Tastria

The good news is that we've got a bunch of days to find out all this good stuff.  I figured, "What the Hey, " and spent today qualifying,  I'll go after the titans once I've built up some stam, etc.

    Plenty of time folks, no need to shove   

I've been knocking around here for seven years come January.  I managed 248 levels before joining a guild, and without buying any of the game currency (I did win some which helped)

     For me, the fun is in the trip towards EOC.  And I'm in no rush to get there.  As has been said, there's lots to do, and lots to experience.  It's changed it's base format on beginning players over the years, so if you decide to play, you'll have it MUCH easier to have a decent character to play with starting out then I did 6+ years ago  

     All in all this is a decent game, with a lot of fun folk playing it, chat in various forms is one of the highlights here for me, and there's a fair number everywhere on Earth so there's usually someone on.  Maybe not as many as four or five years ago, but still quite a bunch.

  One of my Allies, is Auronffx from Eldvin, and he's apparently enjoying the game here, plus there are many of the original Beta testers running around.

     Anyway, come on in, the water's fine

You have to catch them when they're young    I try and look at new players when I check in, the basic buffs just to give them a boost, and sometimes a pm.  At this point in my FS life, I don't care if they join my guild or not, I just want them to Stay

I like the idea Tasria. I think an event where all the critters are throwing down different drops high and low all scrambled up. Mixed up global event would peak some interest.  I think one random item such as seasonal potion or something would make it all interesting. Lets say a gift from three years ago present would be hilarious. Almost like a gag gift only it can be used item of choice and not dropped like goo from coffins.   

Better and better!

    For some reason a Pickax comes to mind, but the skies the limit.  

    The more I think about it, the better I like it

Just a passing thought:  How about introducing some new critters without fanfare?  A weekend of clobbering a new critter/s without knowing what they'll drop, or what the drop might be used for, could spice up these long fall nights. (or short spring nights, depending on which side of the equator you live  )

I hit the ruby level and noticed I only had ten more kills to get on the top 100 list.  So I did it.  I then noticed another 30 or so would move me about up to level 90.  Once up there, I saw that all I needed was one, yes ONE kill to move up another notch....

     That dam' list should come with a warning 

Haven't had a single person contact me as a "mentor",

My memory is a bit hazy, but way back when....  Wasn't xp loss an absolute when the game started?  And didn't the virtual level become standard 2 or 3 years in?  

    I've got the germ of an idea, but I need my memory prodded.  Can anyone remember what the story was?

Not sure of the ability of the game to code this but...

Since we have enough potions around to drive a bartender insane;

Ditto with gear, enough to give Amazon on line headaches;

How about "stuff" that has a definite life span?  Vanishing just as the next winners are announced.  Perhaps with Unbreakable built into it?  The beauty of this would be that it wouldn't clog the game,  wouldn't necessarily be bound, giving a valuable commodity that HAS to be used, and can't be hoarded.

If anyone likes this idea, feel free to run with it.

I don't think this is relevant. At least as I see it, the discussion on hand is NOT about PvP vs leveling. Or perhaps better said: It shouldn't be. 

 

I think you misunderstood me Egami, it was not my intention to do a PvP vs. leveling post.  And I agree with you there.

My query was directed at how many players actually  DO/DID use FSH.  Yes, I remember the poll, and like you, voted in it.  Really poor turn out in numbers too, but that isn't the fault of the calves in the pasture, just a simple fact. Apparently the majority of players in the poll used FSH, hence the results.

   I do still stand by my statement of the dumbing of the game however.  Even if the FSH did show the amount of gold a player was carrying, porting it over to the game proper is making it just too easy to find folk with large amounts of gold. (Incidentally Grim, what's the refresh rate on the listings?) I stress "easy",  anyone who's looking for a target, already has ways to find them.

All this talk about FSH.  How many players actually used it?

I know I don't and haven't. 

A rough estimate would be nice, as for all we know, players who used FSH could be in the minority. 

In my opinion, PvP game or not, desired piece of FSH or not,  it's just dumbing down the game.

Another good one Bloody! 

There's my positive comment.  For the update, it seems to me that it's bells and whistles.  And for increasing the xp gain to those below level 100, just how fast DO folk need to level?  Reading the other comments, and by my own guild experience, it seems that no one has any problem in getting there as quickly as they want.

    I appreciate the update though.

Fixing that just now

 

We've moved it all to cloud hosting

"Cows in the sky with Diamonds"

Couldn't resist it   Many thanks for the repairs, and not band-aids.

I know I'm in the minority, but nothing seems terribly exciting.   Except....It's probably not a great idea to put the "collect all" and "discard all" buttons so close together.  I haven't tried the discard button, but I hope that it has a default that comes up and says, "Did you really mean to pour that delectable, although feeble, potion on the ground?"

As I recall from my dim past, some of the items gave minus' to  various stats.  The fact that we mortals can kill titans show that they're not invincible, and maybe  -1 xp gain, or the like.  You get my drift.  All these various artifacts don't have to be all goodness and light.  Picture the Grinch as a Titan, and imagine the stats on any rewards HE drops.  Just to make the holidays a bit interesting