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#1 Re: Main Forum » Coming Soon: Boundless World 2.0 » 2019-11-11 20:44:34
I just wanted to say thank you, Jason! I am back in love with the game! 
#2 Re: Main Forum » OHOL has become so boring & it makes me sad » 2019-10-10 18:10:08
Yeah, before the arc you would be able to play in a big town with lots of people in one play trough, and then the next life, right after, you could spawn in a small eve camp or even as an eve yourself. It was so diverse and you didn't get bored. But now you almost only get to spawn in big towns since it doesn't take long for small camps to become big so you don't get to choose where you wanna live.
Exactly, it was diverse. And everyone was able to find their place. You could be creative and build houses and gardens and all that, if you wanted to. And you could also play for survival, challenged by nature.
I personally love playing campaigns in games, I love succeeding in them or trying over and over until I do. Sadly, there is no challenge anymore most often when I login (because I am from Europe and it seems the arc is always well developed when I come online).
#3 Re: Main Forum » anti griefers are worse then griefers » 2019-10-09 10:42:08
S I hope that something can be done to make OHOL fun for most people, most of the time.
Personally, I'd like to see a return to the open world map. I honestly think the Rift and the arc cycle is bad for the game. It encourages griefing to force reset and prevents anything you build from surviving from arc to arc. Although there are a few nice things about the Rift - like easy navigation and the ability to revisit past villages - I'd rather find a different solution to the problems it is suppose to solve.
On the plus side, nothing lasts forever. So if we are patient, the situation might eventually improve.
You nailed it: at the moment, mainly the people who like building and doing creative stuff (is that like Minecraft?) are enjoying the game. The ones who prefer to struggle and trying to survive have little chance to play that way. Especially if you are peaceful and want to play against the harsh conditions of the wilderness rather than people with knives and swords.
I come to the assumption that both these gamer groups' needs were satisfied before the rift/arc introduction. At least there was the option to choose which game you wanted to play with each life.
So yes, lack of purpose leads to unhappy players. For me personally, griefing has proven not to be an option. So I guess I just have to wait and see if the game becomes fun for me again (just as before...) at some point.
#4 Re: Main Forum » OHOL has become so boring & it makes me sad » 2019-10-07 18:10:39
I never catch the beginning of arcs either, it always seems to be when I’m asleep or at work, and it’s only an 8 hour window to be an Eve which I enjoy the most. I just feel useless in developed towns. They have everything or have run out of everything. Then they steal from another camp. Then in your next life you’re in the one you stole from because there are very few families, so you’re in the same situation, but wait, you know where that thing you need is! So you have to backstab your old life family. Urrrggghhh!
This is such an accurate description of my experience.
I do like the ideas of what to do in the late stage of the arc (built back-up camp, dig wells). It is not the same as the game I am missing from the old times, but I will give it a try.
I just want to emphasize: I don't like griefing. Never have, never will. I tried it, killed all sheep, stole carrot seeds etc. But I cannot value my personal yearning for a more enjoyable game over the one of others. However, I wonder how many people really do have genuine fun with the arc play.
I feel really disheartened to hear that people resort to griefing to make the game enjoyable for themselves. I feel like the arc is not truly serving any player type. Eve fans can’t Eve, so they may just actively try to end arcs to get their chance at it. Early game fans can’t do early game, because the early game is so shortlived and there are no more valid spots left in the arc, so they may just try to end the arc too. Peaceful players can’t play in peace because someone always wants to end the arc. And the End times of an arc is just man hunt and the sides of that wanting different things: to play in peace vs starting new arc. With some random ”I just want to kill” players sprinkled in there.
This is what I feel like, too, but of course there are no reliable statistics to back it up.
#5 Main Forum » OHOL has become so boring & it makes me sad » 2019-10-06 16:12:13
- Saaphia
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I have been a silent lurker all this time, but now I finally signed up, because I really have to share how sad I am about losing my favorite game:
I have played the game since its Steam release for so many hours. I felt it was really THE game for me: you could cooperate and play actively with others, but you don’t have to, you can also be a “silent” member of the society and just help things develop. I sometimes role played, sometimes did stuff with others, but most of the time, I really enjoyed baking and/or farming. I have a stressful job IRL and I just want to rewind when I come home.
My favorite play mode of all was to be in a fairly young town, sometimes even an eve town, and help set things up. A sheep pen, a bakery, a berries field, the first compost, all the necessary stuff. I liked the feeling of having a substantial contribution in the future well-being of my family. I would play in older towns, too; When the life count was introduced, I started to actively decide if was up for a game in a more developed town or if I invested some lives until I found a younger town which I felt needed me more.
And here is where today’s situation comes in: The arc system has taken my chance of deciding which type of town I want to play in. When I come home from work, I cross my fingers that the current arc is fairly young – most often it isn’t and I end up disappointed in a huge, super-developed town with so much food and everything they would ever need. And I am bored.
I have grown so bored, that now, when an arc has only 3 families left, I try to grief to make the arc end. I am bad at it and really feel horrible for spoiling other peoples’ game to get back to the game I personally enjoy.
This all makes me really sad. I love this games and I am not ready to let go. But it is so horribly boring and frustrating for me at the moment that I play it less and less. I start a life, wander around aimlessly, until I die.
I really don’t mind the rift and I am all for game development, but he way it is, I will soon stop playing OHOL even though it has so much potential.
So please, Jason, I am sure I am not the only one who feels like this. Consider setting up a second big server without the arc system in the hopes that there will be enough players to fill it with life.
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