Ellesandra(Bram VDB)
Member
Dear players of ArcheRage RU/EU,
After a rather hectic server update announcement yesterday, I would like to open a topic for open discussion (so no shouting back and forth about free farm, whining, etc. ...) on potential future server balances. I think it is our best interest to avoid conflicts, confrontations and in general bad publicity about this server.
Many MMORPG private servers in the past had to go through the same process as ArcheRage RU / EU. How to define your own server, how to make the game that tad bit different, how to create an identity that is unique, so that it becomes a worthy alternative for official servers. Many people turn to private servers if the official game is no longer interesting, broken or horribly managed. I think in the case of ArcheAge Official, it's probably a mix of all three above.
Creating an identity for an MMORPG is not an easy thing. It relies on strong management and decision making. I think this server has more than accomplished to create a little piece of paradise. The goal of this game is a fair fight and achieves this through a mix of restrictions on P2W elements.
It is a correct idea to open a community for suggestions to improve the game, after all. Community members are eager to learn about valuable suggestions or fixes which might help improve the gaming experience for all players on the server. In the end, people are spending free time in a game to relax and have a good time.
I would hereby like to extend on this forum in a positive way. As a player who has been around on this server for over 7 months I still do not feel there is an official channel for these kinds of topics. Especially not for the English speaking community. This server is home to a strong multinational community, in which many members do not master the Russian language. Mind you, for many of these members even English is not their primary language. However, in many servers English is used as a medium to connect to the majority of the player. This takes just as much effort for the European speakers to communicate in a common lingua franca as it would for a Russian speaker.
In the interest of not being able to reach all members of the community, creating a bilingual forum seems to me the way to go.
That said, to further enhance the server quality, in my eyes to keep a close watch over a server of up to 500+ players on a day-to-day basis, server management and administration would have to be in the game 24/7 and still miss out on a wide range of small problems or imbalances in the game. To relieve some of the burden on the staff and developers of the ArcheRage RU / EU server, an official forum section dedicated to player made suggestions would make a world of difference.
If suggestions could be made to the server administration on a regular basis, there is still a chance of proposing a very valuable change to some elements of the server. It is not impossible to overlook unwanted side effects of implementing change. For this numerous other MMORPGs have turned towards the community for COLLECTIVE EFFORT at overthinking and evaluating changes to the game. Old School Runescape, up to date still the most successful private server launch ever (which was even bought back by the official developers of the game) uses a system where suggestions by the players require a certain percentage of upvotes before proposing them to admins. Server admins carefully evaluate the implications of these changes. AND AFTER careful analysis, administration pushes a list of the most promising changes (often up to 50!) back to the whole player base under a POLL FORMAT. If a poll option does not reach 75% approval and a number of votes that represent a majority of the player base it is not implemented. No matter how promising the idea might be. In doing so, you allow all players to carefully consider the change to their game, only picking the things in the interest of the whole server. This leads to positive change in the long run, increasing quality of the private server.
OSRS is by far not the only MMORPG relying on this server, Path of Exile (biggest open source competitor that crushed Diablo 3), The Elder Scrolls Online, Guild Wars 2... hell, even Club Penguin (RIP) relied on community polls to further help develop the game.
Colleagues from ArcheRage NA picked up this positive trend, as can be seen here.
https://na.archerage.to/forums/index.php?threads/poll-player-nations.4362/
So what's stopping us from cooperating all together so that we can make this server better and improve gameplay quality for all of us? I hereby hope this idea at least receives positive feedback from part of the player base. And I sincerely hope this can be done without some part of the players mocking any positive suggestions made. In the end, it isn't fun for any of the admins of this game to see the things they work hard for end up in a pointless fight in the comments where people end up calling each other 'little whiny bitches'.
Sorry for the long read, love all of you <3
Lots of love
Bram
TL : DR : avoid problems like yesterday concerning server changes by opening a platform for suggestions, feedback and polls where the majority of the playerbase can express opinions. In the end, we all just want to have a good time.
After a rather hectic server update announcement yesterday, I would like to open a topic for open discussion (so no shouting back and forth about free farm, whining, etc. ...) on potential future server balances. I think it is our best interest to avoid conflicts, confrontations and in general bad publicity about this server.
Many MMORPG private servers in the past had to go through the same process as ArcheRage RU / EU. How to define your own server, how to make the game that tad bit different, how to create an identity that is unique, so that it becomes a worthy alternative for official servers. Many people turn to private servers if the official game is no longer interesting, broken or horribly managed. I think in the case of ArcheAge Official, it's probably a mix of all three above.
Creating an identity for an MMORPG is not an easy thing. It relies on strong management and decision making. I think this server has more than accomplished to create a little piece of paradise. The goal of this game is a fair fight and achieves this through a mix of restrictions on P2W elements.
It is a correct idea to open a community for suggestions to improve the game, after all. Community members are eager to learn about valuable suggestions or fixes which might help improve the gaming experience for all players on the server. In the end, people are spending free time in a game to relax and have a good time.
I would hereby like to extend on this forum in a positive way. As a player who has been around on this server for over 7 months I still do not feel there is an official channel for these kinds of topics. Especially not for the English speaking community. This server is home to a strong multinational community, in which many members do not master the Russian language. Mind you, for many of these members even English is not their primary language. However, in many servers English is used as a medium to connect to the majority of the player. This takes just as much effort for the European speakers to communicate in a common lingua franca as it would for a Russian speaker.
In the interest of not being able to reach all members of the community, creating a bilingual forum seems to me the way to go.
That said, to further enhance the server quality, in my eyes to keep a close watch over a server of up to 500+ players on a day-to-day basis, server management and administration would have to be in the game 24/7 and still miss out on a wide range of small problems or imbalances in the game. To relieve some of the burden on the staff and developers of the ArcheRage RU / EU server, an official forum section dedicated to player made suggestions would make a world of difference.
If suggestions could be made to the server administration on a regular basis, there is still a chance of proposing a very valuable change to some elements of the server. It is not impossible to overlook unwanted side effects of implementing change. For this numerous other MMORPGs have turned towards the community for COLLECTIVE EFFORT at overthinking and evaluating changes to the game. Old School Runescape, up to date still the most successful private server launch ever (which was even bought back by the official developers of the game) uses a system where suggestions by the players require a certain percentage of upvotes before proposing them to admins. Server admins carefully evaluate the implications of these changes. AND AFTER careful analysis, administration pushes a list of the most promising changes (often up to 50!) back to the whole player base under a POLL FORMAT. If a poll option does not reach 75% approval and a number of votes that represent a majority of the player base it is not implemented. No matter how promising the idea might be. In doing so, you allow all players to carefully consider the change to their game, only picking the things in the interest of the whole server. This leads to positive change in the long run, increasing quality of the private server.
OSRS is by far not the only MMORPG relying on this server, Path of Exile (biggest open source competitor that crushed Diablo 3), The Elder Scrolls Online, Guild Wars 2... hell, even Club Penguin (RIP) relied on community polls to further help develop the game.
Colleagues from ArcheRage NA picked up this positive trend, as can be seen here.
https://na.archerage.to/forums/index.php?threads/poll-player-nations.4362/
So what's stopping us from cooperating all together so that we can make this server better and improve gameplay quality for all of us? I hereby hope this idea at least receives positive feedback from part of the player base. And I sincerely hope this can be done without some part of the players mocking any positive suggestions made. In the end, it isn't fun for any of the admins of this game to see the things they work hard for end up in a pointless fight in the comments where people end up calling each other 'little whiny bitches'.
Sorry for the long read, love all of you <3
Lots of love
Bram
TL : DR : avoid problems like yesterday concerning server changes by opening a platform for suggestions, feedback and polls where the majority of the playerbase can express opinions. In the end, we all just want to have a good time.
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