i wasn't aware of, for a while  :cry: ). Needless to say, i don't own it anymore.