Spreading the story

[svayvti]

I almost hate to complain about anything after being given a free week, but I still have to point something out.

Maybe it is just the 2 dozen threads or so hijacked about the Matis invasion, but I'm really getting sick of hearing about it and all the event hype... when Trykers and Zorai are still waiting for something to happen which isn't player initiated.

Matis got their big raids with lots of Kitin goodies and a place in the storyline. Plus all the organized arena battles, etc. Fyros have their shaman guy (which is much lower on the cool scale IMO) and other events.

Ermm, Zorai have had what? the same "heroes" that came by every other civilization and basically said nothing? The whole Matis story talked about them going to tryker lands.. but Zorai were there first and they've been plundering the Kitin homeland a lot more as well (by necessity however).

Trykers have gotten event cancellation notices. I would especially hope that Trykers could get a lot more while they're busy tackling other issues. Sure the bug fixes take time, but I don't understand what the major holdup is on getting some serious events, story, and activities going for them is.

I just came from another game where the developers had their little "favorite people" on sides and server populations to host events. I hope not to see the same thing again of seeing one clique or group of players becoming the "favorite child" again.

[raynes]

I thought I read that the Kitin invasion was acutally caused by the actions of the players, not by the devs flipping a switch, or the GM's doing anything. They just didn't know what they did. Maybe someone else has read/heard this?

[daleknd]

I thought I read that the Kitin invasion was acutally caused by the actions of the players, not by the devs flipping a switch, or the GM's doing anything. They just didn't know what they did. Maybe someone else has read/heard this?

I have not read that anywhere official. I and several other players have surmised that this is what happened. It certainly is conistent with what the manual says on the subject.

Dalwin
humble forager of the Fyros

[alystra]

I have not read that anywhere official. I and several other players have surmised that this is what happened. It certainly is conistent with what the manual says on the subject.

Dalwin
humble forager of the Fyros

Well seeing as they turned off all the death penalty for the server before the invasion and then turned it back on after I would say this one was a gm/dev prompted event. Do understand that in the future this is suppose to happen due to player actions but this one at least looks like a gm event more than a game mechanic event. I am again just using the facts I have avialable to make a conclusion so I could be off, but that is the way it looks.

[dpkdpk]

Matis got their big raids with lots of Kitin goodies and a place in the storyline.

Mmm, I'm Matis, I logged on just after the raids (and just before the occasional bugs associated with the raids (such as NPCs disappearing repeatedly afterwards)) so I didn't get to participate in them.

I haven't heard of anything different in the storyline because of it. Maybe it's just because I missed the actual fighting, I don't know, but I haven't experienced much story at all, in-game. What I'm trying to say is, from what I can tell, you're not missing all that much.

Hopefully when you get your raids there won't be the weird aftermath bugs we had.

(And I'm not trying to dog on Nevrax here, not at all, bugs happen, it's a fact of life)

[cerest]

Trykers and Zorai are still waiting for something to happen which isn't player initiated.

Patience young Homin. We're barely into a month after release, there will be *many* events in *different* lands.

I hope not to see the same thing again of seeing one clique or group of players becoming the "favorite child" again.

Nonsense. Like I said above, we're just barely past a month after release. Have a little patience, I promise it'll pay off.

[evalisa]

theres only one events team

[chuangpo]

Not to mention there are certain metric reasons for having the first raid in Matis lands. Obviously, because of the large number of people playing Matis from the Beta, that race has had a bit of a jump on the rest of us. Therefore, they are generally higher level, with better gear and more experience. Also, looking at Cerest's poll, there are a great deal more Matis than any other race.

Now, I am a Zorai, and love it, but I also know that if the Kitins would have attacked us at the time when they attacked the Matis, we would all have been decimated. Not enough high level people, not enough people in general, and, until PC traders showed up from the Roots, it was difficult to find Weps/Armor above the q80 range (this was almost 2 weeks ago now.) Frankly, I'm glad they didn't throw a Kitin invaison at us. Now we, and the other races, have a bit of time to get our little blue booties in gear...

[pandorae]

I just came from another game where the developers had their little "favorite people" on sides and server populations to host events. I hope not to see the same thing again of seeing one clique or group of players becoming the "favorite child" again.

Heh ... Send your harvesters to Matis if you want them to feel special! No aggro mobs (for all intents and purposes) and such a massive amount of easily accessible harvesting as to be laughable. In fact ... when we got there, incredulous laughter was all to be heard over the channels! That was only the Zorai ... I think a couple of our Tryker friends actually went into overload when they were faced with an entire land to explore without roving packs of aggros.

[svayvti]

I'm pretty sure Zorai could have handled the raid. Won't know until you give it a try will you?

Yes, Matis have more population than any of the other races individually. But if you leave out just Zorai and Tryker then you're already leaving out more players than are reached in Matis if you actually reached them all.. an impossible feat.

I'm well aware that Matis seem to be living in a very hospitable land. I played mostly Matis in beta and some Fyros. Trykers are more difficult than I even ever wanted to try. If anything I would hope for a bit more emphasis on the Trykers to help make-up for shortcomings in other areas with them. They're a good place to start.

Anyways I will be giving it some time and watching for other big events to hit Tryker and Zorai lands.