Allods Online Forum

following situation:
in game ppl write in worldchat sign observatory easy, 0-1-13
this means just a tank is missing, the tank queues and soon its 1-1-13
however the raid does not start, at least for me it does not

well then not and sign PVP- pops fast

i wrote with many players and they all share this problem

what could solve this? mercenaries could! just add strong mercenaris to raids and these problems are past
same like with astralgrpsearch
if no players sign the mercs fill this up

the same thing should be there for hard astralsectors

who would also profit from this? the servers with tiny population like paymentserver and the new one! because it must be HORRIBLE to do these activities threre unless you have fixed groups with fixed times with players who always have time to play everytime at the right time.... (so you see it wont be like this usually)

by looking through the players you see often it seems its like its just a small amount who actually does hard sectors and raids
and i think the problem is usually not the difficulty but just the management of finding players etc and all that
having to organise so much in a game takes out the fun and leads to ignoring this content then

while most likely noone will care for my "special wish" to be able to solo everything and to have human players only as opponents for PVP, there are many ppl who care for other reasons so these players and i share interests...
also, its not i dont want to play with others, you got me rong here it seems. i just dont want to search for others endless and EVERYTIME
(and thats why i am writing this here, bcause this is relevant to more players than just me personally)

those who dont have time when others have time -> coordination difficulties (North American players already hav huge trouble participating in many activities due to eu timezone is 6h difference)
-> those who dont find groups because they are "too weak" -> social difficulties
-> those who dont enjoy having to ask 8734234 times every day again in guild and world just to do "normal" content
-> those who dont want to waste time with searching and organizing (this time can NOT be compensated with donations)

i dont ask to make things easier at all
i just ask to make things POSSIBLE

if i wanted this i could just spam world to find a grp, then i could have a grp sooner or later
but thats not an elegant solution at all when we already have a "LFG-queue" and bots "mercenaries"
it just wastes time of a lot of players... just look at the world / zonechats... there are so often endless calls LF xy
but when everyone is busy noone cares
if now there would just be a "LFG-queue" this problem would be solved
those who like to socially interact could still do it, dont they?

or do you really enjoy that tiresome search for xy on various chats?

we will see how this changes
the current lfg system with free mercs for normal astral was introduced because there are many soloplayers / players unwilling to put much effort in grouping up in russian allods. at least this was written in a thread there

so given the fact they looked into this they might look into the little brother of this problem too in the future

but honeslty, i would not see introducing the option to "solo" all content as a workaround at all
it rather would be a great achievement as it would serve many, including a more interesting endgame for a high percentage of the population

a SERIOUS question:
would anyone "fear" that they could "lose" raidmates or anything to the mercenaries?
like "John always did sector xy with me but now he no longer cares for me and always rushes alone with mercs, now i feel left alone, thats silly!"
or "i want John to be dependent on me for doing sector xy but the mercenaries made him independent, thats silly!"

because if John enjoys to play with Linda, he will anyway prefer her over mercenaries
and if John uses Linda only as a vehicle for gearup, but do not enjoy her as a playmate in geneal, he should not be important to Linda at all anyway...


so all experiments would be welcome to me
i still can just continue doing "regular" gearup, its good enough for me, but maybe this overall situation could be greatly improved, bringing mor players into "hard" endgame

freestile,

the social sturctures in RL are also an interesting topic to discuss; even there its more or less possible to make yourself independent over time from many many factors but going indepth here would range too far offtopic i guess

our opinions are different in this matter as i prefer social interactions which result out of bidirectional affection based on common interests and the will to do thought/knowledge-exchange in a pleasent way for both instead of contacts which are done for the solely purpose of fulfilling an artifical prerequisite

the autogrpfinder and mercs did not make the content easier at all, im pretty sure the mobs still have the same hp, dmg and resistances
it only made the act of getting started the content easier

the weak ones will still have trouble or be unable to clear it
i tried the S17 yesterday, it was really hard... me and my grp was too weak
so we have to improve still
if i had mercenaries it would not be "easier" to clear this content
it would just be easier to get a grp
this way i had to do 3 or 4 worldshouts
sure it works, everyone can do it
but its taking time to do 4 worldshots, wait ppl respec, change stats, whatever... its like you save passwords in the browser VS typing them in everytime again...
better would be ppl just sign for that activity and find together this way

Citation de "yosuf3"

Didn't understand this part, sorry. As far as i know, the raids start each 10 mins, so if you have 1 1 13 but the time is xx:05 you still need to wait until xx:10 to start. But i agree, the raid should start right away, to don't leave people waiting and maybe leaving too.

yes i was also told it starts every few minutes and just staying queued will work
so i pressed queue and let the game open, turned to my other computer and did work there, always having allods in my sight, but nothing popped
after i had finished my task which took me over 40 minutes the allods raid has still not popped, my char stood queued all the time
so i unqueued my char and signde for normal battleground which started promptly

Citation de "yosuf3"

It would be nice to get your own mercs/companions for different stuff: maybe to use them on the private allod as defenders, on the astral ship to complete the crew (it could be hard to implement this) and to complete missing spots on raids.

ooooh yesss! that would be A W E S O M E
and for doing maze! you can already use mercs for test your maze, so give it to us for doing maze too!

Citation de "yosuf3"

Still, on the raid thing it could be a problem, if people start to kick players with lower GS to get the mercs

raids already scale to the number of players
from a efficiency-POV you should kick all weak players so the raid gets easier to do
(i havent done the exact math on how much dps a player must have to equal 1 more stack of a raidboss as im fine with carrying rookies, i usually only kick flamers )
having mercenaries would rather HELP the rookies to get a grp

Citation de "vampyrvenom"

@AOP Your idea is sound and especially for me, my time zone basically means that nearly everyone is offline/afk/grouped together and so i basically solo everything and it would benefit me easily, like some of the raids on hard mode i haven't done because timezone, nearly everyone i know does it around 3am my time, i am not staying up late and possible end up tired for work.

this is exactly what i meant
you might find 1 or 2 other players like you but you wont find 6 which are always available and you especially wont find a raid
players like you would enormously profit from the idea i presented here

as much as i love bloodlust it indeed reduces healers value, along with concentration

it would be an interesting concept to give the classes selfheal skills but only heal enough to have a constant playflow while leveling and stats would be only used for reducing damage or incrasing HP (but again, im not sure whether i would like this concept in the end as i am a HUGE fan of bloodlust & concentration, actually i love these stats so much i even tnd to use them in PVP although i usually put myself into a bad situation with, lol)

holy trinity in allods is more holy Quadrality nowadays considering the value of buffers / supporters (bard / engineer)

next patch will make shields affected by wounds, im curious how much impact this will have

lol the spambots get quite good. this one made me read twice before i saw the "camouflaged" link at the end

Citation de "u_221790543"

In a medical emergency, an engineer with colossus, portable cannon, and a light/acidic turret can pop a group shield for 5 seconds, absorbing up to 300 percent of the dmg taken by a teammate with high absorption. With my current hp of 10 million for engineers, the shield would absorb up to 30 million dmg. It's only good for 5 minutes at a time.