SP nerfed. We were lied to.

[Abriael]

TheVedis said ranking up was too fast before the patch, meaning it is slower now.

TheVedis may not have tried with a good group. Grinding raptors is exactly as fast as before. You may want to try it before throwing wild accusations towards a developer.

Oh, wait. You can't, and you also have no idea how leveling in the second half of the curve was before the patch. How convenient.

Seriously, you should just man up and apologize. Falsely calling someone a liar isn't a nice thing.

[Coldfire]

So something everyone did to level up was removed and it's not a nerf? Seriously? If you really think so you're just pathetic...

[Abriael]

So something everyone did to level up was removed and it's not a nerf? Seriously? If you really think so you're just pathetic...

Nothing has been removed. A mindlessly repeatitive activity requiring too little effort has been rebalanced in order to reduce mindless repetition. Other, more cost/risk/reward effective activities are still in place as they were before. New activities have been given rewards.

In the end the curve remains unchanged.

By the way, what "everyone" are you talking about?

[Emonzaemon]

Let me ask every reader of this thread a question.


Would you have rather the game gone the route of solo grinding being the absolute best way to rank up, or would you rather have a game that encourages you to play it and do everything it has to offer (this includes making FRIENDS and playing with them) to change up the pacing and give you more opportunities to enjoy it (Even if you don't want to do all it has to offer)? I'd like to think people would choose the latter.

[Coldfire]

Nothing has been removed. A mindlessly repeatitive activity requiring too little effort has been rebalanced. Other, more cost/risk/reward effective activities are still in place as they were before. New activities have been given rewards.

In the end the curve remains unchanged.

By the way, what "everyone" are you talking about?

You talk about something "more effective" yet I've never seen many groups form for that said activity. On the other hand with leves you just signed on after they reset and found a party right away. And by "everyone" I mean the majority as everyone understands it that way. Stop trolling please.

[Kensei]

TheVedis may not have tried with a good group. Grinding raptors is exactly as fast as before. You may want to try it before throwing wild accusations towards a developer.

Oh, wait. You can't, and you also have no idea how leveling in the second half of the curve was before the patch. How convenient.

Seriously, you should just man up and apologize. Falsely calling someone a liar isn't a nice thing.

You've been proven wrong by countless people acknowledging it was faster pre-patch. We were lied to regardless of if it was intentional or not. Deal with it.

[Emonzaemon]

Nothing has been removed. A mindlessly repeatitive activity requiring too little effort has been rebalanced in order to reduce mindless repetition. Other, more cost/risk/reward effective activities are still in place as they were before. New activities have been given rewards.

In the end the curve remains unchanged.

By the way, what "everyone" are you talking about?

But Abriael, why would a developer want to give you MORE tasks to do than just one single repetitive exploit? God, I can't imagine he'd want you to, I don't know.. Have fun, would he?

I don't see how nit picking and mathematically picking apart the system makes him a liar still, the man said you'd still be able to level up fast, he didn't necessarily say that you would be able to level up just as fast doing the same thing as you did in previous patches, he said (and I quote) "The simple and emphatic answer to this, just as I posted in the forums, is no."

That means, that's the short term undefined response. It doesn't say that he's going to nerf any amount specifically, it doesn't mean he's going to completely unchange anything specifically, he's simply saying no without any elaboration. He didn't directly say what was going to be changed and unchanged, he just said that the actual process of gains would still be a fair pace, not that it wouldn't get slightly slower or slightly longer. He chose his words well imo, but people like you take them out of context because even the slightest difference means the end of the world (because it does to you, you for some reason felt betrayed by an answer that wasn't even fleshed out in detail)

Also by saying "I don’t want there to be a huge loss of skill points imposed for dying, or for players to have to grind 5–6 hours a day for 8 months to get to the high ranks." he's actually done that, because if people are saying around 4 to 5 hours of play gets you a rank, and there are only 50 levels, even if you took 2 days per level, that's still only 100 days, and that is not 8 months.

[Kensei]

Let me ask every reader of this thread a question.


Would you have rather the game gone the route of solo grinding being the absolute best way to rank up, or would you rather have a game that encourages you to play it and do everything it has to offer (this includes making FRIENDS and playing with them) to change up the pacing and give you more opportunities to enjoy it (Even if you don't want to do all it has to offer)? I'd like to think people would choose the latter.

Wow you STILL don't get the point? It doesn't matter what the best way to rank up is. It doesn't matter what you enjoy more. Ranking up is slower now than it was pre-patch so it was nerfed, therefor we were lied to. That is the only point of this thread.

[Abriael]

You talk about something "more effective" yet I've never seen many groups form for that said activity. On the other hand with leves you just signed on after they reset and found a party right away. And by "everyone" I mean the majority as everyone understands it that way. Stop trolling please.

And since when you can talk for the majority? Unfortunately for you dismantling baseless arguments doesn't classify as trolling.

You've never seen many groups for it? I've seen plenty. Maybe you're just not sociable enough.

They require a bit of effort and organization, and it makes sense that they're well rewarded, on the other hand it doesn't make the slightest sense to encourage people to just join a random group to do a behest twice a hour, say <hello!> and <Thank you.><See you again!> during the whole activity, and do absolutely nothing else for hours and hours on end.

Effort and reward need to be balanced. Behest rewarded too much for the effort they required, and have been rebalanced down. Other activities were rewarded too little and have been rebalanced up. That's all there's to it.

The overall leveling curve is unchanged. The fact that your personal favourite activity has been nerfed has no influence on the overall leveling curve, as other more rewarding activities (that required balanced effort and organization) are still available.

You've been proven wrong by countless people acknowledging it was faster pre-patch. We were lied to regardless of if it was intentional or not. Deal with it.

You continue to miss the fact that it doesn't magically become true if you continue to repeat it.

Wow you STILL don't get the point? It doesn't matter what the best way to rank up is. It doesn't matter what you enjoy more. Ranking up is slower now than it was pre-patch so it was nerfed, therefor we were lied to. That is the only point of this thread.

The fastest way to level up has remained unchanged, ergo the level curve is unchanged. It's that simple.

On top of that activities that people did anyway before with no progression rewards (quests story quests) now provide SP rewards, which is a further boost to leveling speed.

[Kensei]

But Abriael, why would a developer want to give you MORE tasks to do than just one single repetitive exploit? God, I can't imagine he'd want you to, I don't know.. Have fun, would he?

Behest and grinding were not an exploit. Both were nerfed. Having fun is not the point. Is the fact that ranking up was nerfed when the letter said it wouldn't. Dude seriously it's too easy for you to still not get it.