REDBARON2

Yeah, I think it's a good idea. What would people think about adding older sets to the invention process as well?

This would take a bit of time to set up as it does take a while to build an entirely new Legendary events worth of beasties and sets but I do think it's a worthwhile idea.

Greetings one and all. I am the founder of a new guild: Tales of the Forgotten and currently looking for more players to join our family.

 

Requirements:

 

Be social! We love talking and interacting with one another.

Be active! If you aren't here, then there's no way to be social!

 

We're rather lenient on many things and do have some epics for your stamina gaining needs.

Other things like donations and such are not mandatory at all.

Items for hunting is slowly coming in. We would love to see our equipment being used by active players.

Locked by request.

~ Grim

As long as you make an uncloak buff as well.  Not ladder or arena tokens, duration has to be like 10 mins max, make it a gold sink. make it 50k min bid.

I love the idea of starting the pvp ladder at level 100.. What are other player's thoughts on that starting level??

I don't agree with a level 100 against a 249 though.. Their first experience shouldn't be going against that (just like a level 25 shouldn't have to even think about doing)

- also going to review the bands before the end of the month

Before, could you change the auto OPT in for all new players? Until you have a chance to work on the pvp bands, this would be a quick fix to a big problem..

 HCS would just need to add a "pointer" like when you start off that sends you to the option of opt-in / opt-out when you join the first time.

 

 

Or at least a message once you hit level 25 showing what PvP Ladder is, and how to opt-out

 

Agree with both of these - also going to review the bands before the end of the month

Current Bands are RIDICULOUS for the lower levels especially.........a level 50 is gunna compete with level 200 Gear??  LOL   OK!?!?!

and what is worse..it has been that way for months, still there..nothing done about it..level 50 ? how about the level 25 players that wakes up that next day..minus a level or 2, has no idea what happened to him..no idea why his log is full of pvp hits..does not take long for that player to say goodbye to fs ..yet the cows still insist ladder is ok..heck even some of the pvpers think it is ok to automatically put a level 25 player in that bracket, they say they need to learn about getting hit..that is the attitude of this game as it stands..quite disgusting if you ask me

Current Bands are RIDICULOUS for the lower levels especially.........a level 50 is gunna compete with level 200 Gear??  LOL   OK!?!?!

Not sure about this - maybe something along the lines of 'Open Guilds' might work tho, whereby the guild specifies some additional requirements for joining and players could just join and instantly become a member (guilds would need to enable this to allow it). Just thinking out loud, but might be a good way to get new players into guilds and feel like part of a team more quickly

Don't forget to take breaths when you post.

lol. I accept your apology.

Above and beyond "vids", any of the free shard offers would work. Grant it, some of those offers are not available in some countries. This is true. More to the point, the current lack of vids (compared to normal) has to do with the advertising schedule. 

 

A bit off topic, but I really wish people would keep in mind that HCS does not control "advertising" in the shard sense. Shards are a monetary base that HCS "profits" from by receiving a portion of the benefits from advertisers that are willing to pay. That "will to pay" is a monetary aspect that advertisers decide, not HCS. 

 

Just FYI, I've worked in advertising. This does not make me a genius. I'd call out to people to "think". Xmas is over... when would you spend a lot of money to advertise your product? Now? 

 

If you are in a country that doesn't have as many shard offers as others (and I am), I empathize with you to a degree. However, I think it's silly to think it is somehow "unfair". HCS gets some portion of the revenue from these ads and players that do them see them as beneficial. Nothing about them are "free". It requires your time. What is more is that it is a source of revenue for HCS that helps support work they do on FS. So the flip-side argument is that you shouldn't be "against" something that supports the financial base for the game you play simply because you have no access to a portion of the profits. 

 

The above logic, which I personally consider to be erroneous, would also lead us to believe that those donate real money to the game have an "unfair advantage". I often fail to see how people paying for my free game use could be disadvantageous. Personally, I'd love to see more of this "unfair advantage".  

 

So apologies for the aside but I will reiterate: It is my belief that composing is great for the game economy and, from my observation of the MP, this double XP composing event is having a great benefit for all players based on gold sink... even if it may be short-lived. That has zero to do with where you live.

 

Again, I said back at post #5 that this event does NOT require stam per se. The fact is that players came out of the box to prove that fact. One person suggested watching vids to earn shards. I'd go even more extreme to just suggest using your gold gain per hour to do it. Sound ridiculous? 

 

Maybe, but it is possible. Regardless, the proof was given. We'll see if somebody can step up and admit they're wrong. 

 

Originally the point of my "per se comment" was that this event, like all others, requires nothing. You can take advantage or not take advantage. Nobody is forcing you. 

 

I think it's good for the game for a couple of reasons: It reinforces the ideology to log in more often so as not to miss this if you want to take advantage (flash sales seems to be the same ideology). However short-term it may be, it increases gold sink (being debatable if it increases the player base willing to sink said gold and thus being better longer-term). 

 

EDIT: a couple grammar fixes, thought there are probably more, lol. 

I am split between thinking to let the composers be able to compose until their hearts are content against the fact that these composing pots have made this game an ABSOLUTE joke when used in any aspect, PvE and PvP! In the PvE side of the game NOTHING has been done to offset the increased power each player can achieve making gear changes unnecessary for a 1000 levels. In PvP the players that have the capability to use composed pots, especially the long duration ones, are far advantaged over the ones that cannot. It's pathetic how the developers have not taken this into consideration. But it's their game to destruct by not listening to the players...

 

On top of it all, HCS does not have the ability, nor the impetus, to catch the scripters who piggy back on the Helper for nefarious purposes in order to cheat.

Sometimes i wonder why HCS doesn't just hire you already ...You seem to know a lot about what happens as a matter of fact . For the people that did script composing they are already past the point of being caught anyway. Regardless of how they did it.

I also think it's a bit unfair that those at or near eoc are making suggestions to change things to make things harder for those that will traverse the path behind. Sure, make changes going forward but to make things harder for everyone else? :/

Oddly enough, I actually believe most of the posts thus far are actually on topic. Funny how composing rolls that way in my opinion, lmao.

 

As for this event requiring stam, I'll re-refer to the "per se" in my post #5. Like most things in FS, it's a decision process. Nobody has to do anything. Everything, of course, requires stam... be it yours or that of somebody else. It is actually quite simple to take advantage of this event without spending "additional stam". Personally, I worked hard to increase my frag buffer to take advantage of this event. 

 

As for traveling composers, I never understood the angst towards them. I use them myself. Their surgence was, as stated by admins, "unexpected" but is condoned and I love it. Personally, I appreciate their service and feel that most critiques are due to jealousy and a complete lack of understanding. 

 

Now, I feel that composing in general is understood by few. I myself believe that it is a great game aspect. It costs an extreme amount of gold and that is great for the game, in my opinion. I think it's difficult for the cows to instigate a gold sink that can be accepted by all. 

 

All that said, I don't want to go "off-topic" in response to some other comments. Should composing go above level 60? Personally, I think so. Probably the whole "over-powered" ideology should go to another post. And "challenging"? I just chuckle... same deal. 

thxs for double xp composing for a day, those of us at lower levels get a small bit of help..which is great...those complaining cause you are level 60 composing, raking in fsps being a guild hopper and not being able to take advantage on the day...you disgust me....you have made the game very un-balanced..and now you want it to be more un-balanced..???..