sweetpotatoes

Please keep the discussion on-topic :) Noone asked for your opinion about how big my wall of text is .

IF ANYONE WANTS TO MAKE A RUSSIAN TRANSLATION OF THIS AND POST IT IN THE RUSSIAN FORUM,HE/SHE IS WELCOME TO DO IT . Hello . I wanted to make an extensive argument of where this game is and especially why . So ,to begin with ,this is the situation : Servers open with a big bang , 2 months pass , servers die . GM Trolya said in 2016 on a forum post: "The community has changed. They want something fresh, something new every time". Firstly, that is not an MMORPG vision,that is a shooter game vision,like we're playing CS:GO . What people want from an mmorpg varies for sure ,but they surely want to play the game . Playing an mmorpg is about the commitment to it , not a quick-and-run and move forward . So the state of the game is a quick-and-run shooter game and the reason for this comes from the way servers are designed . From the very beginning of the server ,the path of the playerbase is split exponentially . Let me explain (with numbers) : ------------ We have 4 types of playerbases on most servers : people that play very much and donate (they are called top parties) , people that don't play a lot and donate( lazy-peons,don't usually join action and boast a lot) ,people that play a lot and don't donate (second-tier parties) and obviously the ones that don't contribute that much to server health . From the server start ,the gap between top parties and second-tier parties is huge . Server offers them free C grade gear , free shots , experience rune up till lvl 61 , 35% increased everything (i want to call this too,those numbers are wrong . How can a premium character get 47k adena from varka monsters ,while a non-premium character gets a maximum of 26k from the same monsters ?! THAT IS NOT 35% !!!!!!). So,what will happen ? The top parties will get everything possible up to a point where it's impossible for a second-tier party member to fight him. They will have faster access to epics, top gear and will monopolize the server. Then,those people will start to wither away as they say they get 'bored' of not having enemies . (Natyralu left server in 2 weeks,god bless those guys,they were good). When the top parties leave the server ,the balance is broken and people go amiss ,get scared and start looking for the new fresh experience,which will be the same exact thing,because noone is breaking the cycle of announcing some server description ,then getting donators to play A TOTALLY DIFFERENT SERVER . These types of services are not enabling the players to have an easier gameplay experience,they are making said players have an unfair, pay2win advantage which doesn't account in this game . I'm going to enumerate the advantage factor that comes from such game design,from day1 to day14 : 1 hour into the server , 2 parties were lvl 55. --- 1 hour into the server,most non-donators were lvl 25ish,while soft donators were lvl 35-40. 1 day into the server , 3 parties were lvl 76+ --- 1 day into the server, non-donators maybe made it past 40(don't forget,they have to do the 3hours quest) while soft donators were 55-60. 4 days into the server , several parties got to lvl 80,geared with A grades and some S grades ---4 days into the server,nondonators were lvl 65-70 in C grade(they didn't get any C sets or free shots,so they had to make it themselves,which cost around 12kk) while soft donators , due to the increased drop/adena rates,probably had some A grades. 1 week into the server, Natyralu had full S grades on every CP member,with weapons and everything.Noone could fight them --- Nondonators were probably still in C grades and farming / spoiling some recipes,not full sets yet. Soft donators probably finished 3rd class . 2 weeks into the server,Natyralu throws an aura flash and half the server dies,they get bored and leave . The Big Clans have been fighting for epics(top parties), anyone else has no chance to get in there,they will get stronger and stronger. There's also such factors as EASY (coins) clan lvl 5, CRP scrolls(COINS)--> CLAN SKILLS . Epic quests (which consume time) for 1 click (COINS). I think you get the idea. There's too much content given to players outside the game infrastructure,and it is not done smart,hence breaking the game . 2 months into the server: Smite leaves because they haven't been doing anything for 1 month except epics,the game gave them everything from the start and they play a lot too. -------------- What i wanted to say is that making such a game design where not everyone is equal or atleast at a linear disadvantage breaks the game . It's not fun for neither side when someone is unstoppable,because the Project gave that opportunity and did not give a counterbalance opportunity for anyone else. There's countless examples of Projects that made it extremely BIG without breaking the balance . Have you heard of the private WoW server Nostalrius ? They did not have premium accounts,they did not give heirlooms for free ,they had a team hunting bots and not unbanning them for money . They did all that with a small team of 20 members and while donating helped the project ,they did not wrap it around donations. E-global is a big platform. You can make a difference by creating content that's balanced how Lineage2 should be :). And maybe we will get a server that lives more than 2 months.

Hey ! I think we might've spoken before . Leave a message if you're still looking . ( I might have seen you earlier today without clan ) . Here or in-game mail to me, aeon ,cyxou and we'll reply as soon as possible

I don't know about that at all . You add arcane power enchantment buff , clarity buff , give vortex busters , VORTEXES CAN STACK NOW , epics are even more broken . How exactly is that helping a class like say , Paladin be any relevance in PVP . Mages control mass pvp already , with archers controlling the engagements . This is just adding more powercreep .

problem not solved,i keep losing -4% to wartags

No,i was lvl 73 on 19% and 17% respectively(clan hall)

Hello. I just lost 4% twice in a row getting killed by wartag. Can you investigate ? I'm pretty sure i'm supposed to lose 1% if i am killed by war . Thx

Hello,i haven't received my hat coupon from the 1st Task event before server opening yet. Will i get it ? Staff said they will send to everyone in 2 days max.

1. I don't necesarily like the chronicle,just playing with friends :) 2. ROCmirceas 3. I was informed by someone that Global starts a new server . 4. Not having people to play with .

The raid information from map is totally out of sync with Interlude . You can see there rbs up to High-Five,fifth part . There's also the thing that if you press to look where the rb,for example Rok, is , you can see the Gracia Map .(or try Tiat). There's also the situation where you get a lag spike exactly when you kill a monster. Also,there's sometimes situations where's there's a "zone" on the camera(if you move mouse up-down to adjust camera,with click right) in which you don't see any structures anymore,but can see through the textures.

Could an admin provide a list with all the changes made to classes from the original L2 interlude client ? ..In a topic about obt updates,gm 'trolya' speaks about decresing cooldown of 'counter critical',but i made a prophet and there's no such skill .

Hi,for the last 2 days i've been getting constant crashes. I've pinpointed a crash on spellsinger : i use Solar Flare and when it reaches around 25% on the casting bar my game goes into Not Responding mode and doesn't go back. It's to be noted that i was getting crashes on Cardinal too on TOI 13,by just being there. Same type of crashes. And it seems more people were getting crashes,as people were saying in ally chat "half my pt gets not responding" .It got to the point where i would login and i didn't have time to BSOE that i'd get crash . It might be something with the new update,as 2 people who haven't updated were not getting any crashes,but i was getting .

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UP . Looking for BD

Hi ! Archangels CP (L2TEAM) is recruiting active bladedancer and DD . Candidates should be able to speak english at a decent rate , use teamspeak and join teamspeak . The prime hours : 20:00 - 24:00 UCT+2(msk , RO,GR,BG,etc.) , you're expected to play at that time. If you would like to apply, pm SweetPotatoes , Aeon or leave a reply with your in-game nickname.