Merging Servers Killed Open World PvP

After the Wiccana server merged and became Set Funcom offered free transfers. Many people jumped on this opportunity. I already had my barbarian "Ragnarvor" on Set in hopes of experiencing raid content not possible for me to do on Tyranny.

What happened was Guild Wars 2 came out and the Tyranny server virtually died. My guild, which I had been part of for two years, slowly lost its population (we started a guild in GW2 on Sorrows Furnace server). Many of our members went to Set server. I moved one of my Guardians "Ragsguard" used to be "Rragnar" and my sin "Ragnarx".

Moving my sin was a hard move for me because I love open world pvp. The fact is though, there is really no open world pvp anymore. The Red Nails were bringing it, but it became crazy with almost everyone on the server joining only two guilds = Req Nex and Acos. They have a raid alliance, so they have no open world pvp. Since Red Nails only had a couple players bringing it: Ripstart, Ty, Romad, Unnatural and myself, it was very easy to zerg us down. But....we made them pay.

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I hope that there is someway to revive open world pvp. It is an aspect of the game that can be enjoyable. Maybe not when you are questing and you end up in pvp when you might not necessarily want it (but thats why you sign for a pvp server).

I'm looking forward to the new mini map, and maybe one day there will be a merge of some kind that will unite the players once more so we can enjoy open world once more. 

Promote AoC

Age of Conan is an amazing game. The graphics are beautiful to look at, and traveling through the world created by Howard is something anyone can appreciate. When the game came out in 2008 I knew I would play nothing else, but I did. My computer simply couldn't handle the game.

When I upgraded my computer I was happy to play, and did so for a year straight, taking a little break (2 months) and finally coming back. When I arrived back there had been a huge decrease in population (most likely due to SWTOR). It led me to thinking...

If the game played like it does now in 2008 when it first came out, the player base would be much different. It would be huge for one thing. But past mistakes drove people away, to get into other games. If they are anything like me they get into a game and stick with it. I would love to see people embrace AoC once more, to fully appreciate and attain what is needed to succeed. If that was the case, I would have a better chance at reaching some of the goals I have for the game, something I can't do right now.

My message with this now, is remaining players of Age of Conan should help do a little promotion. I try to get people to come over, many find it hard, or can't handle the pvp (maybe I should send them to Set). Either way, it would be nice to see some people have a better attitude toward the game itself, even if you are not happy with the people making all the decisions within the game.

Maybe then, funcom will consider making new mini game maps.

AI District ban

Age of Conan AI run. A lot of has played it in order to gain legs for our toons, rare tokens, guild renown and mastery.

When we come to the first boss there was a straight where a conq would break from group, stay on the third step and res while the rest of the team. It is something that funcom banned some 30 players for doing.

I made a post about it on Age of Conan forums, a place to discuss various subjects involving game play. I thought it would be a good idea to warn other players that they may be banned for trying the strat out. I voiced my opinion that instead of banning people, they should first maybe inform them that strat was considered an exploit and shouldn't be done.

The ban lasts for some 7 days.

Funcom hasn't gotten a hold of anyone that was banned.

I think a big focus for funcom would be simply to work on customer service. These people pay your bills by being a subscriber to the game. There should have been a warning, or even better, fix the problem.

qq is done.

Here is the real strat for ai district: http://cynarablog.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/ai-district/

Now that we know we can't use that initial method, we should instead work on what works, and from what is described it seems faster and easier anyway.