Originally posted by bcbully

Remember the thread. "Only in Wushu - The Most Epic MMORPG Night Ever."?

 

"Tell me another game, where you can go from crafting darts to put in your shop, to 4 Votes shy of Faction Leader. 

That's all I was doing, making darts in preparation for the week ahead. My guild learder asked if any Tangmen wanted to join the School Meeting. School meeting is a tournament in whcih Deacons, Elders, and the School Headmaster are chosen. 3 rounds, then a Vote."

 

3 Weeks later I am now Tangmen Head Master. The leader of Tangmen. 

 

Over the past 3 weeks, a political plan was executed. Starting with the jailing, before school war of the person who beat me in my original thread. 3 weeks of increasing my visibility in school chat buy helping new Tangmen. Giving out XP pills, teaching little Tangs how to rob carts so that they could earn their own XP pills, and  giving darts to the young ones who couldn't afford them. 

 

I fought my way through the School Tournament the first time. Top 3 kills the first round. Last three standing the second round, Last 3 standing in the Elder. Killing the last Elder, earning the chance to be voted on. 

 

This time I only needed to fight in the 3rd round. There was no need for me to take the risk until then. At that point I was attacked by my friend, and big Sister, Empress Wu. Was this treachery? Did we get our signals crossed? I choose to believe it was a lack of communication. I fended her off for nearly 2 minutes. Three others died.  Let the final round begin.

 

In an incredible move Empress Wu, dueled the 3rd Elder and killed him. This left us two standing. This is where we were the first week I had entered. Unlike the first time, Wu and I did not fight. Wu left the arena, I was declared the Victor. Let the voting begin.

 

The Head Master Shinon, at the time, was a good player, and a good person. A Tangmen who has mastered the Royal Guard Claw, hidden weapon technique. I've seen her do amazing things. Even though we are from rival guilds, I consider her a friend. 

 

As the night went on, and the votes started coming in, I could tell early on it was going to be very close. Shinon made sure she stayed visible in school chat, answering questions, and even organizing team cultivation practice. Her shiny title of "Master" was getting her votes every time she spoke. This was my original idea, unfortunately I no longer had my shiny Deacon title (it was removed during the voting process), I couldn't compete with her in the visibility race. I was down 9 votes with 20 minutes to go. 

 

My luck changed. Someone in school chat asked what are school treasures. Quickly Shinon answered, then said there are no more school treasure to take. There was my opening, a difference between our leadership philosophy. I said "There are treasures to take. Tangmen is strong." Due to Shinon's guild alliances, which were in control of ally schools, she could not give Tangmen a chance to fight for more treasure. A vote for Shinon was a vote for no war.

 

I seized the opportunity. A vote for me was a vote for Tangmen strength! A vote for Tangmen to choose our aliiles, not be chosen by guild alliances. I hammered that message for the next 20 minutes. I surged. I won the vote by 16.

 

I am now Tangmen Head Master. Will I be able to give Tangmen war, and victory? I will have to forge a new alliance. Stay tuned. This weekend should be fun!

Sounds fun... congrats by the way.

Originally posted by benseine
Hope the one doing this gets arrested and his parent remove his pc from his bedroom...

It takes more than one PC and one network port to cause this type of  problem. I still laughed tho, because it is a group of kids(Adult's too) that all need their PC's removed from their rooms.

Originally posted by Wildabout

I believe a large part of our community is waiting for their next game and believing this may be it!

    Sure most of us continue to play an MMO or maybe bounce between a few. Still looking for that feeling we used to have when a game consumed us. We loved it :). Whether it was SWG, EQ, WoW or some other game that got us hooked. The feeling is gone and it’s time for something new to fill the void. I believe a lot of us felt and wanted GW2 to be the one to do this. A beautiful game that has many innovative features, it just didn’t completely fill the void. Now WildStar is on the horizon and looks to be the game that can finally bring back that feeling of excitement and community. So far the game looks to have most of the innovative features from GW2 and all the things we wanted from our past loves, as well as some great new features. Is this the one? Is this the game we've all been waiting for? What do you think?

I am waiting for the next big MMO that captures me for years to come, however, I do not believe it will be Wildstar.  I am looking forward to playing it, but do not feel it will be the "ONE". I hope Blizzard's Titan is the "ONE". Hopefully Blizzcon will have some juicy info on it.

Originally posted by SupportPlayerMM

Originally posted by AshenFang

Originally posted by SupportPlayerMM
not sure how they decided to go against the MASS #... what a sad day...

So if there are tons of polls/votes to give all the players everything for free, and people vote for that.. yet the company doesn't go with that.. would you then be confused as well?

Forums are good for feedback and a great tool for Devs, but don't expect them to always go with the crowd, they have to put their big boy pants on and make a decision for themselves at the end of the day. Keep in mind, those voting on the forums are just a fraction of the player base to be effected by a wipe, as the average player doesn't even visit them, just the Vocal Few.

This is a much more serious issue... this is the financial structure of the entire game and it's playerbase. I don't understand how someone can come up with a diluted hypothical scenario and compare it to real life that's taking place right in front of their face.

I can't believe how much of a crusade you are on to make this a bigger deal than it really is... Was this your first MMO? Doesn't matter, people will forget about this in a week.

Originally posted by SupportPlayerMM

Originally posted by Betaguy

Originally posted by SupportPlayerMM
not sure how they decided to go against the MASS #... what a sad day...

Show me a link to this poll.... If it has at least 5000 unique votes I will take the poll seriously.

You actually have no poster credibility what so ever as most information is available to you on this subject on this site and you still deny it's occurrence it is not nor will it ever be my job to heard sheep on MMORPG.com. Do your own research.

Awesome poem bro

Originally posted by winter

  As can be seen in most of the recent Neverwinter exploit threads approximately 30% of the posters it seems say that the exploit was known for 3 weeks or more. Well, known to them anyway. Which leads one to ask if these players knew about it why didn't they report it?

  Obviously the mostly likely reason was because they were exploiting it themselves. But if this is all the case why do they post so agressively in the Neverwinter threads that cryptic should be punished for a exploit they used or at the very least didn't report for some reason? (A logical explaination here would be nice)

  Now don't try and say you did report it to Cryptic and they did nothing as thats BS, if that was the case why not just send a message to Bill here at MMORPG.com describing the exploit so MMORPG.COM could blow the lid off of the story?

   I could be wrong but it seems the only 2 real reason are those posters saying the exploits been known for the last 3 weeks either (A) were the exploiters exploiting with it and now are pissed because they are banned, or (B) simply didn't know anything about it either till this weekend and now are saying "Oh yeah well the exploits been known about for weeks because i heard about it from some unknown poster on the internet yesterday.!" (always a good honest source of factual information... Not, but lets jump on the hate bandwagon anyway because obviously Cryptic knew about the exploit and wanted their game to fail from it rather then fix it.)

  Am interested in seeing what these people that claim to be in the Know have to say.

  

 

 

 

It's a puny vocal minority... people always remember the bad over the good.

Originally posted by SupportPlayerMM
not sure how they decided to go against the MASS #... what a sad day...

Show me a link to this poll.... If it has at least 5000 unique votes I will take the poll seriously.

Originally posted by nicarift
Anyone out there that bought defiance for PC and didnt like it?

I tried the beta and disliked everything about it... I love the show on the other hand, can't wait to watch tonight's episode. It's the highlight of my Monday evening.

Originally posted by tkreep

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vayHMZ2WVso&feature=endscreen&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMyEOF51hLM

This is the kind of stuff i like about asian fantasy settings is that they add some form of technology like airships and such just like in the single player final fantasy games.

 

I love steampunk myself, however, they chucked in two little pieces and the rest is fantasy... just doesn't feel right.  If it was marketed as a complete steampunk game and had a more steampunk feel to the world then sure that works in my book.

Originally posted by Rinna

I don't want Wildstar to be free to play.  I want their business model to be exactly like WoW's.  Barrier to entry, submission based, almost all perks and fun stuff are part of a monthly sub, other non-game breaking, cosmetic fluff in a cash shop.

I hate F2P games and the AH crash going on right now in Neverwinter is a perfect example of why.  20 bucks a month... sound fair?  Please give me back sub based gaming.

I too would prefer sub based model but in today's mmo market it's all B2P... I don't say F2P because none are honestly free, you eventually pay something.  

Originally posted by JudgeUK

Originally posted by Betaguy
They handled the problems in a timely manner and gave some sort of compensation... +10 for doing the right thing.

The timely manner may be the sticking point here.

There is linked evidence on other posts here that the AH exploit was communicated to PWE over two weeks ago.

There is also a post that shows identical negative AH bids in a previous PWE game.

After seeing this evidence I simply cannot agree that this has been handled even remotely well.

Doesn't matter if it was there two weeks ago the economy was not that fubard, so very select few knew of it....those accounts can be banned and the money will not be influxed into the economy...a full wipe is not needed. They did the right thing in my opinion. I laugh at the thought of a full wipe for such a trival thing.  I find people expect too much for what little they paid. 200 bucks pffft pay that a year for one mmo that has subs, I usually play 5-6 mmo's a year with subs or some sort of cash input... I don't expect unrealistic requests like the majority around here.  I was raised to be a fair person not an unrealistic one. /shrug

Originally posted by Snoepie

the thingwith darkfall is

 

Darkfall online was an epic player skilled mmo.. myself have played it for 4 years none stop..

 

Ive played alot of mmo almost everthing on the market.. and nothing is compared with the combat that 1.0 darkfall online gave us..

 

Av managed to fck this up by taking way the best parts of the game which was the combat... in the past we loyal fans manage to lay aside all the differences and problems with the company..

 

For new players i can inmage that when buying a game like unholy wars you wanne have a actual game that works..

 

I mean 50 dollars inc sub is alot of money..

TBH: visual you worst experiences with a game company and then multiply that with 100.. then your on av's level..

 

You need to do couple of things in order to play this game:

 

- forget about the forums of darkfall

- join a friendly clan

- dont let yourself suck into the trolls

 

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/darkfall-10-server/

 

and vote :P so we can have our game back :P

 

 

There is no player skill involved in hitting a button over and over to get a skill to 100, then going out to pvp with two mouse clicks... just saying...

I am the boss of me, know one else.  I do what I want without caring about others casting judgment.  If someone judges me because I am older and play games, well they are probably not the people I want to associate with anyway...

Here for a good time, not a longtime...