I considered farming starmetal, then thought “All the bots make farming so inefficient, its not really worth it”
I considered running laz or gen, but with my GS pretty much maxed, there is no real reason to do them. I have run laz/gen over 30 times each in the last month and have not received even one piece of gear that is better than what i have in all my 3 sets…mind you outside of weaps, i dont have any leggos.
Went to the TP and considered upgrading crafting trophies, then realized that the companies that own EF and WW are making over 1.5m a day in gold due to the rent thing and have driven the prices of these mats to ridic prices that make it almost impossible for people like me to buy.
Then I just logged out.
I guess the most frustrating thing for me is all these issues that make me not want to play were either created by the devs or very easily addressable by them, yet nothing seems to happen - bots run rampant, they continue to enable/extend the ability of companies to make stupid gold making coveted items only accessible to few. The drops in chests and top tier expeditions continue to be so rare that running them is like a chore.
i think in general the layout of towns was just not thought through thoroughly. Because obviously there are good reasons that WW and EF and the most trade friendly places.
Near the center of the map
Nearly every resource available (minus ultra late game things)
then you look at other places like brightwood or edensgrove and they just pale in comparison because they only suit higher level people, have less resources like iron that everyone needs, not near the center of the map and more.
And the constant need of low tier resources re-enforces this because even at level 60 you still need iron. too many aspects that must not of been thought of. or they just dont care.
I keep trying to log in and play but theres just nothing to do really. When I do try to go do anything its just met by something that feels bad.
Wanna farm? Nah bots on that route
Wanna fish? Nah bots there too
Wanna PVP? Hello clunkiness in which all of my attacks just go through most people.
Dungeons? Seriously how many times do you expect us to run gen or laz? We gotta be getting up there to 100s of runs now.
Portals? Fuckin shoot me now.
Chest runs? Also please shoot me.
The issue for me is even if they did care we need actions to back up claims.
For quite some time now the issues haven’t troubled me too much. Games at launch of many kinds can be a hot mess. It takes time to fix things.
Yet they keep trying to release new content, which is just reworked content mostly, without touching simple, basic QoL issues ingame.
In other words, Fix the damn compass. Whenever I run across one of these everyday bugs or glitches that’s the thought that comes to mind. It kinda sums up for me the whole issue.
I can’t really agree with these points. Resources like iron are super cheap and easy to get now. I typically run past iron nodes and see others do the same. Low-tier mats are no longer the limiting factor in crafting, so WW/EF proximity to these things isn’t as critical as it was during launch.
Also, at end-game people are mostly travelling to Ebonscale, Reekwater, and the 3 northern territories that no one can own. You can own houses in Ebonscale, Reewater and Brightwood or Mourningdale and get to these key locations easier and with higher efficiency than from WW/EF.
I think the issue is that people “set up shop” in WW/EF because of its ease of access to new players. They bought houses and established a way of navigating, trading, crafting there and just haven’t wanted to change. It’s not really optimal to do everything in WW/EF at this point in the game’s life, but think people are reluctant to abandon their houses and playstyle and move to other zones.
If you could sell your house and get your money back from the purchase, think WW/EF would see massive loss in income. Other small changes from AGS could also achieve this. But then everyone might start complaining that Ebon and Reek (or whatever the new hot towns are) owners have too much influence, money, power, etc. So ultimately, it’s not he town locations, but many other integrated systems that are the issue.
I highly doubt it, the system perpetuates the problem. I want my house in a place where I can do all of my refining cooldowns at once. The only towns on my server that can afford to keep all the crafting stations at T5 are WW and EF. Why would I move even if I could?
Guess that depends on the server. On mine (Yggdrasil) there are plenty of territories with T5 stations. There are towns outside of WW/EF that are fully T5 upgraded (outside of maybe 1 station).
Outpost rush PVE, sometimes I run it solely focused on upgrading the bases and summoning things. I find it quite enjoyable seeing everyone get flattened by meatballs lol.
This post really hit home for me. It’s exactly how I feel when I login sometimes. This only happened after my server merged. Prior to the merge I was able to get into wars and invasions regularly.
After the server merges when 5 servers merged unto mine, almost the entire map is full of bots 24.7. The other day I was trying to farm some trees around 7AM EST as I was standing there waiting till they respawned I saw 3 Bots go from empty node to node withing the respawn time. they killed easy the level 50 Gators in the area… I logged out and since then only log in to sell my 10 Asmod daily.
Farming any area isn’t worth the time/effort because of the 6 servers full of bots merged into 1. And AGS doing nothing about it. Will not play serious again till they do something about it.
I used to play for at least a few hours per day or however my time was allowing me but now i do not even have any incentive to do the refining cooldowns for asmodeum, phoenixweave and runic leather. Actually, i have considered that it is probably better to not do them at all so that i will not get back to the game and get my daily dose of disappointment.
By the way, they could make it so that the refining cooldowns would reset every day at 6AM in the morning like many other games instead of having a fixed 24hours cooldown.
The bots also massively ruin this game but it seems to not be a problem.