I know right?
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All the servers were killed by companies moving to another server to find something they didn’t find yet. And lack of merges after those migrations.
The present way settlements and wars function is what killed both servers before this merge to Valhalla. Then when those became for only a small %, the rest followed due to no other content.
One made way for the other. And if you do not fix wars and settlements, the rest is moot cause it will happen again.
Mine isn’t dead yet, but I’ll predict what will kill it. We recently saw an influx of players since another server was fully controlled by 3 main companies and shell companies of those 3 main companies. Everyone moved to our server, and we’re expecting the same 3 companies to rise to power and manhandle our server in the same way they handled their last one.
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My serverS, 3 of them.
The first died by the end of the hype+bugs/exploits.
The second one was the worst, because was a strong server, the reasons were the merge itself, merges creates disorder in companies and the enthropy of the server is affected. But the biggest reason was the mutation patch, before the patch globally the game had 120k players, two weeks later 60 k (crafters, pvp only players were terribly affected and most of them left the game, including me.). A lot uncalculated changes by the devs, you put weight on one side and only put on the other side just 3 months later and that is what happens, everytime AGS does that will lose players.
The third server I dont know yet.
Idiocy kills the servers.
You have one group, who owns all, basically pushes people out because it’s annoying to face them. People move. More follow. Server starts to become unplayable. The one company ends up leaving and often ends up on the server you moved too, because that’s where all the players are.
Rinse and repeat.
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People kill servers nothing else
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Servers are ALWAYS killed by a single company. I was in one of these and I got out when they decided to conquer the map and then migrate to a different server just to repeat the procedure.
The system needs an rework and it needs to be done NOW, before the new area is out. If you (and by you I mean the devs) dont know how to do it, just ask experienced players that were in strong companies to help you.
You cant possibly know how these companies work if you werent a part of them.
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I was a big supporter of this game during closed alpha/beta… but adding factions for PvP and the warsystem in general killed the entire game, especially made politics, alliances and reputation on your server totally useless.
Without factions there would have been a lot more dynamics in conflicts because more guilds could band together to conquer a territory that had max taxes or the owners had bad reputation… with factions it’s mostly the case you got high taxes but happen to be in the same faction as the owners and therefor cant declare war at all.
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yeah pretty much → the whole system made companies seem worthless
AGS is about to kill my server with their merges…
You still have the wrong attitude.
No one can “drive someone out”.
You have to quit yourself. And that is what quitters do.
Ooooh, very nice angle. Good hot take.
People can absolutely be driven out. What are you ranting about? It is a game, and if you block the best / most fun part of it from a large portion of the playerbase it isn’t fun (to those who want in on that part of the game). There is little to grind gear for. What is the point of grinding PVP gear if you are just using it in non competitive OPR / arenas? War is the only competitive area of the game but it is so limited in who can participate. That is a huge issue and it’s killed server after server.
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No they can not. They quit themselves.
In one point you are right: quitters area huge issue.
no, they CAN be driven out and were driven out. the server i was on the pvp’ers got so toxic they non stop hounded people. if you went out unflagged to mine resources they would surround you and kite mobs in on you constantly, follow you around interfering in your quests, killing everything in the area so you cant get the kills you need to complete it, making sure you dont get into wars, and even going so far as to take up slots inside invasions and then just run off to the side and do nothing so your town got degraded and you never got to complete the invasions.
yes hagenz they can be driven out. and when the harassment was reported by many of them, the devs did nothing.
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It wasn’t just one thing, it was many.
There was a green Company who had 3 territories, I believe it was BW, EF, RW and he had 3 shell companies governing them all with 100+ members between all 3.
He said, “We’re gonna take this entire map and funnel everyone into one territory where it will be the only town with reduced taxes. We’re going to completely run this server.”
He lost support from some and lost a territory and imploded. He lost support, dogged and insulted everyone and then once he lost his last territory he took all of his supporters to another color and left green with little to no PvP companies as another company fell apart with all the drama going around.
He dissolved and a yellow company either had or took WW at this time.
As greens left before his implosion for purple and yellow, and one of the last companies that were green disbanded and quit, green was left barren with nothing. Almost no worthy green companies were left. Ravaged.
The yellow company that owned WW merc’d for purple a lot and as there was a bad taste in everyone’s mouth for green and it was nigh impossible to take a territory due to these PvPers being good and well geared. With the game being fresh, people still warred in Voidbent and slotting 520 GS people on a siege group was almost normal but slowly fading.
Green was ravaged and purple and yellow slowly began to jack taxes up on multiple territories which then made more people quit playing.
There was one green territory and it had max taxes. The yellow company fought the attack to take it and also defended it. Not sure if they were just doing it for wars or it was really a green shell company of there’s as no greens supported them due to their toxic nature.
I believe it was mostly purple that was taking territories like a rampage but yellow merc’d their wars often and helped them take the remaining green territories left. As the green Dom was very toxic, who could blame anyone for hating greens? I didn’t.
Eventually the last good green people either quit, transferred to another server with the round of tokens or joined the yellow company or went purple and the server went down to 250 peak extremely fast.
When COPIUM, the yellow company left, Oceana was barren.
RIP Shipwreck’d and Memory.
There was a couple other green companies, but this was months ago and my memory is a bit foggy.
Ok, proof your point. Drive me out. You have my permission.
Do it.
If you can not, then you are in the wrong.
And you are in the wrong. No player or group of players can drive me out.
I can only quit myself or be banned.
Maybe a system where 1 company can own only 1 region. War fatigue for players 1 war per day. Take out the dependency on other companies and factions.
So that u can only have your company members for the war. No merc or no proxy wars.
Add a cd for server transfer of 15 days and cd for leaving the company for 3 days.
At the same time add trial war system which is like opr but war system. Where people can play wars 24/7 without any restrictions. Add a ranking system to make it more competitive. So pvp and pve players are both happy. Winning increases rank and rewards but u don’t get a region or anything like that for the trial wars
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you are belligerent and being completely obtuse in an attempt to drive your faulty point home. AND you are promoting that kind of trolling. you sir, have now proven you arent worth the time of effort because you refuse to acknowledge the reality of truth and just want to live in your own troll world. OBVIOUSLY, according to your responses, you are either okay with that kind of troll behavior or quite possibly, one who commits that kind of trolling. either way. your not worth trying to have a debate with. i dont have to PROOF anything to you, or PROVE anything for that matter. I told you my experience and watched people driven off a server with a mega company shouting that “everyone who leaves the server is a victory for us”. but you go ahead and live in your troll world. im done with your ridiculous mentality.
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