Out of curiosity I made a character on this server and have spent a few days leveling and exploring. Over all, not a bad experience.
Leveling is slow, which is a nice change. However, unless you engage in combat, you’ll take forever to level. The server settings around xp, which can be seen at the link ConantheRoleplayer posted in this thread, incentivize you to go out and grind against mobs if you want to level. Given that there are no mods, the combat is the janky mess that is on the official servers. Speaking for me personally, with my arthritic fingers and slow reaction times, it’s a challenge. Sometimes more of one than I think is warranted, given the server settings, but ymmv.
Judging by the number of intact structures, ranging from sandstone to T3, I saw in my short exploration, raiding doesn’t seem to be a problem. Hopefully that means the player community is much nicer than you would find on official pvp. I say hopefully because I didn’t encounter another player while I was logged in. I did see that a couple others were logged in via the player list, but the server settings don’t reveal player names. Add that to a lack of global chat, it would seem to make it hard to develop any sense of community. I suppose that’s happening on the discord, as well as any OOC discussions/coordination amongst characters. If I decide to stay on the server I’ll join, but I didn’t feel it was worth it while I’m unsure of my long term plans.
In summary, if you like slow progression, challenging combat, and want a server that is not over built, check it out.
I’m sorry that you’re in that situation. Hopefully you two can resolve whatever the issue is.
I agree that communication, both IC and OOC, is problematic with this server. I understand what they are getting at by trying to enhance immersion by forcing players to communicate in game and IC. However, in my experience with RP servers, there needs to be a certain amount of OOC coordination, especially if you have multiple people wanting to participate in, or help create, storylines. Having someplace out of game where players can interact, like forums or discord, also helps if people want to flesh out their background story and share it with others
Complicating all that, at least for me, is the fact that it’s a PvP server, which automatically puts me in a wary mindset. I’m used to solo play on PvP servers, so keeping a low profile and avoiding other players is 2nd nature when I’m in that environment. It’s hard to let that go and not expect to get murdered on sight, or your base raided, if your spotted by other players.
All that said, they are generous enough to be sharing their server and their interpretation of the game, so we should both appreciate the generosity and respect their vision. After all, if we don’t like it we aren’t obligated to stay.
So, Funcom broke their game again, and the only thing I found I could fix so far was to turn the fatality mechanic off on Anarchy&Beauty.
The stamina regeneration that I tweaked before, seems to be working as intended and ignores the update. That is good.
I’ll see what else I can do on the server maintenance tonight. Presumably not much.
I wasn’t going to install the mods I wanted while the population growing on the server, but looks like I will have to now, to fix at least what I still can.
Enjoy the Chapter 4 my dear felloes, and let the torment continue!
Once the population grows enough, some mods will be installed.
Those will never modify the game itself, but only fix what Funcom haven’t fixed, and also serve the purpose to increase the player interaction in RP and the survival nature of the server:
Nameplates Off - removes the annoying Steam nameplates, that only ruins the immersion. This will allow making alts (see below)
Speech Bubbles - adds bubbles with text over the heads of characters when they speak
Ravencrest Couriers - allows to leave notes on claimed land and even send mail to other players (along with other unnecessary stuff that I will likely remove)
Severe Weather - will make the proper clothing matter again.
Something I can’t find to animate the characters when speaking (like in WoW), and also make pets (not only thralls) alive with more advanced behaviour and patrolling routes - please let me know if you’re aware of the mods for that.
Introduce alt characters.
(with some restrictions against gaining the advantage in PVP)
This may also require a mod.
Introduce donations.
That will never grant any advantages to those who choose to donate, but instead will allow me to:
Move the server to a better data center.
With higher quality equipment, the overall performance will increase.
These are but outlines of what I have on mind about the Anarchy and Beauty evolution, nothing here is curved in stone. Some of these may be introduced way sooner, while some may never be at all.
I will announce all such changes in advance.
The Nameplates Off mod (28 kB) has been installed on Anarchy & Beauty.
This one hides the SteamID on characters, that will allow playing multiple characters on the server (the so called alts) later on.
Also this week there will be installed the Speech Bubbles!
More mods will come later (all super lightweight and proven to be stable).
I will give the every mod some time to settle and make sure they work fine before moving for the next one.
Bare in mind that for now on, you will need to tick that Show Servers With Mods box in the server list, to find Anarchy & Beauty!
The Ravencrest Couriers mod (170 Mb) has been installed on Anarchy and Beauty.
This is the most complex out of the list of mods I wanted to install so far, but it solves the most important need that opens many roleplay possibilities:
You can leave notes on territories claimed by other clans
You can send pigeons with messages to other players
You may have mailboxes to collect your correspondence
You can send secret sealed dispatches
You can write books with images or draw a map!
Birds can be trained to be used for tracking (for hunt and PvP)
Some furniture and other fun placeables added
You will find two new feats under Decoration tab. For placing birds and the new placeables you need to double-tap them from the inventory!
You obviously can’t control more than one at once.
You may not have more than one character in a clan! (all three may join different clans though)
You may delete/recreate your characters to try something new!
While you can use the Ctr-Shft-S hotkeys to enter character selection menu, I highly recommend you log out to the main menu instead, as usual, then log back to the server and choose another character to switch. Otherwise I can not guarantee that nothing funny happens to your character!
After deleting/recreating characters in the selection menu, please hit that Reload button in the upper right corner of the screen, otherwise the menu may stall.
If something decays while you are playing another character, I will not help.
If you delete a character by a mistake, I will not help with that.
Once the population grows enough, some mods will be installed.
Note for those who have already built the Transportory Pads: