Search Posts
@OP:
I got slightly different numbers, using 'current completed achievement level', rather than 'current achievement level in progress' :
Cumulative (Total) Influence at completion by Achievement Level
and +0.001 per 'kill' after hitting 10
Any activity becomes repetitive without people to give it new angles and flavors ; )
Re: PFO specifically, well yeah, the game is threadbare when viewed daily for hours. We have to make content, like go ps
Again I repeat ... the player was NOT banned ... his name is Grim Reaper Can confirm, I saw 'Grim Reaper' in Marchmont yesterday afternoon FWIW, I saw no chat from them' of any kind. We can only speculate on the customer service they experienced recently, but it seems to have shut down the potty mouth.
First, it is against the TOS as Thod points out, GW already has a commitment to 'protect' us from that kind of person. Second, same as real life, I chuckle at their impotent rage and get on with my day. Ignoring them (with or without in game tools for the task) is the best response. I support free speech, and I wish this were not a game for minors, that does not mean I want to read toilet humor from immature a%+~$%%s. But language is nothing. How about when some random troll says "(your name here) ripped me off after I crossed 30 hexes to make a trade" over and over for hours ? And when asked about it, makes up more details ? And it's all BS ?
To me, the point of concern is spamming public channels. No matter what language is used, it has to be stopped, fast. Only active moderation can help with that. My solution would be to make global channels only available to exp earning characters, and only usable when at least 100 feet from thornguards >D TL/DR;
It went up last night after the talks, I usually get them up directly and then posting links around takes me a while ;p Direct Link:Politics and Government ps
here's another idea for safe travel: If you jog along, not sprinting, not using speed buffs, you actually 'see' a little farther, in terms of the actual distance between you and encountered players. Put another way, if you travel at top speed you often end up very close to someone almost as soon as you see their dot on the mini map. Jog along, ready to start sprinting and buffing as soon as you see folks, and you may avoid more unwanted encounters. Also, this technique means your buffs are reliable. If you are trying to keep them up 100% of the time while travelling, you sometimes find them greyed out, or just non-responsive.
Oh, I do not disagree: -If they just murder folks, the reputation system should punish them incrementally until they cannot murder folks. Right now it emphatically does not.-I agree combat is way too fast/twitchy. -I agree paying everyone would not work. That said, I still want to hear if anyone actually has tried talking, and with whom, and how it worked out.
Has anyone tried talking ? Because you all seem to have the false dilemma of 'fight or flight, no third option' in your minds. ... I think most 'bandits' would cease fire if someone was talking to them about making a deal, and not trying to flee/fight. We don't need a mechanical SAD to talk/make deals, & a neutral party/non combatant has the option of trying to develop a relationship with the predators a step above corpse. Look at it this way: One day we will have mercenaries , they will want pay to protect caravans and gatherers, this way just cuts out the middle man.
The charging version will put you under the world, randomly. I cannot recommend using it until they fix it. I mention E.F. in my talk, and I recommend experimenting with what gives you the best experience. Heals are worth a lot ime.
My 'Cleric-based' technique I teach in my PFU class on Travelling safely has a LOT in common with what Midnight laid out above. -Never travel encumbered.
I advise new folks to spend 5 hours of exp on moving faster. It really can save your life: (buy in this order ftw) Seminary Trainer: 263exp
Dreadnaught Trainer: 49 exp
Cleric Trainer:188 exp
Once you have all that stuff slotted, switch to your implement to populate the hotbar and UNSLOT the Agile Feet and Minor cure with 'charging' in their description, (they can put you under the world) then use this technique: “R, Ctrl, Right-mouse, buff up” 1) 'r' to engage Autorun,
If you are truly upset with the current state of PVP and reputation: *take a week or two off* The time before Holdings is the ideal time to take a 'vacation' from PFO. Let yourself decompress; maybe check out some free MMO action or maybe just unplug completely. Then when there is more to the game, log in and re-evaluate.
a bump and a note for the Friday Lecture: Be sure to clear your 3rd slot THURSDAY, since deleted characters remain until the next reset. ps I am hoping brand new players, and any players who have never journeyed far from their starting areas will be in attendance.
Zulu time is the only time ! All PFU 'Keepside Chats' will be HERE as I get them distilled.
Perhaps the problem is simply that there are too many crafting settlements ? If 1/3rd of the businesses in town sell the same stuff, a lot of them are going to fail.
Late to the thread but nickel dime penny, it all adds up:
What do you have in slots 7 and 8 (utilities) ?
GW could let us use reputation in bulk to enable settlement vs settlement PVP, a la feud/war mechanics. X reputation deducted from all members of the 'aggressor' settlement enables a PVP window of Y days, with no reputation gain for the aggressors for the duration of the 'war', something along those lines could be worked out and experimented with rather quickly I believe. It would serve as a good preview for the 'influence economics' to come, too. ps
Re: a toggle - There kinda is one. You just trash what you don't want, and gather full encumbrance loads of T1.Which does, however, deplete the resources in the hex, even if not taken. Those of us that are conscious of diminishing resources shudder at the thought. And it doesn't help with the time consumption. Going from two of an essence in every node to one of that essence in every node still means that you have to find twice as many nodes, even if you aren't taking the extra material. it does deplete a hex, which is why it is important to move around. But you gather faster as you rank up, and get more mats of all types as you rank up, so I think the real 'problem' here is stopping at rank 7. I do not want to see gathering optimized for min-max or 'spendthrift' builds.
On my gatherer, at rank 8 I was getting almost as much T1 as I got at 6, and at rank 9 the difference is immaterial.
ps
pps
Whatever the market will bear, and there will be buyers, either pvp'ers who seek the best T2 arrows available; or a crafting town that needs 20,000 T1 arrows to arm their escalation farmers while keeping their queues focused on bigger ticket items. As always in PFO: we'll see when we'll see. (and then the Devs will see, and then changes will happen as warranted)
fine, Zero increased risk. It's still just picking up money lying on the ground, not picking a fight. If there's people tempted to kill off other gatherers, a gatherer group bonus just moves that temptation up to the company level...I see more value in getting rid of all group bonuses. To keep people out in the field and interacting more. FWIW. I have never felt crowded by fellow gatherers. (as a miner)
ps
Gathering is already 100% loot for zero risk; it should not be handled in the same manner as PVE, because it does not use the same loot mechanics at all. Honestly, I believe your bonus idea may be designed to enable zero-gathering-skill PVP builds to gather more efficiently, (perhaps by grouping with one high skill character)
They also started the game without much in the way of reasons for PvP, one of the most intrinsic elements of the sandbox PFO was billed as. Neither of these facts indicate "loss of vision". All "vision" is is a bunch of ideas about the future. It's literally got next to nothing to do with the here and now. Vision is what brought investment. The here and now is a game that some people who made that investment have walked away from.Literally inextricable from each other.
That's what I figured.It's simply something that hasn't been implemented yet.- IMHO the big loss of vision was when we lost Alignment, and 3 distinct, alignment based starting towns. That was a big disconnect in terms of dis-similarity to TT, and it spread both new players and helpful, 'veteran' resources too thinly. Maybe that will change by Paizocon.Oh, PFO decided not to run with those? They decided to start the game without them, yes.
1) nope, doing Dragoncon again. 2) +1 for Dunking Booth - IMHO the big loss of vision was when we lost Alignment, and 3 distinct, alignment based starting towns. That was a big disconnect in terms of dis-similarity to TT, and it spread both new players and helpful, 'veteran' resources too thinly. Maybe that will change by Paizocon. - Do a Panel on Dungeons. Exactly how long it will be until 'an Interesting Cave' or 'a Forbidding Door', et al, will be findable. Describe some particulars about how they get found, and what each role will be doing to successfully clear them. Maybe populate a cave system for the demo. - Lisa, give a talk with an updated version of your email. "Early Enrollment isn't for everyone, just like the softcover PFRPG Beta wasn't for everyone." That one. To prevent the table top players from completely tuning out everything PFO, let them know Paizo will not stop until it is what they envisioned. There is a vast group of pro-Golarion wallets out there, more than enough to make this game fly. Appeal to them.
TL/DR; You could craft armor for an organized group. Some large settlements have a lot of crafting going on, and need queue time on dedicated crafters. They would give you the materials and you would set your Queue then play your 2 hours.
3 utilities also raise PER, the first 2 I have seen on trainers, not sure about the 3rd: ResiliencyFeint Surprise Attack
Yes, it is. Lots of people are "negatively affected" by stuff not in the game. Some people want to play classes that aren't implemented. Some people want to run dungeons that don't exist yet. Some people want to engage in formation combat, assassination, market manipulation, caravans, and dozens of other features which are not in the game yet.And if somebody doesn't get to train their character past level 8 because a *few* other players don't like them, is that OK? If by *few*, you mean everyone who controls a proto-settlement, then that somebody has made themselves an uncomfortable bed to lie in until the founding of new settlements is implemented. And yes that is more than OK, it is the exact intent of a player controlled world. Settlements control training and trade, players control settlements. Settlements interact via player company action. There was never any intent for viable end game performance by groups or individuals outside of player settlements in PFO.
|
