by Gorka » Mon Dec 12, 2016 11:15 pm
I see more comments about the coliseum appearing in other threads, and sense something is still festering away underneath... so lets have it out here...
There is a little bit of wrong thinking, jealousy and even hypocrisy in some of the comments about the coliseum. So let’s put some things straight...
I am Gorka, I am a 8hr hour working day, present coliseum bot… As all players do, we exploit something in the game that works for us… I’m a bit miffed this makes some people jealous and that people might also associate me with afk botting. I am capable of doing exactly what I am doing in an area… not just the coliseum… If people think I am getting rich from the coliseum then they are also wrong, I currently have 20m in my bank and rarely does it get over. People are saying all sorts of things about the coliseum at the moment so I will run through them…
It’s unbalanced in the context of the rest of the game…
Totally true. Warriors can spend 800 or more drachma on a single point of ac, well now days with the coliseum it’s possible to run almost perm at -2.0ac for almost no real cost. Blue pots prolong runs, scrolls have almost ended group regens. It must be noted though that the coliseum has not made players “more powerful†it’s simply made them “more faster.†Everything that is now killable with the coliseum potions, is still killable without them… it just takes longer…
The coliseum has added to the grouping experience…
Totally true. The speed at which groups function has been greatly increased… thank goodness… All this from a game where changing continents could take 10 minutes of real life… and regening after a 3 min run takes 7 mins… for levels that could take 48hrs of full time xping for almost no benefit… and an epic system that used to take a group nearly an hour to kill one mob, which gave only points towards +5hp and mana… the game needed speeding up.
Oversupply…
As the biggest seller of potions/tokens to shops rarely do I go a day without being able to sell everything I popped during the working day. Some days I get over supplied but it balances out over time. I find ways to pass on everything without too many problems. My conclusion is, you guys are buying the crap… and nearly all of it, plain and simple. You are nearly all totally complicit. I sense some of the whining is simply jealously. Yes, some of the stuff is slower in moving. I took the token price down to 80k which is now frequently undercut… the system kind of self-regulated and now tokens are fairly worthless. I’ve helped about 5 players get 84+ with cheap tokens. An 84 can still cost as many as 1000 tokens. Tokens WERE a good source of gold on a reset for sure, and yes… people are buying them still fairly strongly in shops, but now they are mostly worthless to me – in fact I made a newb to waste them on for fun. I also recently made comments to JB which led to the supply shops not being able to buy tokens… and I point out, that was not in my own interest to do that but I did it anyway. The biggest problem is now there are several coli-bots, that are apparently doing something similar… if the imms actually weeded out the afk ones, supply should be lower than the level of demand. 10 hours of running coliseum and selling potions is the equivalent of two runs of island gold. People need some perspective…
Limiting the coliseum…
I run coliseum full time 8hrs a day during my working week, as I am all day present on my computer working. For the record my xp per hour rate is less than 150m an hour (thanks to teker’s counters). As a 7x40, is any one xp’ing slower? I do note that some players are in there 24hrs for several days… and when the mud unexpectedly crashes they stand at recall for hours on end in a post-crash paralysis… this is not a reason to limit the coliseum for all players… but a reason to actually deal with the problem and lock out the people caught afking for long periods.
What Should be done?
Let’s not be so reactionary, let’s make slow and incremental improvements. I feel issues of oversupply would be addressed if the afk botters were simply taken out of the equation. Yes goblets need toning down, token pop rate could be halved. As for blues and scrolls… they are speeding up the game and groups for players… I’d change other things I just mentioned first before I’d make any more adjustments to them. As for limiting the run time of the coliseum? What does this achieve? I am perfectly capable and present to be able to do a similar thing in any area in game… not just the coliseum.
Treat the problems… not the symptoms.
Gimme a G! Gimme a ORKA!