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#1
07 Mar 2008 09:01
 
 
The racial forts are a mess. They are most (all?) owned by a single player,
and producing large amounts of cash to him. Also, with the huge caravan
network they have, their owner can defend the forts from wherever he wants,
making conquering them next to impossible. I seriously think the forts are
upsetting the game balance.

Therefore, I really think they need to be tuned or removed. Vote +1 if you do
agree, -1 if you think they should stay.

 
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Kotiwalo
37d, 13h, 48m, 31s old
Level:
47
 
 
#2
07 Mar 2008 17:54
 
 
Kotiwalo wrote:
The racial forts are a mess. They are most (all?) owned by a single player,
and producing large amounts of cash to him. Also, with the huge caravan
network they have, their owner can defend the forts from wherever he wants,
making conquering them next to impossible. I seriously think the forts are
upsetting the game balance.

Therefore, I really think they need to be tuned or removed. Vote +1 if you do
agree, -1 if you think they should stay.
I could not agree more. I talked this over with era....basically the entire
concept inmho is totally flawed. The problem is that it takes a HUGE amount
of time to defend, and also are basically only able to defended by some really
tough players. Theres a few pieces of eq in this game that make fighting
against "highbies" just basically suicide for most players. So essentially
the system is just there to make the richest, most powerful players here even
richer, and more powerful. This is something, imho that as far as game
balance goes, this mud does not need. Imho, again the benefits are far far
too great also. There is something like, 7 or 9 megs a WEEK (A WEEK!) in
revenue that is produced when someone owns most or all of those forts. You
can see how great an advantage that is. This system really needs to be
retought out so that is in balance.

 
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Blayke
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#3
07 Mar 2008 17:55
 
 
And, just to cap it, the system REWARDS just sitting around idling. That' not
the point of Bat, is it?

 
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Kotiwalo
37d, 15h, 10m, 4s old
Level:
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#4
10 Mar 2008 10:03
 
 
Kotiwalo wrote:
And, just to cap it, the system REWARDS just sitting around idling. That' not
the point of Bat, is it?
This is not entirely true. Bat rewards you for sitting around idling with
death via some utterly annoying, useless and "funny" event. And this usually
happens exactly when you're not at your keyboard for one minute.

Oh yes, and the exp pool thingymajig.

~/A

 
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Acidia
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