Please note that the Question is not Directly about the Issue I.ll link now. But about an abuse of the Mechanic to a different end.
I am sure your aware of the issue with Floating Items being usable as an Ladder to Scale the Walls of Cities and Castles.
Relevant Topics here. (no need to read the whole thing just serves to bring us on to the same Page)
why-i-stopped-playing-life-is-feudal-your-own-t23289/unfair-and-should-be-addressed-t23347/This Floating Item Mechanic was apparently stated by the Devs as being intended. Because it should replace the Siege Ladders until Siege Ladders come around.
And some Players in this Forum.
No Actively Claim that thus the Devs Intend for Floating Items to be used to Scale Walls and that this Mechanic thus should not be Contested in Suggestions and or Complains.
Now I have been Playing alot of different Games over the last 20 Years.
Including alot of Hardcore PvP Games and Sandbox Games like this one. (Albeit with much worse Graphics)
And not a few of them prided themselves in being an attempt to bring Ultima Online into an 3D MMORPG.
And I have also been part of the Server Wars in these Games.
Guilds going after each other. Going after each others Castles and Buildings.
And when I heard that this Game wants to Protect Players Claims during the Offhours by only allowing Attacks on them during certain Time Windows. To allow the Guilds to Defend their Stuff.
I was really Happy because many Games already Fail at this Stage.
However here is one thing where the Option to Scale Enemy Walls with Simple Items is very easy to Abuse.
Because with the current Systems in Place.
If I was a Guild Leader. I would Employ the very same Tactics that I have been part of so often in bigger Guild Wars and smaller Guild Wars.
I would have a few of my Active People Log in at 4 O Clock in the Morning.
Have them Scale the Walls of the Enemy Guild while Nobody is Online.
And would then run the nice Music Bot in Teamspeak while effectively Camping with ever more of my own Guild Members inside their Walls. Greeting anyone of them who Logs in with a Nice Shower of Arrows Fired down on him from their very own walls. And an well Equipped Ganking Group to Kill anyone who dares logging in and Leaving his House.
While I cant destroy their Stuff just yet.
This way I can pretty much Block their Guild from the Game entirely. I can block them from their Respawn Points while also making sure they have very Limited Equipment because they get only whats inside their Spawnpoints.
I certainly managed to kill several of them when they logged in as certainly not all were logged out inside their house so they would already have several unequipped people.
And also would enjoy the Advantage of using the Walls to Fire down on them. As well as having an organized Group while they would need to log in all together and organize without being there beforehand.
Meaning that I would enjoy a Huge Advantage in any Fight happening now.
If they Respawn Central City they would be without Equipment entirely and thus no Danger.
And if they Spawn inside their houses even if they got Spare Equipment ready there. They would be surrounded and unable to form up meaning they would face us from vastly inferior position.
So they would be Pinned.
Once the Battle hours Start we would be able to start destroying their Personal Claims and Outskirts. Meaning we would damage them down even Further.
But more Importandly we would effectively keep em out of the Game for the entire time we are there.
Which is Incredible Frustrating for any of their Members cause they cant Play the Game.
I am sure you Realize that there is a massive Potential for any Mechanics of Scaling Walls outside the Battle Hours.
To be used for circumventing the entire idea of Battle Time Windows. As it would effectively allow to Crush an Guild by Attacking them when nobody is Online and then await them inside their own Castle.
So the Question is.
Is this Intended to be Possible.
Is it Intended that you can Attack an Castle in Offhours when nobody is Online. Get over the Walls when nobody is Online.
And then Block an Enemy Guild from Playing the Game entirely by Camping inside their Base.
I would like some Clarification on this.
If it is Intended I would of course ask you to Reconsider this.
Because I can Guarantee you. Many of the Guilds which would suffer from such an Attack would be very Frustrated and likely many of these Players would leave the Game right away because they would not feel like they lost an actual Battle but like they got Cheated.
If this is NOT Intended. I would ask you what your planning to do to prevent this.
For example like.
:The Floating Items are going to be removed when Siege Ladders come in. And Siege Ladders can only be used in an Actual Siege Battle or only during Battle Hours.
Greetz and Thanks in Advance.
Pls dont kill this Game by making it an Empty and Dead PvP Arena. The niche of players is so incredible small that it hardly supports one such game. And we already got 10 or so on the Market....