Game Development: Every Little... + Development Thoughts

[Dallane]

Please don't wipe

Having played for a couple weeks now (never played HnH) I'd like to offer up a couple thoughts about the long term viability.

1.) Beginner protection for 2 weeks
2.) Safe in game trading among players. You take a 15-20% cut.
3.) Player stalls should be able to buy and sell. Lots more player stalls - and make them turn over more often - maybe cancel lease due to inactivity.
4.) Solution for 2&3 might be a super bazaar stall where players can list stuff for buy/sell only while their character is in boston.
5.) Player town stalls. You take your standard stall cut. This would provide an easy mechanism for established players to recruit n00bs to do work for them (make hay etc...) and pay them. N00bs more likely to play with a clear path up. More likely to restart too.
6.) Some of us have dev experience. Let us help.

all terrible

[KitKat]

This is obviously completely untrue. I could crack that base, as could about 8 other people I can think of off hand, and we're all mid-tier players. CG could merrily waltz through such a base (as you should know), and given the current player base, they represent ~4% of the player base on their own (unless some of them have quit).

Are you on Roanoke? Because I'll set this base up for you and I'd love to watch you crack it.

[morck4]

This is obviously completely untrue. I could crack that base, as could about 8 other people I can think of off hand, and we're all mid-tier players. CG could merrily waltz through such a base (as you should know), and given the current player base, they represent ~4% of the player base on their own (unless some of them have quit).

Are you on Roanoke? Because I'll set this base up for you and I'd love to watch you crack it.

And then Shizen drop a Vclaim and invoque domain in the 20x20 claim, problem resolve.

[agentlemanloser]

Please don't wipe

Having played for a couple weeks now (never played HnH) I'd like to offer up a couple thoughts about the long term viability.

1.) Beginner protection for 2 weeks
2.) Safe in game trading among players. You take a 15-20% cut.
3.) Player stalls should be able to buy and sell. Lots more player stalls - and make them turn over more often - maybe cancel lease due to inactivity.
4.) Solution for 2&3 might be a super bazaar stall where players can list stuff for buy/sell only while their character is in boston.
5.) Player town stalls. You take your standard stall cut. This would provide an easy mechanism for established players to recruit n00bs to do work for them (make hay etc...) and pay them. N00bs more likely to play with a clear path up. More likely to restart too.
6.) Some of us have dev experience. Let us help.

all terrible

Actually, these are not all terrible, you bastardly nay-sayer. Consider this mutation of the town stall suggestion:

The current stalls are meant to be long-term, unmanned, and deal in high quantities. However, to streamline the other, informal system that relies on barrels, the developers could introduce several varieties of simple, portable "market stands" into the mix. Such a stand could have anywhere from 4 to 16 available slots, none of which could contain multiple copies of an item (a folding stand constructed from iron and cloth would be superior to the sticks and leather variety). This stand could be carried to town along with one's wares, plopped down, and "manned." In order to discourage thievery or other shady dealings, a player's name would display when one was trading via this system. This is not meant to provide "safe" trading, only more convenient and transparent trading.

As for the "super bazaar," I could see something like an in-game listing being implemented, on some huge Boston board, as I sometimes find the forum a bit immersion-breaking.

[Mereni]

There have been many, many threads about the subject of changing the stalls. Please take this rehash to one of them. You're not suggesting anything new at all.

[Tonkyhonk]

I mean none of this as an insult, you guys are very talented, but its very obvious that a game of this nature needs something that the two of you (or any two people) cannot provide without the backing of a team, once again not an insult, but an observation of the situation at hand.

sure it would be nice to have a backing of a team, and paradox probably meant to do so, but they failed and instead messed it up in many ways.

• the pyramid scheme to start - we all knew it sucked.
• horrible strategy of key giveaways afterwards.
• retarded advertising and marketing.
• officially naming it "crafting MMO" to attract wrong players and yet officially encouraged griefers taking advantages from new players.
• not prioritizing what the game needed but forcing devs to work on what paradox needed. (not sure as of late, but in the beginning for sure)
• ultimate "paradox" of moderation rules. (i guess names and natures often agree indeed.)
• refunding policy and their morals/ethics.

and on and on. there are just too many things paradox have done wrong to support this game, at least in my eyes.
jorb and loftar too did stuff i dislike, but they have always been consistent in their own ways, while paradox brought a huge mess of inconsistency into this game to confuse basically everyone. people cannot enjoy playing a game with different sets of rules.

not saying other game companies could have done better, mind you, others might have killed this game much sooner, and im sure paradox tried their best, but as i see it how it is now, what sea tribe needs currently is definitely not some bureaucracy messing them up.

[Claeyt]

This is obviously completely untrue. I could crack that base, as could about 8 other people I can think of off hand, and we're all mid-tier players..

If you think you can walk into a 20+ brazier concentrated base ALONE (from what your statement sounds like) in a 20x20 tile area, behind a stone wall and destroy the base, your either hacking the game or have 2000+ Black bile, which i would love to see you prove either one.

Either way, your statement clearly shows you are a complete *******, and have no clue how brazier damage really works or what your talking about.

We shall call this, colesie syndrome.

*Points you towards the 99.99%*

Although I have not doubt you could make a 20 brazier base in say a week or two of constant play, how in the hell do you make 80 iron for the braziers, glutton up over 50 and build the base in 20-30hrs from scratch with a brand new alt? That makes no sense.

As for breaking into it, yes, that would be tough for anyone.

[Yourgrandmother]

After a while getting to know L33LEE you start to understand his own system of measurement.

Oh and no one sub 300 biles is tanking 35BB/second while destroying a wall/brazier x20.

[Claeyt]

After a while getting to know L33LEE you start to understand his own system of measurement.

Oh and no one sub 300 biles is tanking 35BB/second while destroying a wall/brazier x20.

[n0kturnal]

Please don't wipe

Having played for a couple weeks now (never played HnH) I'd like to offer up a couple thoughts about the long term viability.

1.) Beginner protection for 2 weeks
2.) Safe in game trading among players. You take a 15-20% cut.
3.) Player stalls should be able to buy and sell. Lots more player stalls - and make them turn over more often - maybe cancel lease due to inactivity.
4.) Solution for 2&3 might be a super bazaar stall where players can list stuff for buy/sell only while their character is in boston.
5.) Player town stalls. You take your standard stall cut. This would provide an easy mechanism for established players to recruit n00bs to do work for them (make hay etc...) and pay them. N00bs more likely to play with a clear path up. More likely to restart too.
6.) Some of us have dev experience. Let us help.

all terrible

Let's hear your ideas, ********.

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