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Game population?
Cuppett5
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I was thinking about buying this game, I love PVP, is there a good game population right now or is it dead?
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Here's a sample from Steam which helps illustrate trend. http://steamcharts.com/app/227400#1y
There was a slight increase in December due to it being on sale and a free welcome back, but they didn't stick around.
Where have all the "good" shills gone?
Just what one wants in a Open World PvP centric game.
Where have all the "good" shills gone?
You are less likely to be ganked while out doing your own thing now. It still happens obviously, because it's an ow pvp full loot game. However, if you go to some of the more popular spawns/dungeons, you will probably run into action.
As for how solo-friendly it is, it depends on what you mean by term. If you're looking to find 1 on 1 fights, that's probably not gonna happen. But if you're interested in harvesting, pve and crafting, then yes you can do fine as a solo player.
Solo-friendly pvp = no
Solo-friendly pve,harvesting,crafting = yes
However, I would suggest you look into finding a clan that you like and joining up with them. There's a lot of fun and comradery to be had in this game. And it's not the kind of game where people are going to pressure you to do giant 64 man raids or whatever the hell else. You can pretty easily just find a clan to call home and then do your solo thing. I'm in a friendly, laid-back, no drama, mature clan on the NA server. PM me if you'd be interested in joining.
You thought process is very flawed in my opinion, games are meant to be fun.
Where have all the "good" shills gone?
No I thought someone might say that, but one would have to be a fool to think it's only about fun. Games don't put hard-to-get gear in for nothing. You have to work for some things. Sandbox players, particularly, like the idea of working for things.
The population is the lowest it has been over the 5 year history of Darkfall (between both games).
The company "developing" the game recently moved their finances to Canada to avoid declaring bankruptcy. This was announced by their investor's quarterly financial report. The investor plans to shut down Darkfall when they take a majority share of the company in March 2015.
The game has about a year of life left, if that. The game overall is quite poor, but is worth trying if you haven't just because it is so different. Unfortunately the game costs an absurd amount of money for what it is.
As for the question about PvE and how likely it is to get ganked... The PvE in the game is astonishgly boring. At this point, you could probably farm almost any spawn in the game and never see another living soul. But for what reason would you farm? The monsters have almost no loot associated with them. All monsters in the game, with the exception of maybe 4 or 5, cost more to kill than they return to you in loot. The only reason to PvE in the game is to gain achievement points which allow you to progress your character. If this is reason enough for you, then I'd say give it a shot....but again, the cost of the game is absurd.
You couldn't be more wrong, its not about the carrot on a stick.
Where have all the "good" shills gone?
What in the hell?
I'm referring to the treadmill grind.
Where have all the "good" shills gone?
Then there's about 1 million+ players who need to rethink their life. Or maybe you haven't grasped the quite obvious idea that people also play such games for a sense of accomplishment. The achievements are not there for nothing. Not everyone is a casual, and we are speaking of a sandbox game here, the kind of game casuals do not generally enjoy.
What "sandbox" games are you referring to? The ones I've played had no carrots or "end game", you played to crush. I don't think you grasp the concept of a Sandbox if you're talking about working toward "high end gear" and "achievements".
Where have all the "good" shills gone?
This one and other such sandbox games. Themepark games are the kind of games you are talking about, where there are supposed to be "fun hubs", various activities that provide quick fun for players. That is why they are called themepark games.
Sandbox games are called such because you generally have to make your own story in an open world, they are supposed to have some "world building" feature to them and often you have to work for your own things. Casuals who log in for an hour or two every week won't be doing much world building, nor will they be very good at the game compared to others.
It seems like the population has been increasing a little over the past couple of months. What makes you say it's at the lowest ever?
As for pve, I actually prefer it over pve in basically any other MMO, simply because of the combat. Also, what have you been farming? Because there are definitely mobs that drop really good loot. Have you killed fire giants on Cairn? Every other one seems to drop a portal shard. There was one that dropped a medium map, 4 rune stones, portal shard, a veilron essence and a neithal essence. A lot of people like to talk about how bad the loot is in the game, but the more I actually go out and pve, the more I realize it's not really true.
Darkheart, I wouldn't let the population prevent you from trying the game. I think you will really like it.
It's just a low month, next content patch will be booming again. Darkfall is cyclical. People come and go and come back again constantly.
I said it before in another thread I played for about 3 nights about 6 months ago few hours each night first two nights I only seen one other person and that was in the town I spawned In he looked as shocked to see as I did him we had a little chat and went our separate ways third time I decided as soon as I logged in I was going to travel as far as possible in random directions looking for people,3 people I came across in about the same hours. First 2 made sure to keep lots of distance third came and whacked the crap out of me but that's it in about 6-8 hours of play I seen 4 people.
Never experienced this in any MMO I have played and I've played a lot
Well, a reason for that is because everyone lives out of their player cities. People don't go to the safezone much.... if they do it's Sanguine.
Also, people are done with most mob spawns, so until they do the regional loot tables, there will be no reason to go to random low level spawns.
Your best bets when looking for people now are terror and scourge mob spawns, level 5 harvesting areas, Mobs that drop supplies for village requisitions (like bandits), and village control points when they are ready to requisition.
Sea towers go off every few days, and that always draws people out with big warships to try to capture them, and the Prowess Monoliths go off daily, and may attract a few people to them.
On nights when there aren't a lot of things happening some clans will have open nights to their city, where they open their bank access and turn off their towers and invite everyone to come duel.
Dropping a siege stone also has a way of making people come together.
Link please.
http://www.entropiapartners.com/?r=22415
Hardly worth the effort
Where have all the "good" shills gone?
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