Veraphim Wrote:Quote:What do you think are the reasons that the game gets too easy? Is it something that we could make a "Purge Mod" to deal with, kinda like we messed with some stuff in EU3?
Primarily people typically skill out the top end of single skills faster than single player. i.e., one person does armor, one does barter and another does something else. So by the time we are level 30 we are in top level armor, getting the rarest items and churning out maximum resources. In single player you are level 90 before you reach that point.
The other issue was (it may not be an issue anymore) the server calculation for what mobs should be spawning and drop rates.
Finally, with 6 people it was easier to exploit game bugs. i.e., slop/ramp challenges for Zombies. That may have already been addressed but the point is, it is easier to find solutions to AI issues with 6 or 7 people than it is one person.
To fix the above the only thing I can think of is your skill requirements to take skills needs to be not only based on your max attribute but also your level. i.e., you can't learn level 3 armor until you are 7 in the attribute plus be level 60.
You need friendly fire. (this sucked when everything was deleted on death but it is necessary)
Finally you shouldn't be able to lay any kind of block down (including stations, farms and storage) without placing a land claim block and you shouldn't be able to put a block down outside of the land claim area. This does multiple things: First, it forces you to do Bloodmoons at your home location, this is mandatory to keep the game challenging. Second, it eliminates exploits like nerd poling, laying spikes in front of doors or building large 3rd party structures. Finally laying land claim blocks needs a timer so you can't just lay one down every 5 minutes after you built your structure (more like every 7 days is more appropriate). Most importantly when you pull your land claim block up or it is destroyed everything man made blows up with it and becomes rubble, you then can't replace that block for 7 days.