Firstly, for R2 to pay attention when people make these types of suggestions. Secondly, a good deal of accountability on their part when things break or go wrong. Thirdly, an end to fixing Typos, as this is an MMO and not The Typing of the Dead, therefore minor grammatical errors should be ignored unless they legitimately pose a great overall threat to gameplay and functional stability.
Now that that's out of the way, here are suggestions that should be implemented, not sure how many times I have to club this into people's heads with the proverbial 9-Iron before they start taking notice and doing something proper about it, but let's just see.
1. Spawn Camping. This has been argued pro and con innumerous times, to those arguing in favor of it I say get some skill and a spine and go try your tactics out in the middle of the battlefield away from Spawns as you're supposed to, because if the only way you can get Silvers is to run up and kill people as they respawn, you've effectively wasted every second you've spent playing the game and are too fundamentally stupid to be allowed to carry this on any further. How do you fix Spawn Camping? It's so easy that any idiot with a basic programming degree could do it. In fact, it's been done already on Wartune with their Battleground. NPC Guardians get killed, yet no one from an opposing Team can get any closer to the enemy Spawn than well on the other side in the middle of the Battleground's main battle area. I'm still waiting for R2 to explain themselves to me on how they can implement this type of measure there, but not in the Wartune Guild Battle Spawns or those of Crystal Saga's Sengolia or Land Grab. Ineptitude, it's there. Simplest fix? For Wartune Guild Battle, just do the same thing you did with the Battleground, create a barrier at a certain interval past which opposing teams cannot encroach. For Crystal Saga's Land Grab, same story, penalize the encroaching enemy Team on Points and, same with Sengolia, make any ranged attacks fired into Spawn lines miss every target every time, and make anyone who crosses the Spawn lines suffer an immediate persistent Silence debuff similar to the one placed on players at the end of Sengolia/Tamalan/Avernal, rendering them helpless fodder to be crushed horrifically for their own poor choice. Or, to make things even simpler if that's still too hard (though R2 would really have to explain that one), penalize players with negative Points and Honor, make them lose heavily for their choices. In fact, make them lose double, where if they would, in Sengolia for example, kill an opposing Team at or on their Spawn, they would lose 100 Honor for killing Emperor-rank in example, and lose 6 points rather than gaining 3. Whichever system you implement, it IS that easy to do, and if you try to say "it can't be done", I'll point you yet again back to Wartune's Battleground and demand you get to work, because no one is paying you to make multitudes of more servers on both games when you can't fix the easy problems persisting on older ones.
2. Problem players have been given a pass for too long. You want to see an example of something that should have been immediately punished? http://i702.photobucket.com/albums/w...009/TyRex1.jpg Completely false accusation, I didn't even reply in the post mentioned which is still in Forums. I reported it, I got all but flat-out ignored, and the accuser got to walk off scot-free. Worst part? I wasn't the only one this guy accused of committing the alleged hack. Or how about this one? http://i702.photobucket.com/albums/w...elcheated2.jpg That was taken during the St. Patrick's Day event earlier this year, one of many taken by myself and quite a few others. The Dragon Sword being used was a 6hr. one from the Beer Tables, the guy using it was doing so in order to let his Guildmates snag the Dragonspine Dragon Sword. What happened? Supposedly the guy was "sanctioned" *coughcoughpulltheotheronecough* for his actions, but was essentially allowed to continue doing so, and the patch fix so that no Dragon Sword whatsoever could be permitted inside (as Dragonspine Rule 4 states clearly should've been the case to begin with) as well as the Party Mode patch did not come until after the event had ended, by which time it was too little, too late. Do I need to bring up the 30+ other screens I have of players like that doing and saying things which by R2's own rules are in all ways illegal, but have gone ignored and give more credibility to the disgusting rumor that cash players can say/do whatever they want and don't even get their wrists slapped for it? I would hope not. And since R2 found it prudent to ignore me when I sent the report ticket about having been falsely accused, as an IP check would easily verify, of a criminal act, I demand a large amount of not only apologies and accountability from R2, but justly due compensation, a 8000c Black Dragon Coin Pack would be sufficient to make up for the slander allowed against me on R2's watch. And next time I send a Report Ticket about a legitimate player behavior, Bug/Glitch, or the like, I expect it to be treated like a code red priority and fixed.
3. Lag. What are you people thinking, shoving Servers together en masse and then shoving them onto already heavily-congested Towers together? And you have the nerve to tell people that it's a problem with their connections? My computer and ISP, regardless of what Browsers I use, are made for mass gaming, no amount of Tabs or open programs can lag it on any game outside Wartune and Crystal Saga. Why is it that only those two games give not only myself, but a vast many others, so many problems? I made the analogy before about the similarities between obesity and heart failure, and what R2 is doing to both of their games with Server Tower congestion of this magnitude. It's not us, it's you. SO what is the solution? Take every Server, merged or not, and put them on their own Towers. With as much money as we've all paid R2 where they can afford to spew out a new server roughly every week, it can be afforded and easily implemented and managed/maintained. And when you decide to merge Servers together, you take them off their older Towers that were made only to support the bandwidth of present Servers, and place them on a newer one that can support that kind of overall increased activity. It will fix so many lag issues that have annoyed players for so very long, that they will spend much of their time wondering if they're playing a different game because the lag they came to recognize and loathe so much is all but entirely gone.
And of course, stop fixing Typos every time you undergo maintenance. Just as I already said, this isn't The Typing of the Dead, mis-spelling a word won't kill anyone or cause rioting and panic. There's no reason to tidy words when it's customer/player feedback that matters, and with so many issues like what I listed above still prevalent, and as well the lack of foresight to warn players about the Gift Code Keys for voting for the game which will not win because so many have been gipped of promised prizes, it's not the words players want fixed but the actions. Reading over every Forum post since at least February, I can easily state that if R2 wants to keep its players happy and keep its games successful, you'll have to start by carefully reading my words and putting real fixes into effect and change everything from the issues listed to your attitudes on customer/player service. Need a really good reason to do so? I direct your attention to Final Fantasy XI and XIV, enough said.
And with that, I end my rant, hoping for the best but as usual expecting the worst which is basically more of the current status quo. I will however keep waiting for that answer from R2 as to why the fixes I suggested to the problems I listed would be anything other than so easy an actual monkey could do it. *taps foot, checks watch, does not hold breath*
Now that that's out of the way, here are suggestions that should be implemented, not sure how many times I have to club this into people's heads with the proverbial 9-Iron before they start taking notice and doing something proper about it, but let's just see.
1. Spawn Camping. This has been argued pro and con innumerous times, to those arguing in favor of it I say get some skill and a spine and go try your tactics out in the middle of the battlefield away from Spawns as you're supposed to, because if the only way you can get Silvers is to run up and kill people as they respawn, you've effectively wasted every second you've spent playing the game and are too fundamentally stupid to be allowed to carry this on any further. How do you fix Spawn Camping? It's so easy that any idiot with a basic programming degree could do it. In fact, it's been done already on Wartune with their Battleground. NPC Guardians get killed, yet no one from an opposing Team can get any closer to the enemy Spawn than well on the other side in the middle of the Battleground's main battle area. I'm still waiting for R2 to explain themselves to me on how they can implement this type of measure there, but not in the Wartune Guild Battle Spawns or those of Crystal Saga's Sengolia or Land Grab. Ineptitude, it's there. Simplest fix? For Wartune Guild Battle, just do the same thing you did with the Battleground, create a barrier at a certain interval past which opposing teams cannot encroach. For Crystal Saga's Land Grab, same story, penalize the encroaching enemy Team on Points and, same with Sengolia, make any ranged attacks fired into Spawn lines miss every target every time, and make anyone who crosses the Spawn lines suffer an immediate persistent Silence debuff similar to the one placed on players at the end of Sengolia/Tamalan/Avernal, rendering them helpless fodder to be crushed horrifically for their own poor choice. Or, to make things even simpler if that's still too hard (though R2 would really have to explain that one), penalize players with negative Points and Honor, make them lose heavily for their choices. In fact, make them lose double, where if they would, in Sengolia for example, kill an opposing Team at or on their Spawn, they would lose 100 Honor for killing Emperor-rank in example, and lose 6 points rather than gaining 3. Whichever system you implement, it IS that easy to do, and if you try to say "it can't be done", I'll point you yet again back to Wartune's Battleground and demand you get to work, because no one is paying you to make multitudes of more servers on both games when you can't fix the easy problems persisting on older ones.
2. Problem players have been given a pass for too long. You want to see an example of something that should have been immediately punished? http://i702.photobucket.com/albums/w...009/TyRex1.jpg Completely false accusation, I didn't even reply in the post mentioned which is still in Forums. I reported it, I got all but flat-out ignored, and the accuser got to walk off scot-free. Worst part? I wasn't the only one this guy accused of committing the alleged hack. Or how about this one? http://i702.photobucket.com/albums/w...elcheated2.jpg That was taken during the St. Patrick's Day event earlier this year, one of many taken by myself and quite a few others. The Dragon Sword being used was a 6hr. one from the Beer Tables, the guy using it was doing so in order to let his Guildmates snag the Dragonspine Dragon Sword. What happened? Supposedly the guy was "sanctioned" *coughcoughpulltheotheronecough* for his actions, but was essentially allowed to continue doing so, and the patch fix so that no Dragon Sword whatsoever could be permitted inside (as Dragonspine Rule 4 states clearly should've been the case to begin with) as well as the Party Mode patch did not come until after the event had ended, by which time it was too little, too late. Do I need to bring up the 30+ other screens I have of players like that doing and saying things which by R2's own rules are in all ways illegal, but have gone ignored and give more credibility to the disgusting rumor that cash players can say/do whatever they want and don't even get their wrists slapped for it? I would hope not. And since R2 found it prudent to ignore me when I sent the report ticket about having been falsely accused, as an IP check would easily verify, of a criminal act, I demand a large amount of not only apologies and accountability from R2, but justly due compensation, a 8000c Black Dragon Coin Pack would be sufficient to make up for the slander allowed against me on R2's watch. And next time I send a Report Ticket about a legitimate player behavior, Bug/Glitch, or the like, I expect it to be treated like a code red priority and fixed.
3. Lag. What are you people thinking, shoving Servers together en masse and then shoving them onto already heavily-congested Towers together? And you have the nerve to tell people that it's a problem with their connections? My computer and ISP, regardless of what Browsers I use, are made for mass gaming, no amount of Tabs or open programs can lag it on any game outside Wartune and Crystal Saga. Why is it that only those two games give not only myself, but a vast many others, so many problems? I made the analogy before about the similarities between obesity and heart failure, and what R2 is doing to both of their games with Server Tower congestion of this magnitude. It's not us, it's you. SO what is the solution? Take every Server, merged or not, and put them on their own Towers. With as much money as we've all paid R2 where they can afford to spew out a new server roughly every week, it can be afforded and easily implemented and managed/maintained. And when you decide to merge Servers together, you take them off their older Towers that were made only to support the bandwidth of present Servers, and place them on a newer one that can support that kind of overall increased activity. It will fix so many lag issues that have annoyed players for so very long, that they will spend much of their time wondering if they're playing a different game because the lag they came to recognize and loathe so much is all but entirely gone.
And of course, stop fixing Typos every time you undergo maintenance. Just as I already said, this isn't The Typing of the Dead, mis-spelling a word won't kill anyone or cause rioting and panic. There's no reason to tidy words when it's customer/player feedback that matters, and with so many issues like what I listed above still prevalent, and as well the lack of foresight to warn players about the Gift Code Keys for voting for the game which will not win because so many have been gipped of promised prizes, it's not the words players want fixed but the actions. Reading over every Forum post since at least February, I can easily state that if R2 wants to keep its players happy and keep its games successful, you'll have to start by carefully reading my words and putting real fixes into effect and change everything from the issues listed to your attitudes on customer/player service. Need a really good reason to do so? I direct your attention to Final Fantasy XI and XIV, enough said.
And with that, I end my rant, hoping for the best but as usual expecting the worst which is basically more of the current status quo. I will however keep waiting for that answer from R2 as to why the fixes I suggested to the problems I listed would be anything other than so easy an actual monkey could do it. *taps foot, checks watch, does not hold breath*
TL;DR version: R2 messed up, and needs to apologize, own up, and fix what's actually broke XD
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