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#817 - 12/15/07 05:12 AM
Re: Pwipe Vote: Please vote on the options below
[Re: Azarepth]
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carmy
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Registered: 10/14/07
Posts: 164
Loc: South Korea
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In the long run, whatever imbalances exist now are going to get worked out as things get fixed up. If we pwipe now, chances are good that new changes will help -some guild- level quicker than others. If a pwipe is the solution now, will it be the solution then too?
No, a pwipe isn't the solution later on. Nobody would want to play if that were the case. There are many proposed changes at the moment, and some of them are impacting the game that a reinc, or a 1/2 reinc or any other options don't seem fair to me. I honestly don't see the problem here, as the people with the most to lose are the ones that are for it for the most part.
What needs to be considered, is that one admin, Nevin, showed up, and made some very serious changes very quickly, and never, at least from a player's perspective, followed through with any of his plans, and kind of left the MUD in some sort of limbo. Because the buffers were removed and some other silly changes, some players were able to level insanely fast. It doesn't seem fair, that because you picked a guild with insane leveling power, you should be able to progress to a point of power 10x more quickly than some other guilds.
I think a pwipe with some of the proposed changes will level the playing field. I'm not saying things are going to be perfect, if they were, we wouldn't need admin at all, now would we? :P
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#835 - 12/15/07 11:00 AM
Re: Pwipe Vote: Please vote on the options below
[Re: Shadowraith]
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Gabe
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Registered: 10/14/07
Posts: 18
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(Reposting this with some new content, since Shadowraith locked the original thread shortly after it was posted.)
I strongly object to a player wipe. It seems to me that any of these planned changes and expansions can be integrated into Darke mud without having to wipe out the current players.
I'd like to hear some solid reasoning for the *need* to erase other people's hard work in character development. Any person who feels like abandoning their own work and starting over when new changes go in has the same ability that they've always had: rebirth. Personally, i've spent over 3 years developing a character that i enjoy playing and continue to enjoy improving.
One of the advantages that Darke has reaped from extensive, competent coding work, and as a result of having a test server for working out kinks, is a stable foundation that allows for changes to be made without bringing the mud to its knees. Why ignore a huge advantage that having a test server brings? No instabilities will be introduced by merely expanding the current mud content, and allowing current players to continue playing, if everything is properly tested.
That said, i have no strong objection to an equipment and map wipe. I don't necessarily see a need for those, unless there's a concern on the part of admin that some objects exist on live that should not, and the availability of which will be culled.
So, again, why the *need* for a player wipe? High level players have put in a lot of time and effort to get there... i can say that holds true, at the very least, for my self, and i strongly object to watching the fruit of all that hard work just disappear.
The applicable reason i've heard so far is to make the dissolution of the tinker and enchanter guilds, and the creation of the new proposed crafter guild (a combination of the two former guilds), easier. If the new crafter guild actually did go in, it seems that chanter and tinker reincs into that guild be supervised such that former tinkers would have to train tinker skills within the new guild, and former enchanters would have to train enchanting skills within the new guild. Combat skills would be a moot point.
The mud is already on an even playing field, so arguments in that vein seem like falsely-rationalized or veiled desire to rip off people who have put the time in to get big.
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#837 - 12/15/07 11:32 AM
Re: Pwipe Vote: Please vote on the options below
[Re: Gabe]
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Gabe
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Registered: 10/14/07
Posts: 18
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Regarding the perceived problem with potential xp gain differential between guilds:
This is an issue that has been in existence ever since the CMS system was put in, some people have raised hell about it (myself included), and the existing mud admin chose to leave it as it was. That said, i doubt the issue is as big as some people have painted it to be. The only major imbalance that i recall offhand is the potential gain of players in the thief guild in the S category, and that imbalance has been corrected (?) from what i understand.
Other than that one, perhaps people who cite this differential as a reason should be specific, rather than merely saying that such a problem exists.
Overall, i think some effort does need to be put in to balancing potential xp gain amongst guilds, but that is a separate, longstanding issue, which is *not related* (read that again) to the changes which have been proposed of late.
Personally, i was happy to see the xp buffers go, even though my main character derived zero benefit from the removal (was already beyond their affect, being of high level already).
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#838 - 12/15/07 11:40 AM
Re: Pwipe Vote: Please vote on the options below
[Re: Gabe]
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Kim
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Registered: 10/11/07
Posts: 204
Loc: Europe
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" The only major imbalance that i recall offhand is the potential gain of players in the thief guild in the S category, and that imbalance has been corrected (?) from what i understand."
For combat, the low end (non-haste guilds) is at maybe 1.5 million per hour. High end would be fighters and paladins who can get upwards of 10 million... And all otehr guilds in between at different ranges.
S and M are the same as far as this is concerned. The low end is at 1 million or so (tinker, fighter), the high end not counting thieves is over 2 million... 2.3-2.5 (necromancers, AMs, CLs). With all other guilds being someplace inbetween (enchanters at about 1.35 million, Paladins 1.7 or so).
"Personally, i was happy to see the xp buffers go, even though my main character derived zero benefit from the removal (was already beyond their affect, being of high level already)."
If the buffers went back in, with a static 1 million/hour, it would affect your main character and well, every character. This is a change that would quite require a pwipe.
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