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This afternoon it was brought to the attention of Golgotha that the company SENSOU was killing new players in the hexes surrounding Marchmont. Wasting no time, a party was formed to combat the bloodthirsty mercinaries. There were several battles, all resulting in victory for the Golgothan forces and a strong message sent- that no blatant aggression towards new players would be tolerated.
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Golgotha is a settlement that strives to be principled villains, which means rooting out imcompatable or unprincipaled evildoers within it's influence, and ganking new players in certainly lowly behavior.
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Golgotha
"Through strength of arms we bring peace"
Actually, I've heard our guys on voice comms organizing to do attitude adjustment on Marchmont bullies several times this week.
That's our 2nd favorite starter settlement. :-)
May Asmodeus praise the the Golgothans...
@Nordy
I can't imagine the devs are going to approve of *that* kind of "territorial" behavior.
Saying they don't "focus" on new players doesn't mean they don't attack new players.
The devs have been pretty darn specific that they want us to allow new players to have a chance to learn the game.
I think it would be a huge mistake for any group to have territorial aspirations about starter towns unless that territoriality is all about PROTECTING NEW PLAYERS.
Otherwise, they're just asking for bans.
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Hmm, while I'd certainly want to hear SENSOU's perspective, if they are indeed staking out claims on hexes right next to a starter settlement and then killing anyone that comes into "their" territory, I support Golgotha, or any other group, running them off.
There are plenty of settlements around the map, some of them empty. Move to one of those and claim it as your own if you want. Perhaps a majority of settlements could agree to some radius around starter settlements that is off-limits to organized territorial claims.
It is clear to anyone with an hour's worth of play that the tutorial goblins are for new players.
I'd argue that the 6 hexes surrounding Marchmont are also for new players, (where they have to learn what they can and can't solo) with enough entertainment for groups to learn to be groups.
Once you get a second hex from Marchmont, (at least in some directions) you get big knots of ogres and such and it obviously ISN'T new player land.
I'm not sure if all starter settlements are like Marchmont in what surrounds them.
The difficult thing is in telling who is a "new player trying to learn the game". Heck, I still consider myself a new player in many roles of this game. My highest class is level 2, IIRC.
I'm a stone cold killer when it comes to gathering, tower PvP, and doing escalations in groups because that's what my mates have swept me into. But I basically push the same 4 buttons for the same 4 feats every day.
I probably can't solo pull 2 bandits & an alpha dog and survive it, yet. I have a lot to learn once I choose a class and start to PvE for class achievements.
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Hmm, while I'd certainly want to hear SENSOU's perspective, if they are indeed staking out claims on hexes right next to a starter settlement and then killing anyone that comes into "their" territory, I support Golgotha, or any other group, running them off.
There are plenty of settlements around the map, some of them empty. Move to one of those and claim it as your own if you want. Perhaps a majority of settlements could agree to some radius around starter settlements that is off-limits to organized territorial claims.
I agree if they want territory control they most do it away from the starter settlements as they will be making it hard for new players to get into the game and give them a bad impression of the game.
They could use one of the abandoned/inactive settlements until the settlement becomes active again or recycled.
It is clear to anyone with an hour's worth of play that the tutorial goblins are for new players.
I'd argue that the 6 hexes surrounding Marchmont are also for new players, (where they have to learn what they can and can't solo) with enough entertainment for groups to learn to be groups.
Once you get a second hex from Marchmont, (at least in some directions) you get big knots of ogres and such and it obviously ISN'T new player land.
I'm not sure if all starter settlements are like Marchmont in what surrounds them.
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I agree with Midnight on this, and I believe most if not all starter settlements have it's adjacent 6 for new players.
And would not want anyone to do absolute territory control on those adjacent 6 hexes since it hurts newcomers and gives a bad impression to them.|
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I would be happier if the Thornguards instantly responded to Aggressors in starter towns and the adjacent NPC hexes. Since that's not in yet, I'm glad Golgotha is stepping up.
Ouch, I have been testing some spells on myself, and have been red in startertowns quit often because of that. I actually almost clubbed myself to death once. I am still wondering how I ever got my own arrow in my chest though.
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I don't mean to take your words out of context, Nordy, nor certainly claim you represent SENSOU. So, no worries there.
I am more looking to a future agreement the settlements might hold wherein we all agree Starter Settlements are vital "free zones" for all players and so work to push off any squatters. I believe the adjacent 6 hexes as suggested is likely an appropriate starting point. This is not in any way a "no PvP" zone. That's part of the game. Rather, if we notice a group truly taking over a hex for their own ends adjacent to a starting point, we run them off to find more appropriate places.
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Well then, a War between SENSOU and Golgotha is certainly another thing entirely.
So to note, as long as an organized group is not trying to dominate a hex around a Starter Settlement, I have no side in the fight. Well, unless you lot should care to engage my services as a mediator to achieve a non-violent solution to conflict. Given the sound of things, I'm not going to hang my hat on that happening...
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The only thing I want to know is, when you harvest golgothans (sp?) do they drop tears automatically in your inventory?
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I lol'd.
It's a toss up for my favorite forumites, but you're in the running:
- Midknight
- Gurrsack
- Pyroless Bath
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Thank you for the Introduction Chidar and eloquently delivered!
Nordy thanks for your unbiased appraisal of last nights fun, which it was, fun!
Golgotha is full of exploiting macroers, we regularly kill you, and will continue to do so. To be clear we are at War with you, we despise your cheating antics, your members will die at every given opportunity.
Tomorrow evening you will be available to be looted, we have your macro locations wp'd, war is coming!
SENSOU is Recruiting PvP players
We do not endorse nor participate in macroing, but that is not why we attacked and defeated you. It was your harassment of new players. If you continue to prey on new players like this, we'll be the least of your worries, I suggest you adjust your strategy.
The funnest thing about when they get the perma-banned for griefing newbies will be that everyone in the game this month has at least $100 into the game.
I can only hope they bought stuff like taverns, too. :-)
