Re: Why so resistant to make Soloing ACTUALLY viable?
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2024 5:06 pm
Sharing my perspective here.
I absolutely do not mind that some solo classes can easily dominate others. I don't want DAOC to be a fair 1v1 game - far from it. I love the class diversity and that not every class can beat every other class. My problem with things at this point is with the playerbase. Nobody but myself (apparently) seems interested at all in killing enemy gankers and roamers in our own frontier. Yet, I find our players in enemy zones all the time. I'll call out things as simple as "hey there's a 5% nearly dead spiritmaster at our dock" and nobody will even come for the free RPs. I couldn't care less about dying, but it annoys me that people seem so caught up in KOTH and EV that pressing "teleport" to a castle and walking outside for 30 seconds to get a lot of RP is apparently just a bother.
And yes, before you say well that's what you get for being a solo player, I answer the call every time others ask for help, unless it's something obvious I can't beat like a smallman or large group. And even then I'll check it out to see if anyone else is helping (which, I admit sometimes does happen, but usually only if 8 man is the issue). If someone is yelling help at the dock, you bet I'll be there ASAP. And we almost always win, because gankers are not used to being the ganked and never expect it.
If this game is just going to be a MOBA, I do not want to log in anymore. No shade at the ones who want to participate in that, but I just wish there were more on Eden who liked playing like I do. I reckon that's the nature of DAOC, but I just don't see why it has to be. I don't expect to be made into some 1v1 deathmatch powerhouse, I just want to not feel like I'm the only person out here and that someone else cares at all about anything but KOTH/EV.
Either way, soloing is just too frustrating, even doing quests in my own frontier. We get ambushed, so why shouldn't we ambush them? Or at least defend against them. I don't get it. Don't we want our greys to level up fast and get in the BG too?
I absolutely do not mind that some solo classes can easily dominate others. I don't want DAOC to be a fair 1v1 game - far from it. I love the class diversity and that not every class can beat every other class. My problem with things at this point is with the playerbase. Nobody but myself (apparently) seems interested at all in killing enemy gankers and roamers in our own frontier. Yet, I find our players in enemy zones all the time. I'll call out things as simple as "hey there's a 5% nearly dead spiritmaster at our dock" and nobody will even come for the free RPs. I couldn't care less about dying, but it annoys me that people seem so caught up in KOTH and EV that pressing "teleport" to a castle and walking outside for 30 seconds to get a lot of RP is apparently just a bother.
And yes, before you say well that's what you get for being a solo player, I answer the call every time others ask for help, unless it's something obvious I can't beat like a smallman or large group. And even then I'll check it out to see if anyone else is helping (which, I admit sometimes does happen, but usually only if 8 man is the issue). If someone is yelling help at the dock, you bet I'll be there ASAP. And we almost always win, because gankers are not used to being the ganked and never expect it.
If this game is just going to be a MOBA, I do not want to log in anymore. No shade at the ones who want to participate in that, but I just wish there were more on Eden who liked playing like I do. I reckon that's the nature of DAOC, but I just don't see why it has to be. I don't expect to be made into some 1v1 deathmatch powerhouse, I just want to not feel like I'm the only person out here and that someone else cares at all about anything but KOTH/EV.
Either way, soloing is just too frustrating, even doing quests in my own frontier. We get ambushed, so why shouldn't we ambush them? Or at least defend against them. I don't get it. Don't we want our greys to level up fast and get in the BG too?