Discuss the Dev Blog: May 6 2018

[Mechant]

This is just all my personal opinion though after playing for 4 years off and on, so take it with a grain of salt because I realize I don't represent the majority of players, but I want to see this game succeed, and not just have a niche following.

Actually I have started on steam release, also done GK multiple times, I totally agree with the damage, it is really broken, it would be a big mistake to release Priest without fixing the damage issue, I mean why would people play a Healer/Support class when you can One Shot the mobs ?

[preechr]

Hi,
We are 3 guys from France to have bought the game, three different machines, three different connections. The game runs at 60 fps but since we left the island the game is totally unplayable because of massive lag. Please open a European server, or do something. We have a ping of 130 I dont know if it matters.The game is excellent but we can not play it anymore...

There are several settings you can adjust to minimize the lag, but the problems are most noticeable in the Serbule zone, which is the main area

Until the upcoming patch, its probably best to level up down in Serbule Hills, the zone to the south

Serbule Hills may even be a better location for starting out, and the Inn is where you'll find the trainers for singing, dancing, surveying and shield

The foraging scene in the Hills is arguably better than in Serbule as well... Give it a shot and see if you guys can spend your time there until the lag issues get fixed

[Tagamogi]

Hi,
We are 3 guys from France to have bought the game, three different machines, three different connections. The game runs at 60 fps but since we left the island the game is totally unplayable because of massive lag. Please open a European server, or do something. We have a ping of 130 I dont know if it matters.The game is excellent but we can not play it anymore...

That ping is unlikely to be the problem. I'm in the US and usually get 50-100 ping. I never notice any problems until I get 500+ ping, and it doesn't really become unplayable for me until 800-1000+. So, adding a European server wouldn't help; your network connection is fine.

We've had some problems in the last month or so with NPCs in certain zones taking a long time to respond. There have been a few bug fixes to address part of that, but there's still occasional server-based lag and it's possible you ran into this. As preechr suggested, moving to a different zone may help until we get more patches.

[Tagamogi]

sometimes HP bars just show as empty

If you are talking about your party members' armor/health/power bars showing up black if they enter a zone after you, a workaround is to go to Settings, GUI, and toggle "Compact Party Display" to the opposite of its current setting. Save, and then change it back to what it was before and Save again.

Of course, it would be much much nicer if you didn't have to do that...

[Fhen]

With regards to combat and nerfing.

As a new player who has come from an emulated Everquest server (only up until Velious so very classic), the combat here is obviously very different. Also as a new player I am not 100% sure what the developers goal is with regards to pace and difficulty of combat.

As it is it seems as though the combat is designed to be fast and furious with soloing very much a viable option. Burn mobs and move on. Looking at how the support classes work this seems to reflect that with no real dedicated healer and some of the support classes even seem to do fairly respectable damage.

So is this the aim of combat? Do the devs want to slow it down and make it tougher? More strategic? Less soloable? In the dev blog Citan states he would like to see someone make a Fire/Priest solo offensive combo character but also says the Priest works best in a group.

I think that before we look at nerfing skills we should know what the devs aims are for combat. Rather than nerfing maybe make all of the combat skills equally fun and potent in their own way if the aim of combat is for it to be fast and furious. As has been mentioned you wouldn't pick AH at the moment to be dealing respectable damage (or at least at level 50 it feels a lot weaker to me than others) so jazz it up a bit rather than nerf others.

Coming from the game I have I am finding the speed of combat and damage potential of the classes refreshing and it would be a shame to see them all brought to the same baseline of damage. Also with such a free form skill system and the fact you can combine any two skills balancing is always going to be difficult. I'd rather see all combat skills made equally fun rather than equally similar.

[Murar]

@preechr & @Tagamogi thanks for the explanations guys , we will try to go to other areas !

[pete4613]

I think the real issue with players flocking around Serbule is favor levels. Like when you have to sell stuff and earn a decent coin you will most likely always return to the place where your favor levels are the highest, which is in Serb because you've used most of your time here.

A possible addition to a solution in the future could be to have shared favor levels and/or available credits among all the times. As for lore these vendors could be cousins or or family related and what not.

If this shared favor isnt in any interest, maybe make so that these family members across different cities gain a % of favor when you gift or do quests for the primary source. This could have more levels and decrease in percentages the futher away you get from the primary source' zone.

An example would be that you gift a ring to the jewel dude in Serb.
Jewel Dude in Serb gains 40 favor.
Jewel Cousins in Serbule Hills, Eltibule and Sun Vale gain 50% of that(closest nearby zones) which is 20 favor. This is 1 zone away from primary source.
Jewel Cousins in Kur Mountains gain 25% of primary source which is 10 favor. This is 2 zones away from primary source.
Jewel Cousins in Rahu and Gazluk gain 10% of primary source which is 4 favor. This is 3 zones away from primary source.

This build towards the issue that rises later when all resources are erased and when a enourmous demand rises. Also this makes it easier to adapt to a new city when you have to gain favor with everyone there.


I hope this makes atleast some sense, I already find the grind for favor exaggerating and I believe this could help the problem.


- Pete

[Crissa]

@pete4613 Transferable storage or reputation is something that's been suggested before. I think that it sticks so hard to one city is why people are so slow to move to use another city.