Tusker Island Sucks

[Thorgrim]

I'm so sick and tired of Tusker Island server crashing every second day. ITs really starting to annoy me. Getting stuck in game. yadda yadda yadda. For god sakes, couldnt' microsoft or Turd-bine come up with something a little more "UP TO DATE" ?? This is rediculous.

Thorgrim

[DL]

Yes...I got tired of crashing every weekend and never getting any play time so I've decided to stop playing on AL.....I know AL is not the only part of the world crashing...but it happens there more than anywhere.

I've gone back to the dires....beach combing is fun....plus once the devs reduce the xp that tuskers give...(that's how I understood Orion post)...monkey island won't be so sought after....I always felt tuskers gave way too much xp for how easy they are to kill!

the last 3 weekends I got stuck both on Sat and Sun on AL and had no chance to do much fighting.....my xp pass-up is way down cause of time wasted while stuck in the world....I will avoid that island this weekend and see if I actually get to play without getting stuck...

[Heatmiser]

There's plenty o' good huntin in the dires these days.

Along the beaches just outside Ayan, you can find a plethora of Platinum, Pyreal, Vapor, Plasma, Diamond, and Crystal Golems. Drudge Ascendents and Bloodletters screech and squeal. Banderling Scalpers and Predators grunt and growl. Virindi Executors, Profatrixes, and Consuls fart in your general direction!

Warning: You may have to buff for attack forms other than bludgeon!
Warning: War spells will be used by these creatures!
Warning: You may find yourself alone, as the dires are pretty big. (Actually this isn't that different from AL, where everyone is El Tank AFK anyway. So even in a full fellow, you may find yourself alone.)

LOL

[Thorgrim]

You read it right. I've been stuck in Game for 9hours. This is REALLY gonna hurt my quota. But I too have noticed over the past month or more, than its no use playing on AL on the week ends.

I seriously hope this downtime fixes the problems. But it really sucks for those that can only play on week ends. But the game has always had a rush of people on the week ends.

As for the DEVS reducing the number of exp's tuskers give? WOW. Now I wonder will this hurt our blessed food chain? Less exp's? Now thats just wrong, MUAHAHA> Ah well, free exp's are free exp's!

Whats next, I suppose the devs will go into our inventories next patch and take away all our UBER tinkered weapons and turn us all into Thrown weapon's MASTERS. ??? I wouldn't put it past them

Highly disappointed, as I've been on downtime all last week due to pc/virus problems. Finally get online long enough to play.....and BOOM.

CIAO,
Thorgrim

[DL]

This Q&A from Orion was recently posted on CoD:


MeiHarada asks: Tuskers to be rebalanced?

Orion_Turbine: Sorry for not making an appearance here earlier I was nerfing the out of some tuskers. But seriously. Yes they are being readjusted to be more in line with risk/reward.


Tuskers have minimal risk but give better XP than anything even remotely close to the same creature of same level that cast's spells and takes forever to kill! I'm glad they are finally going to do some rebalancing......heck....I well remember the old days of AC when a mage ran off to fight in BSD at level 20 while melee was left behind still fighting Lugies for barely any XP compared to the Tuskers in BSD.....level 20 melee sucked against tuskers......they evaded my sword for a long long time....so my character was never played in BSD....AL was my 1st experience fighting tuskers in dungeons...I was already well in my lv 100's by that time.

[Thorgrim]

I totally agree with the whole Risk/reward factor for tuskers. TOTALLY. but on AL there is no balance. Absolutely none. For one thing, the dungeons are too small. (Take Tusker Tunnels for instance) as soon as you get 30 people in there, your screwed. (it turns into BSD all over again, and people taking kills, or trying to etc.

Now whats wrong with this do you ask?? I'm not bitching, on the contrary, I'm PLEADING with turbine to think in the future a bit. Solclaim is not a N00B server anymore. The majority of its players are all above level 80. So lets be fair, everyone has a right to play, and not be griefed if they can avoid it.

But then you go into places like "The Gauntlet" and another spot.........can't remember the name, but I'm sure you guys know which one I'm taking about. Well, You almost have to be a level 126+ battle mage to be able to stay there. Or you have very high melee D, and Magic D I suppose. Tusker Traps don't bother me, but its the damn worshipers. Naw, They dont' bother me much either......but like Heatmiser said earlier...........WARNING> you should buff up more than just bludgeoning damage.

Now I've never cared much for spell casting monsters. (EI: Undead, Golems, Lords, Virindi) but of cousre, I'm a TRUE BLOOD Melee Axeman. My buffed magic D...........BUFFED I SAID> is like 90. Not a word of a lie. NINETY!!!! So lets just say I don't do very well in DV. Oh sure. There are High level Lugians out there that give good exp's, but have 10 000 hit points.........Takes me 3 minutes to bring one down, while I can kill an assailer in 5 strikes or so. Hmmmm..................Whats wrong with this picture???

I hear that the fellows on DV get over 15 mill an hour at times. Is that true??? And how good are the fellows? One reason I like Tusker Island, is you can enter into any dungeon and know you'll find someone there. The fellowship might be full, but it might not.

I talked to a friend of mine who's been playing Everquest since the beginning. And I asked him if he's ever been trapped in world........and he said
"Hell YES!"

He told me it happens rather often. Then I told him my Toon had been stuck in world for over 9 hours, and it wasnt' the first time, and he couldn't believe it.

He told me he only gets stuck in world for a few minutes, Sort of like when our connection to server happens. (NEVER STUCK IN WORLD FOR AN HOUR OR MORE!!!)

And then.......if that wasn't enough, He told me that the population on the world he plays alone......is well over 8000 at any given time. (compared to our 12'000 Divided over 8-9 total worlds) so rougly at any given time (Busiest on week ends of course) we might have 1000 people TOPS playing on solclaim.

OHHHHHH COMMON!! I know not one of us in this clan or any other clan can do anything about it. But For the love of GOD! This is Rediculous. What the hell is Microsoft/Turbine trying to pull here? Hey I know its only 10 $ a month. YAY! But I'd be willing to pay 30 $ or more to have a damn stable environment where everyone can play the way they want to play. Macroers can macro, Trekman can play when he wants to also (Inside joke ).........and BLAH BLAH BLAH. You get the picture??

Wonder if we al got together. All 10 000 of the people that play AC in general got together, and spammed the Help@asheronscall.com email addy if they'd finally do something about it besides a useless patch everymonth to introduce different colored underwhere??? (old patch) most might not remember that. but hey?

Ok enough BS. Gonna go see if I can get to buff Thorgrim's Loyalty and leadership skills enough to continue doing my fair share of the food chains quota.

LONG LIVE THE FOOD CHAIN! (free exp's are free exp's....remember that)

Thorgrim

[Valamyr]

i'm stuck on AL since today...... No admins answer..... I only play on we because of my work load, nad now i even can't log in.....

[Kythden]

oh and I have sent email to the help adress, NO answer, not even a "we got your eamail"

[Compadre]

that's why i hunt solely death valley.