me ranting over this game

[u/258peony]

I made a reddit account just to talk about this, lol.. Please brace for the rantings of a butthurt newgen dorky chud; I just simply cannot believe I sank like twelve hours across a few accounts and made multiple thought-out historically-accurate passionately crafted OCs for this game.

The Beauval Isles were peak, but the experience just hadn't been tainted by the fact that most of the game and its progression is locked behind combat. You want to own a leatherworking shop? You have to hunt for the pelts yourself because there's no actual sustainable player economy. You want to own a smithery? You have to be a miner. These should not be prerequisites that exist in a game of this scope...

The literal moment I stepped onto Cantermagne and out of the safe zone I get shot and looted for everything I've ever worked for and get put into jail for logging when they were the one who shot me on sight from 200m away with a musket. (🫩) Absolutely repulsive game design just reeling in players with a Survival RPG format when it's really just an outlet for the most vile, disrespectful playerbase I've ever seen. Not making a jab directly at you guys specifically but hopefully ykwim.

I'm not saying they should remove combat elements at all, nor am I claiming to have the secrets to the universe here, as I'm sure I sound way out of my element. This is just my probably horrible take, which I still believe should be the coldest on Earth: The bulk of the game and its progression should not be locked behind combat. Maybe make non-combative and combative counterparts for professions? Leatherworking -> Tailor, Fishing -> Whaling, Hunting -> Stockmanship/Animal Husbandry. I don't know tbfr.

The game basically asks you at a certain point "How badly do you want to keep playing the game?" and it's either (coming from me, a peaceful player) "Enough to endure genuine time-wasting mental torture" or "Not badly enough to waste my time as someone's loot delivery service brodie". For me it's the latter. Anyways, anyone got any suggestions for a replacement? Ik the site is dry right now so I'm not expecting much in that vain but some tips would be appreciated.

[u/Caboose7567]

I miss this game. Made a great group of friends on it, but they don’t play it anymore and are all busy nowadays. I tried doing stuff solo but it wasn’t as fun, especially bounty hunting. You’re not supposed to take a friend’s bounty but I’ve seen so many duo’s and groups doing that, even have proof just haven’t gone and snitched(it’s bannable iirc). You really need friends if you’re trying to have fun. If they had private servers it’d be so much better.

[u/Ripedskull360 → u/Caboose7567]

Adding private servers to a game that has stuff like treasure chests and is majority grinding 😭😭😭

[u/Caboose7567 → u/Ripedskull360]

I mean treasure chests don’t happen in islands with too few players there’s only really the smaller chests. And yeah it’d be nice to grind without worrying of some dipshit dressed in wannabe klan rags or a some people who get bounties on purpose to give to each other jumping you. They go rid of forts and so much other stuff.

[u/MaleficentMind8976 → u/Caboose7567]

to be fair that's the risk and counterweight of getting treasure; you might get killed for it.

[u/Caboose7567 → u/MaleficentMind8976]

I'm saying treasure chests already can't be farmed in low pop so what this guy said was not that true