Teams - whats better? - Page 22

Faerie · #1 07-28-2013, 11:10 PM

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I addressed this earlier, it seems to me really hard to get the balance right, and personally i cant think of how. We already know evil is going to be loaded and how it killed Sullon, why repeat the experience and expect different results?

You could try to have only 1 character per account but then people would only create 10 accounts... I bet a bunch of people already have 10 accounts. Youd have to code something to delete characters that havent been active for what, 3 months, or 6 months? How to you add all this up?

It seems like a huge fucking headache to me, and a recipe for failure, unless someone can dissect the reasoning that would make it work here. For now, i cant see how it can be done.

The balance is already screwed up, with Nihi doing all of the pve uncontested. What's the harm in trying if the worst case scenario is the one we're already in?

Danien · #2 07-28-2013, 11:06 PM

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It looks good on paper, but like i said back in this thread, hardcoded teams has no fluidity. If one team gets too powerful, like it looks like it was evil on live, then youre fucked, your servers dead and it becomes a PVE server, again.

What you say has value, but you make enemies alot less permanent by removing xp loss out of the equation.

One side will almost certainly become substantially stronger then the other teams, much like it was on live. Same thing applies for ffa-pvp too though, only then the teams will be called guilds.

That doesn't mean it still won't be fun to play though.

Tradesonred · #3 07-28-2013, 11:09 PM

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One side will almost certainly become substantially stronger then the other teams, much like it was on live. Same thing applies for ffa-pvp too though, only then the teams will be called guilds.

That doesn't mean it still won't be fun to play though.

The difference is that if your team sucks, then it sucks for good, youre stuck there. You cant leave it like you can leave a guild to see if you get along more with Guild X or Y, or if guild Z has figured out how to assist yet. It has no fluidity, its gotta be fluid. Gotta think fluid (TM)

Danien · #4 07-28-2013, 11:14 PM

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The difference is that if your team sucks, then it sucks for good, youre stuck there. You cant leave it like you can leave a guild to see if you get along more with Guild X or Y, or if guild Z has figured out how to assist yet. It has no fluidity, its gotta be fluid. Gotta think fluid (TM)

Not worth sacrificing the other benefits of teams in order to attain fluidity.

Mittens Romney · #5 07-28-2013, 11:11 PM

The difference would be that each team may have guilds and players that dislike each other but they will stick together to fight the other team.

KB_Trader · #6 07-28-2013, 11:31 PM

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

3 teams.

Keeps things interesting when it's not just us vs them, even though one team is almost certainly going to be vastly inferior.

Biggest reason for going teams is people get a built in community whom they can work with. You know who your allies are, and whom you are supposed to attack.

FFA attracts a certain kind of crowd, all of which we probably have absorbed up to this point. People don't attack others because they don't want to alienate them as potential allies, or don't want to exploit situations (killing low hp people and what not) because they feel like total assholes. However if those players are on opposing teams it would feel natural to attack them, it's what you're supposed to do.

I think teams have a larger potential playerbase then ffa.

My ***** Danien w/ the good points and shit