Because you couldn't see what what going on.He's being sarcasticI hope.
Nameplates! Thank god they came to their senses. Preordered.
While I have a lot of issues with TESO, this isn't one of them. I think having valid rewards for PVP and mirroring the Realm Rank system from DAOC are both good things.
I've always felt that the reward for PVP should be built into the gameworld itself if you're going to bother having PVP at all. And I don't mean having a number of contestable POIs within discrete PVP areas either. Then you're simply playing on a glorified soccer pitch and any type of points system is just another way of keeping score. So here we have a 'new' MMO with what really boils down to 'old' ideas and mechanics. I hope you have fun grinding a bajillion points on your quest to be EMPRAH OF TESO though, LOL.
I only think it's common sense if you've already made the assumption that you actually need to have names visible in PVP in the first place, which is a terrible argument as that still leaves the "why" of it unanswered. Oh, I wouldn't be against name visibility for your own faction mind you, but why do you need to see enemy names anyways? At most I could see an argument for the ability to coordinate, but that's actually an interesting debate in that from one point of view players already have too much ability to coordinate and focus fire as it is. Functionality like /assist is fucking terrible for PVP since you can likely end up with two opposing forced simply trying to alpha strike the opposing team down through an MA faster than their opponent can alpha strike them. In small scale PVP it's not a problem really, but get an appreciable number of people together...and yeah. Take that to an extreme like EVE...
Yup. That's why I find Albion Online to be a good example of a desirable PVP system, even if the game is too unfinished to be a desirable MMO.
My favorite part of DAOC was getting RPs and advancing in realm rank for titles and skills. Glad they are making it this way. I get bored in the COD type warzones where there isn't any incentive as far as character advancement to PVP.
I'm quite sure names will only be visible to same realm. You'll probably see something like *A Nord Captain* or whatever their titles turn out to be if you aren't in the Nord faction. At least that's how DAOC was, and I'll bet TESO is similar.
If you played in Cyrodiil in the beta, you'd have realized it was quite a problem. Not so much enemy names, but even just names of your groupmates. Keep fights can be chaotic and if you are trying to fucking point your mouse at everyone running around to figure out who is who, you fairly quickly get frustrated. There were quite a few purists who were arguing that it was important for immersion that names aren't displayed on the screen, while people like me were arguing that at least the option to turn them on and off should exist. I was posting on here to celebrate the victory of common sense. I hope whatever dev was trying to force the no-nameplate issue has drunk a very large cup of shut-the-hell-up.
I hope they change that mechanic. To me, Cyrodill is just another continuation of the war fought between the hardcore PVP guilds that has been going on for the last 15 years. Not knowing that we're killing a familiar enemy is bad enough, not knowing that we're killing a familiar guild is even worse.
For posterity Shadowbane had that:
I wouldn't really want to get involved with city building, because like you said, it's for the core group of hardcore people an no one else. I'm thinking more along the lines of Age of Conan where you set up in the xp grinding areas and you protect the people grinding levels but the activity is worth lasting days instead of hours. Instead of grinding PVE levels you're doing something else, or protecting AIs for mining or whatever. I don't really feel like fine tuning the idea, but I think I'm conveying my thought process enough.
I wouldn't say instantly boring, especially from a meta point of view. But from a micro pov it did get tiring destroying/defending the same tower over and over.
One of the things I think would work pretty well would be for player activity to influence an established area's building.
I agree with your points, but what I'd prefer is terrain to be constant but player constructions and upgrades to change the map. Don't move the mountains or rivers, move the Fort, camps, and buildings.
Exactly what GW2's WvW is right now, an anonymous boring goose chase where zergs avoid each other to farm karma points. A bigass random instanced PvP map where you're more concerned about farming your X points, doing your Y dailies while scoring Z achievements than anything.
Yup. Like many here I hit GW2's wvw hard at release (As in, I was in wvw at server up and did most of my leveling in it). After everyone beat each other a few dozen times the glory was won and there wasn't much excitement to continue. I don't know how to prevent that but adding in more tangible things to lose than a score would probably delay it.