Bankei wrote: ↑Fri Apr 11, 2025 12:06 pm
From the time this thread was opened, I've literally leveled a character from 1 to 40 doing SCs. I play during NA hours mostly and I can say that everything iPeriphery are saying is a flat out lie.
Even yesterday, I had an hour to play between noon and 1PM and I managed to run 4 scenarios. My evenings are mostly for warband play. I also work from home and sometimes log on at crazy hours, there's always something to do, something going on.
Someone in the thread said it: the best experience is getting into a fun guild and joining an organized warband. This game isn't balanced around small scale or 1v1, it's all about the RvR. In a warband, a bolstered level 16 can contribute in a meaningful way.
As you get stronger and more knowledgeable, your role in the warband will change.
Yeah okay bud, everything I say is automatically a lie because you managed to get 1 hour of SC's to pop 4 times in a row.
That's a funny ass joke. Truly
I never said that it wasn't possible to have a good play session, just that it was inconsistent; but I guess that you can't read properly.
Idk what you expect from a game that sits at 500-900ish or less active players the majority of the day during most of the week except on Friday-Sunday.
That was just ONE point I was making from my own personal experience (not even the main point I am trying to make which is more about the Gear Gap once). You just happened to be lucky during that 12-1PM time period but that doesn't disprove my point of how sporadic and random activity will be each play session.
I play every single day and am on for 8-12 hours at least, weekdays are most definitely not popping the majority of the time (AKA for your slow brain; there are 24 hours in a day, Things popping for 2-5 hours MAX at any given random time in total is still leaving 19 hours of mostly nothing on average.)
Nobody said it was completely dead. But that doesn't mean that there aren't times where you will be waiting 20-60+ minutes for a queue pop or for anything to be happening in RVR. Because this happens all the time.
Even while I'm in RVR warbands I always have my Queue going. I leave WB, Requeue, and then rejoin the WB so I always have a chance for a SC to pop while roaming.
If you could learn how to read properly you would see that I said:
"I fortunately work from home and am on almost all day every day with my queue just sitting there waiting to pop (Especially if there's no RVR going on and I can't roam while waiting for queue), so you would think there would be people to play against at some point but the majority of days there's only a 2-5 hour window if you're lucky, where there's actually anything going on. (And this time window is usually not all at once and is spread throughout the day)."
Meaning that the active times are sporadic and never consistent so it all depends on your luck each day how much activity you will see on any given day.
It's like you morons can't read past a 4th grade level.
Don't just assume that people don't know what they are talking about and have 0 experience.
Also, don't be a gaslighting POS. There are legitimate problems that need to be addressed. Just because you can't be bothered to read every single articulate post I made (let alone having the attention span to read through 1 post fully without skimming and actually comprehending the points being made) doesn't mean that I am incorrect.
Especially considering the FACT that this game has a HUGE power gap from the time you hit 16 (Even bolstered full buffed with talismens), until the time you hit lvl 40 RR 60+
I am far from the only one saying these things; the majority of people with these complaints you will probably never see even bother making a forum post because they quit.
It seems like you guys will say ANYTHING to justify not making the game more accessible for new player retention (Because f(_)ck having a better game and population overall I guess?)
And just for the record, these things don't even effect me seeing as I am already maxed out BIS on my main. I am simply advocating for the new players.
As I said before:
I have literally invited 6 friends to play this game with me and the majority have lost interest in the game as soon as they hit 16, or somewhere between lvl 16-30. (And these are seasoned MMO PVP Veterans, not just a bunch of random noobs with no PVP or MMO Experience)
Some had made a few alts and got them all to 16, but ended up throwing in the towel there too once they realized past lvl16 wasn't worth the time sink or effort to them in proportion to the reward of hitting lvl 40 60+ RR with at least semi-decently competitive gear.
Surely there has to be a reason why not a single one stuck around to even hit lvl 40. Let alone the grind that would await them to hit RR 60+, and more realistically RR 80+
Things don't just happen for no reason.
You hit lvl 16 and immediately get thrown into the same area as 30-40+ lvl people with a ton of people being RR 60+ with a huge gear advantage....
Surely nothing could possibly be wrong with that
You have to give people a reason to stick around and WANT to play the game. This literally can ONLY benefit Veteran players, so I really don't understand what the backlash from some people is for.
You already have your gear, so now there would simply be more people at your power level to sh1t on you if you are bad, gear carried, and have no skill (which is my guess for why people are so vehemently against this).
Otherwise there is LITERALLY no threat, or downsides at all to having a larger player base that is on equal footing gear wise.
SKILL should always trump GEAR in a PVP game. No IF, ANDS, or BUTS, Period.
