From a starting point of a neutral 5/10 -1 out of 10 for no BST & BER at launch. -2 out of 10 for a FTE system that is broken glitchy gimmicky rubbish -1 for DBG "buy our crap anyway". -1 for quality of communication this TLP cycle given the amount of player feedback. +1 out of 10 for nice bonuses +0.1 out of 10 for Legacy Characters (a "Live" feature TLP players are beta testing) +1 out of 10 for Heirloom on many no-drop items +1 out of 10 for Character-based AoC locks vs Account-based AoC locks. +1 for OoW & DoN being launched together Score: 4.1 out of 10 See you next year DBG, hopefully the 25th anniversary has a much better TLP to offer than this. FTE Recommendation: IF you are determined to have FTE on TLP, consider the lessons learned from Truebox - it may have some value, once in a working state, for a certain amount of time on TLP but switch the crap off once the game moves beyond PoP if not sooner if the population is so low it is clearly completely pointless, or if you are determined it should last full-duration make it only active in the CURRENT expansion on the server and deactivate it for older expansions.
FTE is trash literally are going to have monks trolling the server and making sure nobody can progress. My community and I will continue to enjoy Mischief. If someone has a heart remove FTE it will bring all the servers together to start over again.
so they went with 'less clarity' in this announcement and FTE is now being treated like a mystery feature. cool, let's see how that works out. just reads like a scheduled promotional posting that they wanted to force out no DBG. no bags, no kiss, no touch
You should consider listening to the player feedback and walking back FTE until at least the bugs are all worked out. You have lost all defenders on this in its current state. Absolutely no one wants this in its current state. We tested it, it doesn’t work. It shouldn’t be implemented until it does, if at all. No one should be buying bags, there needs to be more communication on community concerns.
The one feature that folks have expressed the most concern about -- the busted first to engage mechanic -- is nowhere in this statement. But, hey, they've listened to our feedback and are combining Omens and Dragons as one expac. Rejoice, folks! Oh, also... don't forget to buy bags. This is so incredibly insulting to your player base. Tell us you don't respect us and just want our money without telling us you don't respect us and want our money.
If only you spent as much time testing this failed server as your art team did creating the server logo/picture. At least with Vaniki you promised something we couldn't resist before we realized you did zero testing and had no intention of actually monitoring and fixing the server. With Oakwynn, there is nothing attached to the server that any player has been asking for in any of the post I have read over the years. Anyone else miss Holly? While I wasn't a fan of everything she did, at least she had standards.
Good luck to the devs that are trying to fix FTE in two weeks. Whoever in DPG is pushing for FTE, please set your ego aside and admit it doesn't work. Maybe it will in the future, but certainly not before Oakwynd's launch.
just out of curiosity are those three bundles the only options for 100% weight reduction bags for oakwynd? or are the regular store bought travelers rucksacks good to go?
if them still want to sell new bags and see new players this year - need to do something with Oakwynd asap. I think best what they can do its add free-trade instead of FTE (maybe make all free-tradable items attunable if them dont want too big market overflow with items) + decrease spawn rates by 20-25% and it will be very popular server i sure, even if make it slow exp for selling more potions! Wish them got good marketing specialist
I've seen a few screenshots from Daybreak devs in the Discord server that are very concerning. They appear to not really know how EverQuest works. One was from a dev that didn't know DoT damage was front-loaded nor did they know about how sitting drew more aggro. It was almost like they barely played the game. I am (or maybe was) pro-FTE, but after messing around in Test and seeing how insanely unplayable it's made the game, I'm appalled. Are the developers in another country and Daybreak just sends an e-mail with the needed changes? Were they not in the meetings discussing this change so they understood exactly how it was supposed to work? Did they not even bother testing extremely simple situations like pets or feign death? My only way to rationalize this (as well as Daybreak's complete disregard for information about it on the 2-Week announcement) was Daybreak knew FTE wasn't finished yet, but pushed it to Test anyway because of some deadline set by a higher power. They already knew FTE was broken and but it had to be done. If they truly did not know that these simple features (guards? pets?) weren't working then they have to be incredibly incompetent or outsourcing the development.
This is worrying, Low HP and sit agro was one of the things I learned in EQ back in 2001 when I first started playing. I think skellys also have different agro and like to hit the person clossest rather than the one with top agro, similar to how rooted mobs behave.
About the bundles : toxicologist and vexin vermin, do i get both if i buy the one at 30 + dollars ? which would have a total of 8 bottles of exp and 2 40 slot bags ? Are the bags heirloom ? and potions ? what is the deadline to purchase them ? Are the new bundles better ? i didn't find any information on those. Ty. About the FTE rule. i know of one instance where it would actually help kill stealing issue rather than prevent it : in lower guk, the ghoul lord is often hunted by soloers knowing that the group camping it usually sits near the archmage ghoul so they can't see what s going on in the lord's room . Well, if the puller sees a player camping secretly the lord, he can always call in the group to prevent the "theft" of the mob with a damage race. With this new rule, the "thief" would not be worried at all by the group, powerless to prevent the kill stealing . : my two cents contribution to this debate
i don't know about you but me i still have an old unlimited bag 100% weight reduction in claim call dreamwave satchel i also notice a few traveller ruthsack but don't know if it's available for tlp at the beginning
I've been one of the biggest supporters for Oakwynd since it's announcement, but the issues with FTE need to be announced. I want to play the new TLP incredibly bad, but there's no realistic way I could with the exploits that are public with FTE currently. Aside from the obvious, it comes off very unprofessional to post another thread regarding the release with irrelevant bundle pack information, to not inform the people who actually want to see updates for the release. With a deadline this close i'm fairly sure we were all really banking on this thread being the 'last-second' answers to mitigate the obvious issue..
Its truly embarrassing how much devs don't listen to community. It really feels like they don't care about their OWN game. That is some strange stuff. Test server is an absolute fiasco. One thing is for sure, slowly but surely I am feeling more and more like saying my forever farewell to EQ. At least with this company running it. If FTE launches in this state it will RUIN whatever reputation they have left with further "experiments" in the future. Not sure anyone really had much faith anyways though.
