Trials of the Braves (which, yes, includes farming ATMA stones) Part I

[Kokai]

Time sinks do indeed slow down progression, but judging by the posts on your boards, obviously frustrate and irritate your player base. This game has been fun and challenging so far, it is a pity that you sought to add in pointless time sinks to slow progression when tangible goals with lock outs or identified time delays would have slowed progression without frustrating people to this degree.

Sad to say, but I am pretty much considering finding better things to do now than play for hours for no reason as well as some of your other posters. While the lack of response so far, in addressing these issues seriously is not helping, the GM Maskee ( I think) was very responsive and reassuring this morning. I hope he is listened to, as he seemed to understand completely my feelings on the matter.

[Bombast]

1. ATMA stone drop rates are completely random in that not every fate grants one, and the person getting it when it does drop is completely random as well. So, someone who has done every fate in the zone and got gold (some people are not getting gold and I don't think they realize that they had zero chance when that occurs) 8-10 times are still waiting for a drop, and someone zones in, joins their group, and gets it on the first fate, because RNG is random!

Possible resolutions: Tie it to completing every fate in a zone with gold even the rare spawn fates; Keep the fate that drops one random but give it to the highest contributor of that fate; Tie it to the completion of 100 fates in a zone with gold.

Atma drops are personal, not grouped - Every time someone finishes a FATE, they get a roll for one. Multiple people can get an Atma from one FATE, or no one at all.

Also, you don't need gold to get an Atma drop. Multiple conformations from the forums, my FC mates, and myself.

2. Trials of the Brave fate completion: Forcing someone (and please spare me your "hard work"adage oh posters of the page as I don't see how time invested=hard work-tell that to your boss in construction when someone completes their assignment in 2 hours while you put in 10 hours and never complete the same task and see if you get paid or even have a job that you "worked hard because hours") to sit in front of a computer for 2-4 hours watching a map just for a fate to spawn is cruel and unusual punishment.

Possible resolutions: Have them spawn once a day or twice a day at specified times to slow your precious progression but allow us time to get there and complete it without suffering numbness of the arse and legs; Have them cycle on their own timer, once per hour.

Only some of the FATES chosen for the books have outrageous timers. This seems to be more of an oversight then a planned road block. I'm willing to bet that if anything in the Atma chain gets fixed, its this.

Time sinks do indeed slow down progression, but judging by the posts on your boards, obviously frustrate and irritate your player base. This game has been fun and challenging so far, it is a pity that you sought to add in pointless time sinks to slow progression when tangible goals with lock outs or identified time delays would have slowed progression without frustrating people to this degree.

Sad to say, but I am pretty much considering finding better things to do now than play for hours for no reason as well as some of your other posters. While the lack of response so far, in addressing these issues seriously is not helping, the GM Maskee ( I think) was very responsive and reassuring this morning. I hope he is listened to, as he seemed to understand completely my feelings on the matter.

/shrug