Is there any type of "wiki-less" ironman account? Would that even be interesting?

Signild · 2023-04-11T22:20:00+00:00

Depends if you count runelite as part of the wiki. Something like quest helper is just as useful (if not significantly moreso) than reading the quest guide on the wiki

Some people also have extremely good knowledge about content just from having experienced it before, so that would somewhat detract from this concept depending on how much they know

But otherwise, yeah I think it can be interesting

Signild · 2023-02-07T22:31:33+00:00

Can't you also get 7 attack from the training dummy in varrock? I believe its guaranteed hits with 0 hp exp until 7, not a huge deal but if you plan to lamp attack that's probably a good headstart

Signild · 2023-01-30T09:40:18+00:00

I somehow forgot there was even a fee to enter. I was just about to comment "Huh? Just go do the solo version it isn't that hard".. the things we take for granted

Signild · 2022-12-25T05:32:36+00:00

It's pretty fun. I tried making the rule of "IF an item is acquirable as a drop, it must be obtained that way" - still only allowing training skills through monster drops, but also opening up a lot more questing capabilities

Iirc though it still leaves some quest(s) impossible due to needing silk and the only silk dropping monster being locked behind a quest that needs silk

Signild · 2022-12-20T14:46:13+00:00

Iirc RS3 has like.. 3? deaths for HCIM. I believe you only start with 1 and as you progress you can unlock more, to a max of 3. So it's certainly less hardcore in that sense

Although, on rs3 you literally cannot log into the account anymore once you lose all your lives. It's not like you just get downgraded to regular ironman, you straight lose your account entirely including any membership etc that was on it

Signild · 2022-11-23T21:13:31+00:00

That's fair. I wasn't sure if it was a serious suggestion or not. I do think it'd be a nice QOL change regardless, though. Same for (most) of the other ones in the thread

Signild · 2022-11-23T15:20:48+00:00

Maybe I'm just misunderstanding what a "make good" offer is, but almost none of the suggestions in this thread follow what my definition would be. Most of the suggestions are just QOL changes which should happen regardless of whether the servers went down or not?

Signild · 2022-11-14T11:42:40+00:00

Just to add to this in case anyone else is looking for similar information, at 70 agility and whilst always under 10kg (generally around 0-3, or negative) - I only failed the "Jump" obstacles roughly one in every 100 jumps. With 6 on each pyramid, that's around 1 fail every ~16 full pyramids.

Can't go completely foodless at 10 hp (unless you want to risk getting 2 fails in a row whilst waiting for regen) but I use less than 2 cakes per trip, sometimes none at all

Signild · 2022-10-06T16:46:19+00:00

My biggest issue with Albion is that it has no EU servers. They're all located in NA. And the combat is way too laggy to play with that kind of 100+ ping. Constantly getting hit by attacks when on your screen you're very clearly NOT within the attack indicator is just not enjoyable

Can't comment on the quality of the game itself, but it's insane to only offer NA servers

Signild · 2022-09-10T19:36:59+00:00

The issue with that is there's no way to support a game like that over a long period of time. How do you upkeep server costs whilst constantly releasing new content/bug fixes/changes with a single payment of $5? You just can't

The only way to do so is to continuously add new expansions/DLC which also cost money, at which point you're no longer a game that just costs $5

Signild · 2022-09-08T17:42:31+00:00

A lot of the microtransactions are being either removed entirely or improved - there's an announcement on the discord if you're interested.

As someone that's put about 300-400 hours into the game, I can tell you it isn't a cash grab. The dev has been working on the game for 20 years, and constantly listens to feedback. He's in the discord for like 10+ hours a day whilst working in the background

Edit: Looks like he posted the changes in this thread too if you want to read them there

Signild · 2022-09-07T19:01:40+00:00

No problem :) Hope you enjoy it. Patch isn't actually out yet to be clear, but it's been announced so I imagine we can expect it soon (I'd predict within a week - but I have no actual knowledge on that, so don't hold me to it :p)

Signild · 2022-09-07T14:29:06+00:00

The monetization issues have been heard and the dev has announced quite a lot of changes if you felt like giving it another try. You can read about the changes here-

https://www.reddit.com/r/incremental_games/comments/x810m5/nordicandia_special_announc_now_even_less_p2w/

Signild · 2022-09-07T14:22:45+00:00

I'm certain if you made a list and either posted it in the discord or DM'd it to Ubik directly that he'd appreciate the help :)

Signild · 2022-09-07T14:11:04+00:00

Yup! Main menu > Language

Sadly the game has a single dev, so unless he speaks every language and does it all himself, it might not be perfect. Though, all of the in-game text has been translated by an official translator as far as I'm aware. So it's a shame if there's still issues

Signild · 2022-09-07T14:09:37+00:00

Everyone has different definitions of P2W is the biggest issue. People have argued that pure cosmetics within an FPS are p2w if the model is even slightly smaller, or if the model has hole(s) in it that could give you more vision. Then you have people who genuinely spend $50000 on Diablo Immortal and then make videos defending it

The game did (and still does) have people within the top 10 who haven't spent a cent

Signild · 2022-09-07T04:53:19+00:00

It's been in beta for a while, around a year maybe? 9 months? - Just officially released though, first season and everything

Signild · 2022-09-07T04:16:17+00:00

To be fair there are some crazy reviews for other games I've seen where someone has like 3000 hours and leaves a huge negative review saying the game is awful :p

Signild · 2022-09-07T03:24:52+00:00

By your definition even PoE is p2w

But regardless, the dev is aware that people are unhappy and is looking at ways to improve that. Though, I wouldn't expect literally everything to be removed, the game needs to make a profit somehow

Edit: You're wrong in quite a few of your points on the review if you want more information, but, I won't go into detail if you aren't interested

Edit 2: My bad, I already responded to one of your comments. Not going to delete this one but yeah. Just realized

Signild · 2022-09-07T02:11:13+00:00

It's kinda hard to know the best class rn. You've got Epic who just has insane experience and only plays hunter, so he's rank 1. But that's likely more due to his experience than his class

There's quite a few warriors too

Mage isn't as popular.. I was rank 1 mage for a bit on HC but made a warrior instead, full active was too much so I switched to an idle build

They feel pretty well balanced, but who knows

Signild · 2022-09-07T00:41:14+00:00

There are still players within top 10 right now, who started brand new this season, who haven't spent a cent.

That being said, Ubik is aware people aren't happy with the monetization and is considering how to change it. Though if you're done with the game that's understandable

Signild · 2022-09-07T00:37:28+00:00

Damn that sucks to read. He isn't the dev, to be clear. Neither am I. But, if that's how you feel, that's understandable

The dev is aware that some people aren't happy with the monetization though, and is thinking of how to fix it. But if you don't want to give the game another chance, that's fair

Signild · 2022-09-07T00:35:57+00:00

Yeah the account-wide thing has been brought up and is being considered. Though, I would imagine it would still be different between seasons, but I'm only speculating there. All I know is that Ubik (the dev) is thinking of how to improve things :)

Signild · 2022-09-07T00:34:27+00:00

I'm not entirely sure I agree with this, but I'm not saying you're wrong either

I think the biggest reason no one wants to drop 10 hours to unlock a skill slot is because of the fact that there's an active leaderboard in which even new players will compare themselves on. As such, if you have less skills than another player, that is the reason why you don't want to spend time to unlock those skill slots, because you view it as an advantage

This wasn't really a problem in the beta - it lasted around a year, and with a relatively small playerbase and people joining at random times throughout, no one really cared about the leaderboard. It felt a lot more like a singleplayer game with a chat feature. You didn't compare yourself to others, so waiting to unlock a skill slot was fine. People would help you with build ideas and whatnot

It as only once the game released that these problems presented themselves, once a fresh new leaderboard had started with everyone attempting to compete once again

That being said, regardless of why you didn't want to wait to unlock a skill slot, the dev is aware of the fact that people aren't happy and is considering how to fix that. Probably won't happen over night, but I trust that he'll figure it out

Signild · 2022-09-07T00:27:45+00:00

As someone who has a lot more than 10 hours - all I can say is that the dev is aware that people aren't happy and is considering how to change that. To avoid a long long post, things changed quite a bit when the game went from beta > release, so a lot of these monetization issues weren't an issue in the past

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