Hey all,
With our major content patch in the works, we thought it would be interesting to get your opinions on what kind of content you would like to see more of in the future.
Everyone has an aspect of the game they enjoy the most, but what's yours?
/Chronicles Team
Great poll tbh, with 66 (atm) responses (more than even the population of most existing mir servers), I'd use these stats.
I don't like to criticise mir server (good or bad) hosters/teams, out of respect mostly, for the time, effort, talent and alot of times money they put into them.
This server boasts several hundred players - I must admit I was shocked in the first days when I saw the player count. The appetite for the game is very much still there in 2014, but the community is very diverse as this poll alone suggests. But you also get the feeling over the years and keeping in touch with lomcn.
First off, this server, being the best available model, thanks to all that people have done to it and acem2, is already at a high standard. Possibly at the moment, graphically impressive relatively in mir terms. It's just enough to attract new players as well as old.
It's hard to make suggestions, as it's tough to appreciate the circumstances of the hosters, so forgive me if this isn't possible - but:
I always feel that having one server option when you launch the game, today, is a bad thing. All of the above players are mixed in together, and as a non-paid staff with finite time - how the heck are you supposed to please all of them ? You can't..
In an ideal world, it would be good to launch Mir2 and instead of just the Chronicles button to jump to the server, you should have 4 different servers. (yes I know, I pre-empted this by saying I appreciate that this may not be possible for alot of reasons) - maybe separate parts of a bigger team can host each as an option ?? (I don't know)
1: Chronicles - Normal, normal rate (take a number of weeks to get to 22 etc), nothing in the shops to start, mobs are as close to whatever official is these days. No perks, no benefits. Quests, blah blah. Drops equating to the types of mob you're hunting, taking into consideration of what level of player would hunt them (I've done this myself using an app to generate drop files) - so ZT doesn't drop SkeletonRings and tat, but will drop lvl appropriate stuff. No Maces from ET, etc. If you're lvl33 hunting in a "lvl22 area" and get tat for you - that's your problem, but if you're lvl33 hunting in a "lvl40 place" - you get lvl40 stuff, skill book, items, etc.
2: Chronicles - Beta. (I hate to say this) similar to what the server is now. 40 within a month, items to a certain level in the shops, test quests, test drops, items etc. You want to see new stuff, new areas, quickly, you come here.
3: Chronicles - PVP. There's a high pvp following to Mir, so exploit it. PVP only maps. When you log in, you're lvl 1, from which you use an npc or whatever, to get to the pvp maps, with predefined levels that your character becomes when you get there. Fully skilled, fully kitted. It's a drop-in and pure pvp server. Mobs for interference. Events etc. Even some dropped in new stuff from Beta for tests. Defined times of the week for competitions.
4: Chronicles - Wuss, I mean PVE. No pvp at-all, cept on war occasions. Not quite sure how to do this, but a wuss version of the Normal server.
Each of these co-exist to the extent that taking part in each of them can lead to bonuses in the others, perhaps using gamepoints or similar, nothing over the top or exploitable, but something like the winner of a pvp event gets accredited and can use something in one of the other 3 servers, mainly the normal or wuss ones obviously. Web based or summit.
(yes I got too much time on my hands today)
The community is still massive and passionate about the game. I'd guess at least half know about getting a server running to an extent, half of those will know how to do it well but not have time to do much else, and there's dozens of people who can compile it from source and change stuff at will. Each of the above servers have pros and cons of interest. I know for a fact there are masses of people who'd want input in a pvp dedicated server - I'd exploit this.
Be nice if this could happen and be managed, and it's not a p1ss take, I appreciate what you're doing and I'm not being patronising.
