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Old 04-06-2007, 10:07 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Re: Dear Brad....

This is a broken record topic, but I'll try and be nice

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Originally Posted by Ialiliel View Post
As a still die hard fan of Vanguard i am curious to know a few things.

I experienced on Live before i came to test the comunity higher end on my server at least of shildreth the higher end community is departing feeling stiffed by the lack of content for them and the fact that basic promised content has never been released.
We know, they know...Canada knows, too. It's all being worked on. Said it a million times

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They wanted yes the curse word "griffons" while they are occasionally tested fighting on them is still a very long way off.
They work. They're even in the game. (omg) The ones in the game are temporary quested, at the moment. FOR A REASON. Trust me, I'd rather have them in game, in a limited fashion, then have people raging on the forums about getting dismounted while flying across a chunk line.

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Raid content well not a lot i need to say as errrmmmm its pretty much non existant.
*broken record*
My opinion is this: I would rather them spend time on the raid content, and make some amazing encounters, then push them out just to make people happy. I know people are pissed about this, many raiders are obviously going to be pissed. That's what they do. It'll get here. I hate to say it, but 'be patient'.

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Class balancing while some things have been changed eg monks how can you justify this change when a cleric can solo half the world?
1.) There is never a 'happy medium'. Classes will never be balanced...just because one class is obviously more effective at something, be it soloing, raiding, grouping...or everything. It'll always be that way.
My opinion: Who cares? Why should every class become a watered down PoS just to make 'everyone else' happy? A perfect example is EQOA. Necros...were the best. Period. They could solo anything, and everyone knew it. Most just carried on with their play, it was ACCEPTED. If people didn't like it, they just rolled up a necro and enjoyed themselves. People in VG need to start accepting imbalances. Bugs, glitches...all that of course can't be overlooked, but, unless I see a cleric(or whatever) run up and solo the raid content that isn't in yet, I don't really care.

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Why oh why do you fix boats? lets be honest it would be great if say fellowships and caravans worked properly.
Why do they fix boats? CAUSE THEY'RE BUGGY. lol...joking aside, the development team doesn't all work on the same problems/mechanics(duh?). A dev that works on boats probably never would see they're part in implementing the Fellowship system.
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these are concerns from where i stand that are pushing away a higher end community now when you get the raid content in how many will be left i think people who stuck with you and the vision(tm) at least deserve some numbers and figures as to when they will see content like raiding its still listed as long term but when they cancel their accounts it will inevitably get pushed further back (less revenue).

I am now a test community player and wanted to come here not for the priveledges that come with being on test like trying out these things but for the knowledge that the game is still heading in the direction a lot of the community were hoping for.

While this is not a tell us post it would be nice if you could make a post to quell the stirrings of "this is another $oe intervention that will kill this game just like it did SWG"

Hmm ok ill edit this i have no idea why i bothered typing it not like it will get a responce i think i was just typing while contemplating if character breast size could help with bouyancy.

Frerra/Ialiliet

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Mmmkay then. The breast size thing made me laugh pretty good. Thanks :P

To summarize, there are some things that developers can't just throw out. They've answered many of your questions already But they can only go so far. They've said they are working on raid stuff. They are working on high end stuff. They want to get the caravan and fellowship systems back in. They say this, everywhere. Here's my point:

If a developer said, "We have an exciting new raid encounter coming up, probably next patch." Everyone gets crazy.

Now, when they say, after the patch(after everyone had flamed them five million times for not putting it in the patch), "We are sorry the raid wasn't in the patch. It wasn't quite ready, and we may be putting this off for another week." All goes to Hell.

People flame, go crazy, cancel, die...whatever. It happens. That is the reason they don't post every bit of knowledge about mechanics changes, or things being shoved in. A simple, "The dragons are sooo badass" by Elrar on the VGRadio interview was good enough for me. I finally saw a pic, and I was like, "Wow, he was right."

Funny thing, no one said a damn thing about his comment on the boards. No one pays attention when devs are right.

Here is the interview link, if you actually want to listen(please don't have me post this all in vein):
(direct podcast download link)
http://rbp.podhoster.com/download/29...AndAruspex.mp3

Here are the dragon screenshots, just for fun
http://vanguardradio.com/vanguard-sa...reenshots.html


OK then, hope that all makes sense, and maybe clears up some things.
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