@Razvan said in How big should guilds allowed to be?:

I completely agree with @Shivashanti.

In Albion the limit for guilds is 300people are there are no limits on alliances. The result is a few huge (~3k people) alliances that control vast areas. Basically there was almost no risk in gathering and farming in a zone controlled by my alliance.

Not any more, due to a new mechanic called alliance point sharing. There are still a few big alliances (ARCH, PoE, EGO), but not as many as there used to be.

One predictable effect is new players getting squeezed out.

Note that one "feature" of Albion that Fractured will not have (As far as I know) is realmgate-centric PvP. In Albion, realmgates provide a indestructible base, backed by an infinite market and personal islands. This allows alliances to stack an infinite zerg on a gate to enter the Outlands, all with the same time-to-target. (Albion is trying to correct that with the Queen update and the new hideout system, but we'll see.)

In Fractured, stacking an infinite allied zerg in the same place should (at least theoretically) be more logistically difficult, since the map is so big, and players will be based all over the place with no teleport options.

@Farlander

Yeah, building a house is tedious, but nothing like Wurm Online!

In Wurm Online you had to grind masonry/carpentry skill before you could build, and then building was even grindier than Fractured!

So far, no sign of anything approaching the grindiness of Wurm Online.

It does look like you need to kill a certain number of each type of creature to get maximum knowledge in that creature, which may come with its own issues, since some creatures appear hard to solo, and it's not clear (to me) who gets the knowledge from a party kill.

@Einhar

I agree, there's too much RNG in combat. Based on what I'd previously read of the developers' philosophy, I was hoping that wouldn't be the case, but ah well.

@PedroBillyMattos

I totally agree that the goblin heal spell is broken. Any time a game includes a cheesy infinite-heal mechanic like that, I get disgusted and do something else (and sometimes I simply never come back to the game).

I wouldn't mind, however, if that goblin were made much harder to damage.

I'm very much in favor of attribute resets. If there is any depth to Fractured at all, the attribute system will front-load a massive amount of gameplay choice for which a new player cannot possibly have the in-game experience to understand for themselves.

I would thus expect many new players to start off with a template build, and then figure out through actual gameplay experience that they would have much preferred X build optimization.

Thus not allowing resets would be frustrating for many people.

Currently, targeting is extremely annoying. I'm fighting the interface more than the enemy.

Oh, it also occurred to me that while seeing all a wolf's stats is cool, I didn't notice any in-game effect: my toon didn't get any better at fighting wolves.

While it might be nice as the first person to get 100% knowledge of hard-to-find mob X, once it's done and posted to the internet (which is probably inevitable), is there incentive for anyone else to make that a goal?

Completed 100% wolf knowledge, but that didn't unlock any potential abilities.

Tried soloing one of the goblins that heals itself, using a hammer to stun while I got its damage down with firebolt, and it didn't do any good: it just kept full-healing itself. That mechanic feels cheesy.

On the plus side, the trapper goblins were more interesting. At least I could kill those!

Anyway, I don't see anything I can unlock further, so kind of a bummer. I don't like running around aimlessly hoping the next thing I do will prove to be the magic piece of the puzzle.

Am wondering how knowledge points are distributed if multiple players attack the same mob. Does only the player who scores the killing blow get anything?