I play on Phoenix and when the Seed of Destruction first opened it reamined open for more than a week.
In the last update, or maybe even before then, the Seed of Destruction was changed to work as was first intended with an actual defense required to continue farming compression stones every 12 hours.
My question is, Why on earth did NC change the seed?
First of all, usually the GMs will just say "broken as intended" and leave things be, which is what I wish they would have done with the SoD.
The way that the seed was working before was actually a million times better than the new way. Even if your server kills tiat 10 times a week it is extremely unlikely that the seed will remain open for people to farm stones efficientlly because it will only be open for 12 hours now. If clans decide to defend against tiat they would have to do so every 12 hours and there aren't even enough people on most servers to do that especially at the extreme times that tiat will likely attack.
Also, the change gives rich people, for example, Nova on Phoenix, a ridiculous advantage because they were able to 300 element their weapons when farming crystals was actually somewhat reasonable.
Crystal prices before were around 30 million and now they are up to 75+. This gives ordinary players virtually no chance of ever seeing 300 element, let alone having a chance in PvP versus the people that were lucky enough to get 300 the first time.
So my request is this: Fix the Seed. Give people a chance to actually 300 element their weapons like this update was supposed to do. Remove the insane advantage this new SoD update (or fix) gives the rich players.
I'm quite sure there is nothing NC NA will be able to do about it, but on these servers the system that was in place before where it was open for 2-3 weeks at a time was one thousand times better for servers with a lower population.
Just to clarify, I farmed the Seed when it first opened for the full 2-3 weeks and got my weapon from 150-170 (18 crystals). I did make tons of money and I am still making money when it opens for 12 hours. My complaint is that NC is widening the gap between the rich and poor, and royally screwing people who did not get 300 element the first time it was open.
Gracia is a joke anyway. And in case you haven't noticed, widening the gap between rich and poor is what NCSoft has always intended to do.
The only problem with that system now is that everyone and their grandmother is ebaying adena.
Having good gear and such used to be the privilege of the people dedicated to hard work in game. Nowadays it's the privilege of whoever's daddy has the highest limit on his creditcard.
Which suits me fine btw, it leaves the moneymaking quests/spots free for me to get some adena in a legit way. (sure, I will never have top gear, and definitely never have 300 element on my weapon, but I'm fine with it, because I'm kicking the of any bot in top gear/weapon/element)
Stop crying, NC will not do anything about it.....
If you pay attention and are a fast clicker you can beat them easy. I just want the seed to be open for longer than 12 hours like it was, before they completely broke it.
I play on Phoenix and when the Seed of Destruction first opened it reamined open for more than a week.
In the last update, or maybe even before then, the Seed of Destruction was changed to work as was first intended with an actual defense required to continue farming compression stones every 12 hours.
My question is, Why on earth did NC change the seed?
First of all, usually the GMs will just say "broken as intended" and leave things be, which is what I wish they would have done with the SoD.
The way that the seed was working before was actually a million times better than the new way. Even if your server kills tiat 10 times a week it is extremely unlikely that the seed will remain open for people to farm stones efficientlly because it will only be open for 12 hours now. If clans decide to defend against tiat they would have to do so every 12 hours and there aren't even enough people on most servers to do that especially at the extreme times that tiat will likely attack.
Also, the change gives rich people, for example, Nova on Phoenix, a ridiculous advantage because they were able to 300 element their weapons when farming crystals was actually somewhat reasonable.
Crystal prices before were around 30 million and now they are up to 75+. This gives ordinary players virtually no chance of ever seeing 300 element, let alone having a chance in PvP versus the people that were lucky enough to get 300 the first time.
So my request is this: Fix the Seed. Give people a chance to actually 300 element their weapons like this update was supposed to do. Remove the insane advantage this new SoD update (or fix) gives the rich players.
I'm quite sure there is nothing NC NA will be able to do about it, but on these servers the system that was in place before where it was open for 2-3 weeks at a time was one thousand times better for servers with a lower population.
Just to clarify, I farmed the Seed when it first opened for the full 2-3 weeks and got my weapon from 150-170 (18 crystals). I did make tons of money and I am still making money when it opens for 12 hours. My complaint is that NC is widening the gap between the rich and poor, and royally screwing people who did not get 300 element the first time it was open.
Seed needs to be changed where the only people who can even farm crystals are those who participate in a successful Tiat Raid, or everytime you kill Tiat, those in your command channel have 12 hours to enter the seed and farm Crystals. Until then, It's pretty stupid.
This is an article posted by Megatron in another thread. Within that article it states
"Game companies typically forbid gold farming but committed virtual currency traders find ways around such rules. Some game companies have recognized the futility of trying to ban the practice and have built virtual commerce into their game infrastructure."
Could that be a reason...i doubt it...but knowing the history of L2 since c1 it does make me wonder.
Seed needs to be changed where the only people who can even farm crystals are those who participate in a successful Tiat Raid, or every time you kill Tiat, those in your command channel have 12 hours to enter the seed and farm Crystals. Until then, It's pretty stupid.
This isn't bad idea, but 12 hours is hardly enough to farm very many stones. imo, they should increase the pop rates.
The every-12-hours thing that Tiat spawns really sucks too. There is hardly a time that can duplicate itself 12 hours later that would allow for enough parties in there to kill Tiat.... either at one end of the 12-hour mark or the other. I mean, who has 24-hour activity?
I dunno. Maybe that allows for other clans to perhaps be able to do it and not just one clan to dominate it... but that is not likely on Bartz. So once the Seed opens for farming, it pretty much will go back to attack right away, which doesn't open it up for farming... that is, if I understand this all correctly.