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mutau
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I wish faction bases were areas that you can't log into. They should be just like Champ spawn areas.
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Logging into a faction base
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mutau
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because it sucks? lol
we've seen it where a whole gang will log out, then log in the following day while half their guild is in front and we're engaged. just a wish and hope.
(let the flaming begin...)
we've seen it where a whole gang will log out, then log in the following day while half their guild is in front and we're engaged. just a wish and hope.
(let the flaming begin...)
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wee papa smurf
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I agree, iv always said that it would be better if you couldnt log into faction bases 
Pretty scary when a faction player considers the most important aspect of guarding or raiding sigils is unimportant.
In regards to the original post, I would have to agree. It's pretty annoying having thieves log in behind your defenses.
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Gellor
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Thieves? I wish.... trying a grip of twenty or so:loser::loser:
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mutau
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faction base fighting and corrupting the sigils is also done to place guards in towns that the opposing factions 'should' control.
how messed up would it be for TB to recall into the town to find 40 SL guards at the front of their base? hmmm?
just adds a bit more fun to the game. thats all.
how messed up would it be for TB to recall into the town to find 40 SL guards at the front of their base? hmmm?
just adds a bit more fun to the game. thats all.
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Gellor
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Re: If you can place guards in front of the TB base?
And as lynk said, guards aren't too hard to deal with... biggest issue is the 35 mind blasts at once that hurt
Or at the bare minimum remove all the aggressive spawn from Mag. Those are a pancake
How about moving other bases OUT of town?
And as lynk said, guards aren't too hard to deal with... biggest issue is the 35 mind blasts at once that hurt
Or at the bare minimum remove all the aggressive spawn from Mag. Those are a pancake
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mutau
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I like Gellor's idea of moving the base out of a town.
It sucks that Minax is only able to place poison traps while TB is able to place the other 3 types because they can place it in a city. I have to say it makes stealthing more exciting but its a nuisance.
And turning off the ghosts of Magincia would be hella nice. Or perhaps, let the faction monsters spawn in the base? Oooo ya. That would be very interesting.
It sucks that Minax is only able to place poison traps while TB is able to place the other 3 types because they can place it in a city. I have to say it makes stealthing more exciting but its a nuisance.
And turning off the ghosts of Magincia would be hella nice. Or perhaps, let the faction monsters spawn in the base? Oooo ya. That would be very interesting.
If anything, the explosion traps and guards near CoM and TB bases just helps to make up for their shortcomings. The bases really were a lot more even before they made the recent base-zone changes.
Now, Minax and SL base are so ridiculously easy to defend in comparison to TB and CoM.
Now, Minax and SL base are so ridiculously easy to defend in comparison to TB and CoM.
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Gellor
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Could you give me an example of what makes Minax and SL bases soo easy to defend? And then examples of what make TB and CoM bases difficult?
From what I've seen of Min, TB, and CoM, they all have a nice choke point bridge. TB and Com have the added benefit of town guards and non-poison faction traps.
Then again, I started factions only recently and play on a non busy faction shard where Min and Com are really the only guys playing with sigils... and frankly Com guys aren't too bright
SL and TB don't do sigils.
The mountain pass in Minax is one long-ass choke, and a death trap. Raiders area easy to flank, and nox traps are highly effective. Their alamo-style base makes for a great fallback position. The one downside to this base USED to be the ability for attackers to gate/recall right to front of the "alamo", but that is no longer possible. Minax base really has no weakness anymore.
SL...well...the entire damned base is a choke point, with a couple 1-tile chokes that no other base has. Its 3 levels, offering multiple fallback opportunities. A single detective placed in the corner of the sig room can passively and actively reveal through all levels, making stealth useless. The recent addition of the "chaos gate" allows defenders to avoid death, only to pop back out a moment later fully healed. The sole downside is this base is vulnerability to the e-field exploit. However, there are only very particular tiles this can be done on, and a faction that knows what its doing can turn this exploit against the users of it.
TB base. In order to "hold the lanterns" (4-tiles wide) by the signup stone, you must also defend and control the wall and Poor Gate. You had best keep a ship refreshed in the moat, or the OJ can use this to pop onto the bridge behind you. Defending from the portcullis only works against groups that are either none-too-bright, or haven't been defending long. Against a smart enemy, the portcullis is TB's enemy.
This really leaves TB's one effective defensive spot: The 2-tile and 3-tile wide choke directly in front of the sig room. The enemy stands on a very open area in which to attack you from, allowing them lots of maneuverability. The side-rooms allow for them to avoid damage/death, as well as to get a nice full view of the defense. Defending from this position, it can be damned hard to put any of the attackers into stat. The base also has a bit of an e-field exploit vulnerability.
The bases sheer size sucks. If even a single OJ mage manages to log into the base, or break through the defense, he can wreak havoc with a mission of harassment. The damned place is nearly as big as a town, with the upper and inner walls to evade through. If a thief can get your sig and makes it out to the court yard, you can just about forget finding it before it refreshes. An entire army can log in from within your base, and be so far from the defense nobody will ever know it (as in, their stabled animals showing in the screens corner).
Okay. CoM base. I don't need to touch this one. CoM base sucks in all aspects, has a very big vulnerability from ships, has no real choke point...Forget this base. I don't envy those that defend it.
Now, before these two items get brought up again:
Guards - Fun, but not effective and easily killed. They can't be kept in any tactical point of the base, so they serve more as a delaying tactic than anything. For TB or CoM to have any use with guards, they must defend at the front of the base. From this position, they can also be attacked by enemy guards. So any faction can use the guards to really accomplish the same means. They just have to take the town first.
Explosion traps - Can no longer be defended from a tactical point in either CoM or TB base, and so are easily disarmed. If you don't have a trap remover in your guild/alliance, than you simply aren't prepared for factions. Most TB and CoM defenders don't waste their valuable trap slots on these anymore. Its all about the nox, baby.
Anyhow, sorry for the rambling paragraphs and crap. I'm a bit too drunk.
SL...well...the entire damned base is a choke point, with a couple 1-tile chokes that no other base has. Its 3 levels, offering multiple fallback opportunities. A single detective placed in the corner of the sig room can passively and actively reveal through all levels, making stealth useless. The recent addition of the "chaos gate" allows defenders to avoid death, only to pop back out a moment later fully healed. The sole downside is this base is vulnerability to the e-field exploit. However, there are only very particular tiles this can be done on, and a faction that knows what its doing can turn this exploit against the users of it.
TB base. In order to "hold the lanterns" (4-tiles wide) by the signup stone, you must also defend and control the wall and Poor Gate. You had best keep a ship refreshed in the moat, or the OJ can use this to pop onto the bridge behind you. Defending from the portcullis only works against groups that are either none-too-bright, or haven't been defending long. Against a smart enemy, the portcullis is TB's enemy.
This really leaves TB's one effective defensive spot: The 2-tile and 3-tile wide choke directly in front of the sig room. The enemy stands on a very open area in which to attack you from, allowing them lots of maneuverability. The side-rooms allow for them to avoid damage/death, as well as to get a nice full view of the defense. Defending from this position, it can be damned hard to put any of the attackers into stat. The base also has a bit of an e-field exploit vulnerability.
The bases sheer size sucks. If even a single OJ mage manages to log into the base, or break through the defense, he can wreak havoc with a mission of harassment. The damned place is nearly as big as a town, with the upper and inner walls to evade through. If a thief can get your sig and makes it out to the court yard, you can just about forget finding it before it refreshes. An entire army can log in from within your base, and be so far from the defense nobody will ever know it (as in, their stabled animals showing in the screens corner).
Okay. CoM base. I don't need to touch this one. CoM base sucks in all aspects, has a very big vulnerability from ships, has no real choke point...Forget this base. I don't envy those that defend it.
Now, before these two items get brought up again:
Guards - Fun, but not effective and easily killed. They can't be kept in any tactical point of the base, so they serve more as a delaying tactic than anything. For TB or CoM to have any use with guards, they must defend at the front of the base. From this position, they can also be attacked by enemy guards. So any faction can use the guards to really accomplish the same means. They just have to take the town first.
Explosion traps - Can no longer be defended from a tactical point in either CoM or TB base, and so are easily disarmed. If you don't have a trap remover in your guild/alliance, than you simply aren't prepared for factions. Most TB and CoM defenders don't waste their valuable trap slots on these anymore. Its all about the nox, baby.
Anyhow, sorry for the rambling paragraphs and crap. I'm a bit too drunk.
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Gellor
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Nonel... TYVM for you insight.
If you don't mind, can you recommend a shard to watch faction battles on? I'd like to watch some good faction battles
If you don't mind, can you recommend a shard to watch faction battles on? I'd like to watch some good faction battles
Honestly, I do not know anymore. Great Lakes was THE destination for true faction battles in the post-AoS UO. But the base fights have died recently...
However, the sigils on said shard will be coming up soon (tomorrow, I think, but I'm terrible with timing)...and I'm going to do my best to make sure some damned fine raids and defenses get going.
However, the sigils on said shard will be coming up soon (tomorrow, I think, but I'm terrible with timing)...and I'm going to do my best to make sure some damned fine raids and defenses get going.
Dang and of course they come up when I have to work!
Yeah!
Never FEAR!
Torem and Anthuis RIDE AGAIN! and Maybe Dea, Pyro and Jamin if you are all unlucky enough for the planets to align like that. TEE HEE!
YEA! Poor Gracie is so out of practice, I am sure she will die alot!
You're back?? Hmmm.
Did anyone here get on Retribution before the end of the open beta and look at the new champ spawn areas? (I know JC did. I checked out his house that was sitting almost on top of one of the altars.)
Once again we are on opposite teams!
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Saleena
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It's about time you come back! Geez!
Its like.. cocaine.. it pulls me back.. every time... I don't even like the game.. I think its the Devs... I'm attracted to the devs.. There is nothing more enjoyable to me, than watching people screw up over and over and over again and seriously not know they are doing it. It's a joke. It's amazing. It's an amazing joke, that makes me lol every time its told. I don't want to miss the next time someone tells that joke... how could I? I know its gonna make me laugh.
Yeah sorry man, I guess what it boils down to is... I look good in Red..
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UltimateNoob
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I don't mind when enemy faction members try to log out in my base. Whenever I go there the first thing I do is track, reveal, and kill any faction enemy. Even better if they are timing out cause when they log in they will be in stat. And if they log in when I'm there, no problem... I welcome every opportunity to fight.
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UltimateNoob
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The red NPCs attack the CoM people too.
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UltimateNoob
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Everything depends on who controls each town.
The order faction bases are in Britain and Magincia, which gives a slight advantage for factions that control those towns and a slight disadvantage for factions with bases in enemy controlled towns. Trinsic is part of this too... strategically it is an extension of Magincia since almost all the sigils pass through the trinsic pixie dust.
The chaos factions have less variation in the security of their bases, but the chaos factions can defend their sigils by trapping and guarding the towns containing the order faction bases. The fight doesn't have to happen at your base. If you know who's stealing your sigils you don't have to keep them out of your base - you can try to trap them IN your base and kill them or go to their base and try to keep them out and kill them.
The order faction bases are in Britain and Magincia, which gives a slight advantage for factions that control those towns and a slight disadvantage for factions with bases in enemy controlled towns. Trinsic is part of this too... strategically it is an extension of Magincia since almost all the sigils pass through the trinsic pixie dust.
The chaos factions have less variation in the security of their bases, but the chaos factions can defend their sigils by trapping and guarding the towns containing the order faction bases. The fight doesn't have to happen at your base. If you know who's stealing your sigils you don't have to keep them out of your base - you can try to trap them IN your base and kill them or go to their base and try to keep them out and kill them.
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mutau
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the convo ended on the 19th of last month and you revive the thread? go start one.
dood stop trolling..