New world is getting very frustrating due to nodes being contested by around 5 player consistently 24/7.
AGS you need to do something to resolve this issue.
I can give you many ideas if you take them in to consideration.
more nodes in different areas:
add more patches of all nodes in different spots - this will thin out the players making it less contested.
Node lockout:
you should make it so that when i get a node that i then become locked out of that particular node for say 5 mins making me have to move on to the next node and not camp it out - this would again thin out the players making it less contested.
Nodes to respawn faster:
simply make the nodes respawn faster so that we can get the mats we need for dailies faster so that we can actually play the rest of the game - do this with the other points above and it should resolve the issue.
make skinning mobs locked to the one who killed the mob:
it is incredibly frustrating when i kill an animal mob and someone else jumps in and skins it - to combat this while not in pvp mode, have it so that whoever kills the mob is the only one that can skin it.
I find farming mats quite fun and i want to continue to do it but since we were merged twice and are now in a full high pop server i can no longer farm materials as every spot is contested by a number of players 24/7.
The materials are kind of a small part of the game as yes we need them to craft but even crafting we need to do many attempts to get the gear with perks we want so it would not make that much of a difference.
I am already at end game waiting for more FREE content like many others and i do play every day but lately i am getting very frustrated and bored as i can not do what i want to do in game because its so contested. Also as you know with pvp off there is nothing i can do about it apart from try get a mob to hit that player then steal the node which is very sad.
Please just make some changes to this and all will be good.
I want to add - when you do add new content how do you expect most players to even be able to do the new content when we are all still fighting for nodes getting one node every 10 mins ish ?
The frustration is unfortunately something that you never highlighted in this post.
The bots.
AGS are extremely lazy when it comes to effectively taking out bots, when they’re reported. Sure, they are maybe doing ban waves to remove a couple of hundred at a time. But the timeframe between this is where the frustration for myself, and I’m sure others, comes into play.
I’ve reported the same fishing bot now for a week, and yet it’s still there, fishing away without a care in the world. The same goes for an Oricalcum run, where there is at least 1 to 2 bots, which cycle through there for a few hours at a time and then return.
However, I have no problem with normal players doing their farming runs to get mats to level up their crafting/gathering etc.
This system is dumb or they should change like OP wrote or add perks to tools which will provide immune durning chooping, harvesting mining etc.This stupidity with pullin mobs on you is the dumbest thing I saw in game. Force players to fight each ither for resources in normal pvp way or just change it.
Yes the bots are a major issue but honestly from my experience on the Delos server there are also just tons of actual players camping certain resource nodes 24/7 especially orichalcum it’s almost unfarmable on my server.
And this is the same on Nysa too many bots plus players all at same nodes all the time. Having to compete with 5 players for nodes is rediculous. I may get one or two nodes out of 10 every 20 mins or so. That’s very bad spending most of the day trying to get enough for cool-downs.
Bots are getting a lot easier to spot now. They don’t chat is the first clue then they make sharp 180 degrees turns and randomly stop sometimes. They also stop at empty nodes.
Overall there’s no point in the game having us compete for materials. They should have it so all nodes are available for all players like if I mine this node then it’s still there for next player.
But the bitters will make their script include fighting and their buttons will be press way faster than we can press a button so they will have an advantage over us in the pvp situation and how does that help lower level or lower skilled players or crafters or players that just don’t want to do any pvp in new world
The fanboys will tell lies about the “farming of nodes by bots” just read some above post saying there is not a problem on MY server. Their a problem on every server. I gather to make my gold, The bots are mostly around towns and lower level areas. Although a 2k population server good luck farming anywhere near prime time and off primetime you have to compete with the bots,
we can kill them all