Comments on: City sieges a frustrating letdown

By: Bringing the single-player experience to MMOs | reroller

Bringing the single-player experience to MMOs | reroller — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:11:32 +0000

[...] because you’re split up amongst queues and separate instances of the exact same content. How frustrating is that? This totally destroys and sense of immersion the gamer has, and I’m really hoping that as [...]

By: mr. jaX

mr. jaX — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:30:19 +0000

Scribbler makes a good point on that they would be the least polished. As I’m sure everybody knows, Patch 1.2 Notes are out and the whole system of Zone Dominance is something I have been dying for. Finally a reason to give the ‘path of least resistance’ people a chance to ‘man’ up.

By: scribbler

scribbler — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 02:21:54 +0000

good writeup, i think its the very same problems which used to plague open RvR as long as the game make it a incentive to not fight people will as you say ’seek the path of least resistance’.

I don’t mind the idea of it being instanced & 2x warband vs warband isn’t too bad numbers tbh, but they really need to try & make sure that people do have to fight each other. hopefully what mr.jax says is true, one instance filling before another launches seems good.

You have to remember that out all everything in this game city sieges are bound to be the least polished because quite simply until now no ones been doing them.

By: nick

nick — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:31:26 +0000

Yeah, for those of you who are interested, Warhammer Alliance has a great write-up of Day 1 at the NYCC (including some video of Slayer abilities and new mounts) here:

http://www.warhammeralliance.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3447596#post3447596

… and there’s Ten Ton Hammer’s coverage of the event and videos of the Choppa and Slayer here:

http://www.warhammeralliance.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3447596#post3447596

By: mr. jaX

mr. jaX — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:25:27 +0000

I just wanted to follow-up my last post. Apparently at NY Comic Con, one member of my alliance had got a few questions answered, and one of them dealing with city sieges. What Mythic said about it is that they are most likely/certain going to take out the choice of instances so that you can PvE the city, that way it fills one up first before going to the next instance.

By: Today’s read-through « Book of Grudges

Today’s read-through « Book of Grudges — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:59:34 +0000

[...] some bloggers have been city sieging – boo, it’s not always gone too well. We’ve not got past problems with fortress capturing, so I’ve not been to a big city [...]

By: Weekly WAR rollup: City siege aftermath | reroller

Weekly WAR rollup: City siege aftermath | reroller — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:46:37 +0000

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By: Me Not Loco, Thankfully « That’s Skar with a K

Me Not Loco, Thankfully « That’s Skar with a K — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:49:25 +0000

[...] upon roughly the same city capture issues over the weekend. You see I am not losing my mind. Now Reroller put something together which was much more coherently constructed than my previous days rant, so [...]

By: ThatsSkarWithAK

ThatsSkarWithAK — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:58:48 +0000

Nicely constructed, it conveys very nicely my experiences over the weekend with my brief exposure of a going for the Inevitable City. Like you I felt it was worthy of blog post, though I was more ranty than you. Good work on a nice post.

My biggest concern is that it’s going to turn people off trying to capture the capital city, since it’s such a boring experience. This area needs a whole lot of loving.

PS – I am not sure I should congratulate you for sticking it out so long, or just take you outside and shoot you ;)

By: Glen

Glen — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:00:41 +0000

I don’t think a single person I know have had good things to say about a city seige. The fact it takes weeks to get one only to have it happen at 3am AND be an awful grind snoozefest.

Empty PQ’s should not be allowed. Once completed the PQ instance should end.
Something needs to be in place for people that cant get into a PQ or scenario
People that do the scenario should not be scewed out of Invader gear
The seige should be able to be done by prime time people at least occasioanlly.
The fact is the PQ is almost really good. I have played in it when both sides were full and it was a blast. The lure of gear ruined this though as teh people that fight get LESS reward (WTF?!)