Religions more story/quest driven?

Why? We got enough spawns now for people that are not in GeG they could level at.. and tbh.. most religions got a pretty balanced system atm.. tho yes.. they could use a lill more.

Maybe they should give "not GeG" religions a wider variety of perks to counter the private spawns GeG players have. Or just make all religions have private spawns. And have every religion have a summon spell. Druids have wolves. Undead have maybe nightmares (would be pretty cool. Just would need to lower how many you could summon.) and paladins something else. GeG summon mith slimes? Or maybe we could just worry about advertising instead of stuff like this. Changes wont make too much of a difference if no one plays this gay game lol.

GeG was a great concept, but instead of making a whole new religion they should have just use those ideas on the already existing religions. Would have made things a lot better and actually joing a religion a lot more desirable.

It absolutely was an abomination. 

It wasn't balanced with the other religions, it entirely broke lore and made no sense within the perspective of the Faldon universe, it encouraged aspects of the game that were already overemphasized, it exacerbated preexisting issues with sparsity of player population, and it gave an extra entirely unnecessary assist to citizen players.

This isn't even taking into account the fact that Lothar was basically building it for his friends, when he should have been spending time helping me script the NPCs to finish off desert map (that's a whole other issue, though).

The game was considerably worse for its existence, which was players who had been around long enough to have perspective on the issue.

Well it seems the issue is, people cry bout geg offers private lvling areas which unbalances the game..
However it takes an effort to join GeG 10mil EXP within 8 hours.
This quest/task has to be done somewhere outside GeG, so i guess if you can gain that much exp that fast, outside geg.. geg cant be that superrior to other spawns? 
Everyone has the choice to join GeG, joining geg has its sacrifices and beneficts, you do not get healing options ( paladins), you do not get wolfs ( druids ), you dont get skellys and the spells undead offers but you do get "private" spawns.
This is what faldon is all about, building ur character as you want him.
- now theres actually often times i do agree on mumblee's statements but on this specific case i think its more of a personal issue then anything else
ive never been a huge fan of tareim, but i have to give him credits, i think geg is a very good idea for faldon, however i dont think it should be religion based.

Last edited by Judy (September 1st, 2010 4:32 AM)

Which is my exact point on why when it comes to game balancing, Past situations should not even be considered, as they are irrelevant. If any new balancing should be done , it should be done by Spy, honestly hes the only one who has an active relationship with current players , and a general understanding of how faldon actually works currently(some times is more of a hindrance than a help.).

While i don't always agree with spy , i feel like he does as good of a job as anyone could.

It's silly for people to throw in their .02 when they really don't have a proper understanding of the current situation.

As far as the "Private spawns" go , i think even futi could agree with me on this one, The spawns in there are normally packed, "Private" is a bad word.  And you also know that there is a lot better spawns outside of GeG.

Last edited by Mechanic (September 1st, 2010 3:24 PM)

From a game design standpoint, GeG makes absolutely no sense. 

The secret to creating a successful MMO is to give all types of players a compelling reason to log in the next day.  The secret to getting new and casual players on the treadmill is to have them aspire to be like high levels as well as giving them a means to achieve this.  Besides making a games content much more balanced and easy to create, level caps are used in most games in order to give new players the sense that, no matter how much they play, some day, they will be the same level as all the other high level players.  And then there's Faldon...

So, you have a game that the power of the character is entirely based upon how many levels have(and how well you can exploit glitches, but that's a whole other story).  So, years after this client comes out and player levels are already extremely inflated because of players literally leveling for hours every night, you add a feature to the game that caters strictly to these players(it takes 4-5+ hours just to get into GeG), reward them with a large variety of spawns that drop some of the best items and gives gold every level.  This game has never had a huge player retention rate, but it has always relied on new waves of players coming in.  When most players log in the first time, they notice a lack of players and, as soon as they play for a while, they realize that there are always going to be infinitely higher level players than them because there's never been a stop to leveling or resets and active players are literally a decade ahead of them.  This is my main problem with GeG. To put it in a different perspective, when given the choice between leveling multiple players to max level as well as being competitive and having to drop years into a game with 20 players logged on and still being way behind, customers are going to choose the option one.

As previously mentioned, from a religion standpoint, it made no sense at all.  Originally(as stated by zer), religions were implemented in order to give players reason to create teams and compete in pvp with more meaning behind it(like factions in DAoC).  All the religions were set up to provide advantages and counters against each other to make it more interesting.  Unfortunately, it didn't work out that way because, right away, there were balance issues that weren't addressed.  If we pretend for a minute that, at some point, the religions will be balanced, GeG doesn't fit into that picture at all without heavy modifications to say the least.

Last edited by pennywise (September 2nd, 2010 4:13 PM)

This game is great, but there are many problems that need to be addressed(GeG among them) because, honestly, the lack of players suggests that what's going on right now isn't working.  This game got by for a long time with no advertising and just word of mouth.  I know that I'm not the only person who has said that they would love to get back into the game, but would rather wait for the next client, game fixes and a fresh server before we blow what little free time we have to play computer games. 

If it comes off as being negative, it's really not my intention.  I've defended the positive aspects of this game many time, but if current and former customers don't express exactly what they don't like about a game and why, the developers don't know to fix things in future releases.

I just dont understand how all this time went by when Faldon was up and running, and no one was developing. Obviously this game is being taken as a joke by the person/people who develop said game. And this game isnt difficult, it never was. When i started playing i was lucky enough to have a community to help me level and help me learn the ropes, as it still is to this day. Its just funny how everyone can complain about GeG and the complications of learning this game, but in the end its just a matter of apathy. No one cares about this game anymore but the people who play it. And maybe i sound like a fool for saying this because i havent been playing for long enough to have an opinion, but someone needs to speak up. Because no one wants to look back at their time playing Faldon as a waste of time, and not a good time.

In summary, Faldon is like an ever-lasting case of blue balls.