cauda_draconis wrote:bmjclark wrote:I dare you to find 1 person not residing in a hearthvault right now who thinks HV's are a fair mechanic, Cauda =s
1) This is the game with summoning from offline. Where should i hide my HV, in pocket?
2) Please tell me, how hiding hf in Pande makes it more honest, then hiding hf in vault? I could try to assault hv, but i could not assault Pande. So, should i start to PM Jorb: "please nuke Pande, i want them one day awake and find their city disappeared"?
3) Why that "1 person" i should find, do not build HV himself?
Jorb hates hvs and you know why he and I consider them bad game mechanics? Because with very little effort you gain practically invulnerability. They defeat the purpose of rams and all current siege mechanics. Those who exploit them have to be thanked from the stance of a developer, since now Jorb anmd Loftar know how overpowered vaults are and their next main goal is to re-design all siege mechanics. New siege mechanics will make the size of a town mor eimportant and allow in depth defense on several layers with towers and such things. It wil favour big cities then and community based projects as it should be in a social crafting and building game.
That you don't understand why Pandemonium give legitimate protection for a hearthfire and a hearthvault is illigetimate protection tells me that you haven't understood your role as a play tester nor have you a feeling for how this game should be played legitimately. (I am not attacking the sandbox mechanics here, even with a change in sieges everyone has all the freedom they want, they even gain more. Because right now there is one way to gain superiority: Spend a few hours to build hv, be invulnerable, win. The fact that there is the theoretical chance to invade a hv doesn't count since there is no rational balance between time invested in a vault and the protection it offers, while a big city built in weeks and months barely offers the same protection, no it even looses to a hv on several levels.
To still refer to this silly anal friends thing shows me that you are not really willing to discuss with me on a rational base. You can be sure that none of the two devs would ever do something for me or any of the Inner Party players just because it is our wish. They prefer our opinions sometimes because in the years of playing this game for them and with them we have gotten a pretty good instinct for what they consider good and bad gameplay and probably we had it before already or none of us would have entered the game in w1 where there maybe was 10% of what we have today implemented. The other way around they also respect our opinions because they are our own and opposed to what you believe pretty unbiased.
I never attacked the right of people to engage in open PvP btw, that is their right and I am more than willing to pick up a fight over the whole length of the map with anybody. Anybody taking a fair route along the game mechanics.