Originally posted by scuubeedooong and it may be another thing:

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But let's be honest here shall we? You are only here cause you obviously lost some twink character and now you can't "pwn n00bz" in T1... The endless trial is there and it doesn't take more than 5 mins - less than you spent making this topic - to open a gmail account and create another endless trial account. In fact, even if that's not the point of the endless trial, it doesn't take more than 2 days to create an endless trial twink again.

Not really, i lost confidence in the game way back. Like i said in the first post, i wasnt playing it any longer. I was playing subscription, then figured out the game was "poor" and left, keep a trial for the hell of it, i do enjoy mass pvp.

The char i have has a shoulder piece, only. Besides the regular T1 gear. Not like it's a twink :)

But, for what i remember, twinks were actually not able to be made again? Atleast i left after last major patch, and if i remember right, all R-10 "twink" gear (shoulders/helm/cloak) stopped droping. Isnt that correct?

Originally posted by Coder

I've played this game on and off a few times.

I really like the lore as it's presented in the game, the graphical direction and most other thing in the game. But what kills the game for me is the lame mechanic for gaining renown, specificly in T4 RvR.

Usually it would be 1-2 warbands out in the lake doing all the work and about 100-200 players hugging the mailbox waiting for their free renown. So my question is, has this changed any?

It was quite detrimental to try to overcome the other sides overwhelming numbers and then respawn in the warcamp only to see that if even half of the mailbox huggers would just put alittle effort in we could cap the lake and move on.

Another annoying mechanic was the change to city sieges, where it would be many times easier to defend then to attack. Has this changed any lately? I know it makes sense that a city should be built to give the defenders an advantage and bestow a disadvantage to any attacking force, but reality doesn't always make a good game. I think I participated in about 20-30 city sieges and never ever saw past the first step...

Next patch mailbox huggers are supose to go away, by alot. Read on the next patch changes to understand why.

Basically, after 5 minutes of "non-action", you are not entittled to any points.

City sieges have indeed changed recently.

Read  "City RvR Improvements" in:

http://herald.warhammeronline.com/warherald/NewsArticle.war?id=1095

Originally posted by ManJunk
 

*yadda yadda yadda*

You have a sort of an attitude problem. Dont let that 13,33% Socializer excuse your temper.

Ok, you both answered the "default" answer. I know the servers moved, i know the login changed.

That's not it. What i was saying was, i got a mail, stating my trial account run out of time... Read again, trial account, run out of time... See the flaw?

I managed to login already, aparently everyone got that, a mail and account got closed for a day or whatever, due to server moves/free time.

Just another mistake by Mythic.

There are no class imbalances, only players who can't understand the rock/paper/scissors concept, the roles of each class on both sides, and how to use that knowledge to their advantage.

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You're correct about the population drop-off after Tier 1 and in some cases Tier 2, but class imbalance is quite non-existent if you understand the roles of each class and base your actions on that knowledge.

That is crap info to give. There is no rock/paper/scissors in WAR.

There is no class balance, because class balance is for 1vs1, and there is no 1vs1 in WAR.

Classes are balanced for RvR. So, it is quite possible for what the op described to happen. Alot.

Every 1vs1 or even small scale pvp, you find in WAR is broken. You have tank + healer, oposite doenst? You win. Period.

Also, you seem to be lacking the most important info to explain why 5-6 people could not kill 2.

True, healer should had been the main target for them, but if the tank is using the -50% dmg buff thingie (cant recall names on those spells...) that healer is unkillable, even 5 people hiting him... Especially if it is a WP (or DoK).

You also dont seen to have fought many lonely WPs/DoKs in high RR gear... 1, alone, can survive 5 people beating him up, enough to run off and find help. (conditions apply, if 2 WH/WE were on him, things might been diferent...)

Botton line is: yes... classes are completly unbalanced, for 1vs1, small scale.

Hell... even in rvr...

How about this for some facts, for the EU servers:

European servers were crap when GOA was in charge, they are sill crap now that Mythic took over. One cant possibly have 200 people battling in a place and keep on playing, not possible, the server stops working.

It stops working to the extreme of people simply stop doing damadge.

Hell, you better hope no one stuns you in any sort, or you will be kept in stun for 1-2 minutes...

Yes, this are the European servers. Yes, i stopped playing because of this.

I played USA servers a bit, in trial, sure never got to T4, but the lack of lag and huge server de-syncs is already very noticeble in T1...

Quite amazing since i'm playing from europe, one would think i would have quite some latency to brake my game... No, i have even less latency then from the euro servers :(

Are the EURO trials being closed or something? Just got a mail saying my account isnt renewing... my trial account... and i cant log in it.

Not that i was playing it anyway, but werent they supose to be 'endless'?

How about... instead of 'testing the ptr stability', you actually FIX the EURO servers stability? Having the server die on you in every single 'mass rvr' in T4 is not fun. Was not fun the 1st time, isnt fun in the ... 100th? time.


Ah, right, i stopped paying, i guess i'm not entitled to an opinion.


But... why did i stopped paying in the first place...? Oh... right.

 

Yeah, it's quite sad to see how bad WAR is turning into... my account isnt renewing.

I'll keep playing a couple trial twinks sometime, but that isnt quite the objective of hte game, is it?

And on a small side note, above mentioned: even if i come back, sure as hell will NOT be to EURO servers... they are complete crap. I have much less latency and server lag, playing in USA servers (yes, i do live in europe...) then i do when actually playing the european servers. That's how much they suck...

I blame Montecristo. Every single friking good idea game they make turns out to be a flop, that cant be coincidence...

StarPeace, Siverfall, now Cities XL... everything they touch turns to crap...

Maybe, just maybe, the only thing good they possible made was City Life, but since i never played it, and hardly had read anything about it, cant really tell...

Wurm Online

""i'm learning to code, so i decided to make a game! it's the best game ever! come join now!""

www.apb.com

So they say... hopefully wont be just another FPS.

Hell yeah! If then, in the "end game" or something, we had the choice to be something like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH3JAp7vMuo

 

Or.... maybe not
 

Personally, i dont give a rats ass if anything is original or not. All i care for is if it's good or not. If it is, THEN i can somewhat care if it's original. If it is, fine, if it isnt... depends how good/bad the "thing" is.

The all "ZOMG FRIST" is way, way, way, way, over rated.

Originally posted by Impacatus

 I don't think they're blocked outright, it's a huge industry there.  However, apparently there are time limits in some games.

 EDIT:  Actually, come to think of it that may only apply to the Chinese servers. 

Incorrect.

The OP was somewhat right.

The internet traffic in<->out of China is controlled, somehow. There is a huge bottleneck in<->out.

I dont know details, you should try to find them yourself, but, internet, from outside China is somewhat (alot?) controlled. Many pages are not allowed, traffic has "low bandwith" (this one i know for sure...). Information not allowed for the china gov is blocked... so on, so on...

All of the above i got from chinese people i played over the years.

Personally, i tryed to play a couple games that are based in china (servers located in china, not only chinese game) and the latency is huge. Possibly the oposite (playing from china to "western" games) is the same.

Try to google china, game, community, international... there was this site i been on long ago, that was international players, working or living in china/asia, that shared info about it...

You might also want to check the "options" besides fighting in Vanguard. Aparently you can only do Crafting or Diplomacy. (can be wrong, havent played it).

Hmm, i dont think so. A Tale in the Desert is kind of unique. Anything similar are those you mentioned... cant recall anything even close...

Not to break your balls, but, the net is filled with half made projects of people "learning html/php/asp/sql and making a game".

Never seen a single one finish.

And honestly, you saying you want to make a game, but knowing anything how to do it, so saying the others must do your job, is quite pathetic.

It's a good thing that The Escapist isnt though out like one of the big information centrals...

Some might say it resembles The Sun somewhat...