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Yes I am definitely the one who keeps trying to bring up alts. Oh wait, no. That is you.

What do you want people to write about? :)

To share their views on outposts as they have been doing, without going into a slagging match about alts. The whole point was to generate a discussion in which people can debate about the current outpost situation.

There is no topic of discussion, our kami overlords are just addressing us, now shut up and agree with them!

*gets his whip out*

Let't talk about armor. You should see the HA Meagon made for me. I can't believe that the karavan/matis are not winning every battle with it.

 

OPs are becoming an event exclusive for those who have mastered the arts of Pvp, this means a large part of the Ryzom population is being left out and OPs are no longer fun for the side who repeteadly loses.

You say: put in some effort, what does this mean? Train your launcher skills, be better at pvp? I dare saying that most people don't want to change their gamestyle just to make OPs more competitive in terms of PvP and more fun to you: the losing side loses interest and eventually the superb pvp side has no competitors so my guess is they lose interest too and move on.

Wont mention alts since thats not what you want to hear.

I trekked myself to Wooky the day of the battle and hadn't seen the karavan fight so well in ages, yet, your pods were impenetrable.

Saw a few people in pvp armour in the karavan side too but its just a terrible disbalance in force.

And i'm not whining (i counldn't care less), just saying what it seems like.

The fact remains that in every game there is a wining and a losing side.

Cause as Captain Obvious said this is a game :P I see that some GoS say that we should back down cause many from the losing side quit and more will quit if Kamis continue to take Ops. On Arispotle Karas were the dominate Faction and I never saw them back down (not that they should).

At the last 2 OP wars if u were there u would see that Karas have the ppl to fight against Kamis but from what I understand they don’t fight back for their own reasons which aren’t my concern. Ppl QQ about unbalanced server but I don’t think u have ever seen an unbalanced server and I can give u an example ( Game Aion, Server Telemachus, Faction Asmodians). That’s an unbalanced server not Ryzom’s.
If some1 wants to quit just cause he is losing well let him go back to tetris or something, better then have a server full of QQ-ers.


I never saw u say that we should back down for the real dyeing faction of ryzom the marauders tho.I never saw u defend them (this goes for Kamis and Karas)(and esp for GoS :P )

Karas have the ppl to fight they are just too deep in the holes they forage in to wake up imo and that wont change if they also have some Kamis on their side.

As for those that say ooh u are PvP masters how can others compete with u… well that’s a bunch of crap :/ When the servers merge I knew little about PvP and I learned by fighting marauds and karas in choice gear. I was dyeing 156 times a day for several months till I learned the basics and got some decent gear. So if some1 want to learn to PvP its possible to do it. If you do not want to learn then stop QQ about those that devoted their time and efforts to learn and return to whatever makes them happy in this game (just not QQ)


What I wrote is my opinion and mine alone.I don’t talk on behalf of Asylum or a faction or RP.
I love this game as much as any1 and i hate to see it die.

Despite the incredible prick Virg is, we should note he is right at that -- outposts are, by their nature, pvp. If you suck at pvp you suck at outposts, the two are tied. Now, there are multiple variables in pvp, but I would shorten the list to : a) gear, b) skill, c) teamwork.

Marauders own no outpost but they still show up regularly at supernodes, sometimes managing good battles (and when they aggro drag, they actually win); what they dramatically lack is numbers, but they compensate with the other two points. If kami numbers are low at one particular season change, maras kick butt.

Karavan sucks at investing time in the game, or maybe at investing time in stuff that matters. You rarely see karavan (teams) hunting nameds, or scouting for bosses, or digging in PR. Granted, one poor alt can't know everything :p but I think I'm close to the truth when I say kami invests more time. Just put an alt in their guilds and you'll see what I mean.

I still stand by my initial idea, though : should the karas start giving an actual rat's ass about their members, they are still outnumbered and past the tipping point at that. To extend on what the other camper says, a kami heal pod is a formidable tool simply by the crapload of OP mats they already have in their amps, just as an example. Add slightly better stats on gear and you have a disheartening situation.

In short ... devs are stupid allowing one faction to go past a tipping point.

oh, and @Soulfyn:

We can't compare with other games. In Ryzom it takes weeks to reach the bare minimum masteries to become really useful (heal, ele, one melee). New players are trickling in slower than in other games, and subbed ones are really rare. Very difficult to grow your numbers, also considering most of them prefer joining the winning side :)

maras do own an op at the moment

GoS as in me??
Actually I keep saying Asylum should just say "suck-it-up we are who we are"

Think Kami were when I started - then Nitrouss and a load of others left game, then we were down to about 30 active homins and GoJ (old guild) had 4 ops including Stronghold, then homins started coming back into game and I gave away 3 of the ops to returning kara and kami guilds to keep em in game

What's a QQer??

You referring to the way GoS (3 of em I think) helped mauro against kara at EI? Coz the enemy of my enemy is my friend? Or the way an Asylum helped the kara in the same battle?

Over and out :)

yawn.... op's are the worst thing that ever happen :}

@Victoriancamper I never said OPs aren't designed for PvP, my point was that as of now, they are limited to those who are pvp master PvPers, those who aren't (i.e the kara) don't really stand a chance unles they:
-grow in numbers (meh).
-sacrifice their time and dedicate to build their factions (double meh)

VC I do believe that OPs have been heavily influenced by people who are PvP orientated however I do not believe this is a bad thing. Certainly outposts are not becoming exclusively for PvPers as everyone can contribute to outpost wars in a positive manner no matter what their skill (except for people around level 1 of course). I do see and understand that the side constantly loosing will loose faith and not find battles fun anymore. Part of the reason for posting was an attempt to show karas that it is still possible to win. Many people seem to have taken this as patronizing but better to have tried imo.

There are many ways to put in effort into helping your faction at outpost wars. Yes training launcher, one of the things I highlighted earlier, and improving your PvP skills are two of them. Developing recipes, hunting mobs, digging mats and crafting great gear are other ways to help a faction. The latter things are all PvE orientated. Just because the Kami currently have more outpost mats doesn't necessarily mean better gear. Some players in Clan de la Sève Noire had amazing gear despite lacking outposts. Speaking specifically for Asylum we put a great deal of effort and attention into crafting our gear. That's what I enjoy so much about PvP. It is extremely challenging and simply swinging an axe at someone just scratches the surface (although it can be as simple as that) of everything that PvP encompasses. As I have said on the forums many times if people would like to expand their knowledge I am quite happy to talk about my own personal view points on PvP.

So there are many ways to which people can contribute to outpost wars even just by doing the PvE things they enjoy. Like I said before if people don't want to put the effort in that's fine, but these people, in my opinion, shouldn't be complaining that the lack of outpost wars is destroying the game.

VNC thank you for the lovely comment. I am simply not afraid to kick over some stones and despite being a tryker, I have the cojones to take the full brunt of it on my main account. Many people don't agree with what I post; my friends, my wife (nothing new there) and as you can see on here, a multitude of others. I will still continue to post if I think even a tiny positive outcome is possible. As for marauders showing up at SNs, last time I checked there are literally no marauders (except 2 players) who would show up at SNs. Most have gone neutral due to (I think) the roleplay restrictions created with marauders. In heal pods I don't really see maga amps as hardly having much of an impact, more as you also pointed out, the stats of the gear. However these stats, disregarding boosts, can be replicated by anyone who is willing to put some time into gathering mats. Yes I am aware sup zun at SNs will be off-limits to many people however there are many better recipes that don't require zun.