Guild On the Dark Side

This poll is about understanding what has contributed most to or is largely responsible for the increasingly below average number of people online? You can leave your own opinion here or on the FC forum topic below, either way, you are invited and welcome to take part in this poll.   


With our ever dwindling population now reaching crisis point...it's only natural that doom-mongering has once again raised it's ugly head....

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Share your views, hopes and fears amongst us here as we try to analyse the reasons behind the recent catastrophic decline in the number of players online despite the initial excitement brought about by updates...have these updates had a detrimental effect on our population rather than the positive effect that they were clearly expected to create? i.e. lot's more people online and prepared to buy ecr. In the short but illustrious history of New Capital City, we have learnt one thing...whatever might work in r.u. won't neccessarily work here and that has always only been because of the total number of players online at one time. It affects everything, take exp for instance, reduced exp for repeat fights with the same opponent, hardly a problem in r.u. but it strangled our tiny population where there is now always less than 100 online...Then we got to the stage where original New Capital level[7] sets turned into junk overnight and level[8] sets went obsolete, in fact every previously available genuine New Capital item worth having was now only available for ecr... all existing N.C. sets and items became unrepairable although partial compensation was made for this with full refunds from the state owned shop...at the same time the state shop was stocked with a very wide range of r.u. items and sets which had previously not been available here...items that people had regarded as being rare could now be purchased from the state shop. Not the end of the world then for higher level players who could sell their obsolete sets for full price and replace them with new r.u. items, however, it was a bitter blow for level 7 players whose special N.C. sets were hard earned by teeth, their sets were unrepairable and worthless. Many of them decided that the only option open to them was to register a new character and start again. Then they put an elixir shop on CS and a rather nice shop on SS called the Kalinka.... and then that meteorite hurtling towards us suddenly got a bit closer....the sequence of events since then has led to a situation where the high level players are paying a heavy price maintaining elixir addictions, defence potions and pets neccessary to combat their opponents, even the small group of ecr fighters are beginning to feel the financial pinch, it now costs the average player money just to stand a chance in a fight... even the average state owned critical hit fighter is lethal but their work is much harder... powerful mages with higher level sets put the fight beyond the critters control and hence reduce their exp, there are also real ecr tanks to deal with and life for a level 8+ fighter in our city has become much harder, exp is not so easily won and so therefore +abilities/ups and by this credits are not so easy to come by either... the financial burden is taking it's toll, combine this with the arrival of autumn and the close of the 200% exp summer period and you have the gloomy picture that now presents itself before you...people talk of caves and a new TOD but will these things really make any difference to a ghost town? and what real affects will they produce? updates just seem to be making us smaller instead of bigger or are MCDOOM and Pennzoil right? Is it really just so simple as sticking a few advertisments on the back of the "official playstation magazine"? or is that impending meteorite currently on a collision course with N.C. just plain and simply inevitable?

Last edited by Mac Crash (2009-09-22 04:09:56)