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Im seeing an increase number in new faces I dont know if its an alt or people from nostale, we need to do something so they will stay, I am currently helping 4 new players because they are AP buyers it might be a waste to let them go.

This is why they need to stay at 59 first, they have to know that going up to 60 cap is nonesense if you dont have anything prepared, if you want to know how hard the new players are struggling, make a new toon and dont give it anything, dont try to boost it start from scratch and see how you manage, you guys keep saying "it will help the newbies" all im reading is you guys want access to high tier item the easy way and saying it in the pretense of helping new players. We got everything we need were doing great on r2 rare jewels if you want unique grind it on BC, the only problem is the ancient spanner and ancient jewel drop is broken but i dont wanna see this items floating around so easily they are called ancient for a reason. That is why I suggest it to be an amara boss drop for cairn, helios,hounds and asmo with a drop rate like unique costumes that way veterans have something to fight over that can result in a large scale pvp. Dog tags for clusters, hypovial packs, hp crisis potion, napalm II, SG Republicubes, maybe a loot box that has a chance of getting a unqiue earrings level 60+ as the best thing you can get.

Ancient spanners, ancient jewels, unique jewels got nothing to do with newbies going blindly to 60+ cap. You want ancient stuffs farm them, maybe add them as a drop on amara bosses with good percentage that way both sides will fight for it increasing pvp action in amara, I think those inactive FK will now have reason to go ingame, guilds amd faction camping for bosses waiting for it to spawn is a thing back in CG when titan is still a thing, it was majestic and pvp feels alive. If we can swap or add a higher level CG map as a new pvp map it would be so much better.

And do you think those newbies you are talking about will have resource to get into level 60+ so they can have those stuff? Granted that they make it up to 60+ do you want to flood amara of ungeared players trying their best to loot dog tags? Will that help pvp? Do you think newbies will bother to get ancient jewels and spanners before finishing their gears first? The only players the will benifit the most out of it are those the already have an established toon, dont get me wrong, I love your Idea of utilizing dog tags maybe you can put supplies in it but adding unique costume, ancient spanners, Ancient jewels is another problem child and by the time newbies get to the point of collecting those stuffs, those things are already scraped and same as always only the veterans indulge in a full stash of those things.

People like to do the easy way in everything, the way I see it, it will make most of the veterans fully spanned and full ancient jewels in no time, it does not give something to the new players, you can just open 2 windows of SB and kill yourself repeatedly in a secluded area if thats your idea of helping the pvp alot, okay fine. If you want to really help the community make something that makes the new player stays. There are people, players who manage to get their hands on ancient jewels with pure sheer will and dedication those who worked hard to get them you will make their efforts into poop.

Sounds great but it might cause alot of ripple effect in the future, anything pvp related can be abused because people can easily use multiple toons, we have too many problems/bugs that needs fixing, adding another one wont make the game better.

It can easily be abused.

More people are joing most of them are from nostale, and you are more than welcome to join our community.

This problem becomes more apparent when you max out your toons and theres no more excitement getting unique accesories and mechs etc. all your gold are just piling up, no more excitement, 1 v 1, 2 v 2 or 3 v 3 they are just all the same, same old people struggling. The only thing that makes the server alive is the drama, and bullying soyboys on both sides so they moan and the occasional heated pvp on NB and AK. My point is we need something to get our mind busy with other than keep remaking toons, grueling grinds so we can try out different classes.

I agreed to what youre saying pan i just wanna add some things while youre at it about other player who exploit BG. My issue about this is Im getting bored joining BG fighting weak players thats why Im getting bored from time to time, fighting an SE who cant even scratch me or an SW who hides most of the time and only shows up just to die or if somehow get 1 point lead afk in base wasting 10 mins of my time, and a BG that has a serious 1 sided battles, early NB more FK less RG and late NB more RG less FK, mostly its about different timezones.

I want to add what pan said is, some players register an FK toon and an RG toon simultaneously then once the BG started that specific player will desert BG making the BG 3 v 2 again its kinda rude and ruining the pvp expirience Ive seen Melz talking about this on mereholt and no one seems to care. FC should be allowed either way getting your main toon across the faction saves time and energy.

We cant blame RG mains showing up enthusiasticly, nor blame a small number of FK availble at the time. The best thing you can do so every party gets happy is fix the Faction Change NPC and sell an AP item that allows faction change permanently and and set a specific probation that a specific player can faction change again 3 days to 1 week, that way we can maintain balance when needed and the devs get paid for their job well done.

FK get bored when no RG joins BG but loses their mind when every single RG shows up, you can still log in during NB and AK

It might be somewhat a suggestion but It is not a request its something I want people to discuss, without new people trying the game and without something that will make them stay we will only have a handful of players the actively plays and buy AP sooner or later they will get tired. It really is hard to implement stuffs ive said, Its either you give them announcement 1 month before that we will commence an item wipe out on level 29 toons so they have time to move all their tradable stuffs out of that toon and ask them to submit ticket with screenshots if they have pet, grafted gears, pet chips, costumes and such so we can return them manually which is time consuming and pain in the ass, but thats just my suggestion balancing lower caps and giving people reason to play in that cap so newer people will see an active community instead of a baren wasteland, we can also have a weekly event held at enocia, or make enocia the staple map where event will be held.

Greetings everyone, It is a common knowledge for everyone that most of the lower caps if not all is a dead zone. It has been a problem since ASB and it has been overlooked and/or didn't pay much attention for so long probably because people doesn't have anything to do in those caps and try to stay on the highest cap where most of the PVP happens. Now, since the beginning it isn't quite noticeable since most of the players move in the same pace as they go up to the new content, a few people if not all is affected and is mostly overlooked and neglected since most of the players are happily grinding the higher caps, now we face a dilemma hitting a wall with no new content to offer, issues became more and more apparent, Players leaving because VSB has nothing else to offer and population isn't flourishing because the lower caps are dead and feels like playing VSB in offline mode, to those who played from the start till the end cap you know how hard it is to grind up by yourself but it isnt noticeable since you played with alot of players and you all suffer equally it became a race and became a competitive environment. New players trying out the game and building toons from scratch suffers the same experience minus the whole community to play with, This things should never had happen or allowed to happen now players getting tired of the game leaving one after another with no new players to replace them. So it might seem obvious, it is a topic everyone knows but no one talks about and at the same time everyone loses their mind why the community is growing smaller as the time goes by, In order to halt this tradition/disease that slowly killing the server, I am bringing to light this topic to everyone and suggest a few remedy to help fix things up, in order to make the lower cap alive we need a total overhaul and balance fixes, exclusive cap drops and events: First things I want to mention is the imbalances of 29 cap, Pets we should limit pet levels in this cap main reason is at max level a pet can give a player 8,000 HP and 770SP in this cap those numbers are too damn high. Limiting the pet to Level 30 will help balance the whole thing and it will have the same bonus a madfly can give, we can do this by putting a base character level requirement on the upgrade button of a pet. e.g. - "In order to upgrade level 30 pet you must be a character level 30+" Pet Chips we should only allow the use of a level 1 pet chip in this cap, and putting a level requirement to some of the pet chips that gives OP stats for that current cap i'm referring to RESIST, CRIT VOID, CRIT EVA since this stats doesnt come with the level 29 gears except resist but having 1k resist would be enough to mitigate the low ch atk in this cap. Jewels we should only allow the use of level 1 jewels and disable jewels that yield stats that doesnt appear on the gears of this patch. Unique costumes we should completely disable the use of this things in level 29 cap. With this things fixed you can prevent players from making God tier level 29 toons, improves overall balance and prevents new player from feeling inequality since people with max toons has more access to this stuffs than they are, they might still get bullied but now they have a chance to catch up unlike before. This brings another thing to discuss, playing games should be rewarding and shouldn't feel like a job to some extent with that being said players that gives more effort will more likely has higher chances to become better than most of the players: i would suggest to revamp the lower cap economy, introduce the accessories of 29 cap as an added requirement to craft a 39 cap unique accessories and the 39 cap accessories to the level 49 cap accessories and lastly the level 49 cap accessories to the 59 cap then make that tradable then remove the LV50 unique accessories drop in such a way that accessories should never be a loot .so people will farm it more in the lower cap giving new people things to look for when going up the ladder this should also be done for the mech starting from the magic LV20 mechs we got as our first mechs up to LV50 unique mechs. The drop table on the 29 cap should be improve and add items that might have an impact or might help newer players as they move up things like Jewel Spanners,SG Republicubes etc. To encourage more players from higher cap to play in the lower cap we should introduce exclusive items such as pet skin drop: Mini Titan, DVK, CXDestroyer do this for the succeeding cap as well. Also if possible we should have the account fixed to a certain faction in such a way that one account cannot contain both FK and RG toons. This will greatly reduce the looting people that keep switching to a the winning side, and also limit the windows a player can open to 1 this will force players to log out of their current VSB window to log in into a different toon thus reducing the risk of dual logging in both NB,AK and exploiting BG in a way that they can reg similar toon level to enter a specific BG so they can hoard both loots and rewards and a Level Lock button so people wont have to do the grueling DE EXP just to stay in the cap they wanted. Note that this is only my suggestion and opinion, this post aims to give newer players a comfortable environment and veteran people to look for in the lower caps to make it more alive again giving chance for the server to grow. those suggestion might be hard to implement since most of the players already level their pets to 40 in their level 29 cap toon and some already opened unique CS although jewels can still be removed, but nothing is impossible, some people might get hit by that changes and we can give compensation for those things they will lose or anything to get their lost stuffs back. To wrap this up, we can never grow as server even if we push the content to a new cap if we neglect the lower cap since it is what makes new players join and making it hard for the new players to catch up might make them leave in a week or month of playthrough. no new people that join the game means no increase in population and profit, and will only result in a decline of players playing and profit at the same time.

There's so much work to do, too much pressure and I've seeing players from nostale trying SB, I hate seeing them leave because 3 pvp maps are dead and most of the SB players stick into the end game. I would like to propose something to bring life to the lower maps but thats up for another discussion, I'll gonna make a concise post about it.

@arc1276 Ignore the first part, he just wanna flex hard, and you wont make 4 max gears toon by playing 2 hrs a day, skip to his second paragraph thats the only thing that has sense.

The first sentence was ment for you, the rest is ment for the previous people who responds on the thread.

I know you are frustrated, give it some time theres nothing really you can do about it but accept the fact that nostale vendetta only exist now in the memories of those who played the game. Its okay to vent some of your frustrations here its all cool, try to relax and when your head is clear and might wanna try SB I'll welcome you personally.

I dont see anything wrong about some RG wanting to switch to FK were not trying to solve the whole server problem here, 2 to 5 players tranferring might not do much but it will ease vacancies on the losing side, people like to moan about RG zerg but not wanting them to FC to make an impact asap, but instead they want you to remake toon from scratch, FK complaining about only small numbers participate in NB/AK but they themselves are inactive and spreading negativity causing a domino effect of lazy mentality, FK now are reduced to a bunch of underleveled people ranging from 59 to 64 and a seasonal veteran participate NB and AK, the only time they win and this is not 100% guaranteed is at 3am server time AK where most of the RG are sleeping. Might give this a shot since no one here gives a good reasonable alternative solution.

It's better than doing nothing at all and i commend Vivi for responding it only shows that he/she checks player concerns from time to time. Little effort is better than no effort at all.

It is bound to happen in any mmorpg, nothing last forever my friend and I am deeply saddened for your loss, but like i said you are welcome in SB.

For those players who lost a place called home(virtually 🤣). You are more than welcome to join Scarlet blade community and while youre at it please make a forum request to Vivi to revamp and introduce changes so those of you who are starting over wont get unfair treatment by those people who has max gears and stuffs.

Great

If selective FC is possible, please only permit RG that wants to switch to FK @Daddy