My concerns about faldon

Part 2: GM Involvement
Another big concern of mine is how the lack of GM involvement is affecting how players are abusing things that they know that they can only get away with when GMs are not around;
IE AFK camping with pets and macroing (unaura'd), which many players still do and even have people who watch their back and kill them upon noticing a GM or M coming into the game
Inappropriate and offensive language in the public chat channel, you can't play without hearing racist and just outright ignorant comments constantly
Highly abrasive and unwelcoming language and behavior directed towards newer players and older players alike
Other than that kind of GM involvement the only other concern i have with GMs is the development of the game's content which should be more progressive (different areas like towns for different levels, as well as items and places to level) and i know mid is a higher area but that just isn't enough, that is level 100, which most people are far past that
If anyone else has concerns that i didnt mention please tell me, and if this belongs in the suggestions, please move it

Ok let me break this down

You have got to see the sarcasm in what hes saying or you've got to be kidding me I just dont understand how people can openly  talk about and admitting to scamming in chat but nobody can look it up and then look at IPs and items coming up missing and passwords changing and email password requests being sent and so on and so forth that it would be obviously fishy, and like i said, if i had known about this website, id have gotten my email back pronto but obviously now what is done is done i also appreciate the understanding and willingness to understand where I'm coming from unlike some other GM(s)

I would love to see chat moderation come into real full affect so that more players can feel more welcome instead of getting called homosexual or some kind of race oriented vulgar name    I have played this game since the last client and one thing that has been consistent is the open use of vulgar and or derogatory language that is very offensive and unwelcoming, but i guess that is the norm for the faldon population due to the lack of strict or even close to it public chat modding and making it harder for players in higher level brackets to harass players in lower level brackets

I put this second to last because it was a lesser of my concerns, i see that maybe with zer lurking around perhaps there is some hope to some things getting balanced out here which it is in dire need of.  I said this mostly because of the above mentioned player abuse and how much players in this game have always been allowed to get away with and that the content of this game always gets added in spurts; and there seems to be a large content gap in the game in quests, mobs, items (which imo like most games should be level and stat based in all cases except for basic items), and basic areas.  I dont think for any reason that there should be somebody leveling off the same mobs for hundreds of levels; increasing game diversity as progression is made in all aspects will hold a player's interest for a lot longer and holds true in games in general, I know i'm kind of looking at a lot of change but really it isn't that much with the people who are around that can help, and i think this will draw in more new players and even bring back some old ones

While additional content is something that drives most games forward, when you're dealing with a game that has an ever decreasing population, you have to be careful.  For example, let's consider the a scenario where a new higher level town and higher levels mobs are added...

New high level town - Now you have three towns to divide up the 30-50 online players.  Considering the influx of new players is relatively small, you basically have two ghost towns now.  Currently you see one to two players in Valour and maybe ten players hanging out in Midgard.  When Midgard was added, Wuville instantly became completely unused, so one can imagine that the same will happen to Midgard.  New players will have to literally commit years to playing before they will be able to see where all the voices in chat are coming from.

New high level spawn - More of the same...the top twenty players will have a new playground and will inflate their levels to even more ridiculous proportions.  This benefits very few people and serves to discourage anyone from committing to playing the game.

One of the biggest mistakes that has been made during this client's development cycle, in my opinion,  is the fact that a lot of the content is focused on a small and decaying core population instead of working to bring in more players and bring them up to speed in a timely manner and allow them to interact with the general population.

As far as I can see, the biggest thing Zer could do to help bring the game back on track would be if he implemented level caps on exp gains from certain mobs, you would be able to scale up the XP gain on lower level MOBs so that as players reached higher and higher levels, the time needed to catch up with the general population would stay constant.  All long-running MMOs have implemented a system like this because nobody wants to spend years trying to catch up with a general population that has a decade head start on them.

Another thing that most MMOs have implemented is a crafting system that fixed resources within main towns.  For example, you need to use forges to blacksmith or stoves to cook.  This is something that Zer mentioned doing long before every major player in the MMO scene did it, yet it never happened in Faldon.  Of course, this does very little with the crafting system being practically useless in it's current form.  If and when the crafting system is revised, this will assure that high level players will have a reason to go to major cities that new players will be.  Nothing scares players off faster than seeing empty maps.

Also, if we have to add new high level monsters, let's really make them hard...as in impossible to solo.  It's time to get some group play going in this game.  The biggest part of this is ditching the old system of not getting EXP properly for grouping.  If at this point, your biggest concern is that players might powerlevel themselves, then you're in a pretty good place considering the state of the game currently.  If players received equal EXP for a kill, you could design monster encounters that actually go beyond hitting summon snakes or zerk button and holding CTRL key.  Imagine a scenario where you have a monster that hits too hard to do without someone healing, spawns adds that have high resists to everything but certain schools of magic or arrow damage(if arrows were given an individual classification for dmg type).  What a crazy world we would be living in if the multiplayer aspect of Faldon involved interaction beyond fashion shows in town or chat.

Last edited by pennywise (March 11th, 2010 2:21 AM)

But lets rember people shared there acount info way before zer bought out his faldon encyclopedia, giving everyone are email adresses.
over 12 people lost there acounts so i guess thats 12 people less playing now.

Hence is why i use either fake emails or randomly made emails.

Thats what i did, then by the time beta started, i had long lost my email account and didnt even know what the email address was and the only reason  i got my initial account info in beta was talking to zer on MSN msger he didnt change my email address over, or tell me the email address tied to my account; AND  it has been that way since    then this came along and then poof, and this is pretty much what has happened to everyone who lost their email account

Rob if u read this get on MSN

All im saying is; when it comes down to it, that new system didnt exist so most of us improvised, back in beta wakthesmak (scott) used to share both of our account with one another, never once did either of us worry because not everyone is malicious, its just sad that people act that way in an online game to get a one up for themselves when really there taking a step backwards because the majority of it are NOT going to be cool with it.
and i was right, ra or fort must have told toboe that i took his account so rob, toboe (rob) are discussing this atm in MSN Msger

Im sorry but behavior like this in other games would have resulted in a ban even with the admission of giving your password to someone else, because its your account that you are paying for vs someone who is causing the type of mischief that will drive players far away.  I would have already bought a C for myself if this hadnt have happened, i have been waiting for an email migration for a very long time and didnt want to risk that, i guess its a good thing i didnt or they would have had a nice free C account

Ra you have openly admitted to stealing my shit in chat and rick caught you on my guys earlier on march 11, 2010 on my characters, which he can confirm, get over it, you got busted being a complete jackass for personal gain in an online game

Not matt's fault you gave him your info. Get over it.