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Population.
Spidercat:
I got a new computer when Diablo 3 came out, and I was just thinking about loading up again. As a hardcore fallout fan, I WANT to like this game, and there are many, many things I enjoy about it. One of the major dissuading factors is that PvP does not meet my player expectations. If I want to take this game to culmination and attempt to compete directly with other players I need to make many, many alts which don't correlate to my concept of what I would like my experience would be. If I run into another player in a town that is hostile I would like a life and death contest between those two characters, the victor gets to live, the loser is relegated to the wastes. As I see it now I must have between 3 and 7 blue suit specialists that reside in video game land rather than postapocolypto California. If I roll in to a town, and I don't have 2 or 3 alts outside waiting, then it is not even worth showing up. Even when the AC problem is solved and other exploits are sussed out, the lack of log in timer is a huge problem for me. I don't like waiting, but preserving the immersion of the environment is more important to me. I know this is a difficult problem to regulate, and I do not blame the development team for this, as I know they are working from a passion and doing their best. Fact of the matter, this is the major thing that has been keeping me away and if I didn't mention it in this tread I would not feel that I was living up to my responsibility to the community.
I suspect some folks will be tempted to respond with "log in timer is no good, folks just find a way around it anyway", to which I will respond in advance: A problem that is hard to fix is still a problem. It should be looked at in the eye and confronted, not ignored and labled "by design".
TL;DR: The lack of a log in timer kills immersion for me.
As always, in all honesty, thanks for your hard work devs. I know reading stuff like this on the forums can be hard to choke, even after all this time, but we only bring up stuff like this out of a genuine interest in what you have made for all of us.
Roachor:
Everyone in the forum has to meet up and have sex with each other and then maybe we can increase the server population after all the births. There is a serious male to female ratio imbalance but if you keep trying it will work eventually.
Andr3aZ:
--- Quote from: Roachor on August 22, 2012, 11:13:12 PM ---Everyone in the forum has to meet up and have sex with each other and then maybe we can increase the server population after all the births. There is a serious male to female ratio imbalance but if you keep trying it will work eventually.
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avv:
Atm the game isn't in that bad state, few trollfixes and we're pretty good. However pvp at competitive level is so hard that it takes months of farming before you can reach the same level as the current factions are. The ammount of farming needed to have what it takes is just so immense that it's not even funny anymore. I know a team of people who quit just because they didn't want to gather 1750 junk for scrapheap.
Trokanis:
And that's all while dodging the bored pk noobs who run around with nothing better to do than hamper your game progress. This game is currently not for new players. Certain low level factors make it almost impossible for new people to really get a feel for how it might be near cap. Tack on the 4+alts needed if you don't join an already established gang that sucks even more fun out cause you're just doing the same thing over and over for days just to have a chance at getting the higher end stuff. For new people it really boils down to 4 not so pleasant choices.
1. Join a gang and get spoon fed the game, you'll get leveled fast and see the end game. Some players don't want to be handheld the whole way through.
2. Go it alone and gut it out. This has it's rewards but so many drawbacks, much of what Avv said applies here, especially just getting close to competing with established players.
3. Wander around aimlessly hoping for a good gaming experience. Which will almost instantly devolve into shit shoveling, and being trolled/greifed.
4. Don't play. Which judging by the sheer volume of players (sarcasm), is the path many chose.
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