by tweenprinc3ss » Thu Apr 04, 2013 5:18 pm
Jorb, Loftar, with these kinds of changes, we absolutely need a wipe. The player base that controls the upper echelons of this game should not be in place purely because they had the fortune of joining this game before this patch. This patch has, as many of already said, greatly increased the disparity between <100 humour characters, and those beyond, and has ensured that they remain the most powerful players for MANY MONTHS. With the grind to high purity trees, preceding any chance at high purity farming, the grind has become ridiculous. For those players who have already spent 100s of hours grinding up their seeds to high purity, only now to have to grind trees, iron, etc is a slap in the face. Now, I think these mechanics are greatly improved over the system we had before this patch, however, this patch does NOT work well with the already established player base. Everyone saying this is a gift to the high powered characters already in the game are totally spot on.
Furthermore, My argument for a server wipe continues. A lot of the players who inhabit the end-game in Salem, have been playing since Alpha, and early closed beta. The game system has changed A LOT since then, and I imagine it will be changing drastically in the weeks to come. Now, these players have had access to the game since a time when you could have 20 fields in a 20x20 base, and purity farming was at its simplest. They were able to rob bases before defenses were buffed and waste claims were instituted, they had 100's more hours to explore and build defenses in the remote wilderness. They had access to the game during a time when bugs were rampant and systems were unrefined. It is completely unfair to allow these players to continue to rule the politics of this game. I do not feel it is fair to new players, who are joining this game while it is still in OPEN BETA, to have to compete with these old players in a system that makes it DRASTICALLY more difficult to attain these higher goals. Imagine how things are going to be when this game is retail released. Who is going to want to join a game, with a HUGELY difficult learning curve, with permadeath, and with a system that completely thwarts their ability to reach the same levels of players that are slicing thru their walls and destroying the progress they try to make. It makes no sense to allow things to stay the way they are. After a restart, I could see 150+ humours being the HIGH end of the advanced player base for along time. A server restart would allow this new, awesome, and much better system to influence the server from the ground up. There are a lot of butt hurt whiners who would not continue to play, but is it fair to allow these players to rule the landscape of the game, and ultimately crush the chances of new players gaining a foothold in this world purely because they started playing during a time when the game was unfinished? Honestly, as a player with a stall, and advanced base, a couple decent characters with mid level humours, extensive maps of the server, I would welcome a wipe. I think starting fresh with the new alchemy system would be great fun!
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