Wednesday, June 17, 2009

I havent been posting lately and I promised a reader I will start again.

Well I have been playing the game again and enjoying it.

Over the last few Weeks I have been working with Shekkel to try and figure out how to get to stage 2 in the city and then so.

On Sunday after a cross alliance event we pulled it of by the skin of our teeth. A few good lessons were learned and I think we can do it again but it will be difficult. The system for locking the city is unnecessarily obtuse. Locking to stage 2 a second time will be the real test.

I have also been enjoying skirmishing in orvr. There tend to be large groups of order and destruction in certain zones but with a bit of patience you can still find a decent fight if you zone hop. The population advantage does seem to have swapped to destruction but not as badly as the alarmist would have us believe.

Finally we have been trying to improve the rank of the guild, to do this we kicked the vast majority of members and reinvite them when they log on. This has drastically increased the amount of guild xp we get. If you prune your guild of all inactive players you will begin to see why this is becoming a popular approach.

Looking forward to the expansion.

Magus mania

I had to link this as it made me laugh.

Great work by Uroo and I thought he spent all his time in keeps.

Friday, June 5, 2009

1.3 career fixes delayed

So patch 1.3 is being split.

The most interesting aspect is the order that the patches will come.

The game badly needs the career balance changes, but this is something that for the greater part benifits those who are still active in game. A balanced fix to AoE and crowd control would make a vast differnce in playability. If a career fix went live first those players who are still thinking about having a second look at the game would probabaly still wait for the new content to go live.

However,

Mythic badly needs new content to encourage people to come back and try the game, a lot of DAOC players who have quit would be curious to poke about in the Land of the Dead( to see if it is darkness falls). It is my guess Mythic are betting on people resubbing to try the new content and they want those tasty subscription Euros, Dollars and Pounds as soon as possible.