WAR Games

1.2.1 was announced by Mark Jacobs on Friday as well as the latest in server closures,er, free character transfers. Ostermark, the home of my Order toons in WAR, is offering the choice of Phoenix Throne, the last remaining RP server, or Volkmar, a core server. For me, this was sort of the perpetual straw that broke the camel’s back.

It does look as though the devs have heard the outcry of the mergers, but only time will tell. The transfers begin Monday and my subscription has another two weeks, though I won’t be playing my remaining time. As it was, I was already being lackadaisical in my WAR efforts. MMOs in general for me are becoming too much of a chore. I like this game, the PvP is second to none, but I can get most of the same feeling from a free RPS. No monthly fee or a lower one probably would have kept me, but as is I’ve decided to move on.

With the server merger/closure/trannsfer/whatever I decided now was a good time to walk away. I do prefer scifi or such in my MMOs anyhow, but even they really don’t have anything to offer me at the moment. So with that, no more MMOs. Well, at least no more for a while. 40,000 is coming out in a couple of years…

Well, the title’s no surprise. In a recent Youtube bit he calls for an end to the drug war. You know, he’s got a point. We spend millions if not billions to prevent what some of our presidents have tried if not still do. What’s the dealio?

No, it’s not game related, or is it?

Mainly because Mythic doesn’t seem to like giving out the numbers, and I don’t think this will stay up that long; I’ve copied a Herald post below:

Greetings! Today, we sat down and chatted with the RvR team about two popular topics we’ve seen pop up in the WAR community. Read on!

Q: We have keeps claimed but our Victory Points from Scenarios, Skirmish, and PvE are still degrading…what gives?!

A: This unfortunately is a common misconception due to various player mods which inaccurately represent the Zone Control system.

Victory points in the Skirmish, Scenario and PvE pools degrade whether a Keep is claimed or not.

Q: We just did 5 runs of a PQ and the PvE pool has barely moved…what’s going on there?

A: Each Zone Control pool has various weights associated with it to determine its importance in the over all Victory Point total. These pools also have a neutral pool to limit the “flip flopping” of dominance in a single area of Zone Control (except for BOs and Keeps which are binary). Currently the weights of each pool are as follows:

* Tier 1: Scenario – 40%, Objectives 40%, Skirmish 10%, PvE 10%
* Tiers 2 and 3: Scenario – 35%, Objectives 35%, Skirmish 10%, PvE 10%, Prior Zone 10%
* Tier 4: Scenario – 25%, Objectives 45%, Skirmish 20%, PvE 5%, Prior Zone 5%

Zone Domination overall from what I’ve played is great, as is 1.2. However, too much emphasis in all tiers is given to scenarios. I think scenarios need to be taken out of the equation all together. Open them up to be playable form whatever server you’re on. In other words, if you’re on the Phoenix Throne server you could do battle against people from the Ostermark server in a scenario; however that scenario would not count towards zone control.

I like this idea as it would help low population servers and casual gamers alike. There would be very little cue time, and we wouldn’t be limited one what scenarios would pop at any given time.