What server improvements does community want most?

[Zaihn]

Hasn't there been balance changes for ~2-3 weeks waiting to be put in??

Hard to balance HC when it takes a minimum of 2 weeks to put in balance changes.

Ninja/Dragoon/Wiz/Ranger OP since the start. Suggestions have been made ~ month ago to balance them.

Bard - Broken / Disc - underpowered. Again suggestions have already been made in public forums.

If all of these balance suggestions have been made in PUBLIC forums, then I think there's a high chance they've been mentioned in the private balance forum.

 

[malikdanab]

Hasn't there been balance changes for ~2-3 weeks waiting to be put in??

Hard to balance HC when it takes a minimum of 2 weeks to put in balance changes.

Ninja/Dragoon/Wiz/Ranger OP since the start. Suggestions have been made ~ month ago to balance them.

Bard - Broken / Disc - underpowered. Again suggestions have already been made in public forums.

If all of these balance suggestions have been made in PUBLIC forums, then I think there's a high chance they've been mentioned in the private balance forum.

Thats the thing...it's been mentioned in BOTH! There is no processes for anyone besides kainzo adding these changes. If the balance team wants to change something they first have to bug Delf and then Delf has to bug Kainzo. There needs to be a more consistent and organized way to make these changes. There are dozens of decent discussions on how to fix these classes, but nothing has been implemented.

 

[Dakinara]

Well, regarding balance stuff, only thing i can say is we have to remember this is a mostly volunteer staff. i guess kainzo will be working on the server a lot more now, but other than that i think pretty much everyone else has other job / school obligations and is only working on this from a hobby / passion standpoint. If i had endless money and no worries in the world, would be fun to see what could be done by hiring a developer staff to work on herocraft, but even then, they have to wait on minecraft to update, then wait on bukkit to update, tough system to work with lol.

Best thing i could recommend is that the balance team / staff organization may need to be re-structured depending on peoples activity status from time to time.

 

[malikdanab]

Well, regarding balance stuff, only thing i can say is we have to remember this is a mostly volunteer staff. i guess kainzo will be working on the server a lot more now, but other than that i think pretty much everyone else has other job / school obligations and is only working on this from a hobby / passion standpoint. If i had endless money and no worries in the world, would be fun to see what could be done by hiring a developer staff to work on herocraft, but even then, they have to wait on minecraft to update, then wait on bukkit to update, tough system to work with lol.

Best thing i could recommend is that the balance team / staff organization may need to be re-structured depending on peoples activity status from time to time.

It's not a case of actual work though. Most of the suggested balance changes are purely number changes. The problem is that there's a disconnect when it comes to people who know what to balance and people with the power to implement these changes. If we had a proper system, we could push changes every restart, but there is no such thing. Currently we have to wait and HOPE something will get done.

 

[Templar_James]

@gabizou @Kainzo
Why would arenas be introduced again? Last time I remember it destroying world pvp as it cause people just to afk in base and quene all day.

 

[malikdanab]

@gabizou @Kainzo
Why would arenas be introduced again? Last time I remember it destroying world pvp as it cause people just to afk in base and quene all day.

PvP has NEVER worked. As long as the system stays the same, Open World pvp will continue to be a camp fest. I'd much rather have a controlled fair fight than deal with so called "pvpers" any day.

 

[Glacial_Reign]

I'm over the empty promises for example new class every month and non balancing of the things that obviously need to be fixed. That's how my whole town feels and that's why we don't play anymore.

Sorry to say it but I'll make my goodbye speech sometime soon.

 

[Kainzo]

I'm over the empty promises for example new class every month and non balancing of the things that obviously need to be fixed. That's how my whole town feels and that's why we don't play anymore.

Sorry to say it but I'll make my goodbye speech sometime soon.

There's been a lot of barriers and road blocks along the way - its the reason why we don't like to give ETA's on anything because fixing one aspect of something can take weeks to even months at a time depending on the development pipeline.

Understand this or don't - it doesn't matter.
We could pump out a new class every week, but that doesn't mean it would be balanced, innovative or fun.

Have a good one!

 

[Templar_James]

There's been a lot of barriers and road blocks along the way - its the reason why we don't like to give ETA's on anything because fixing one aspect of something can take weeks to even months at a time depending on the development pipeline.

Understand this or don't - it doesn't matter.
We could pump out a new class every week, but that doesn't mean it would be balanced, innovative or fun.

Have a good one!

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[Templar_James]

Just a little suggest I say making no post on anything coming out is better. Anticipation for something almost always kills whats anticipated (hype train mass murdered of many games/expansions).

 

[Kainzo]

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I disagree - we just cant be very specific with ETA's - telling people things are on the horizon is a good thing. Keeping people uninformed and then popping things on them is bad.

Though of course it does depend on the situation.