Can we say what we don't want to see on Empire? I for one, don't want to see anything that makes the Empire easier. I waded through dozens of little kid/ girlie servers trying to find one that was challenging. This server is the first one I found and I really love it. If you introduce difficulty settings for the frontier you'll ruin the Empire. It's ridiculous that some people in the frontier will be fighting for there lives while others will be taking a stroll through the park. If anything, you should be thinking up ways to make the frontier even more difficult and challenging. Let the little kids go play on the kiddie servers. Just my 2 cents.
I think saying what we don't want is a great idea. Currently, aikar is almost done with player difficulty settings. One is extremely easy, 10 is hard core. With this and upcoming Dystopia, it will get harder.
I'd like to see a shorter derelict status for new players so that when they join and build their little dirt huts with a chest and never come back, people dont have to wait an entire month to claim it. And contests focusing on different content in a res.
The thing about difficulty settings is that YOU can still play on a hardcore wild. If other people don't have those PVE skills who cares if they're having a walk in the park with less reward, you will still be dueling enraged skeletons and such to your hearts content. It'll just allow everyone to have exactly the experience they want, and do to some brilliant brainstorming by Aikar, not affect anyone else's experience.
Already done. shorter derelict for new has been in place for a week or 2, it just doesn't reflect in game. But System has been wiping out people at 10 days who abandoned.
LOL I'm really curious how this will work in groups. you have a group of 5. 1 has his setting at 10 and the other 4 have theirs at 0. If they're all traveling or living together how will this work with mobs? I mean if the guy with difficulty 10, is causing enraged mobs to appear, wouldn't that kinda be defeating the other guys settings? Or would the mobs be easier to kill for the guys with settings at 0? And if that's the case, isn't that kind of stupid? And what about rewards? how would they be split in a group with mixed settings? I hope Aikar's as brilliant as you say because to me, it seems like he's opened a can of worms. I think taking a unique server like Empire and trying to make it "all things to all people" is a huge mistake.
Would you rather he do nothing and lose people? As I recall he rolled out the boss mobs without letting anyone know until afterwards. And they upped the difficulty to Normal. This gave us the disadvantage of not even getting used to these monsters who set things on fire and one hit kill you in lag as well as suck you out of your house from 20 blocks away. Not everyone likes these changes and many who were wild dwellers either left or now stay in town a lot more. Yes people like the challenge but some do not. He is tweaking the game to make it playable for all because if not, we would lose people. What you may think is stupid others might not. I think dying every two seconds is stupid and makes the game unplayable, whereas that might be your cup of tea.
Oh man this would have helped me about a month or so ago. Waited and waited for the new players res's next to mine to go derelict for a month all within about a week or two from each other. Wanted to claim them up because since iv gotten my res most of my neighbors just build dirt huts and that's it then never come back and the process starts all over again (and has been the same for over a YEAR now) So got rushed into getting diamond claimed up 2 then the third one 7 days before it was gonna go derelict the player logged back in on another server for a bit resetting his derelict and had to wait another month and lost out on claiming that one. So many rupees down the drain.
Id like to see the /shop prices adjusted... they dont need to be fair per say, they just need to be fixed a lot. The newer members are using those prices to gauge their shops and are crippling the other new players that dont know what to look out for. Id also like to see admin drop partys... nothing rare but its a great way for the admin and other staff to show appreciation to the players, and to greater interact and establish presence.
Come find me on smp 3 and I'll take you into the frontier and teach you how to survive. I spend about 4 hours a day online so it shouldn't be too hard for us to hook up. I make my living hunting enraged monsters and it's not nearly as hard as you make out. You can come hang out at my castle and you'll be fine.
You guys have got some really good idea's posted here here, pls keep them coming they are really interesting. As for some of the ideas taking EMC away from "French Vanilla" I would give it time as this is only a brainstorming thread not an we are going to implement thread.
So just a couple of suggestions that stem from the time I spend wandering around in the wild. 1 - Stackable items - Some items take up a full inventory space but are just a bit too valuable to toss away when your running out of room (eg. Zombie Virus) which brings me to my second point 2 - Upgradeable inventory - I don't mean a whole ton of extra space but it would be nice if I could spend more time adventuring and collecting items before having to head for home. I was thinking something along the lines of the vault vouchers where you could buy maybe an extra inventory page for rupees (I saw a youtube vid where the person's inventory had a scroll bar). I think these changes would have more people out adventuring and hunting which, in my opinion, is a lot of fun.
While I bet a percent of the Empire agrees with you, the Empire wants to offer a "Play your way" service. We want more players, people who kill mobs and people who get killed by mobs, to join the Empire for an even bigger community. Once the Difficulty Setting works its way in, you will get to set your little setting on 10 and fight your little butt off. But some people will set it to 1, so they can enjoy playing in their wild base without fear of dying. As for this It is their decision, those who want to fight for their lives were not forced to, they wanted to. Those who want to take a walk in the park can enjoy doing so, they are playing how they want to play.
These changes are more general MC related, and as we are, well, still technically "survival/French vanilla" things like making vanilla items stack and more inventory space are things that EMC wouldn't really change.
As next holiday item, it would be nice if we could choose between a unfinite water bucket or lava bucket.
