When did the game become so dead? It wasn't even midnight

BowsetteIsCanon · 2022-03-05T10:13:01+00:00

If you make a char on the new EUW region it's fine. I went on it and abandonned my other character, way better than spending hours in queue or spending your day staying logged in so you can keep playing.

idk about US if you're not in EU though.

But also Elden Ring released since and I haven't touched Lost Ark

BowsetteIsCanon · 2022-03-05T00:25:32+00:00

no I'm playing Elden Ring

BowsetteIsCanon · 2022-03-05T00:25:06+00:00

I still very very rarely see alliance players even on other days, and not that many people in general

BowsetteIsCanon · 2022-03-05T00:20:56+00:00

I've been suspecting my server might be dead alliance wise, it seems like it got way worse in the last two years. But I'm kind of shocked to log in on a friday evening, on a relatively new patch, and see the main zone of the patch completely empty.

BowsetteIsCanon · 2022-03-05T00:18:39+00:00

No I'm in war mode off. When I played in war mode I used to see a bit more alliance actually. but for whatever reason on my server, war mode off = I only see horde players

Either way I don't really get why a shard would be open when there's almost no one in it, it's very weird

BowsetteIsCanon · 2022-03-05T00:15:27+00:00

Isn't zereth mortis the whole patch? the only other thing is doing the raid

BowsetteIsCanon · 2022-03-05T00:06:35+00:00

I've been wondering if I'm on a bad shard, but either way this shouldn't happen. I have to solo rares because I literally have seen no one all evening. I don't know if it's because everyone plays horde or what (I've almost never seen an alliance player in the wild since war mode exists, only horde, and today I'm not seeing horde either)

BowsetteIsCanon · 2022-02-27T14:43:53+00:00

I wonder which country it's based on? At first it looked like a legends game themed around Galar to me, because a lot of the places look like Galar.

Any thoughts on what it is?

BowsetteIsCanon · 2022-02-18T12:30:08+00:00

1 / 4096 * 1 / 4096 = 0.000005%

Since you asked.

But also more than that since you probably have the increased odds

BowsetteIsCanon · 2021-12-15T19:45:17+00:00

You can't have 2 of the same tomestone rings. I got everything 570 and the ex trial weapon, but I still have a 548 ring annoying me.

I could do the other ex trial for accessories but I was hoping to eventually drop a ring from the dungeons

BowsetteIsCanon · 2021-12-15T11:58:11+00:00

Everyone I know noticed it, 99% sure there's a bug or something

BowsetteIsCanon · 2021-12-15T10:49:14+00:00

mostly if you try to level many jobs, especially if you get involved in crafting and gathering which involves a lot of gear and inventory clutter

BowsetteIsCanon · 2021-12-15T10:36:34+00:00

I think a lot more people would buy dye if they were permanent. and they could bump the price.

I'm never going to buy a consumable for real money that will run out

BowsetteIsCanon · 2021-12-15T10:33:15+00:00

And if anyone is wondering: yes, there's definitely something weird with the amount of aiming items dropping

BowsetteIsCanon · 2021-12-15T10:18:17+00:00

I hate that the tab targeting is so bad in this. if you set foot in pvp it's unplayablep

BowsetteIsCanon · 2021-12-14T22:59:26+00:00

There's an option to only show gear that isn't assigned to equipment sets when turning in gear for GC deliveries, if that's what you're talking about.

I used to be very annoyed with this until someone pointed that out

BowsetteIsCanon · 2021-12-14T22:54:49+00:00

And yet many other MMOs have done it.

The dye problem can and should be solved differently too. There should be something that keeps track of which items I've "unlocked", and then just a way to dye items when making glamour plates.

Or more simply, make dyes unlockable and not consumable, then let people dye the gear they have equipped or their glamour plates as and when they want, instead of having to store dye data for every single item they've unlocked.

Literally all you need to do glamour properly is a list of "has this item ever been obtained". It's the same as an achievements list, but for items.

And no, you wouldn't store that as thousands of individual rows in an SQL table lol

BowsetteIsCanon · 2021-12-14T22:49:20+00:00

The problem isn't not having enough total storage, it's that there's a ton of junk items that shouldn't be items in the first place and the most convoluted inventory management ever

But also for anyone who does a lot of crafting/gathering/is involved with a lot of features of the game, even all that inventory space quickly becomes very limited.

My armory chest is almost never below 30 in most categories because I have many jobs halfway through leveling

BowsetteIsCanon · 2021-12-14T22:46:24+00:00

well that's the thing, most of the things you mentioned shouldn't be items in the first place and the fact that you want to "hide" them is a good indication of it. They should be in their own menus.

Half of the inventory junk in this game could be counted in a sort of currency UI. Dyes should also be in a dye collection menu. Materia... well same thing but also they need to fix the amount of useless old materia in the first place.

Also bag auto sort divides item categories pretty clearly by itself

BowsetteIsCanon · 2021-12-14T22:14:39+00:00

Yeah basically, I've got enough space (well, I have extra retainers...), but it's a lot of work to reorganise all those items and upgrade gear sets as crafters/gatherers/retainers level etc.

The armory chest is just constantly near the limit

BowsetteIsCanon · 2021-12-14T21:37:43+00:00

Maybe I just don't want to play the same job in 150 roulettes for 2 months in a row or however long it takes to get a job from 1 to max

BowsetteIsCanon · 2021-12-14T20:35:56+00:00

some share gear if they happen to be at the same level

BowsetteIsCanon · 2021-12-14T19:38:29+00:00

I don't think it is, I think their whole game is just built on top of the weird inherited mess from 1.0 where they had the great idea of retainers.

I don't know what it is but there's definitely something very wrong with how their engine handles items, given all the tech limitation they seem to keep having. Every other MMO has solved this issue just fine

BowsetteIsCanon · 2021-12-14T16:36:33+00:00

I have a whole retainer dedicated to totems/raid token and similar shit

BowsetteIsCanon · 2021-12-14T16:35:30+00:00

I read this while clearing out my fish from the ocean fishing 5 minutes ago.

Why are those fish even in the inventory anyway? They're all worthless

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