AionSource interviews Lani "Liv" Blazier about the upcoming 1.5.1 patch!

[Ferala]

Originally Posted by Ephrum

Defending. Giving all defense medals to the owning legion's leader, then counting on him not to nyerk them all and give them out?



Lulz. Good plan bro.

^this.. talk about bad ideas.. did this one come out of a bong filled room?

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Originally Posted by Knite

For this medal system to work, all it takes is a bit of coordination.

Step 1: Set a time before defense where the Brigade General or PvP officer of defending legions must register with you by. To go a more complicated route, also find out how many players they are bringing. EG: /shout "If you wish to receive medals from this defense, your leader MUST register with me at LEAST 15 minutes before defense begins!"

Step 2: Successfully defend your fortress.

Step 3: Distribute medals evenly (or based on how many players they brought) between your legion and those who registered.

The bottom line here is that no one legion can defend against an entire race dedicated to taking a fort. If your legion is hoarding, keeping, or otherwise distributing medals unfairly (or not at all), people will learn -very- quickly not to help you defend and you will, in turn, stop gaining defense medals for yourselves also because no one will assist you.

Come on.. you work for NCSoft.. dontcha

[justamemory]

you know something's wrong when the hottest thing about the interview is the interviewee.

[Dazzler]

This fortress defense thing is very worrying. Why do mmo's like to create ways to incite conflict between people who are supposed to be on the same side.

This is such a dumb mechanic, is it so hard to have the badges lootable from the fortress boss, based on who is on his threat list, and thus ignoring how many raids there are and rewarding participation. I appreciate you may get some people who just do one thing to get on the list, so perhaps it must be for x-amount of time during the fight.

I don't know. This is worrying, and imo, will reduce the amount of fortress defending rather than increase it.

[Sickbrain]

Sieges are already failed cluster nyerk of a zerg. Why would anyone try to defend a fortress in hope that one person would be generous enough to give them medals when instead they can attack same fortress on the next day and automatically get some medals?

[Oriya9]

Good interview, though I don't like 2 of his answers :P
thanks a lot AionSource!

[Mattakusan]

The real issue here is people. It's kind of a crappy idea but with the right people it would work.

It won't work because only the top ten or so legions even are capable of controlling a fortress. And they're the top ten because they have maxed out member caps with maxed out members. And as far as I'm concerned 9/10 lvl 50 cats botted their way to the top. Can we expect cheaters not to screw people on medals?

As a general I have to say it would be a nightmare trying to hand out those medals. I would try but it's gonna get old really quick. Drama posts are gonna be at record highs. Oh wait...I wont have to deal with it because eveyone in my legion plays fair ^_^

[Genophix]

Ok there are Gold Sellers, Sat in the Capital City of my server right now... like some other people have said, just spend and hour walking around this and all the other HUBs of the game and hit the ban button.

There is no reason why you can't do this and when we are told you are 'working hard' how can this be true? Does anyone from NCsoft enter the servers as players and look? There are only so many servers guys. Give me the ability to ban players and I'll will nuke half your bots in one day. I see them when I'm playing. The same players, in the same places .....every day.

This is such a good game it's a real shame when the people who are at the reigns appear to be sat on their hands and singing the same old tunes

[Elle]

Originally Posted by Knite

For this medal system to work, all it takes is a bit of coordination.

Step 1: Set a time before defense where the Brigade General or PvP officer of defending legions must register with you by. To go a more complicated route, also find out how many players they are bringing. EG: /shout "If you wish to receive medals from this defense, your leader MUST register with me at LEAST 15 minutes before defense begins!"

Mmm.. 15 minutes, eh? Thats about how long it takes to capture a fort when it goes vulnerable and a faction decides to take it. Of course, you could have sign-ups before the fort goes vulnerable, but if no one comes to take it, then guess what that is, a waste of time. Much like taking and defending forts (as a solo-pugger that shows up to help).

[icejunkie]

Liars!!!!!!!!

[blludshot]

Quote:
"Originally Posted by NCsoft

(From Eye on Community 11.06.09)

Abyss Points, in general, are rewarded based in the damage dealt by a whole group. (A group being, at maximum, six characters.) A Cleric will not gain any Abyss Points if he plays on his own and heals the members of a different group, but he will gain the same number of Abyss Points as his fellow group members receive when they fight other players or groups. He also gains the same amount of Abyss Points as anyone else would when dealing damage and successfully defeating opponents in one-on-one situations."

This does not always work I have been in groups where everoyne else gets medals tons of AP and I heal my *** off and still end up with 4k kinah. This has happened 3 times in a row now you cannot tell me my group/allaiance is not getting enough contrib seeing as when we have been taking forts and guess what I still get 4k kinah.

[Mikelenn]

Anyone know about when the EU servers will be back up?

[Amira]

Originally Posted by blludshot

his does not always work I have been in groups where everoyne else gets medals tons of AP and I heal my *** off and still end up with 4k kinah. This has happened 3 times in a row now you cannot tell me my group/allaiance is not getting enough contrib seeing as when we have been taking forts and guess what I still get 4k kinah.

I 100% agree with you. If I only heal, I only get 4k kinah. If I heal, dps and res, I consistently get three medals per fort. I've been testing this for about two weeks now.