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Herorius zerg... It's always been a hot topic, but jfc does it ruin the game when he is on it kills all action.
I suggest reduce RPs while in a zerg by 50%
OR
give Herorius a permanent 40% snare at all times :P
I suggest reduce RPs while in a zerg by 50%
OR
give Herorius a permanent 40% snare at all times :P
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Herorius, please stop running on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
You already ruin the game for the Euros, you don't have to do it for NA players too.
https://change.org/p/developers-at-broadsword-ban-herorius-from-dark-age-of-camelot-free-us-from-this-tyrant?source_location=topic_page
wow amazing! see... you get it...
Or penalize the realm hoppers because the realm timer isn't doing anything.
https://change.org/banherorious
Maybe they can develop an algorithm to upgrade keep guards and doors insanely fast to level 10 when one realm controls all the relics. I just don't have much for ideas. Many US prime hibs aren't happy about it either.
hero is not the problem, the realmhopping lemmings are.....
and we already see what the realm hopping "8mans" do for getting action and its not playing on the realm
with the better bonus so they have more to kill lol
That's literally not the issue though. You have people that log into hib literally waiting for Hero to log in. They don't play anything else.
The other realms just can't combat him any more than maybe 10% of the time. And when there aren't any contending zergs he will turn everything green, break ports, destroy solo/small/8man action (all action), and he will chase down 1 person with his entire zerg for 5 minutes just because there is nothing else for the zerg to do..
That in itself seems like Hero is the issue.
That was when I made the petition. Everyone always said the game would be better without the Hero zerg, but it was all speculation. Then he was banned, and there was a HUGE improvement in action. It was no longer just conjecture. Hero's zerg is very bad for the game.
And, timers have nothing to do with this. Increase timers, and the Hero's sycophants would just never leave Hib and that would make this issue even worse.
Timers were never the issue. Most people use to follow the bonuses. Now people just dont want to donate to Hero so they log into hib. Its that simple.
Maybe decrease RPs when so many people are in an area? There really is not answer that I can think of.
Population is the issue. I will also say that we get flack from the other realms when we flip over to alb/mid to counter Hero.
Banning Hero isn't the fix and would probably run afoul legally since he is playing the game as intended and not against the terms of service. The game is broken with such low population.
NA pop is not balanced. We usually only have 40-60 players following the BG and have to deal with 80-120 hibs. While alb sleeps in a keep because rescue is scared. Mid is usually out numbered 2:1 or 3:1 I'm fights.
Plus you don't need to ban herious, what they need to do is put a cap on each realm so when there's a 25% population imbalance they need it to be impossible to log on to Hibernia or any other realm that is over that cap. Once the population evens out and you can open up that other realm once again just like there has been for other games when one side is overpopulated it shouldn't be that hard.
Hero is easy to kill like anybody else is just that there's a lot of people that want to feed off of easy realm points and play an easy realm with easy classes and out populate the other realms to or even three times the number. Trust me they're far better players on midgard then hero or Jedi or any other hib.
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The reason people hate to PvP is they are afraid of failure
Guess we know what to wait for... Let's hope they get it right.
That's a good idea since we have no accurate way to gauge how many characters are actively played at any given time.
We don’t need to ban Hero, we need to find more of him. One for each realm,
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I mean, this would be ideal in a perfect world I suppose. But with the population having dipped so low over the last 2-3 years it is a serious problem. He will chase me solo, he will chase a 4man, he will chase an 8man... and it's not just a little while, but in my experience he has chased me across ZONES in all 3 scenarios.
But @DaRedANT the worst part is how he roams EV with his BG after he has cut all ports and looks simply for 8mans to kill. It destroys every aspect of the game when he is on. Anyone that doesn't see that is a sheeptard. His actions have huge consequences on the entire game when he is on.
And... when he got banned for that week or w/e, game was beautiful
IRC can be just as bad I agree. I made a comment about that in another post. Most of this boils down to a population problem. If this game had the numbers a lot of these problems wouldn't exist. Nobody would give a crap about IRC if there were 5+ other FGs out there to try and fight... but when the action is so small and IRC is the only thing that is out (or only group that consistently hunts your group down because there is no other action) it really stands out.
Hero is still a bigger problem though. IRC doesn't cut ports and hoard relics. And at least with IRC you have still have a chance to beat them in a fair fight, I'm all for that. Hero, however, destroys everything
I understand bro, the game needs autobalance. Not sure how they can do that without instance RvR.
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When he dings RR15, he will morph into an Armsman.
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I ran with Hero a long time ago and he was the only chance I had to grow my characters. I thank him for that opportunity.
in midgard there has been an rvr bg up 7/7 at 2000 CET for just under a year now. i hoped that having a regular bg every single day at the same hour would have increased the numbers in the mid bg's ... but it doesn't.
when one bg is less than half of the numbers of the enemy bg it becomes very difficult to fight that enemy bg. the only way you can score a win is then in a defensive keep fight if a lot of other realm mates who are not in the bg also show up, even when you have relatively many people, but still get outnumbered 2 to one.
then there is the ever returning 'don't donate rp to herorius' mentality, which makes it very hard to motivate people to come and defend if you say in region that you are taking your bg to defend the keep under attack.
another issue is that herorius usually starts his bg at 1900 CET while the mid bg's start at 2000 CET, which even if the mid bg gets great numbers, gives herorius 1 hour of unopposed time where no-one can oppose him.
i really don't know what i can do to get more people in my bg so that fighting herorius in open field becomes an option and not a guaranteed wipe for your bg where your bg gets no kills, no rps, and people start leaving the bg.
i would say the whole problem is not herorius fault, but the fault of the people joining him. THOSE people have to see that joining herorius instead of joining a bg in another realm is a problem for balance.
and in midgard you have the issue of too many people who would rather log out than joining a bg because they think they are 'too good' to join a bg ...
the game needs bgs otherwise the population would plumet and the server would become even more of a ghost town, too many people would have no chance to actually do rvr and be more than dead men walking.
Build a bigger zerg on Mid or Alb and ruin his fun.
Albs in NA time can hold Hero off in a keep but Jedi's BG gets bored with nothing to kill and adds another 2-4FG to his numbers and then the action is gone.
Leegan will charge in with less numbers but will just feed RPS, when that fails he tries to camp a tower.
I know Teddie got a hard time for going to Alb so dont come to Alb goto Mid and bolster their numbers kick hero's butt.
Rescu is not scared, he knows what happens to all BG's.
1 Easy Wipe ok,
2 Easy Wipe and people complaining and think they know best,
3 Easy Wipe start to switch realm or take FG to do oher things like feed IRC,
4 Easy Wipe people log off.
Then you are down to maybe 2-3 groups Welcome to EU primetime vs Hero zerg.
As for what BS could do, well they wont do it, remove wall climbing from heavy tanks after they have been in hibernation for 6 months.
This is the problem with the current population. They simply can't without Hib players jumping ship. Unless Broadsword enforces population balance, players have to do it themselves.
Not true for the most part. We have been trying out Alb/Mid to help balance. Unfortunately Albs crapped on us in /region so I think we'll be running Mids most of the time going forward. As I stated above, Hero doesn't help us at all. When he logs nearly half of the realm logs off with him leaving us in a pretty big hole for the rest of the night.
Unfortunately Hero runs early in the day and by the time we start forming around 7pm EDT, he has a large foothold in Alb/Mid. Even bringing 2 groups from hib to mid isnt enough, but at least we try. Mids have been more receptive than Albs about us swapping realms those nights.
I wish it were untrue, Jedi tries to do his own thiing, cuz you know he is better than that but even if he circles 3 times that where he ends up. I dont blame him as its boring to wait for hero to goto bed.
So we have to go through the same process, 4 Easy BG wipes, about 2 hours later everyone logs noone has fun.
Goto Mid join up with the BG there kick hero's arse, please!.
You arent welcome on alb it would seem
Whether it’s hero’s zerg shutting down action or some 8 man chasing a duo across EV. The remaining population are RP starved so will go great lengths to grab a single rp.
From Custodia Malacitana back on excal, who pissed on any action smaller than their fg, people are going to play how they like for themselves. Hero won’t stop, the realm hoppers won’t stop, the fight can’t be harmonised with such a paltry amount running around like a small school of fish, huddling together for safety.
Population is going to solve this by increasing the player base tenfold, allowing more zergs to form and smaller zergs/8man and small man to feed.
This can ONLY be achieved via making it free to play with no restrictions. EC was never a good idea years ago when it was realised by BS, we now have the proof it doesn’t work as The disparity between paid and EC accounts is too wide.
Make the Mithril store more plentiful to help fund this. Heck many mmo’s now are free to play and still have 100,000 plus active subscribers. Broadsword can end this stagnant population and get action back into daoc but the cow still has a pulse despite it not moving, so it is still milked for more.
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The problem is multi faceted hib is a realm that lends its self to zerging with its ease of forming a group bard warden Druid fill with Dps easy.
For random players it’s ideal.
Secondly you turned the game into hero’s labyrinth what you all don’t understand is that hero is a lab rat it’s where he feels at home killing the old agramon and the old keep structure gave him an overground labyrinth.
Thirdly it’s very hard to counter a Zerg that’s on 7 days a week at set times for long hours.
People who are random are going to go to The easy option where they know they gonna get action.
If hero ran the same times as annamariede it wouldn’t be a problem but the guys on all the time
The reason he has gone more USA time is that he gets easy rps in USA prime eu players have wised up to his bullshit well at least alb eu time have mids still try to put a Zerg up annamariede basically runs away from him all night and never ajs him.
Muyaslav gives him a good fight but never has the numbers.
So do what the eu albs do don’t defend keeps unless you have good 8 mans with irc backing And only defend red and upwards.
let him have relics no relics no point to defend also more noob hib realm hoppers to kill.
Aj with voltrons at every opportunity use traps at gates safe zones lure him in and rofl as they die.
Watch his Zerg starve and roam with small and 8s you guys are the problem not hero.
Adapt stop whining if all realms did what eu alb did there wouldn’t be a problem.
Finally start a Go fund me with a years subscription to tinder for him so he can get a woman to fill his time.
STOP FEEDING THE HIB ZERG. That is an instant change. Not something to wait on or wish for. Stop playing Dark Age of HIbernia and start playing Dark Age of Camelot.
The only way that would work is if you had a function in a battle group where you could make an alliance with another battle group and when that alliance was in force no member of the alliance bg could be killed by the other until the alliance was broken.
It actually could be fun as a rough idea it has possibilities.
Two things: oil should be "safer" and more usable, and Heavy Tanks should get some kind of reduction in ability when they climb into keeps, like a -50% heal effectiveness debuff when Climbing Spikes is up.
Should either go back to sins being the wall clearers or take away the climb points on the inner oil.
I think that's just a small piece of the puzzle.
Get some PVE quest/zergs going when he's out. Sooner or later he should get bored.