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Post by saintofkillers on Jul 31, 2011 16:04:39 GMT
Its sunday afternoon right now and 19 people are online. I came back to play a month ago to see and kill the sunshine. There were 43 ppl on when i first logged on again. Now i havent seen more than 26. Clearly this is an issue that needs fixing so whats the problem? You guys cant do 1 thing in a months time? I dont really think ppl quit because that spawn was removed. Mainly because the very few ppl who killed it are still around (well, kind of.. those who arent online that often anymore are busy irl or just tired of this game). Theres a reason why very few zulu shards last more than a few months, and thats because we all get tired of it. Also, another few months away from this game make us want to come back and thats why we have so many zulu shards being created and disappearing a few months after they started. We are all playing this game because we are addicted losers. So why not let us play the game with good stuff? Make the loot higher is your not gonna put in good mobs. I can kill 100 balrogs and not get a blackrock wep. Thats the dumbest thing i ever heard of in any ultima shard. I have literally id' bag upon bags of loot in the past 2 weeks and got like 2 decent mods and 3 ok weps and thats it. I don't even own a stygian dev bow and thats crazy. You are crazy, mr. trendkill! We had a wipe about 7 months ago because shard was flooded with good items. Seriously, that time wasnt fun at all. You say u cant even get a stygian dev bow... well im thankfull for that because an item like that is really supposed to be rare! Also, "playing with good stuff" is relative. A swift bow of vanq is good those days. A skilled ranger will kill pretty much all the strongest mobs with it and enjoy some pvp with out the 1-hit-kill-bullshit. I wont waste my time explaining how those items *destroy* the pvp *and* pvm. You are experienced player, you know what I'm talking about. Anyway I agree that we need to bring in a lot of changes. Im not the macroer kind of player, but eventually my chars got stronger. Today I noticed I'm killing about the same kind of monsters I used to kill when I was lvl 3! It just got easier and a lot more boring! One last thing... I noticed that good iteNs seem to be a little bit easier to get now, at least the gm shields/weapons are dropping more often now. |
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Post by saintofkillers on Jul 31, 2011 16:23:44 GMT
I have literally id' bag upon bags of loot in the past 2 weeks and got like 2 decent mods and 3 ok weps and thats it. Btw, you are doing great! 2 decent mods in 2 weeks?! Seriously, congrats. I havent found a decent mod in months, actually the only decent mods I have I got from pking/trading. |
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Post by trendkill on Jul 31, 2011 16:42:15 GMT
Its funny you think a stygian dev bow should be rare. What should be rare are lvl6 prots, Assasins dev weps, Stygian blackrock, and top 2 end mods. Anything else is basically garbage. Gm armors? lol who gives a fuck. Pvp? what pvp do you speak of. Ive seen like 2 ppl with decent shit because they killed the sunshine. You wanna pvp with them with your gm armor and weps?
Also its not about killing monsters. I can easily kill all of them here with my shit items. PvM has never been an issue in my opinion with this game. Except for the fact that noone seems to want to create new and harder mobs.
How do good items destroy pvp by the way? The best pvp fights i was ever in were on chaotic realm with the craziest items i ever had. Ritualized lvl5 crafted armors with assasins stygian spears of dev and modded out to the max. Because you die in 1 hit to someone with good items doesnt mean it destroyed pvp. You need players for pvp first off and we have none.
Something needs to be done to try and attract the few people who still play zulu shards. New harder mobs would certainly be a good plus on that. Like i said anyone whos been playing this dumb game for 13 years doesnt want to use a swift vanq bow in pvm or pvp. What everyone wants is good shit and hard shit to kill, pvm and pvp. I dont want to pvp noobs with a nobles swift longsword of vanq and gm armor on. I want a battle with a guy who has a perma poisoned stygian katana of dev and the best ored armor from a lvl5 crafter. If i die in 1 hit so be it. Just means i need better shit. Which we would be able to get in less than a year hunting if the loot was raised.
Also i just want to point out that "the good stuff" is not relative and never will be with a game like this. When i first started playing ultima i didnt daydream about finding a lvl3 mellee prot and a halbred of alcatraz. Did you? Its a game and its supposed to be fun. Not Boring. I know i dreamed about finding crazy good shit. Just because i can kill a balrog with a swift vanq bow doesnt mean i want to or its fun.
Like i said before its a shame we have nothing here because it seems to be a well hosted shard with few internal problems. Except for lack of comitted staff.
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Post by saintofkillers on Jul 31, 2011 18:08:05 GMT
Its funny you think a stygian dev bow should be rare. What should be rare are lvl6 prots, Assasins dev weps, Stygian blackrock, and top 2 end mods. Anything else is basically garbage. Gm armors? lol who gives a fuck. Pvp? what pvp do you speak of. Ive seen like 2 ppl with decent shit because they killed the sunshine. You wanna pvp with them with your gm armor and weps? I was talking about gm shields and weapons, which were rarer before. Stygian bow devas is garbage? So u want to 1 hit kill a mage? 4 hit kill a pp? 5 secs pvp against another ranger? Is that the fun pvp u want? Only 2 ppl in decent gear and thats because of the sunshine? Well then I'm the most unlucky guy ever because Ive killed that monster a lot and the best I got are a few lvl 6 prots. I want to pvp with anything I can, as long the fights are fun and balanced, not the *hitting war mode and running around* bullshit. Also it not about killing monsters. I can easily kill all of them here with my shit items. PvM has never been an issue in my opinion with this game. Except for the fact that noone seems to want to create new and harder mobs. Agreed. How do good items destroy pvp by the way? The best pvp fights i was ever in were on chaotic realm with the craziest items i ever had. Ritualized lvl5 crafted armors with assasins stygian spears of dev and modded out to the max. Because you die in 1 hit to someone with good items doesnt mean it destroyed pvp. You need players for pvp first off and we have none. THE BEST PVP U HAD WAS ON CHAOTIC REALM? AHAEHUAEHUHAEUHEUH I dont even know what to say because pvp on chaotic realm was STUPID. Ive had good pvps on zhrussia, zhbr, zhchronicles and here! In all those shards, good items were hard to find. Also i just want to point out that "the good stuff" is not relative and never will be with a game like this. When i first started playing ultima i didnt daydream about finding a lvl3 mellee prot and a halbred of alcatraz. Did you? Its a game and its supposed to be fun. Not Boring. I know i dreamed about finding crazy good shit. Just because i can kill a balrog with a swift vanq bow doesnt mean i want to or its fun. Good stuff is relative. On that lame chaotic-realm shard, good stuff was assassins devas weapon. On zh, good stuff was a stygian bow devas. Blackrock, assassins, mods, lvl 6 prots simply ruin the pvp if everyone have them. No one will dream of finding those if in 2 weeks you can get them. Stop that meaningless crying, trendkill. This is one of the most stable shards I've ever seen. You and your fellows have been banned, skill wiped and item wiped on this shard. Now you want to hunt for 2 weeks and have the same itens those who are playing for the last 5 months have? Try pking the ones who have those itens, its a lot faster than hunting. Also, dont start crying that u need good stuff for that. Bug, El Zovao and I had NOTHING when we killed Masta, Payne and Da Prince. RTR guys had shitty gear when they killed Dr Jansenov. There are a lot of examples where a well planned gank was more important than itens. |
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Post by destroft on Jul 31, 2011 18:08:41 GMT
You know your contradicting yourself by saying that they want harder mobs but you think that a stigi dev bow should be easier to get why would you make it easier to get when your already killing mobs easy if they upgrade the mobs they will seem the same to you as the stigi vank or swift dev you have so what would be the point in a Quote "harder mob" if you want easier item it is great the way it is cause you actually have to work for items right now as for makeing harder mos i agree make soem harder ones that arent able to be killed with swift vank wepons or even make mobs hp intantly restore when you run from them to heal and they go back to there spawn points thatll make it way more challengeing to build up but it will feel all the more worth it
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Fayt
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Post by Fayt on Jul 31, 2011 18:23:49 GMT
The best pvp I had was on Zulu Hotel Canada, and in one instance here when I dueled Rasta in a pvp tourney... But, I digress, Loot is fine how it is, my only complaint is the unbalance due to the cerebrate being removed after people had a month of farming time on it, makes the warp of first age a bit meaningless.
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Post by saintofkillers on Jul 31, 2011 18:56:27 GMT
I remember u fighting rasta in that tourny... I think that day El Zovao and I fought u, bersek and willow at our small tower's door was a lot funnier :S.
Back to the topic...
I agree that we need therathan cerebrate back. Actually, we need a lot more when it comes to pvm.
I just dont like the newbieness and rudeness of trendkill, specially because he doesnt seem to want therathan cerebrate back, he only want l33t itens to destroy shard's economy, which is doing really well right now, because he thinks he cant pvp if doesnt have a set full of mods. Btw, he wants all those rare itens in 2 weeks.
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Dekar
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Post by Dekar on Aug 1, 2011 0:08:43 GMT
Perhaps, just maybe, if you took some time to actually think about it, rather then posting raging bs like this, that perhaps i don't know how to script? Why would i step up to fix something that i don't know how? If i knew how to script, i'd fix alot more then some random monster spawn.
Maybe because the rest of staff is busy with real life too? Gee. Theres only two of with access to the server, and one is busy planning a wedding... That's a bit more important then this terrible game.
Athol folks... jeez. must be something in the water...
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Fayt
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Post by Fayt on Aug 1, 2011 1:10:41 GMT
Speaking of that wedding... any idea on how it's going for him?
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Post by trendkill on Aug 1, 2011 2:27:27 GMT
Whatever. You guys are lame. Keep shit simple and boring. "balanced" as you say. If the sunshine was in the game it would be a lot more interesting. You would actually have the possibility to kill something that drops decent loot. And probably run into someone at most likely the most popular hunting spot. Prolly have the opportunity to kill me whenever you see I'm on. Otherwise this game is boring. I don't give a shit about random spawn times or whatever they should just put it back.
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Fayt
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Post by Fayt on Aug 1, 2011 3:24:47 GMT
Tell you what, you sitting and bitching is making oh so very many changes. Go. Make a server. Get a high playerbase. Do it your way.
Oh. Wait... that's right...
You won't, you're just gonna be a whiny bitch on her period until you get what you want, with little to no knowledge on the workings of scripting, will then need to find someone with some scripting knowledge, which'll take months, as most scripters flocked to the RunUO emulator. Your playerbase will plummet, and you'll me someone like yourself, crying like a stuck bitch.
Even if Sith were available for the job, he would still require time to test it, work all the bugs out, and then have to take it back out because another person like you bitched about something with it. Scripting is like surgery, mess with the wrong organ too much and a person can die on your table.
"Why doesn't another staff member take up the job?" Every scripter has a certain style of scripting, for all you know, Sith's method of writing his scripts could look like hieroglyphics to Prom or Dekar.
"I don't have a stygian dev bow." I don't see really anyone else having a weapon of that calibur, I don't hear them pissing and moaning.
Enjoy the game, or get the fuck out.
P.S. I don't recall Other Zulu Hotel style servers having a specific mob with only one spawnpoint and high loot rate that everyone hunted daily... you must be some conditioned crybaby from a "here you go little child, a silver spoon" kind of server.
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Post by dinah on Aug 12, 2011 3:32:57 GMT
Let me preface this with I do not play zhfactions.
I think the arguing is not going to help to correct the issue. Obviously Trendkill is frustrated. It seems he wants the shard to go in a different direction than most of the others in this thread. I think everyone can have an opinion and its obviously the staff's job to understand the general consensus of the server and act on that.
If staff is interested in some help from someone that has worked on ZH scripts before I am willing to investigate the issue. I will send Dekar a private message about it.
Also my opinion is that ZHC had the best pvp of any servers I have seen. Most fights there took skills from the players and weren't merely due to the items and talmas.
Chaotic-Realm had its good PVP battles and bad ones. I can remember one of the bad ones. One of the first tournaments held had its final match between Cyran Maties and Sputnik. I was playing as Cyran and anyone that knows me knows I was never a top notch PVPer, but Cyran was stacked with mods and pots. This match lasted over half an hour with neither side taking much of an advantage. The rules of the tournament had to be changed to exclude the use of Talmas so that one of us would finally win. I won on a technicality because Sputnik drank another pot. This was not PVP, it was two tanks barely scratching each other.
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Post by valasca on Aug 12, 2011 13:03:01 GMT
If this was facebook I would have liked that comment. Thank f00k it's not.
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