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Comments & Critique

Written by Tobias on Sep 15, 2010

Thank you - that helps a lot. ^-^ I noticed the raw numbers for your connections look a lot better on the Texas server, too. I still saw one or two latency spikes though - are you on wireless?

Oh wow, that must have been quite a battle then @.@ Hope it was at least a little exciting. ;P By the way, how was it, difficulty-wise? Would you fine-tune the monsters in the dungeon, or do they pose enough of a challenge?

Now about the suggestions - Nebraska, huh! Atlanta isn't so much farther away that it'd make a big difference from the Texas server, so I think the Atlanta server is just a bit worse in general. They had downtime already, and together with your feedback I'm pretty sure I'm going to cancel that one. There's another place offering servers in Kansas, which is looking pretty good - so I'll try that one next. ^^

Charge attack? Where did you get that one from! I didn't even put it in the skill tree yet as far as I remember. O.o It was an old skill that I kinda scrapped for now, because it felt awkward to use. ;P

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Pwnaged

Sep 16, 2010

Yep, im on Wireless

It was perfect difficulty, although people who are not experienced mmo wise, would probably easily get killed until level 10 or without another person

And i got Charge attack from the "Extra Abilities" Tab *3rd one* I thought it was decent, Its a great skill to make the first strike with

Tobias

Sep 22, 2010

Oooh that explains it. I noticed a slight packet loss from wireless, which explains the latency spikes in your connection. Did you notice any jumps or freezes at all?

That's good to know. ^^ The gnat burrow is kind of made for two, so having to be experienced to pass through it alone is actually a good thing. ;3 Charge attack will probably stay, but it needs to be changed .. if I recall right, it has a cast time and everything - which I imagine feels awkward. ^^; (plus, it uses Mana instead of Fury - oops).

I put a mini-game in, similar to the one you suggested. Look for a black wolf in saliko_fields01 (the map next to the village, with the robot) - it's not quite an arena, but you're still defending. There are more rewards the more of the monsters you manage to defeat (once you get low on health, no more attack and they retreat), and all players that participate are rewarded, regardless of whether they're on the quest.
(You need to abandon the quest to do the event again at the moment; once the village is open, it'll be a repeatable quest.) What do you think?

Pwnaged

Sep 22, 2010

Yes, I noticed a few jumps and freezes, but ive come to expect those in ALL mmos, so don't fluster too much about it

Yeah, might need to edit it a bit

I played the mini-game, Beat it solo of course. It was exactly the type of thing i suggested, and you did it extremely well. I can see this bringing a few lower level players together to do it, because i doubt that once this game gets a few more players, and that it gets bigger size wise, People are going to skip some of the beginner quests because they might not find it necessary to do lower level quests, and this one is one that wont be skipped over just because of how fun it is

Tobias

Sep 22, 2010

True, but still - especially now when there is a choice of servers in different places, I want to keep them as low as possible. I'm going to stick with the TX server for now, especially since you said it's better than the European one, and just see how everyone's connection to it is. ;3

Congratulations - and on your first attempt too, I see! Was it too easy? It doesn't even seem like you broke any sweat beating the quest. ;P Should they get reinforcements if someone's literally wiping the floor with them? Oor would you simply up their HP?

(I made Trash slightly weaker, by the way, since you mentioned it was too strong when you were still using it. It does about half of its original damage now, but it's still the hardest hitting skill.)

Thanks for giving this a go, by the way - it helps a lot seeing how difficult those quests are for others. ^^

Pwnaged

Sep 22, 2010

Honestly, the Quest was Easy for me, but you gotta count in the factors that made me wipe them on the ground
1. I was prepared for a big group of people coming, because you told me that is what will happen, The regular player wouldn't expect to be ambushed by that many people, and if my experience in other mmos has taught me one thing, its not the number of enemies, its how prepared you are before you fight them.
2. I'm Extremely talented when it comes to any kind of game.
3. I'm Probably a higher level than the average person who's gonna be doing that quest

So yeah, It was easy for me, although i had 3 huge advantages.

If you want, you can implement a Bonus round, once you reach the bonus round, its impossible to fail the mission once you reach it, and the more you kill, the better the reward. Or, You can implement a Level balancing system. Maybe make them 1-3 levels lower than the quest starter (Most likely 2) and balance the Person your escorting also, because then he might get killed to easily and make the game impossible for lv 20-ishes, but its impossible for a lv 20 to exist ATM so...yeah.

Also, If you Lower the Damage of something, i also recommend you lower the cost. Because now Trash isn't worth the 75 fury it drains. I Suggest lowering the cost to 50 or 60.

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