Sulfurblade

You don't balance a game around how an orginized group fairs against a disorganized group! You balance a game on how equals do vs each other. And there is nothing equal about the mindless use of flame arrows!

Fire Arrows are the equivalent of a guy with a lynx's at 2-3000 Meters with a Nightstalker with heat enabled on the server! If he somehow misses his first shot and you have a clue you might have a slim opportunity to fight him but the likely hood is your gun wont have the range and you won't know where he took the shot from.... And if you run the wrong way he will likely get you with the next shot....

Okay I am curious who are in in WW2.... I am obviously me same name 3 time axis KM HC 1 time allied Navy HC, and one of the biggest opponents against the HC they ruin the game! I am well known as one of the most outspoken players against the Heer / army stale tactics thru the south and supporter of joint combat in the zee's... Long time member of Feldjager! Anyway just a little off topic....

While I appreciate your input and most of your feedback is great... Eve is not the role model for a good sanbox, if you want a boring and dull sandbox that pretty much revolves around PvP then eve is fine!!! Wurm Online would be a far better Sandbox to look at to learn how a Sandbox should be!!! But better yet Ultima Online....

Pike is cheep to repair and 1 pike can kill 2.5 alpha's via this cheesy method.... I see the wasting of fire arrows to be waist-full myself...

I hope you can get thru to them because a True Sandbox MMORPG is a very rare thing and any and all that release I pray they do well, but its even more bitter when they don't... The Game industry has no idea how starved the MMORPG genre is for a GOOD Sandbox.... We haven't seen one since Ultima Online and SWG...

Melee via exploit is the only reliable way to kill most animals.... run into building wait for animal to stick face thru and hit him with your melee weapon this is the most effective way to kill any animal in this game!!! To include alpha's which then yield you nice xp... As for Giant snakes these are easy to melee I can kill groups of 3 with little issue with just a pike! But then again I live in the tundra and have 70+ Fortitude!!!

I agree all around.... But these developers are blind, deaf, and dumb.... They don't listen to you and I.... They listen to the kiddy's that play ark and most of those kiddy's would prefer griefing and locking someone in a cage for days against there will... To making a game with any tangible meat and potatoes to it...

That is out of balance!!! (I would suggest 20 arrows so a stone arrow should do 67.5 damage) And that is majorly out of balance! (I would suggest 10 fire arrows) I would suggest 6 shots from a pistol I would suggest 3 shots from a carbine ^^^^ Wow I am already more effectivelly balancing this game then the dev's!!!

So to fix the stubbed Toe we should cut off the leg!!! Great idea mate.... You want to really effect the chinesse then hold this company responsible for enforcing rules and violations of rules! Make the play field fair and kill the chinesse without them using 3rd party exploits.... Ban players who think its freedom of speech to spread hate speech and display swasitka's... Get tid of the vermin from the game! Not all chinese are hacking and not all american's are idiots get rid of the problem childs and the game will work itself out with no need for such crazy idea's as to make the game worse with less features!

Its really not hard to balance animals! But these dev's seem to make everything hard! lvl 1 Player 100 HP lvl 50 player 200HP lvl 100 player 300HP Lvl 1 Lion / Wolf 100HP Lvl 50 Lion Wolf 200HP lvl 100 Lion wolf 300HP lvl 150 lion wolf 400 hp lvl 200 lion wolf 500 HP (No Tamed animal ever can go past lvl 200) (^^^^ And No Feral Animal can go past lvl 100 With an alpha being a lvl 90-100) Then adjust HP slightly according to animal for instance a bear could start at 120HP Giraffe 120HP Croc 120HP An elephant at say 150HP And now you have fixed all kinds of issues! Tames are No longer OP in pvp... You can now more easily balance Gunpowder weapons because they will have similiar effect vrs players and animals!!!

Watch them make an alliance of many 20 man companies.... really you think this would magically fix anything?!?

I don't agree 100 percent that it would make trade better but I think it would be a great mechanic none the less.... Putting an upkeep on flags makes sense in everyway it makes a player now have to consider is dropping anothe flag really worth it??? So from that perspective I love the idea and it certainly would get more people sailing around looking for booty! But the process of sailing around looking for booty IS NOT TRADE... Trade is trade the exchanging of one resource for another!!! Or the purchase of a resource, don't get me wrong I love your idea and I think its a fine first step that will encourage people to get out on the ocean and even pvp to happen in ships out at sea.... but your idea really doesn't even begin to fix the issue of Trade... It does however make gold more valuable and thus it will be far more usefull as a currency!

were the problem as I see it is.... Is the strange desparity between Player Health and Animal health???? Why do feral wolves and lions have upwards of 300-400 HP??? And a Player a small fraction of that??? Why do Tamed Creatures have 10 X the HP because there tame??? All animals need there HP lowered and Tamed animals should have Zero advantage over Feral other then being trainable and thus able to make them via leveling more powerful....

We shouldn't be derailing this thread as its very on point the game needs an economy desperately !!!

Ineed they are a waist of skill points but they shouldn't be! A balistae shot should be an instant kill to pretty much anything even a player in plate armor, we are talking about a crazy weapon that would rip a man apart heck it would rip anything apart.... And then catapults they should do some serious siege damage but they don't.... The problem is Animals, Walls, People all have far too much health.... Stone for instance has 10,000 HP and a large cannon does like 100 damage, which would require 100 shots to destroy 1 stone wall.... Now ^^^ I am mixed about that, I think bases should be very hard to break as most of this game ends up griefing people while they sleep.... but at the same time that just seems a bit unrealistically off..... I think they could cut the number of shots in half and it would be at a far better spot.... 50 shots at 200 damage each seems for reasonable... Or use a catapult and need only 25 shots at 400 damage! And I think you can justify the low tech catapult being better then the cannon because of the size of the rock the catapult propels compared to the size of the cannon ball.... Thus making the catapult useful at its job.... Honestly the balistae of all things should be your alpha killer... It needs such a buff towards animals its not funny!

Vorxius I don't think your understanding mate! I understand you want the flame arrows to be good so there is SOMETHING capable of kill the out of balance Predators... We all understand this but don't you think that something should be I dont know a Carbine an actual gunpowder weapon! Shouldnt they be buffing the weapons that should be powerfull... Heck you could hit an animal right now with a Ballistae and do less damage then a fire arrow how on earth does that make sense??? I giant propelled Arrow the size of a spear does less damage then a fire arrow??? Sorry but fire arrows need a real nerf and at the same time gunpowder needs a serious buff....

Uhm but they are!

Don't worry you will have your rust experience of decaying bases and empty islands soon enough!!!

I wish I could say what I want to say to you!!! But I would be just as bad as you and your ilk....

1) Abusive toxic brats spouting hate and bigotry without any adult supervision! 2) Blatant Cheating and exploits! 3) Developers who seem okay to let such a toxic environment fester!!!

FYI Please don't judge us all bye the actions of the few. I am Retired Navy, served in Gulf 1 and 2, and this guy is a jack ass... He seems to be confusing Freedom of speech with Freedom to Hate, our founding fathers put in place the ability for our citizens to speak out against tyranny and persecution. When you place a Swastika and use the racist words in the way the people being reported did that is NOT FREE speech. That is Intimidation this is the use of obscene language to provoke a reaction, none of this is protected bye the freedom of speech! In fact its a poster child of what is not protected....

So your suggestiong the best fix for a griefer / troll is to be a griefer / troll.... Lets get one thing straight, locking up a person in a cage so they cannot do anything for hours and or days on end is just as bad of behavior as the crap being pointed out in this thread!!!

This is just another example of so many poor business practice's that plague this company!

No sir you need to grow up! Basic common sense is what your failing to grasp here!!! This game infact all games are a public venue where certain common sense rule sets must apply! If you can't understand that basic principle then the world is in trouble.