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Latest Changes on Shard?!

Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 2:35 pm
by Toadie
Hi everyone,
Can someone explain me what are all those latest changes in the game?! I mean.. every week /15 days there is something new.. I like this game but I dont really like all those changes.. 1st of all I think we are losing the real sense of the game:( and somehow I feel like they are mostly to make it harder for new players to become stronger.. Solo Mel, Gauntlet without gold for 1 month, Travesty 15 mins.. Champers.. I understand economy, I understand everything but please stop making changes or players will quit playing

Re: Latest Changes on Shard?!

Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 2:44 pm
by Yoda
be glad to..

1. Lady Mel: this was changed to reduce the number of pages staff received with topics such as "he cut ahead of me in line etc etc etc" lots of pages.. the changes don't make it any harder for a newer player really at all.. all you do Is keep your pets shrunk till you are in her area and then drop them, aside from them not teleporting with you, you can still do mel as much as you always have.

2.Travesty's 15 minute cooldown this was done due to a common situation of the champ alter going green and allowing a summon the moment travesty died, so often what would happen is a player would be in there looting the bodies of the fallen which can take some time since travesty is a known hoarder.. and someone upstairs in the summon room would summon travesty with said player in the room, as a result there were too many pages ie (so and so started to killsteal my travesty, travesty spawned on top of me while looting and I died etc) so once again it was to reduce pages.

3. No gold in the gauntlet.. to my knowledge this was an unintended change leftover from a previous discussion on how to deal with tonnes of gauntlet based drama from people getting their kills stolen etc etc.. they changed their minds about this decision but it was still in the change que so it went live unintentionally and as far as I know will be reverting in some manner to the old way with gold on the spawns

4. Champer campers.. these were added to prevent guilds from locking down all 3 oaks spawns and in turn preventing other people from doing the champ spawn, if the champ is actually active the campers are not there.. so if you get close to the alter and see the words "champer camper" and are not interested in fighting them or cant turn around from where you came and run away, its not currently up at the moment..

hope this helps

Yoda

Re: Latest Changes on Shard?!

Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 2:55 pm
by +Nyx
Travesty was 15 minutes before we made any changes to her yesterday, FYI. Once you summoned her, you had a maximum of 15 minutes to kill her before she would despawn, leaving you with nothing. That is a change +Colibri made a year ago. The only modifications we made are that there is now a 1 minute refractory period after the player leaves her room before the wall drops and she can be summoned again. This is to prevent people hopping in while someone is still looting, which was causing us to receive pages frequently.

All of the other things Yoda explained are spot on and I don't have anything to add.