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Tahru · Jun 19, 2017

Agree with you on that. I was just interpreting your statement incorrectly.

Nikko · Jun 19, 2017

Kupursk said: ↑

Well I'm not claiming there is, nor that there isn't, a problem with difficulty/reward in SOTA. I'm not nearly advanced enough in the game to know that yet.

I was merely speaking in general terms. I've played plenty of MMOs where you start out with 3 damage / 10 health... and end up with 50k damage / 500k health (or some such number.) All of them suffered from this "disposable content" problem. You stay in an area for a while, out-level it, then move on as there's nothing left to do there worthwhile.

I'm just mentioning that the more aggressive the "power level" of the player scales, the more this happens, the faster you're left with a bunch of areas you're "done with" and have no reason to return to.

In UO this wasn't the case because an "endgame" character was not so aggressively superior compared to a lower one. There was reason for a high-end player to hunt lower or mid-level creatures such as Ettins, Orcs, etc, and not just Dragons and Demons. There was also still just enough challenge for the player to have to mind what he was doing (even if not a BIG challenge in those cases) and not just mindlessly farm creatures with one shot of his attacks.

Also, in terms of crafting, good resource areas didn't necessarily mean high-level monsters too, as is the case with most MMOs where you'll only find the "endgame ore" nodes in the same zones where the "level 100" creatures are. Not to mention other activities such as fishing, housing, thieving, etc, that weren't tied to "area difficulty level" either.

This was nice, because in the end in UO even with a maxed-out character you still had, let's say, about 80% or 90% of the entire map and content to play. Whereas in most MMOs you're left with just a couple of zones with anything useful to do.

I'm hoping SOTA tries to follow the same path as UO in this regard,
but as I said I'm not that far yet to judge.

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Ugh... I still long for the old UO days so badly sometimes. There are even times I wonder why I ever stopped playing. I think it was when the populations started to decline greatly because of newer MMO experiences that came about. I still think UO was better than every last one of the "new" ones. It was one of the greatest adventure RPG experiences ever. So ground-breaking, too. I couldn't believe I could run around with my friends and hunt orcs with them. The world was so open. So free to give you such great terror or joy all in one hour of play.

ErikRulez · Jun 19, 2017

Hey, those are the spiders that shot my pa...

Magnus Zarwaddim · Jun 19, 2017

MrBlight said: ↑

Ignoring the fact that theres 6-12skull content now?

.. i went from 1 skull zone to 3 skull to 4 and 5.
.. how many adv level 80+ still go in 1 -4 skulls?
How does Sota keep them freash?
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Wait, what? 6-12 skulls!?! I mean, I've seen some of the 6/7's in Twins Foothills, but heck where are there new 12 skull zones?!? I'm scared now.

Solazur · Jun 19, 2017

Lockey2 said: ↑

Well, for this to be "Fixed" you would need to get rid of the jerks that like to play in multiplayer and will intentionally come up just as your about to finish off a mob and land the killing blow among other anti-social behaviors that I have seen exhibited in multiplayer. When I started playing this game I played exclusively in multi. I stopped because I became fed up with the massively jerky people that do game. No not all are this way, but far too many are "just because they can". Most likely if it was a single person and they have gotten their character high enough that they can kill multiple higher level mobs with no problems. Personally, I wouldn't cry about it simply because I can skin them and once skinned it doesn't take long for respawn. No game can be everything for everyone.
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*sigh* that's the type of behaviour that makes one long for PvP w/o consent...

ya I know.. not ever gonna happen cuz grief... but...

Rada Torment said: ↑

We, as players, should not change our playstyle and routines because a bad game design imo. There are a lot of options to avoid issues with all in multiplayer, like making bigger scenes (compare the size of DRW with Outskirts for example), more scenes for mid-high levels, a better distribution of spawns (some maps has large empty terrain spaces), etc

This is one of the biggest issues with the "feeling" playing sota knowing we are playing an MMO. I would start forcing POTs multiplayer, no options for friends or single mode. The topic is very debatable but they should start doing small changes. They decided time ago they are gonna build an MMO, but the feeling is confusing atm.
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Amen to bigger scenes...I read somewhere recently that the max in a scene was like 128 (I think...maybe less ) before it would force a new scene... ROFL can you imagine that many people in DR?

As for forcing multi.. I'd go further... force it in all towns most of the time when I go into a town I could shoot off a canon and have no fear of hitting anybody

Arya Stoneheart · Jun 20, 2017

There should be a 5 minute timer on corpses so that if no one wants to loot it, then the finder's keepers rule kicks in so people can clean up zones.

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