what to do ?
Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 11:10 pm
this is not orders nor is it ment in a bad way just a few thoughts of myown and other players i have spoken to and hopfully a few suggestions will come at the end of the post or added by other players..
Q, why is the populations of SOR depleating.
A, apparently it is not depleating there are new player comming all the time, but here is a comment by another player:- lack of content, meaning once people have maxxed out melee, ele magic/heal magic a foraging skill and a crafting skill or maybe 2 of each they feel "whats they point in lvling another skill i can not take the game any further yet" , so whats left to do ?
Q, when is the next patch comming out.
A, unknown, supossed to b on the test server now again most gm's do not have infomation to give or are not allowed to tell until 24 hours before new content goes live. information is posted on the forums but not very detailed. just what some of the content is and not a more precise date on when it goes live, which would work if it was a fast proccess, but its not.
Q. if there are new players comming on all the time where are they ? i see about 5 new players every now and then and never see them again.
A, i will not comment about that as i do not have the answer only an assumption.
Q, most games have a very big advantage over SOR and that is they are normally 90% complete before they go live so what happened to SOR it was less that 50% complete when i joined.
A, buggs and clitches needed smoothing out, most devs do this before the game goes live, durring beta fase. not durring live time, but i sympathise that this is a complecated game with new and inovative content and game engine.
and you need more players to test the content than what you get in beta fase.
Q, lag is still occurring especially after a server reboot and in cirtain lands in particular seasons, just to mentions a couple of circumstances it happens.
A, isp lag,network lag,server lag. pc lag who knows.
Q, why was there a very pimited amount of advertising about SOR i actually saw quite a lot about it in various mmorpg site, but only one magazine advert and review and it was not in the most popular pc games magazine in england,irland,wales or scotland.
A, unknown i regularly read pc games magazines and purchase a couple every month, so i cant b told yes there were loads of adverts about the game,i also watxh the game show you find on sky and terestrial tele and have seen none yet, but i might have missed the episode with it in so i will not go any further with that one
, so i must assume that most people who join now either stumble accross the game in a store or here about it by word of mouth.
Q, a rumour is that funding is becomming tight because of people putting there accounts on suspend or leaving.
A, unknown
Q, why can the gm's not give us an incite into whats going only,why is all infomation restricted to whast posted on the anouncments part of the forums.
A, to add litlle bit of surprise to the game, but how long can people wait for the surprises to be something real they can use or do.
there have been a lot of worrying coments/assumptions/facts or fictions said about SOR ingame and on forums in various places so i think some facts would b nice now, something to reasure me and other players who love the game as to what is going on and that it is not receading as badly as it seems and not going to fail before it gets to the finish line, or even when it gets to the second post.
i do love the game, its my only form of excapism from the every day monotony of life. so please dont let it go sour.
and it would seem that im the only one concerned by the lack of players or what seems to b a lack or players. i used ot play a game called legend of mir and that went out in a very bad way but i will submit to the fact that after a big shack up in the way things were done people came back after about 2 years of trouble. and is now still thriving.
i understand it is saturday night and a lot of people are out on the bender, but that affor mentioned LOM still had over 800 people playing it on a saturday night.
i think i have only seen about 150 people in all of fyros and that throughoutt he whole day NOT at one time. but i may be wrong about this.
my last post was locked even though it was not ment in any bad way please keep this open. it would be very interesting to see what people have to add to it. or in further answer to some of the questions possed here.
i have been told that lawrence might have some answers or b able to help understand the circumstance a bit better.
im sorry it seems as thoguh everthing i have to say is a moan or grumble about something, i do have some really interesting ideas to pass on to the devs but until the game is more complete and the current buugs are smoothed out completely i feel it is pointless passing any more on
Q, why is the populations of SOR depleating.
A, apparently it is not depleating there are new player comming all the time, but here is a comment by another player:- lack of content, meaning once people have maxxed out melee, ele magic/heal magic a foraging skill and a crafting skill or maybe 2 of each they feel "whats they point in lvling another skill i can not take the game any further yet" , so whats left to do ?
Q, when is the next patch comming out.
A, unknown, supossed to b on the test server now again most gm's do not have infomation to give or are not allowed to tell until 24 hours before new content goes live. information is posted on the forums but not very detailed. just what some of the content is and not a more precise date on when it goes live, which would work if it was a fast proccess, but its not.
Q. if there are new players comming on all the time where are they ? i see about 5 new players every now and then and never see them again.
A, i will not comment about that as i do not have the answer only an assumption.
Q, most games have a very big advantage over SOR and that is they are normally 90% complete before they go live so what happened to SOR it was less that 50% complete when i joined.
A, buggs and clitches needed smoothing out, most devs do this before the game goes live, durring beta fase. not durring live time, but i sympathise that this is a complecated game with new and inovative content and game engine.
and you need more players to test the content than what you get in beta fase.
Q, lag is still occurring especially after a server reboot and in cirtain lands in particular seasons, just to mentions a couple of circumstances it happens.
A, isp lag,network lag,server lag. pc lag who knows.
Q, why was there a very pimited amount of advertising about SOR i actually saw quite a lot about it in various mmorpg site, but only one magazine advert and review and it was not in the most popular pc games magazine in england,irland,wales or scotland.
A, unknown i regularly read pc games magazines and purchase a couple every month, so i cant b told yes there were loads of adverts about the game,i also watxh the game show you find on sky and terestrial tele and have seen none yet, but i might have missed the episode with it in so i will not go any further with that one
, so i must assume that most people who join now either stumble accross the game in a store or here about it by word of mouth. Q, a rumour is that funding is becomming tight because of people putting there accounts on suspend or leaving.
A, unknown
Q, why can the gm's not give us an incite into whats going only,why is all infomation restricted to whast posted on the anouncments part of the forums.
A, to add litlle bit of surprise to the game, but how long can people wait for the surprises to be something real they can use or do.
there have been a lot of worrying coments/assumptions/facts or fictions said about SOR ingame and on forums in various places so i think some facts would b nice now, something to reasure me and other players who love the game as to what is going on and that it is not receading as badly as it seems and not going to fail before it gets to the finish line, or even when it gets to the second post.
i do love the game, its my only form of excapism from the every day monotony of life. so please dont let it go sour.
and it would seem that im the only one concerned by the lack of players or what seems to b a lack or players. i used ot play a game called legend of mir and that went out in a very bad way but i will submit to the fact that after a big shack up in the way things were done people came back after about 2 years of trouble. and is now still thriving.
i understand it is saturday night and a lot of people are out on the bender, but that affor mentioned LOM still had over 800 people playing it on a saturday night.
i think i have only seen about 150 people in all of fyros and that throughoutt he whole day NOT at one time. but i may be wrong about this.
my last post was locked even though it was not ment in any bad way please keep this open. it would be very interesting to see what people have to add to it. or in further answer to some of the questions possed here.
i have been told that lawrence might have some answers or b able to help understand the circumstance a bit better.
im sorry it seems as thoguh everthing i have to say is a moan or grumble about something, i do have some really interesting ideas to pass on to the devs but until the game is more complete and the current buugs are smoothed out completely i feel it is pointless passing any more on
Me and ali just spend a few hours with some fresh meat (lol sori for that description beolwyf and aphro) had a blast smashing brains to pulp in Grove of Umbra hehe..