So many people I know are immediately uninstalling after attempting PVP for far too many reasons. The game is not open to newcomers on official servers. Alphas (who only have 2-3 remaining members) lord over servers with massive builds, supplies, and thralls at all key locations. Only clans that have 6+ members that don’t work or go to school can get footholds, and as someone who loves pvp/building/raiding I believe that a couple of things could be done to improve the game and increase interest for people with lives, as well as for the alphas. I’m still unsure how lording over an empty server remains fun for some.
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Raid times down to 3 hours. Average workday of 9-5 only leaves 5pm-12pm or so to play. If a clan is comprised of functioning members of society and have lives outside of work, they might spend their entire night griefed and/or sacked with no time to recoup their losses. They quit playing. There is a reason the player base is so diminished and every time a server gets 20 people, it immediately becomes overcrowded. People are starved, atleast on ps4, for other to play against.
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Seasons. 60 or 90 days season, where levels are reset and server is hit by meteor or something… clearing all structures. Everyone starts on equal footing… naked and in the desert. It would be a race for dominance. 2 remaining people from a past alpha tribe’s glory(Al Bundies reliving their glory days) can’t continue to foundation wipe newcomers to the game. The seasons could offer challenges. new skins/models/aesthetics for hitting reaching 60, killing players, blowing up walls, running dungeons.
There could be different challenges each season with different rewards which would carry over as feats on your toon after season end(sure you’d have to level again to learn/craft, but this would actually be some sort of gain from playing the game). This would reward all for playing and alleviate some of the pain of losing everything to people who can wipe you out, but couldn’t compete anymore on equal footing because their past alpha mates got bored and left.
I don’t know. Just my thoughts. I love this game and would like to see it more balanced and offer more incentive to play. Currently, I don’t see the player base growing beyond people who don’t have work/family and can upkeep and grind all day and all night