Can I own a Beach? Yes. Is this legal? Yes. Will I do it? Yes. How I do it?
I'll bring 220 soldier and will alpha kill each heckler you want to kill. If you want me to not kill hecklers, you need pay... let say 5 mils per hour, so you can lvl.
This story is fake, but only from my part. Its happening all day long and its part of the game since long time.
Each time a NT kites or OST grabs bunch of hecks, player that is not in adventagous team, will be unaloved to gain XP, simple as that. Now few examples from last 2 weeks:
- I was on my gimpy fix, wanted to get some research. Ran through Ely and saw few /kite team. which would only took me to team if I pay them. Other players didnt want to do regular killing, so I ended alone w/o chances to lvl cept solo RK mission or green mobs around Ramp.
- Next day I went with other fixer (which can solo 1 Heck at a time without problems) and I wanted to take few hecks, but then OST get them all and I was not invited to team (they got free spot) cause I refused to pay 2m per lvl, yet I didnt lvled my toon, but did research...
- 2 days later I managed to gear up my NT, and wanted to make few lvls along with research. I was invited to many teams during whole day, but from everyone I got kicked cause i denied to Kite. Also, I was not invited to team when I said I wont kite, when they asked me too.
- Not so long ago, just in last week I went with my doc to support friend of mine, and we ran several times onto OST Teams (mostlikely with NTs), and we couldnt get single heck to kill, so we did pretty nice XP on RK mish. Many playres just sat and waited till they will get chance to kill anything...
So, basicly, if I cant get Hecks cause I refuse to pay, I can kill them and get paid for not doing so, right?
OST in Nasc and Ely is so nice, that everyone does it. No metter that players with uber toons could get easly gear to solo them and it would be same XP/hrs (since hecks have 10 min hard spawn time), but its just not playing the game. What is more wrong, and was said many times, Old players just lvls cause they want to, and new lvl cause its the only way for them to gain lvls (well, only way they know). Situation is even worse on RK, where fresh blood know only borgs from lvl 60 or so, and they dont know a damn thing about game or profession they play. I ended last days in teams where players had lvl 100 and was first time on RK mission (some thought RK is game-addon like SL, dang!), had gear from SoM and they died. Yes, they died and they Didnt liked it, when they easly go /afk at PW borgs without threat.
OST takes all fun from game for new one, learns them bad behavior, and also takes fun from players that Enjoy AO, like Me. I always like to play my character, gearing it up to act better in encounters that AO has to offer, but even so, when I play, most times I need to solo this game - and this part I dont like, because i play MMORPG not to solo from lvl 1, but to enjoy cooperating with others and featured OST in Nasc/Ely takes it away from me.
Experiance that OST gives to new ones has nothing to do with this game. Is what FC devs did all quest lines, build so much places on RK and SL to ppl avoid it whenever OST/Kite comes around? Just take a look at /lft and you will see, that even players that just registered acc. know only this part of the game.
Plase FC, fix it already.
PS: And no, prelvled toons wont fix it, since costs will be to big to skip easy OSTing.