Arrakis wrote:I think some players completely forgot or are just unaware that there are now guilds that have JH literally every single day for 1 - 3hrs or more (in case of high ranking guilds) during weekends. This is the time when you are free to raid them in any way you see fit, be it by destroying their walls or using movable objects to get onto them.
So, if you want to wage wars and raid settlements, you can still do that even every day during JH if you have time and resources for that.
What you can't do, though, is harass people - especially small guilds and settlements - 24/7 outside of JH for the sake of harassment. This is NOT what this game was supposed to be about. Life is Feudal, that's true, but this doesn't mean that you should be free to raid people all the time. This is not a battle royale game. Life is Feudal is much bigger than that. This game has two sides and even game logo represents that - sword and a sickle. This two-sided nature of our game involves times of war and bloodshed, and times of peace where people work on the fields, craft and prepare for combat, and where leaders are forging new alliances and start new wars.
Once again I will remind you all, that there are guilds with JH happening every single day of the week, where you can still do the same thing you've been doing - raiding, 'climbing' walls, killing enemies. Yet, despite that obvious fact, there are loud voices that almost indicate as if we completely removed PvP from the game and made it impossible to raid those settlements. Despite the fact that players can still go on on every day rampage as they did, there are unreasonable voices yelling "You are killing your game", "The game is dead now" etc.
Do you really want to go 7d medieval on that new, small settlement that has appeared not far from you? Well, wait for them to grow enough so you can bash them every day.
Do you want to break the spirit of this high ranking guild that you are at war with? Go ahead and enjoy wreaking havoc there every day of the week.
You can still do the same thing you could before, the PvP is still here, it didn't go anywhere. Just because you can't harass smaller guilds outside of JH time doesn't mean PvP is gone and the game is dying. It just means you have to pick a bigger target and then you can have pretty much enough PvP.
There is time for slaughter and there's time for growth and preparations.
We kindly ask you to acknowledge that fact.
Barkboxing off-hours (not during JH) was never about griefing. It's about strategic and tactical advantage and enforcing your territorial control. If you camp them then they can't produce anything and they can't exploit your local resources.
It's a big game world. If they don't like getting attacked 24/7 then guess what? They can move far enough away as to not be worth attacking.
What the hell do you think happened when a small independent nation tried to set up base next to a large, military nation? Let distance be the main factor in determining whether someone will attack or not. That will force the little guys to band together or move far away.
Nobody is even complaining about getting camped 24/7 in ATLAS. They are complaining about getting offline raided. You devs need to realize you guys are a PVP game. That's what made you popular and that's the majority of people that purchased your game.
Fallout 76 tried to make a watered down PVP game and look what happened to them. You know what Fallout is trying to do now after all their analysis post-release? Make PVP servers.
Atlas has 24/7 base destruction and pvp and their playerbase is several times yours. The only thing people complain about is the offline raiding not the 24/7 pvp.
Last I checked, old-school bark boxing did now allow ANY asset destruction.
Imagine if people were complaining about OFFLINE raiders in this game. This game is so PVE now that people are simply asking for 24/7 non-asset destruction PVP as an OPTION. LOL!!! It's funny to see the PVE-devs still hard at work... Such wasted effort. Maybe some day in the far future you guys will decide to go more PVP and then you might get players again.
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