We blew through their gate and soaked the floors with their blood, by crom, a victory!
But while we may have won the battle, they won the war. Today they are bragging in chat of how they defeated the alpha without using a single explosive, they summoned the avatar of admin and over a year worth of progress was deleted.
Where a once mighty 10-man clan once ruled, is just masterless thralls remaining.
I hope you are hydrated, because this thread contains a fair bit of salt. We have battled clans of cheaters, clans of griefers and whatnot. But this will be our demise? A clan fresh to the server that would even offline raid their mothers if it gave them stone and no chance of resistance. A clan known to fight more in global chat than on the map wins because we had a few blocks too much?
I am not going to lie, we had a fair bit built, but not just spammed foundations and fence foundations everywhere like on many servers. We had even helped improve mobility nearby for other players. But without a squeek of warning, everything was removed. Not only our base, but the public arena on the server that many more than us enjoyed.
Well, where there is fire there’s smoke. When funcom remove bases it is customary afflicted players also get a limited ban. So a break, then I can report the other clan for same thing.
i still do not understand how after 5 months funcom did not see what kind of gameplay they encourage with this very hard to understand policy, especially when you know what you have to deal with on offi pvp servers. and i’m really sad to see that fc continue to hit with hammer ban long time players that simply know how to survive on a pvp server more than 5 days.
and that the first time in more than 30 years of gaming that I experience this kind of policy leading to ban players that just plays with feature of games in legit way.
again if limit restriction for building they should be in game, and focus of admin should be real cheating problem.
but i agree with you narelle, and i suggested it also some months ago after encountered the same situation than the orignal poster of this thread, if fc really wants to go that way (to avoid to harm themself very hard in loosing customers), there is a simple solution, simple wipe all offi server x months, at least it will be fair, understandable and agreeable by everybody.
This ^^ No more duped stuff, no body vaulting, no massive builds by refreshers, no years old swords of crom and chests full of years and years of bombs farming. I see only benefits, no negatives. Fresh start for all who want to pvp. Everyone will know when the next wipe is and how long is left from this one. People would also know that whatever they do, it will only last for a few months. It is probably going to help the server performance as well, even though with G-Portal being the host, there is probably not going to be a huge improvement. The only potential issue I see, is all the hacks being brought on launch day just to get that bit of advantage when everyone is in stone age.
And what do we learn from that story soldier? Adapt, be clever and overcome! If Funcom throws stones at you, throw them back. They won´t wipe what they don´t see and don´t belong to you. Outsource important stuff to a second clan. Bodyvault or transfer ressources and bring them back into play if needed later on, including building material. Its war soldier. We have to survive and we will! Stay strong!
Been there. And it’s not a competition, but my ban resulted in the loss of three years worth of building for the crime of violating the revised ToS. I knew it would happen, but I refused to play the “Have I deleted enough?” game.
I suggest embracing the ban and gathering like minded folks to fund a private server. Because the toxic behavior the revised ToS has encouraged and rewarded will just get worse.
Yes. Nothing anybody really wants but in the end it is what it is. When admins willingly agree to beeing used as an nuclear weapon on the field, they make themself partisans and can not expect to get sympathy or understanding. In my eyes this is very unprofessional behaviour. An Admin should never allow himself to get abused this way. This is undignified.
If someone is hacking, cheating, undermeshing or severly harrasing others and get reported for, acting on it, its always justified. But whats happening with and around the new tos is not. Throwing unclear rules at players, that can be interpreted every way they like doesn´t solve problems but rather hardens the fronts even more. Players get the feeling of being dependent on the whims of the admins, not dependent on the rules itself. It shouldn´t be that way. But as long as it is this way people will have to come with something to compensate if they wanna keep playing.
I think they maybe they do know. They just have a different vision for how it’s to be played than some players do. The official servers are their sandbox. Privates, Dedicated, Single Player, and Co-op are our sandboxes.
See, look, someone else is thinking something similar to what FC might be thinking:
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But they might actually be thinking that it’s your playstyle that is toxic, ever think about that? Hey, I don’t like the nanny-state any better than anyone else, but under the new rules now enforced ToS, it’s pretty easy to see this from both sides. Like: Greedy land-barons and their gaudy mega-basses… can’t they play by the rules? Everyone else can but them huh?
Not saying I feel that way or really feel anything about either perspective (both seem fun to me) but I can see both sides under the current conditions.
What if and hear me out cos this is such a wild idea i can’t believe no one has thought of this yet especially funcom
Funcom drastically cuts down the current number of official servers they have. Upgrades them to BETTER servers then adds a few servers for PvP that wipe every x amount of time.
This can definitely be something to consider but it would require wipes Furthermore, we don’t know what contract they have with GPortal and when it is due for renewal.
Furthermore, we don’t know what contract they have with GPortal and when it is due for renewal.