CL: What I believe the game lacks/needs (was CL: Goodbye)

Jeff Ray <jeff.ray.DeleteThis@dfrc.nasa.gov> wrote:

 > For you high level players who have hit the wall:
 >
 > What would you like to see the GM's work on, that ISN'T just another
 > high level hunting area that moves the wall a little farther up? In
 > other words, if the GMs are going to achieve their goal of shifting
 > people like you away from rankwhoring, what would it take?

Coming from a near-3000 rank healer who has watched CL go from 15
average players online, to 115 average players online, back dowm to 15
average players online:

I think there needs to be some MAJOR improvements in the Clan part of
the game. The game IS called 'Clan Lord', yet you can get along just
fine without a clan, as we see many 6th circle fighters just choose
not to have one at all. In Shadowbane, yes I'm making a referral to
Shadowbane, if you're not in a guild, you pretty much cant hunt
anywhere with anyone. I feel the game needs to depend a LOT more on
being a member of a guild. This is key to getting the high level folk
to stay. Bear with me as I make another referral to Shadowbane, but
once you hit the maximum level, there isnt much to do other than PK
(something I know will never be an aspect in Clan Lord) or build an
empire. Personally I believe, though its hard with the lack of players
these days, that there should be a TON more benefits to being in a
guild than just clan experience and the 'clan house'. I find both of
those to be worthless.

Clan Lord bottom line needs more players, but before that can occur
it will need to satisfy its current inhabitants. I find it very hard
to keep paying for my account when i see all of my in-game friends
leaving or logging on only once a month. What am I paying for?
Certainly not more ranks, because I can't afford a library that gives
decent exp. I don't care much about ranks at all anymore, most high
rank people shouldn't, but there isnt really much else to care about
in the game. Clan Lord needs to pull itself out of "Rank Whore Lord"
and veer back onto the " *CLAN* Lord " part of the game. People
aren't drawn to the game as they used to be. You can buy any old
MMORPG out there and level up until you get bored. Clan Lord drew me
to it because of its sense of community. This sense has vanished. The
game NEEDS some upkeep done to it that doesnt involve new areas, new
items, or new icons. I wouldn't say another word about healer tests if
this happened. I swear, I really wouldn't!

I hope this wasnt too long, but I rarely post here so, what the hell.

-meph<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->

On 11/1/03 4:17 AM, in the "great" literary work,
5b707dd0.0311010117.55ef3656.TakeThisOut@posting.google.com, the "profound" and
"prolific" meph of chardoskate.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com articulated:

 > Clan Lord drew me
 > to it because of its sense of community. This sense has vanished.

I love the Clan Lord community. I also believe that if it were as large as
some of the other MMORPGS it would not be as nice a community. I'm
experiencing the story that Joe told in the manual now. I'm not experiencing
it in Clan Lord, but I still have a fondness for Clan Lord. I'm not sure if
I'll ever let my account lapse. Who knows? I can't really imagine anything
that would make me want to come back to regular CL play though.

--
Michael - HWC for Monolith

"I don't want PK and I can kill the majority of fighters in Clan Lord." -
Noah<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->