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Dracus 5/15/08 4:47:50 PM
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Originally posted by VetarniasGood God Man! What a read!
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| And that is why... Conservatives' pessimism is conducive to their happiness in three ways. First, they are rarely surprised -- they are right more often than not about the course of events. Second, when they are wrong they are happy to be so. Third, because pessimistic conservatives put not their faith in princes -- government -- they accept that happiness is a function of fending for oneself. They believe that happiness is an activity -- it is inseparable from the pursuit of happiness. |
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ummax 5/15/08 5:43:44 PM
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Originally posted by Vetarnias Hehe good posts. I"m not sure why your putting the effort into it other then its a good subject to study, but I remembered while reading this post that awhile back Rusty I think it was had said that this game was created as "pvp with a purpose". I then read what Wintersdark said and basically remembered why I wanted to pvp in POTBS. It was because the PVP had a purpose and it wasn't just random killing with no reason other then to put notches in your virtual belt. Eh I stil think that making a seperate PVE server would be a bad thing and that PVP types and PVE types are not mutually exclusive. I just dont think the red ring system that have would support PVE and I dont think it really supports PVP. My solutions would be to make it all PvP so that people are more spread out thereby reducing the "gankage" cause they can't be everywhere at once and making the map much much larger (big time larger) spread out the ports etc. The big factor in making ganking so easy though is still the instancing. It makes it just so easy and appealing to that type you can have your prey all nice and safe inside a litle instance after x number of seconds NO one can enter. Ganking would be not so easy if the group of 6 was out in the open pursuing the one lone ship and the guy lets out a cry and 4 people on the docks can jump in their ship and sail in to even things out and not worry about instancing. Ganking then would probably have to occur much much farther from ports and be somewhat harder to do. Unfortunately with the game design and map size instancing is a necessity. That and the high detail ship battles which are cool makes instancing a necessity. It just doesn't work with an MMORPG. I had heard ruminations of them saying they were going to get rid of a lot of instancing except I can see no way of them dumping it in the place it counts as far as PVP which is in the sea/ocean.
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olddaddy 5/15/08 6:08:25 PM
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Joined: 7/18/06 |
Originally posted by Vetarnias
What a carebear noob. You'd have thought he could have at least played the game for a bit for making such shallow comments..... (sorry, I had to say that, the devil made me do it)
PS: In regard to what Ummax says above, I too would like to see elimination of the red circles, open PvP, and the map "stretched" by reducing visability from 50 miles to 3-5 miles, and open sea speed reduced. Basically, the only place a player would be guaranteed PvP action would still be outside a hostile port, because ports are the only place traffic is guaranteed to travel in and out of. Friendly nations can then set up their forces to patrol their ports, interdict enemy ports, and embargo becomes a viable economic strategy.
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Dracus 5/17/08 9:23:24 PM
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Joined: 7/14/04
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The slow death continues... Today's readings of population levels at 1830 PST on Saturday is: ZERO Medium/Moderates All at Light with 13 Nones (not including the Test server)
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| And that is why... Conservatives' pessimism is conducive to their happiness in three ways. First, they are rarely surprised -- they are right more often than not about the course of events. Second, when they are wrong they are happy to be so. Third, because pessimistic conservatives put not their faith in princes -- government -- they accept that happiness is a function of fending for oneself. They believe that happiness is an activity -- it is inseparable from the pursuit of happiness. |
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RayRay77 5/17/08 10:17:33 PM
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I am Sam''s liver. |
Originally posted by Dracus It's been a long time since I've seen anything other than one medium and the rest light/none. |
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Gyrus 5/17/08 11:06:39 PM
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I just got the time to read it Vetarnias, and once again a good read. This suggestion: "Another suggestion I would make for any server is to force captains expecting to take part in a port battle to actually sail their ship to the port in question, and to be in the town by the time the invitations are sent. This would get rid of the unrealistic situation where someone could be grinding contention near Tampico one minute and find himself in the Port-of-Spain battle planning room the next. This would also force captains -- unless their ship already happens to be docked at that port -- to risk their vessels to get involved...." Is the one I would also suggest and it would be even more meaningful with a larger map.
Your comments on port Governance also reflect my own and I really don't see any light at the end of the tunnel there because I really doubt with all the conflicts in this game it would be possible to make it work effectively?
I still think this game has potential but I don't know if the current design team has the ability to realize that potential. Patch 1.3 arrived on the Aussie sever and I had a chance to look around Point-a-Pitre over the past two nights.
And not to mention that the "Toastmistress" mission "Party, Me Harties!" is available but cannot be completed so I have read? Meh.
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Vetarnias 5/18/08 6:48:12 AM
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Joined: 1/13/08 |
Just wondering: How is the situation on the Australian server these days? You guys have a general population of 21 million, and yet are being secluded while the whole of North America and Europe (Canada alone has 50% more population than you) is being split into 4 servers and activity still comes up as "moderate" at best. So unless Telstra made a spectacular ad campaign Down Under, I doubt your server has even a population large enough to be genuinely functional. And that they chose to delay the latest build by a few weeks... Good grief; we've just started to get over the byzantine mess that is the new Pointe-à-Pitre.... |
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Gyrus 5/18/08 8:04:48 AM
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I keep seeing people on line - so they are there. Although the market is dead. 90% of my sales are between my alts to concentrate wealth into my primary FT alt.
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Dracus 5/19/08 1:18:49 AM
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Originally posted by RayRay77Indeed. Just an update, though late at night on Sunday at 22:20 PST: Zero Mediums All Lights with 19 Nones (two servers are at None across the board) |
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