Best posts made by grofire

@Xulu i feel you, i invested in the kickstarter, and try to get people to the game, and nothing from what they promised is here, its all just new shit.

@Xzoviac true, its one of many promises that was given and now just broken.
to count some:

1. no grind - game full of grind, non stop grind, for every small thing.
2. game would allow all playstyles - solo gaming isn't viable at all, game centralized around cities, without a city a player is blocked from essentially all gear.
3. the game will have exploration - any time you get tired or K.O. your forced to go back to an home or city, so can't explore new places and new monsters.

@FLeaLoD LOL i just talked about this in the game discord, and i was slam by all people there, that this too much solo player game... good to see im not imagining.
i hate the current state of the game, it feel so bad, it feel like the game force you to play in cities with no regard to solo play at all.
i feel that city mechanic broke this game, it was much better before, and i hope the dev will be brave enough to go back and make solo play and players the main option, and city as a bonus for group play.

@spoletta so many promises already been broken.... i do not think this game can survive on horizontal progression only, it should add (back, since it was originally with) vertical progression.
in the start all skills had 3 different level of the spells. and it was vertical progression from level 1 to 2, and to 3...

@spoletta that not true, they had 3 different level in the concept, and was changed only after a player talked about this.... i will add you the image
https://media.moddb.com/images/games/1/70/69348/abilities_menu.jpg
as you can see skills had 3 different levels, it was before you joined... and they used it in the kickstart, so basically it what we paid for....
https://fracturedonline.com/development-roadmap-from-alpha-to-release/
and they talked about it in spotlight: https://fracturedonline.com/feature-spotlight-3-knowledge-system/

**There’s More Than One Level!
In the paragraphs above, we’ve covered the process that turns an Unknown ability to Discovered, Ready To Learn, and finally usable. Abilities, however, are not only meant to be learnt once, since they feature up to 3 levels of power! Completing only 2 tasks of a Discovered ability allows you to study an ability to level 1. After that, you need to have at least 4 tasks completed to study it to level 2 and 6 tasks completed to study it to level 3.

Different learning tasks of the same ability are usually balanced so that completing a couple can be usually done in your home planet, while completing all 6 almost always requires you to travel to other planets. Studying higher levels also needs more complex blank tomes crafted with exotic resources and sophisticated tools – so we expect them to be a common item in player commerce.

Similarly to what we said about talents, you don’t have to worry about ability leveling creating a too wide power gap between new players and veterans. Sure, leveling up an ability increases its power – be it a stronger effect, increased duration, reduced cooldown, and more. However, they’re always minor differences, mostly interesting on a competitive level. Level 1-2 abilities are more than enough to create effective builds for casual PvE and PvP.**

@spoletta said in Crafting considerations:

@grofire said in Crafting considerations:

@spoletta why you say it 7? prove your point...
i will say it more like 2, and to prove my point, i will say that:

1. there is no advanced tech for solo

Techs are made by groups, which invest a huge number of resources in them. The solo player can then choose any settlement based on the techs he want and gain the benefit with almost zero investment, and almost zero contribution to the city.

your just saying that the tech is a group job, you said nothing to counter my point that solo player are unable to join it as deciders, only flowers, that could be throwen at any time, like it happened this test.

1. solo advancement in skills are super slow compered to group

Yes they are. This is the only point where we agree. The group distribution of KP is incredibly generous and makes partying up the optimal choice. Still, you can solo all the content.

1. solo advancement in gold and loot is super slow compered to group

Gold is better farmed alone, so no, I reject this point.

have you played solo ???? because i did, and i have no idea how anyone that played solo can say it... as solo player i have done 4k gold in about 5-6 hours, at 3 players party i made 4k in less then 20 min.
i reject your rejection.

1. many game mechanics are gated like: farming, war (siege), and so on.

Anyone can sign up for a war. Farming is getting implemented for personal plots.

so to answer your question i would change all the 4 points above.
and some more laws like the purple HP, to get a better solo experience, and had somthing for the city players extra.
let me give you example:
i played many years in dragonraja Korean MMO, there the 2 nations could declare war one on the other, and fight on the map, but couldn't effect others, but solo players could sign to any side they want, and join the war.
most of the prize would have gone to the group since they declared the war, and some gone to the solo, this way solo players joined who ever had the less players, and the fight was better balance and still had many solo and group play.

You are literally describing the current tech system that you are criticizing.

Nations declare wars -> Cities develop techs.
Solo players can sign to any side they want, and join the war -> Solo players can join any city they want and get the techs.

i do not understand how you missed my point so much ? first of all i didn't talk about tech at all so i do not get how you add that to your point.
in my example, i shown that in that game, 95% of the game was solo player oriented, and there was some, group activities that solo can join up.
witch is supper different from what we have this game, that its 95% group and only 5% solo.

and im still waiting to see why you rank solo to group at 7, to my 2.

@GamerSeuss said in Crafting considerations:

@grofire

Previously, Purples were removed at campfires. It was abused at minster spawns to cheese them.

true, but we can get purple to remove by time, why to force people to go cities ?
when there is an issue, the game go towered cities and not in a set of mind of a solo POV.

@GamerSeuss there is a difference between using cities and forced to use cities...
in both solo and group oriented game there is cities, the difference is, that in solo one can go to a city if he wish, and in group he forced to.

@Junkie nice finely in the forum lol

@PoorSoul this is a big problem in my eyes, can you elaborate, why it took you 4 days ?