Mr Spys Falldown (Page 1 of 2)

totally agree with everything you said thats how it should be

i agree that high lvl zones should be no aura areas.

What about towns ? will we see aura dissapear there aswell?

Also judy that brings about the fact that warbow is majorly overpowered and like other bows has no dmg cap

It is my personal opinion that there have been certain aspects of Faldon that have been altered over time that have had positive and negative feedback. This most recent one pertaining to an 'Aura Zone' in GEG has brought up a fuss amongst players in which any Aura Zone takes away from the games attractive aspects of PKing.

The Aura Zone in GEG is not the real issue of concern but just another addition to a joy that once was and is now no longer. Since Aura Zones were added into the game filling throughout towns and later the GEG spawn itself. I have personally watched this game average 50-75 players on line at one time to the now 20-30. After talking with a lot of active players at that time. Most people decided to quit do to this dynamic change. This took away from the strongest aspect that faldon has to offer: PKing.

Aura Zones do make sense in places such as Banks, Guild Halls, Houses, and in this case GEG spawns. I say GEG spawns as well due to the fact that GEG is a religion and provides certain privileges within the religion. Outside of that. The games PK aspect and functionality has degraded do to the limiting of these Aura Zones.

Along with other issues such as Mind Blast not working anymore. There are prominent things that should be addressed or considered for happy mediums at minimal.

I am speaking on behalf of those who that agree with me. I only ask the GMs take this into consideration as well as find a hopefully promising fair solution. I understand some things cannot be done without Zer, that obviously in itself is a different matter.

Translation:  It made it so players who already have extremely inflated levels can have the spawns with no competition and successful removed any remote chance that a new player would be interested in playing the game for a significant amount of time.

If there was a wipe, this idea would work, but as it stands, I see this benefiting nobody except players who already monopolize the high level leveling zones already.

No aura leveling zones didn't kill pvp in this game, no level cap and level 700 players did that job.

Last edited by pennywise (February 1st, 2010 12:44 AM)

GEG was a stupid idea.. No one ever listens to me though... By far the worst decision ever! ... ever... ... Not just in the history of Faldon, but the entire history of mankind even!

My biggest problem with GEG was nothing special was ever done with the 3 main religions. Then GEG comes around, all the focus was aimed towards it. Shoulda balanced out the religions! Plus I am a High Priest of Pally... I sooo never got a cool hat... I wasn't going to leave pally and lose my title lol.

The problem here is that there are not enough spawns.. GEG Believer spawn holds enough mobs for a semi high level and a 150-200 levelish to lvl, or 1 high lvl zerker at a time.. More spawns would solve this whole problem.

That's been the inherent flaw with the map and game design for years.  Too many players in a spawn?  Just add more.  The problem with this solution is that it has never actually allowed for more players to level at the same time.  All it does is lower the steep leveling curve for higher level players(who end up monopolizing the zone anyhow).

As much as I respect the idea of trying the "no boundaries or caps" paradigm that Zer maintains in this game, it just never worked in practice once he stopped wiping the servers every few months to a year.  The players who have been playing for years are so inflated level-wise and financially that any new player who comes in and plays for a bit is going to be discouraged by this and just say, "Why bother?".

In previous versions of this game, the servers were wiped frequently enough that players would reach sort of a soft level cap(last client it was around 200ish).  Because leveling was so ridiculous around 250 that very few people wanted to do it,  people would spend their time pvping with the dozens other others who had reached this soft cap.  While is was to a much lesser degree than most modern MMOs, you also saw more instances of players grouping together as a warrior and healer to level as well.

You add a level cap in the next version and you will see all the things that make MMOs...well MMOs come back to this game.  You will see players pvping and you can design areas that will promote group play instead of just a place for the highest levels to take over and inflate their level even more.