ATTN: Devs/GMs

[dethbringre]

I never played teams on live, but I definitely like the Deity base split. Whenever I did play live an that was always the ruleset I was most interested in playing anyway.

[Humerox]

Originally Posted by Faerie [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Good stuff.

I was always in favor of teams. I'd reroll and play a new server. My biggest concern is generating the interest. IF we are to go that route I personally think the current server would need to be shut down to allow the new one to flourish.

Promotion of the new server would need to be huge...events and staff involvement would need to be at a maximum. If it were me, I'd bring in a boatload of volunteers to GM events and be readily available to the playerbase.

Trying to sustain both at the beginning would be a mistake...IMHO.

[Bazia]

I stand with Mac Dretti on this one.

[Squire]

i personally prefer racewar to deity war.

just somthing more appealing about a group of halflings, gnomes, and dwarves spotting a stray ogre and swarming him, vs omg a tunare worshipper whos name is a different color. doesnt seem as satisfying.

racewar also promotes regionalism, whereas deitywar is less cohesive. instead of the qeynos/halas region being the defacto stronghold of the men, through which others must penetrate to get a hero bracer, do a hole raid for epics, or access vox, its just whatever.. theres some bertox ranger slapfighting a karana one, and the good team is hiding in halas and even that isnt secure, like on sz.

which has drawbacks as well. promote regionalism later atthe cost of sweet blackburrow level 6 pvp, which is some of the most fun ive ever had in a mmo.

[Kergan]

You can't just go adding diety choices to classes/races. There are potentially game imbalancing issues that could come up that we aren't thinking about, maybe making a diety specific item usable by a class that makes it OP'd, faction on a class that isn't supposed to have it or making certain class quests not completable for faction reasons, etc.

We learned from SZ that an evil based team will be the best option if nothing else is done. If you search through the plethora of threads on this topic you can find the reasons which include better starting areas, better stats, better team only class choices, etc.

Honestly, the only way to make this fair is you spawn teamless with a red book, blue book and green book in your inventory and you choose your team by which book you turn into POD...exp locked until you do it. Or just make 2 books red/blue and a third faction you start on that is FFA to everyone (so you could stay on the FFA team if you wish).

[Rec]

I feel the panic of the existing lvl 60 characters. Teams99 is still coming and will make their existing characters useless!

[Kergan]

Originally Posted by Rec [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I feel the panic of the existing lvl 60 characters. Teams99 is still coming and will make their existing characters useless!

Uh, why? I think a lot of us who missed out on the early days would enjoy playing "vanilla" again, and they'll eventually be a merge where all characters end up in the same place.

[Rec]

Originally Posted by Kergan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Uh, why? I think a lot of us who missed out on the early days would enjoy playing "vanilla" again, and they'll eventually be a merge where all characters end up in the same place.

I saw plenty of hysteria about FFA possibly changing to teams

[Kergan]

Originally Posted by Rec [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I saw plenty of hysteria about FFA possibly changing to teams

Guess I missed it. R99 is a teams server already nothing will change. Even if it does change to hardcoded teams how does that make a character worthless?

[Squire]

Originally Posted by Kergan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You can't just go adding diety choices to classes/races. There are potentially game imbalancing issues that could come up that we aren't thinking about, maybe making a diety specific item usable by a class that makes it OP'd, faction on a class that isn't supposed to have it or making certain class quests not completable for faction reasons, etc.

We learned from SZ that an evil based team will be the best option if nothing else is done. If you search through the plethora of threads on this topic you can find the reasons which include better starting areas, better stats, better team only class choices, etc.

Honestly, the only way to make this fair is you spawn teamless with a red book, blue book and green book in your inventory and you choose your team by which book you turn into POD...exp locked until you do it. Or just make 2 books red/blue and a third faction you start on that is FFA to everyone (so you could stay on the FFA team if you wish).

false, this only aids existing guild structures and negates the support network for new players which teams is intended to foster. denied.