Ryzom

Nevrax has just published an article about claiming territories for your faction:

Nevrax wrote:
Production: Global Faction PvP - Claiming Territories For Your Faction

Three months ago, the PvP Strike Team introduced some of the early
concepts of the Faction vs Faction PvP in its letter; we'll now
have a more detailled look at the gameplay elements of the on-going
global war, to be patched next month at the same time as the Outposts.

All over the currently known territories of Atys, towers will be
erected by those who want to claim lands for their own faction. Owning
or loosing a land won't be without consequences, as the towers will
grant special advantages to the members of the corresponding faction...

The full article can be found here: http://www.ryzom.com/?page=news&id=1456

So...let me make sure I grok...

We are loosing players due to the heavy handed PvP-Content linking, and the complete neglect of the possibility of a faction that has nothing to do with either Kami or Karavan.

The Nevarax Solution? MORE PVP!

Quick! The house is on fire, pass me the gasoline can!

The house is not on fire and even it was on fire (lights a cigarette on the obvious fire) its a feature and not a bug


Yes this is pretty much the icing on the cake, the last nail in the coffin, the straw that broke the camel's back, etc.. etc..

I see this is a game that wont survive and that obviously has nothing enjoyable for me. Good thing you gave that free month it gave me time before I had to resub.

Helloooo McFly? McFly?!?!?

Wow, I think this is a bit more interesting. I am not sure how I feel about the lack of ability to TP to that zone. It is a classic "I had the toy and now you want to take it away. " I think we have been spoiled with TPing to everywhere.

I do think this makes the game more realistic, and more towards the appropriate story. I do also think however we may be a bit underpopulated to support these types of things. Maybe at 4-5 times the population we could handle it. For Example, Imagine all of the Kamis that cannot TP to the "Grove of Confusion" Or imagine not being able to TP to the Gate of Obscurity to become a low level PR forager. Group trips to regions to accomlish something would become more popular, the only problem is we do not have that many people do we?

This is quite the change.

P.S. What about the fact that TP's in certain regions still do not work or even exist. Maybe I should not be able to buy a ticket from a faction if my fame is say -10 or lower, and then when a region is controlled, only that factions TP is functioning. I do see the exploitability here, although you do need to consume bulk to hold tickets.

Noin.

This sounds really cool, I can't wait to see it in action

Too soon to give some constructive feedback, I cannot really say what I think based on a design document but....

"what happens in starcraft, age of empires and similar games when a faction controls the whole territory? game is over" so let's hope some balance control elements will be added to the game. For example, the main capitals should not 'fall'. true, having a lot of territories means that it will be harder to guard them all, but well....

aaand yes... announcing this when players are still digesting about the Episode 2, hoping that the war may eventually end, etc. etc.


questions? lots...

Wait and see,

I really think this could be fun; it gives the high level players something to do.
The problem is it seem a lot of the players now are not into this sort of game play. I think we will lose players to this change, I just hope we get enough new players to keep the game alive.

kibsword wrote:This sounds really cool, I can't wait to see it in action

Now is not the time to boot a good proportion of your playerbase in the nads while they're already down.

A NON PvP announcement would have helped, this just makes things worse.

IwillHOLDoutFORr2IwillHOLDoutFORr2IwillHOLDoutFORr2IwillHOLDoutFORr2...

After the King of the Hill patch, the Onslaught patch!
We are getting closer and closer to an unbalanced unreal tournament 2k4, with a monthly sub and 6 months of preliminary grind.