lördag 21 mars 2009

Fair play?




The few readers who reads my blog knows that i very often write about PvP, and that's of course since i think that PvP is the main enjoyment of this game, even though it's flawed and imbalanced.

I do understand why the PvP is imbalanced class-wise, which is a problem that affects the very many of us. But what i don't understand is the exploiting of the PvP system that's currently going on amongst many guilds. Im talking of course about guilds who farm eachother for PvP-exp, "secretly".

We all remember how it went a few months ago, when you got loads and loads of PvP-exp by farming eachother (it was due to some big patch if i remember correctly). I even tried it myself for an hour or so, to see how it was.

And today, people are still doing it. The two guilds i know has done this, is Anatolian Hun Empire who famred eachother in their own Battlekeep, but got "cought" by a S.C.U.M member who actually took pictures of this (if anyone has these pictures, send them to kruellanecro@gmail.com and i will make them public here). I also heard rumours about Argonauts doing the same thing in The Main System. Note that i have yet to see proof of this, but my sources are very reliable.

All of this contributes to high PvP-levels, making people who utterly suck in PvP very hard to beat.

On the one hand, i really condone this sort of behaviour, but since the largest guilds on the server are earning unjust PvP-exp, shouldn't the rest of us also join the fest, in order to save us from insults from morons who keep sending tells after siege-battles, minigames and 1 vs 1:s?

If you take a guild like S.C.U.M for instance, where the top-notch players (Galadh, Chigo, Svartie etc) have earned their PvP-levels, you see how skilled they are versus people from AHE/Argonauts. I don't like S.C.U.M too much, but they are very effective in PvP.

But eventually, people who stryggle with their PvP-levels will gain level 5. I just hope it's possible before they launch the next 5 levels, where the history of exploiting will repeat itself.

I really hope that Funcom will do something about this, however, people who exploits will always find new ways to exploit.

6 kommentarer:

Anonym sa...

If people systematicly cheat (and they do) they should be punished by Funcom. This does not mean we should do the same. In the same moment this is aceptable in our guild a lot of fair players will stop playing, atleast i will. Alot of players already left and the population on the server is much lower now then a few weeks ago.

I also hope alot of players read and comment on this blogg. Its nice to be able to write things wich is NOT moderated (deleted) by funcom!

/Muren

Kruella sa...

I agree that it would be very unwise to follow the way of the exploiter, one would grow tired of this game fast. It's like offline games where you use cheats, it's fun for a few minutes.

Anonym sa...

I have found that reporting these issues at the TestLive forums where the game developers are active writing & reading is quite good way (in polite way :) ). I even got reply from PvP developer when we wasn't able to Declare Siege wars (reported as bug there) at all and next day I logged in the war was declared by Funcom.


To the topic. I have seen my own eyes all of the Empire guilds farming each others: Agronubs, Russian Lobsters and Anatolian Farm Empire. I sometimes wonder where they get enjoyment for the game...

Here is the latest one at our forums with pictures and lots juicy discussion: http://forum-scum.afktime.com/index.php?topic=1305.0

Kruella sa...

Thanks for the pictures, i will use on on my blog.

Anonym sa...

Huns actually might now have more pvp lvl 4+ players than SCUM. They just wooork so hard :)

When the pvp patch was released last year I was in a guild called The Fallen Guard. Nice international guild but was allied with the empire(=sucked). When the pvp patch was released I remember that half of the guild was farming xp with CLAN members in caenna village. I of course refused because this is our best pvp content anyway.

PVP XP farming has been a problem for a long time. And sometimes not just guilds, only 1-3 people alone might have done that.

Kruella sa...

What annoys me is that when HUNs/Argonauts wins a duel or a siege, they brag about it either in tells or in global. More people should respond that they are fucking cheaters and make this more public than it is today.