There are always people moving things around by themselves or in small groups. It isn't super difficult to avoid zergs outside of black zones. He is currently #4 in kill value (which is based on how many people you kill). Sure, he is a member of one of the bigger guilds and alliance, but my point is you can be successful in a smaller scale pvp if you are specced for it and smart. Large zergs (20+) are the safe way to go, but also the least rewarding as loot is spread so thin.
Albion Online
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Daidraco
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Just to point out, and this is my understanding - Each player is going to be maxxing a specific piece of gear out. Not all of it, all at once. A weapon most likely - from there, that person eventually dies and another person loots it that put his fame and work into his chest piece. Now he has an upgraded chest and an upgraded weapon.. this continues on and on. In other words, I just dont see how anyone could get away with "just grinding".
The ability to equip gear follows your character, not the gear. You don't put fame and work into a specific chest piece, you get fame to wear higher level chest pieces by wearing specific lower tier versions. If you are wearing T6 armor and die, then you can buy more T6 armor .. or pull another set out of your bank.
Tuco
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I think all the PvP guilds are playing this in some capacity. We have a group of folks playing, not sure what we'll do for release yet.
Muligan
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That's nice to know. I'll probably see what you guys think after the Jan 12th patch. I'm really curious to see how the devs respond to the complaints. Would like to see the devs listen but not cave to some of the whiners. There's legitmate issues from what I've read but there's a lot of butt hurt going on too.
Bondurant
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A lot of PvP guilds went balls to the wall when they heard about the PvP / GvG / Conquest features. Then they saw the combat gameplay in action and nope'd the hell out of the hype train. I heard there's still guilds likeMostly Harmless,KDS,XoOandLoDwho plan to play the release.
Tuco
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That was pretty much us, we played in one of the first tests and I don't think anyone wanted any more. I keep up to date with this thread to see if it gets any better. I think our guys in the test are playing with MH.
Fenz
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Muligan
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Woah.... Wasn't expecting that...
No free to play model... Plus for me
Ultima Online was mentioned as well which is another plus.
I'm traveling today and tomorrow but will definitely have to sit down and read this in addition to checking out the response o their forums.
No free to play model... Plus for me
Ultima Online was mentioned as well which is another plus.
I'm traveling today and tomorrow but will definitely have to sit down and read this in addition to checking out the response o their forums.
Dashivax
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You can play these games casually, or solo, but not both.
The very organized guilds have a high demand for players exactly like you. We always had 2 or 3 people who did nothing but craft and gather for the war effort in our clan in Darkfall. They had low playtime but they made huge contributions to the overall success of our operations and there was always a place for them if they wanted to get involved in the fighting during an important siege.
Tuco
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I can't think of a single casual crafter who made a meaningful contribution in my last 11 years in PRX. We had a lot of them, sure. And they wanted to help and did so in small ways. But in the first month if you weren't poop-socking your crafting skills weren't high enough to help anyone or you weren't around enough for people to go to you before going to the hardcore players.
And after the first month the only real 'crafters' were top-tier players who had the top-tier crafting abilities that often needed combat prowess to get. The lower-level crafters didn't even deserve the name because nobody wanted what they could make.
Gathering is a different story. In many games the war effort requires massive amounts of low or mid-level gathered resources and our legacy has been built on the backs of more casual players who enjoyed gathering resources. I'm guessing Albion will be like this.
Dashivax
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We had a lot of incredibly aggressive PvPers with lowish playtime that didn't have time to personally harvest their own mats to craft arrows/mounts/pots, the consumable things that you really didn't get a lot of while pvping no matter how successful you were. Those players were able to live off our guild bank because our group supported that kind of playstyle. That was only possible due to the casual harvesters, and because as a group we pooled all resources into a shared effort, whether that was raising a specific crafter's skill or a larger project like building ships and siege equipment.
In games like Albion with a completely player driven resource based economy, it is insanely inefficient to have 50 players all stockpiling their own banks, especially when the hardcore players will have 10x the equipment saved up. Makes more sense to spread that around and ensure the entire fighting force is using the best equipment at all times. It also completely removes the hesitancy from being aggressive during PvP. If you know that when you die you will just grab another bag out of the bank your focus will be entirely on the fight and completing the group's objective.
That is actually a larger factor in these games than a lot of the hardcore players will admit to.
Muligan
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I'm still waiting to see what happens next patch before I pick it up. Jan. 12th is still the date correct? They have released an updated roadmap which I thought looked pretty good but this game will live or die by how much it listens to the cry babies.
Muligan
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Anyone that is still following.... Jan. 13th update posted. "Big" patch coming at the end of the month. I'm still unsure how bold these guys will choose to be. Most are thinking they will cater to the whiners but we'll see.
https://forum.albiononline.com/index...932#post305932
https://forum.albiononline.com/index...932#post305932
uniqueuser
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They do a "big" patch every month.Yesterday'sintroduced:
Albion Online is a game designed by creatively bereft millennials who've jerry-rigged a random assortment of their favorite features from WoW, EVE, LoL, and other popular games in cargo cult fashion and expected it to magically take flight, but this one will never leave the runway.
- more low-level content that even new players don't need because they were outleveling what was already available in an hour or so, while the dearth of high-level content that players have been complaining about for months persists
- an armor system rework that was more akin to a reshuffling, fucking over most high-level players (particularly crafters)
- an "execute" mechanic a la GW2 to finish off incapacitated players, which just allows them more time to be revived by their teammates, making it even more difficult for small groups to win against the odds and promoting stalemates in large-scale combat
- the inability to change equipment while in combat because a 10-second global cooldown for swapping gear wasn't enough of an arbitrary penalty
- sundry "fixes" to progressively eliminate the few aspects of the game that remain, purely by accident, interesting.
Albion Online is a game designed by creatively bereft millennials who've jerry-rigged a random assortment of their favorite features from WoW, EVE, LoL, and other popular games in cargo cult fashion and expected it to magically take flight, but this one will never leave the runway.
