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• • Freemen come get your PvP fix

  • Well, it would take a very convincing person to get some players to come back for the PvP. Hopefully new the features are worth something, those that had decided to take breaks may come back someday, who knows. That new loot system looks quite good, and from what I've heard skill decay is well under control now. Ballistics should pose a new dynamic level to the RV world (they were implemented today), but is it enough to liven up the PvP mood?

  • Posted: 4/14/08 2:54 PM
    Roma Victor
• • Freemen come get your PvP fix

  • The developers have been at this game almost 7 years and I think it's safe to say that they have lost sight of whatever they intended to produce from the outcome.

    The game has a lower population than I have ever seen before actually, and from what I've been told the PvP aspect of the game (always quite scarce but quite good when it got going) is completely nullified.

     

    What's more is, recently a lot of long time players have finally had enough, especially with all of this impractical, dissapointing guildhall business and further promises of the developers. Sometimes it's thought that some of the developers don't even know what the features the lead developer has actually mentioned to the community, whether or not it's true no one knows but the promises sure aren't met.

    The skill decay is a huge deterrant of Roma Victor's PvP, probably the nail in the coffin for the fighters of yesteryear - the long time beta testers, etc.

    The community used to be quite good, however it's slipping some. The bickering on the forums is something of a deterrant in itself, which really set someone community-oriented like myself back quite a lot. Now I won't be coming here to be flaming or to be spreading utter lies and moistening the tongue of carnage, but there is a lot of what I personally see as injustice in the way the community is handled at the moment. As most veteran players would agree, the forums really are a place for the afterwar seeing as battles are short and you have to travel far to have a fight anyway. Now, the forums used to have swelling great big 10 page essays of utter crap about who won what etc. That was stopped which was a great plus for the community. Recently however, the developers have been somewhat neglecting their community driven listening skills and have actually been absent from the forums more and more often - some think they got into AoC Beta... lol. So naturally some of that bickering has rekindled which is a shame. Without maintenance the forums begin to lower themselves again but there is still more to be heard about the community in general.

     

    RedBedlam are quite fond of allowing banned players back into their game and acting "docile" to the fact that they're there. There's a guy who has been banned at least twice, and he's still running the money and calling the shots on the forum. How they can let that happen and stand by that is a mystery to me and also a great spark in my anger towards the game of late.

    Recently I packed in the towel for this game, although I decided to stick around their forums for a little while longer. Well, that turned out great. For whatever reason, I come to their forums one day to find out I've had my access revoked... I had not even posted for over a week so it could not have been a post I had made. It seems to me as if RedBedlam might be banning quite vocal players who stop being vocal. Lol. I still to this day don't know why they've banned my forum privileges, no one else can tell me, I had no explination email or anything like that which does thwart the patience a tad bit. A couple others have been banned I think, some quite vocal and mocksy/mouthy, but then again others who just generally speak their mind. That really rips a hole in the community feel however. Allowing banned players to slip in under the rug "unnoticed" but revoking the speech (forum privileges) of those who haven't actually done anything wrong

    In all honestly, with no intention of - "driving players away because I don't play anymore and I feel mad blah", I feel as if the developers do not have their original image in sight and are not fit to continue it. The game has not grown an awful lot this year, or last year really. It's dragged on long enough. I feel as though KFR (lead developer) especially, is quite tired and he almost acts like someone who has not had sleep for about 3 days and is just generally quite grumpy. The other developers we never really hear from so not much can be said for their morale or motivation.

     

    General synopsis: Game is not going anywhere fast and "developer inspiration" has lost it's light in the lantern. If you've bought it, keep an eye on it, if you have a decent PvP character, log in for a fight now and again (but do NOT sit hiding inside a guildhall!!!!!! ). If you've not bought Roma Victor yet and are considering, make sure you do your reading, it's the only thing that can ever help you. The starter towns are deserted at least 95% of the 24 hour day so in game help won't get you far. The various mIRC channels are deserted, neglected and not correctly maintained so I would not recommend them sadly. Guild forums however would be your best bet if you actually have to ask a complex question or whatever. Guilds like the 18th Legion especially I would say are most eager to actually give out answers to non-guilded inquirers etc. Don't pour your soul into it though. It feels quite harsh to say such things but it'll do you good, stress-wise.

  • Posted: 4/08/08 4:20 PM
    Roma Victor