Server future [Critism and Suggestions]

[ArskhaRogue]

[IMPORTANT: All i write to this thread is from my own point of view, i respect everyone's own opinion of the things mentioned, this thread is only constructive critisism and suggestions to make server a better place.]

For longest of time ive been watching smolderforge community change troughtout the years, players leaving and new players coming in, however with recent population, more people are leaving than new are coming, this is why i made this thread to discuss the ways we could make Smolderforge a good TBC server experience to new players and older community also.

1. Donation changes
First thing id like to talk about is the price of donation status and rewards you gain by doing this. The price for getting s4 gear is too LOW, id understant this price if it were s3 but NOT s4, end game gear should never be so easily accessable by players. They can just throw few bucks and they have best gear in game, then what? they mostly get bored because they have nothing to work for.
Way to fix: Increase the price of donation status or atleast make 2 seperate donation statuses, one for s3 one for s4.

2. Battlegrounds
Ever had that moment when your faction is winning/losing multiple BG's a row, and then all stop queuing up together, making so next BG is like 1-3 hours later and your forced to go duel or speak in lookingforgroup chat that whole time, make alts that in the end you delete?
Way to fix: Cross faction BG*s, there already is cross faction raiding in Smolderforge, why not Battlegrounds also?

3. Toxic Player behavior
You see this alot sometimes in places like Dueling zone and Lookingforgroup, being it constant swearing, greifing or just being complete jackass. This doesnt really give good first image to the new players.
Way to fix: Punishment for repeating toxic behavior should be increased, permanently muted in worst case scenario. Players can affect to their own behavior.

4. Voting
Vote system in its current state is easily abusable without people really having to vote for realm, just click link and get points, if there is a way so people only get points if they truly voted server in the sites, this could help alot in server advertisement for new players.

5. Raiding content
Not every aspect of the games about PvP, PvE community needs something new to do instead of daily heroic and Scarlet Citadel, scripting sunwell and putting old sunwell gear there would motivate Smolderforge to make actual raid teams to clear the raid, and those people who cant raid have no access to pve gear to affect PvP heavily, if there is the reason why you dont want to give people access to sunwell gear then fine, alteast Black Temple would be really nice.

6. New Malls and Duel spots?
New malls and dueling spots? Lots of variety could help, id love to duel people at Nagrand or some other cool place.

What you guys think about these and do you have any own suggestions, leave replys about your opinion of my suggestions and maybe your own if you want, thanks for everyone who is reading this and want to make Smolderforge a better server.

-Arskha [Tsunami]

[Strix]

1. Imho there should be no donation for S4. 5$ should be fine for s3 donation though.

2. There was a lot of talking about CF battlegrounds but for some reason they are still not here.

3. As far as I know some individuals actually can get a perm mute.

4. That's true, our voting system allows abusing like this. Hopefully this can be fixed in the future.

5. I hope Sunwell Plateau will be introduced somewhere in the future. SWP gear is bad for the server if everyone has it but that way only some PvE players would have access to that.

6. I think that such spots would be necessary if we had more people playing here. Unfortunately, our population is really low.


Meanwhile waiting for Hartun to whine about something and post some retarded google pic

[ArskhaRogue]

1. Imho there should be no donation for S4. 5$ should be fine for s3 donation though.

2. There was a lot of talking about CF battlegrounds but for some reason they are still not here.

3. As far as I know some individuals actually can get a perm mute.

4. That's true, our voting system allows abusing like this. Hopefully this can be fixed in the future.

5. I hope Sunwell Plateau will be introduced somewhere in the future. SWP gear is bad for the server if everyone has it but that way only some PvE players would have access to that.

6. I think that such spots would be necessary if we had more people playing here. Unfortunately, our population is really low.


Meanwhile waiting for Hartun to whine about something and post some retarded google pic

Now this is GOOD reply, thank you, have a cookie.

[Hartun]

1. Imho there should be no donation for S4. 5$ should be fine for s3 donation though.

2. There was a lot of talking about CF battlegrounds but for some reason they are still not here.

3. As far as I know some individuals actually can get a perm mute.

4. That's true, our voting system allows abusing like this. Hopefully this can be fixed in the future.

5. I hope Sunwell Plateau will be introduced somewhere in the future. SWP gear is bad for the server if everyone has it but that way only some PvE players would have access to that.

6. I think that such spots would be necessary if we had more people playing here. Unfortunately, our population is really low.


Meanwhile waiting for Hartun to whine about something and post some retarded google pic

1. The starter PVP gear then needs to be lowered then ( s1 to be available for free, s2 to cost honor, what about s3 and s4..)
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5. SWP gear shouldn't be introduced back untill there's a mechanism to prevent players to use that gear in BGs
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Arskha great post bdw ! :D

[Skillcaped]

So many other great games are coming out. That's the main reason of the population dropping. Looking forward to Blad and Soul, Echo of Soul, Black Desert.

[Infusion]

1. Donation changes
It's true that s4 is really cheap and instead of making players log in, stick around to earn their gear, it's offering them the gear for almost nothing and giving them no reason to keep on playing if they lose a match. Whenever you have players with an objective you have an active community. People logging in, like me, just to check on old mates shouldn't be the majority of the server.

2. Battlegrounds
I would keep the bloody fights between Allies and Hordes. However I would spend dollars on real advertisements. You're not the outstanding project leader whose project does not need Ads while the whole world's project require basic marketing & ad tactics. But I guess not everyone learns that from university, depending on their major.

3. Toxic Player behavior
You can ignore or report spam. Assholes have their asshole friends, yet they're still friends which means more activity for them on the server.

4. Voting
We've told henry multiple times about that. Guess what happened :)

5. Raiding content
They will be working on PvE this summer. At least that's what they said.

6. New Malls and Duel spots?
Splitting duel zones is bad. Splitting any area with such low population is bad. But a new mall would be good. Also suggested that months ago, guess what happened too :)

[Robotking]

So many other great games are coming out. That's the main reason of the population dropping. Looking forward to Blad and Soul, Echo of Soul, Black Desert.

OH yeah Black Desert, this game is insane (bikeman streams ftw)
but we have to wait a fuckin year ;x

[Skillcaped]

Well, right now i am playing Black Dessert on Korean server. Tbh, the visuel effects are pretty awesome. But it's very guild based pvp game. There's not much of skill based gameplay shame enough.

[Robotking]

Well, right now i am playing Black Dessert on Korean server. Tbh, the visuel effects are pretty awesome. But it's very guild based pvp game. There's not much of skill based gameplay shame enough.

i will wait untill the western version comes out cause if i play it now i will probably get bored before release.

[Skillcaped]

i will wait untill the western version comes out cause if i play it now i will probably get bored before release.

Trust me, it really worth the play. U will get a headup by playing in korean server. The only problem is that i might not want to start all over in EU release.. I would just stay here. A lot players who can speak english as well. Besides, when the english patch is up. It will be implemented in korean server as well so that u can choose between languages. But shame enough, the only CC in the game atm is Stun.. all chars have stun abilities which is retarted sometimes. The only upcoming EU release game that i want to play is Blade and Soul. So much skill based gameplay. Especially the timing on blocking attacks and solo PVP battle. Freaking awesome.