Was fun while it lasted. Simply took 4-5 days off, come back , and way far behind it seems. No 2k+ power rift PTs anymore. Everyone that does rifts is now 3.5k or more. players already pushing full RMC gear, a little shocking for this early, I understand they have super knowledge of the server, and some have paid thousands of dollars to get ahead, just I dont get from a server thats suppose to have 400+ ACTIVE players is lacking in certain fields that it does right now... it doesnt make sense to me. I come to realize, there is no way 400 active people playing, not possible. Feels like maybe 100 people actually play and are responsive ingame. with 400 people actually playing, chats would be going spam crazy but only about 20 people actually talk in chats. Archlight is fun dont get me wrong, but only if you start at the beginning of a Era, and dont stop, otherwise u fall behind quick. then no one helps, and the top 3 guilds just stick together and dont really help anyone xD
I can predict now the outcome of siege wars.
Ticket to Temple or Cry is Free will win, always. Misfits here and there.
I will wait till next era to play again, at the rate its going it seems players are going to be done before a 6 month time span of this current era, so quicker then the last one. Just what it seems, of course I could be wrong.
I hope in the future, its a little bit harder. Catch up exp was added way to early (and it doesnt really matter anyways, it doesnt change what you can do, just that you get awakening faster but still be stuck to do anything the rush is a bad idea for a new player). I personally saw more people pissed off about catch up exp, was just fine the way it was, catch up was not even needed at the time it was released.. I get you are all about giving every point back that people donate for, but come on, i mean, its called Donating for a reason, people enjoy the content you and your team provide, but to basically give the points back every era, is not needed.... thats the only reason they keep coming back to play archlight is cause of how far ahead they are when a era starts, it ruins it because of the mass amounts of money they donated, and then dictate how your your server turns out cause they paid, so its what they want. I think something should be reworked with how you go abouts giving people their points back every era... maybe not giving people their points back for 2 weeks into the new era or something. thus giving it a fair chance to everyone and not just those people that paid. If players want to get ahead like they do, they can donate at the beginning of the era, or wait 2 weeks to get their points back from last era. Not dump all these points from 3 years of eras, into these accounts. Ofc donating at the start of a era is different, but atleast control giving all these points back to people at the start of eras, wait a little bit.
Yes you get new players, but they only get as far as the veterans let them
if you kno what I mean.
Sorry knighter i am not meaning to bash you, your staff, or the server... not meaning to sound that way at all, love the content you guys put out, just others ruined the fun for me, and I feel it has alot to do with the whole donating thing... you got people who dont donate and work their asses off (Which i love that you can play archlight without donating a dime..), but then you got these players who donated thousands of USD throughout the years that you are giving points back to, they pay more for their power and to get ahead it totally ruins it for the others. Something needs to be reworked in regards to donations and how you distribute points at the start of every era. Holy guac or Gloryhole or both donated about 10 thousand USD or more, ive heard lol. So for them to get that much back at the start of every era is a little far fetched, im not saying these specific players ruined anything.
Im probably going to get flammed hard for writing what I did, but its my honest opinion, and of course I could be wrong in things.