Gents,
I want to start by saying I love this game and think it will do great once the MMO launches. I understand there will be some time till that happens and have some concerns while we wait. I just want to share some concerns that have been causing issues on several servers and some others that concern me and others.
• Last patch day cycle lag, okay we all knew there was issues with it but we dealt with the lag due to growth periods. However last patch there seemed to be all sorts of little trees not full grown added which is odd considering we had issue with this anyway in the past. That said we are now experiencing crashes at the end on an in game cycle during growth, yes we checked your hardware and connecting everything fine only issue was repeating errors on the server log attributed to items that seemed to be replicating so we reinstalled the server copy wiped, mind you everything was fine till that last patch and still same issue. So okay just restart problem is claims don’t trigger expansion which makes it a pain to grow your claim if you even can.
• Archery –I understand this is not a finished product but please try to be more realistic with arrow drop I thought it was fine in the past 60 str 50 agi and bows had decent distance and were usable for defense and attack. Now really only attack or close combat longbow with regular arrows seems to be the only way to go bodkins and broad heads drop off at half the distance as regular arrows.
• Move Out- Either remove this or put a timer up words of three minutes it makes no sense to watch I guy in full plate running like a gazelle chase down a naked man (yes I am guilty of doing this ) but it is ridiculous.
• Full Plate and Chainmail – Would like to see these require more components for example chainmail was widely used but it required a lot of work to make a full suit or even half a suit linking in the pieces and let me put on full set of iron plate said no knight ever full plate should have to be steel.
• Swamps- it would be cool if there were alligators and crocodiles in them
• Combat Identification – 20 people in combat at once what a mess people end up killing teammates by mistake everyone looks the same it’s a disaster. That said is fun as hell but it would be nice to be able to identify your teammates at a decent distance. I think the most realistic way of fixing this is tabards with guild colors and emblems, I think this is all that really needs to be done about this some want icons that a bigger in green or something else but I think it will take away from the game painted shields and tabards should be enough where you can tell who is who.
I do not mean this to be critical just something I wish could be address that would provide us all with better game play and less server turn over.