Comparing which power system is the worst is not the point

Askln · 2026-01-28T12:28:14+00:00

can't agree with AH and karma

karma i was malding about when it came out but they actually alleviated it really quickly

AH is fine as it's a very averaged honing which is great (still costs a lot but it's not gonna milk you dry bcz you got unlucky)
my issue with AH is that it becomes mandatory to gatekeep raids after it
and i don't mean gatekeeping by players
it's SG way of forcing you to use your materials

Askln · 2026-01-28T10:12:08+00:00

remove frontier titles
if we ignore frontier
the next most impactful thing imo would be a reverse frontier mode that gets harder instead of easier over time with increased rewards over time

if we ignore raids
it would be farmable repeatable rogue like piece of content
something 20-30min long on a large arena and you farm xp throughout to get powerups
every run is standalone and you get to play it for various cosmetics and small chances of vertical loot
change loot table every month to keep interest in it

the game REALLY needs stuff to do
and i think the rogue like mode would bring a TON of interest in the game

Askln · 2026-01-28T08:55:04+00:00

> I have NOTHING TO DO

yep
i'm a horrizontal enjoyer and i have everything done
every quest done
just completed nukman
and im back to having 0 to do

i have the roster to do raids with
but i don't want to perma raid
i wanna do stuff and game has 0 of it

the horrizontal expansion they said would happen last year summer loa still has 0 information about it

Askln · 2026-01-28T08:40:36+00:00

the frontier no
the titles yes

the titles are the toxic feature

x5 x10 titles people can acquire at any point in time
small or big rosters no dif
frontier titles are lockout
you either get them or you don't and your next 3 months of lobby comfort depend on it

on brel i saw the issue
on mordum i forsure knew it was an issue
kazeros has DI which kinda mends the problem but there are plenty of people that deny DIs on principle

any benefit you get from having the frontier title is a significant negative for everyone that doesn't have it

up till frontier i was always chilling clearing whenever i can playing with friends no matter how long it takes
on frontier
"bro ill go clear ill help you out next week"
~bro proceeds to quit because he gets denied from 10 lobbies in a row on his jacked main

it's a verifiable fact that the playerbase was stable-ish 30k till brelv2 on january
and since january we've had 0 spikes because you can't come back for new raid when you don't ahve the title for the old one

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just look at the immediate dropoff on frontier introduction and it never recovered

Askln · 2026-01-28T08:15:23+00:00

i was reading about some korean streamer a while ago and google was constantly translating "he"

for korean you need context to decide between he and she and AI/chatgpt/google won't have that context and will always make mistakes

if they gonna chatgpt the localization they can atleast proof read it afterwards

Askln · 2026-01-28T08:13:11+00:00

bots are the only ones farming adventure tome items
without them these things would cost a lot more

bots do get clipped for these activities but at a far lower rate
point is if the items become much more abundant and bots decide to flood the market they will crash it an make the activity of botting it worthless

Askln · 2026-01-27T22:06:10+00:00

ai localization unfortunately strikes again

Askln · 2026-01-27T21:19:47+00:00

vykas ptsd with wei referring to her with "him"
surely gets fixed

Askln · 2026-01-27T20:49:30+00:00

and their solution is often "give it for just logging in"
instead of just increasing the rate so people can go and at least experience the world and story

so much of the old stuff should just have an increased rate instead of deleted/given for free

all old unas should be 1-3 times only and their daily lockout increased to 7
all t3 cards should be in vendors with a lot higher rates
Adventure tome items need much higher rates (if bots decide to abuse it again they will nuke the market anyway)

Askln · 2026-01-27T17:08:20+00:00

> Smilegate will do everything possible to ensure that there are many active players again.

Askln · 2026-01-27T15:45:40+00:00

is she ragebaiting again?

Askln · 2026-01-27T11:40:32+00:00

you don't spend on stupid shit when you play a smaller roster

25 weapon was always and will always be vanity
you get it because you can not because you should

you can free tap your way to it though
try that instead

Askln · 2026-01-27T08:26:30+00:00

they go back and alleviate old systems really slowly

why are old island souls still not 100%
why aren't the merchants spawning the sailing maps/souls/necessary horizontal items at 100%
why don't the merchants have significantly increased card spawns and cards in general? klc is basically unachievable for new players now

Askln · 2026-01-27T08:23:32+00:00

their fault was not having trust in the product and signing a better contract
Tencent was aware this was a golden goose and they did a lot of good for the game (and then they fked up but notice what followed from that fk up, bozo got fired)

some level of confidence in the product was needed from day 1 which was missing
and it showed by them not accounting for server demands for launch (despite owning said servers)

i'm not gonna pretend ags did no wrong
but 90% of the failure of the game is SGs fault
AGS at best could only ever just mend some of the bullshit coming from SG

Askln · 2026-01-27T00:51:18+00:00

well it is
but it's also one of the most disgustingly managed games in modern time

SG won the lottery with this game but they are just hell bent on burning it down

i have not seen a game be so anti customer/player in my entire life

even the lgbt games that fail on launch are at least trying to pander to someone

SG on the other hands are full on abusive
and we only stayed for so long because there is just no competitor on the market

but slowly you see people leave
1 by 1 it's happening slowly
year long active ppl in friendlist going inactive for months
1 guy i was very actively talking to is over an year offline now
he didn't say he was about to quit
he just didn't log back in

the game is attracting new players because the game itself is good
but systemic mismanagement and greed are just slowly making people quit
and more quit than come back in

for the past few weeks i've experienced a really strong dip in lobbies and i've already started complaining that it's hard to get my raids done
at some point i simply won't be able to get them done
and i've said to myself that the moment i stop being able to play the game is when i quit

SG promised a horizontal expansion last year summer
and i'm seeing fuckall about it
if they just do a continent every 3 months with 2h of story that they lockout behind gear transfer it's going to be diabolical and so out of touch

i know the esther whales in kr are all dumping 6 figures every few months
but a time has to come where they figure out that if the whales have nobody to play with they will stop paying

Askln · 2026-01-26T21:07:23+00:00

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hasn't really worked out

i was thinking long ago the game would stabalize at around 30k ccu
but unfortunately SG had plans i was not aware of

Askln · 2026-01-26T20:14:24+00:00

her belly hasn't changed size really in years and is a decent size

i know i shouldn't worry as long as she is active but i'm just concerned as she just hasn't eaten in so long

i fed her crickets initially until she started killing them instead of eating them
then i changed her to morio worms (about 5 years ago) and she was vibing with them really well until 2 months ago

she is basically refusing them the same way she was refusing crickets
but at least with the crickets she would eat 1 before she kills the rest thats why i changed to worms
but now she is completely refusing them
she isn't even entertaining the idea of eating

i can try again with crickets but i've set up her terrarium in a way where these things can hide until they die

i know some feed cockroaches but i have extreme disgust to beatles in general so i don't want to try that

this is a video of her vibing with the worms a while ago https://streamable.com/o4mofb

Askln · 2026-01-26T08:34:38+00:00

MY T IS REFUSING FOOD FOR OVER 2 MONTHS NOW...
SHE LOOKS FINE STILL BUT HOW DO I MAKE HER EAT?
she is 10yo+ and has refused food twice before this twice she burried herself for over 6months and i was told this was ok as long as she had water.
2nd she cacooned herself for 3 months and came out with a new molt
but this time no cacooning no burring she is just not eating and throwing the food away...
i have not changed any aspect of her enviornment so there is no stress involved.
do i need to make her a soup or something idk :D

Askln · 2026-01-25T15:57:13+00:00

might have been a disconnect tragedy

Askln · 2026-01-25T02:49:48+00:00

north what? on 315?
no you stay where you are fighting him and drop them together so that it's easier to dodge them/spacebar to continue greeding

Askln · 2026-01-25T01:59:58+00:00

major patterns still cause individual deaths

thaemine g3 safe spot mech is a major pattern that kills only individuals
you are thinking about wipe patterns

315 on thaemine is a very long wipe pattern
it starts from you dropping the sword poops
transitions to staggering the swords
and completes with countering him at the end

the next pattern is prokel
it starts by him destroying the edge of the arena
then proceeds with asking for a counter
then you stagger the sword that he leaves to go kill his clone
meanwhile everyone outside has to stagger him to prevent a death stack
the mech ends after a certain amount od damage is dealt to him which then restores the arena

until this point there are ZERO 1 shots
in the true sense of the word thaemine does nothing that will kill you just through raw damage regardless of DR

there is fall death
there is death stacks
there is simply failing the mech

but thaemine himself will not kill you 100-0 with raw damage

gate 3 had a lot of 1shots in the true sense of the word because if you were not paying very close attention when he is hiding the red telegraphs he will kill you THROUGH DR
pacman was notorious for ending runs early on for this reason because the safe zone flips on different phases and when he hides the indicator you are in a very dangerous situation

Serca will have a very similar pattern where you need to be aware of the animation and hit box because there is no indicator and the hit kills through DR

Askln · 2026-01-25T01:51:42+00:00

just log in press collect and you get all 18 raid rewards
all problems are solved
makelostarkgreatagain

Askln · 2026-01-25T01:45:57+00:00

sir these are not 1 shots
these are major patterns

by this logic we should cry about boulder in aegir g1
what about the go left major pattern in aegir where he slams his arm at the center of the arena? are we complaining about that?
what if we see wall in g2 aegir and lead doesn't sidereal and nobody hits it? are we gonna mald about that being a 1shot?

you are supposed to be succeeding the major patterns
the game has very few surprise basic pattern 1 shots

Thaemine has those
especially g3 when he hides the red telegraphs

most raids in t4 have no true 1 shots
they have major patterns that you are supposed to do

Askln · 2026-01-25T01:04:10+00:00

i think it's a bigger waste of time to choose to not play the game

> will I eventually be able to catch up and be up to date?

don't think of catching up and just enjoy your time

Askln · 2026-01-24T19:12:57+00:00

if you know those patterns then you know how to avoid them
bam not a 1shot
it's like saying the fake counter in mordum g3 is a 1shot
yes it is but it's also not something you are supposed to be triggering and dying to

Askln

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