Forcing Players into experiences they don't enjoy #ActivityCards

[Kuthel]

I am a purveyor of not forcing players into any experience they dont want to do. Me personally I am the grind type players and I thoroughly enjoy going to kill 10 of these then 25 of these then 30 etc … but I enjoy it in a PVE environment.

I am the type of player who over the last year has racked up nearly 2k hours of play, but in that time I have spent a lot of time restarting from day one with rolling different characters, server merges and realizing the server you merged into is now a highly toxic environment, and then we were given the promise of Fresh start, which I did … So once again starting from ground zero and leveling to 60, doing the gear grind, and getting myself back into a position where I am caught up …

Herein lays the problem…

We have just been given Seasons, a way to make the game more rewarding, give us content expectations every few months, and “enhance the experience”. The issue is for a player like me with limited time, limited amounts of other players I enjoy playing with, and having reset 3 time now over the last year, I am not in the position to be able to complete activity cards efficiently.

Lets take my current card as an example:

Looking at this card there is absolutely ZERO way to complete it in a way that doesn’t force me to either Flag for PVP, Join an expedition, or have to craft some high tier item that I can not craft. As I have stated I have had to restart multiple times for various reasons and I have not had the time to level my crafting and get myself up to the gear score / quality of a player needed in order to be viable in an expedition… I am also not a PVPer as I find the environment toxic to my level of stress…

Now before you complain that I want things handed to me… I DONT! That’s the last thing I want. What I want is to be able to enjoy challenges solo or in small groups of those I play with, without having to worry about outsiders. I have a family, and we all play New World as a way to de-stress and have some family time. Unfortunately its only 3 of us, and none of us are at the level nor have the time to max out everything in the game in order to be able to completely activity cards efficiently.

This ruins seasons for us…

This card has the option I would enjoy seeing more often but doesnt offer me a way to complete 4 card slots. Like I said I very much enjoy the grind of killing NPCs en masse. But I am only offered 3 “Kill” quests on the left hand side. If I want a 4th I have to spend Azoth… Why?

I see 4 gathering quests
I see 4 crafting quests
Yet there are only 3 Kill quests and 3 PVP quests

There should ALWAYS be 4 options for every scenario, and I shouldn’t be forced into any form of play to complete a line on the card.

Can we change this to make sure the activity cards ALWAYS have 4 of a specific kind of challenge to complete so nobody is forced to do things they don’t want to do…

Thanks

[ComfortabIyNumb]

Go kill 10 ancients and 10 varangians with a bow or gun and turn the card in for another. You don’t have to fully complete the card or even get a row. All you need for a new card is 3 activities completed.

[Kuthel]

Key word missed, EFFICIENTLY. There should be a way to always complete a row doing a single type of activity. I understand to “complete” the card, but its not optimizing the seasonal XP the card is giving you.

[Knightni]

You can also go into opr and just do the pve stuff, the animals and resources in there count as Tier 5 for the gathering and skimming, also killing a npc counts as a “killing blow” in opr, can just exit the match once you complete it and go on the 1.5 hour cd for leaving opr early

[ComfortabIyNumb]

@Kuthel

Key word missed, EFFICIENTLY.

Actually skipping quickly over the cards you can’t complete is very efficient. I’m level 76 already doing this and honestly haven’t spent that much time doing it. Trying to fill out a complete card of tasks or rows you don’t want to do or need groups will take forever. There are spots you can kill beast, skin them, while collecting tier 5 nodes, killing Varangian, angrt earth, with bow/guns, magic, one handed,2 handed weapons. And salvage cheap 590+ gear for easy card completion. Not full completion, but will get you quick points.

[pedropericao]

Like all have said, there’s no efficiency doing full cards. Do the things you normally do, then flip it for free, after that finish it.

Players force them selves to do stuff they don’t enjoy, and I still don’t understand why (the bonuses for lines or full card aren’t worth if you have to do 4 actives that derail you from your path)

[Archangel721]

I do personally agree with the sentiment here and would enjoy a way to align the cards to the activities I want to do. Unfortunately, all season mechanics in all games work this way. FPS games force you to play characters or classes you don’t enjoy. Many games with ranking systems force you to play casual and ranked matches or totally off the wall modes no one enjoys. The entire idea behind seasons is a carrot and stick approach. Come get some useless free stuff that tickles the pleasure center in your brain while we show to the game studio people really are playing the content we’ve created…

The worst response you might get is that you could just buy your way to the end! It’s only 100K schillings…

[YoMiller]

You’re overcomplicating the activity cards.

Do 3 activities then turn in. That’s it. Don’t waste time trying to do more when there are plenty of easy activities to complete.

I’m lvl 96 with over 130 activity cards turned in. Also have gotten my 3 major human trophies during the process.

Went up around 50 lvls in 3 or 4 days farming here with not 1 pvp activity done.
Go to human idol boss farm and only pick up these activities:
-defeat named varangian
-kill 10 beasts (cranes, gators, and varangian hounds)
-get 10 kills using bow/guns, 1 and 2 handed weapons, or magic weapons
-gather tier 5 resource nodes (the gators)
-salvage tier 5 items (save crap loot drops until you have 5)
-skin 10 tier 5 animals (least priority)

Always make sure to have the defeat named varangian ready for when you kill boss. Then on way to other spawn, there are plenty of cranes, and gators to kill. Gather gators if needed.
Reroll on way to other spawn as you run, and make sure to get named varangian, as you complete other easy tasks. Easily get 3 activities done doing this, plus get your human trophy mats as well. Just sell em if you don’t want em, for easy gold.

Make sure to group up as your group member’s kills will count towards some activities

[vegetableknife]

I can never do the Shield ones because its always the PvE arenas for me lol.

[halfik]

Yea you chose to do 1 out of 20 stuff do to in game, its on u mate. You chose not to play most of what game has to offer so you are to blame. Noone else.

[Ryanaslett]

This feels like one of those things where people aren’t able to accurately judge the economy of their actions. Like those folks who will drive to the other side of town to fill up their gas tank because gas is 0.10 cheaper per gallon.

It’s absolutely not time efficient at all to try and fill out the cards completely. The fastest way to 100 is simply doing 3 things and advancing to the next card.

[trooper8807]

I don’t think it’s an issue, the card is random and that is designed to be part of the fun. Some you can’t even complete fully. Not possible. It’s like a bingo card. Wouldn’t be the same is you could win everytime.

Another thing showing that AGS is hoping for gambling addicted to keep nw alive