Nappeh

Just my 2 cents which may be all this comment is worth to most.  But here is how I see it.  For the average player in this game, the stam required to do the seasonal Quests, Hunt seasonal titans, Hunt the LE's in the realms, AND try and reach ruby tier for the global was just way unrealistic.  I mean, perhaps the fact that so many stam sucking activities were all going on at once might have prompted the LE's to have been released in the caves instead?  To ad insult to injury these global pots don't even stack up to ones easily bought or composed already?  When I saw the 75 million kills required to get to ruby in conjunction with everything else going on at the same time, I saw the writing on the wall.  It certainly didn't inspire me to blow all my stam on the global.  I had nearly 52K kills I think.  But I digress.  Point is, events like this should encourage the community and not deflate them.  As this one seems to have done.  It sure would be nice to take into account the stam factors from above and perhaps slide the scales a little further.  Not for my benefit mind you.  I already have a ton of unused globals in my BP as I don't hunt as often.  I would love to see those who tried really hard and with little stam to begin with.  It is these players who have been impacted the most.  Good Day.

Then work out on pvp ladder... new currency and add new rewards

So, because you don't have many tokens, ad a new currency to stick it to the players who were promised no less by the admins that new gear to invent and new potions were forthcoming.  Stop taking away from players just because perhaps you won't benefit.  A promise was a promise and those who were expecting it should not get the shaft.  We keep taking away from people and we wonder why people keep on leaving the game.  You had the opportunity to have stayed opted in the ladder and banked all your tokens too as a result of the Cows announcing new gear and potions. STOP the arbitrary taking away of things from people in this game.  Have a culture of adding to the game and stop taking things away.  An update or improvement should benefit everybody, not at the expense of anybody.  A promise is a proimise and it should be honored.

I can not wait to enter the pvp ladder (currently there are about 130+ players over lvl 1600+)

with epic rewards getting added I am sure activity will once again return + it will be a slaughterfest

 

see you there

I need to get to EOC quickly  lol

Also, can we please stop the "now let's still take away peoples tokens" comments?  Really people, just because you either #1 don't have any OR #2 Spent them all already doesn't mean now you should be butt hurt and want to take away from everybody else. Tokens were earned. Gets your hands out of people's accounts.  I am just assuming that your protest is basically if there is access to new EPIC potions or gear that some will have a large amount of tokens?  Well, guess what, 2 years ago HCS said that new epic gear would be added and/or bound potions for ladder participants.  So, as a result, many people chose not to spend there tokens when the gear might have been worth more in hopes that when HCS released the new items there might be a better profit or a better benefit ie. epic potions.  SO, now we want to penalize the players who chose to save them based upon promises made by the admins?  Stop staring at people's ladder tokens and mind your own account.

 IMO............... NO PVP TOKENS PLEASE...DELETE THEM FROM GAME TOO LIKE YOU PROMISED. Model reward after seasons.

Why is it that we must continue to insist on taking things away from people?  Tokens, whether you like them or not, were earned by people.  Some, admittedly, paid more than others for theirs.  So, it is what it is.  A lack of activity in some Ladder bands were not the fault of the players, it is the fault of no rewards of any value to be earned.  These tokens were earned with time, stam, and FSPs.  If you place a deadline of say 30 days from now and all tokens are deleted, what would happen??  A flood of the gear they invent will hit the market and values would plummet.  How does that help anything?  Why not let people just keep their tokens for goodness sakes??  I mean, we sit here and take things away from people and then sit around scratching our heads wondering why the game player base is declining.  We get up in arms and demand changes to the game for aspects that we don't like, then when the change comes and 10% of the players leave we wonder what happened?  Then another change and 10% more is gone.  We love winning these battles until a change comes to something that we like. People are becoming disenfranchised and are leaving this game, usually at the complaining of a minority.  Some people are winning a battle but will lose the war when they sit here playing a game with nobody left to compete with.

     For the life of me I do not understand why we keep taking away aspects of the game completely and then impliment completely different things?  Sure, tweak old things and improve them, but MAJOR game updates should be ADDITIONS to the game to broaden interest and player base.  I want as much as anyone to see thousands of people online at any given time.  But most of us have found just a narrow band of interest in the game as we are all different.  Then, when that aspect becomes radically changed and/or deleted, we lose the reason why we play.

    Please HCS, please stop just arbitrarily deleting whole aspects of the game and running off people.  Please, restore back some of the things that were taken away and change the policy to tweak when necessary and AD to the game in other areas.

    I hope all understand the sincerity of this post and its intent.  Whether on or off the mark I want as much as anyone to see this game revived. 

I like many of the ideas put forth in this thread.  Medals and Top Rated lists should definately be expanded.  Many have been frustrated because their game style is not featured for people to see thei accomplishments.  Have top rated lists to include SE, Ladder Top Times, Prestige, etc etc.  Have medals for GvG wins.  Heck, make a Master Inventor or Master Extractor Medals to showcase our potion and gear producers.  Anything that would encourage more time spent in the game, why not?!

Content is an obvious concern for me being at EOC.  I also understand that after nearly 1800 levels of producing this stuff it must be insanely difficult to be creative map/creature wise.  So, why bang your head against the wall and try.  I suggest this, not so sure how popular this notion would be, but I'd be ok with it.  How about removing Xindy and Karthak perhaps and then copy and past the maps and get content out to 3K plus.  Obviously tweek the stats and drops accordingly.  Even leave the gear the same visually except change the enhancements and stats obviously.  Work on this for the next couple of months and release by Christmas.  Really stretch out and remove these bottlenecks.  Ad titans, SEs, and buffs afterwards at a pace that is thoughtful and game enhancing.

PvP Ladder and GvG is mostly dead for one reason.  There is no real reward anymore for the efforts.  New rewards need to be implemented if you want to see them become active again.

Lastly, more global events along with the golbal chat, which is great BTW.  I mean, I know you don't want the game flooded with super potions, so why not change it up.  Perhaps have a global that has gear related as a reward.  Even if it is a funny 9 piece Bacon set that is just for show and no go.  But global chat and global events are something that bring the FS community closer together which I feel is a good thing.