2010-07-18, 02:59 PM
Fiel, most things you've suggested I wholeheartedly agree with.
There are some issues with guild bossing though. For one thing, it's not very difficult to create "mule" guilds to reserve bossing time slots. Many people have multiple high leveled chars. One can easily lead guild A with character 1 and guild B with character 2. Reserve two different time slots with both guilds, and then when it's the turn for the other guild, just temporarily exchange guild members. So basically what can potentially happen under this system is that one guild hogs the entire boss. I think a better solution would be to just make instanced bosses/expeditions open on all channels.
I absolutely love the guild armory idea! The game can even give incentives for doing that. e.g. if a donor lends a gold-rated item, he/she gets certain bonuses, purple-rated item, then a slightly less bonus, etc.
Fiel, I should also point out that the actual distribution of OS users are probably very different from what you sampled on this site. The majority of SP users no doubt are more likely be dedicated to MS to care to keep their Windows XP installation in order to boss and whatnot. Nowadays, every new computer comes with Windows 7; so every new potential customer Nexon serves are basically Windows 7/Vista...
That means...they REALLY need to fix the Windows Vista/7 issues! As a large-scale company, they're being totally retarded by ignoring over half of their potential long-term customers by not addressing these issues. Sure, one can get pretty far into the game on those versions of Windows, but once they get to Zakum/Horntail levels, it's very likely that the operating system issues might be such a turn-off for the player to make it a factor for that player to quit the game out of frustration and inability to participate.
For this previous patch, I literally had to dig around different forums (SP, SW, Basil) for 2 hours and trying all sorts of bizarre stuff to even get the damn game to start up without crashing!
We're 8 years past Windows XP - sure, it might be the superior OS compared to Vista (I personally think 7 > XP)...but who the hell cares when the rest of the world uses Vista/7 - and XP support is ending in another year? If Nexon's logic is to program the game for the superior operating system, why is it not supported in Linux and OSX? They need to get with the program here - no pun intended. -_-
There are some issues with guild bossing though. For one thing, it's not very difficult to create "mule" guilds to reserve bossing time slots. Many people have multiple high leveled chars. One can easily lead guild A with character 1 and guild B with character 2. Reserve two different time slots with both guilds, and then when it's the turn for the other guild, just temporarily exchange guild members. So basically what can potentially happen under this system is that one guild hogs the entire boss. I think a better solution would be to just make instanced bosses/expeditions open on all channels.
I absolutely love the guild armory idea! The game can even give incentives for doing that. e.g. if a donor lends a gold-rated item, he/she gets certain bonuses, purple-rated item, then a slightly less bonus, etc.
Fiel, I should also point out that the actual distribution of OS users are probably very different from what you sampled on this site. The majority of SP users no doubt are more likely be dedicated to MS to care to keep their Windows XP installation in order to boss and whatnot. Nowadays, every new computer comes with Windows 7; so every new potential customer Nexon serves are basically Windows 7/Vista...
That means...they REALLY need to fix the Windows Vista/7 issues! As a large-scale company, they're being totally retarded by ignoring over half of their potential long-term customers by not addressing these issues. Sure, one can get pretty far into the game on those versions of Windows, but once they get to Zakum/Horntail levels, it's very likely that the operating system issues might be such a turn-off for the player to make it a factor for that player to quit the game out of frustration and inability to participate.
For this previous patch, I literally had to dig around different forums (SP, SW, Basil) for 2 hours and trying all sorts of bizarre stuff to even get the damn game to start up without crashing!
We're 8 years past Windows XP - sure, it might be the superior OS compared to Vista (I personally think 7 > XP)...but who the hell cares when the rest of the world uses Vista/7 - and XP support is ending in another year? If Nexon's logic is to program the game for the superior operating system, why is it not supported in Linux and OSX? They need to get with the program here - no pun intended. -_-