pr1est wrote:The long-term solution is stop complaining about something you could easily do yourself if you got there before them. I run a yagel, i target in under 8 seconds, and i hold down areas by myself targeting 3 at a time and tagging. I've had people do it to me as well and yes, it is frustrating, but go somewhere else IS a viable solution to the problem.
"Oh noz this assignment is being camped."
"I guess I can go farm something else til it clears up and make some NIC"
Farmers are part of MMO's. It really does suck that they are farming assignment spots, but for the most part unless they drop data its hard to tell.
Have you read what people are saying?
I know of at least three people that have already left due to this very issue, and there have been days where i got sick of it and went back to DDO and/or EvE, it is sadly making me spend less and less time here, since it is affecting my and mu friends enjoyment of the game.
To simply state go somewhere else is NOT a viable issue when most or all of the first tier areas are being camped in this way, you even acmit to seeing it and doing it.....alone. I have seen one-two pilots lock out an area while three smaller mechs sat watching on the edge of the field, were these smaller mechs fans watching the game? little groupies wanting scraps?
Where else should they go? Go try to fight 1st stars?
As i have said before; If it was about higher level areas or anything in the outer islands i would agree and say tough, that is what the game is about, fighting over resources, go somewhere else, put up with it, or put your ammo behind what you think is right.
What ends up happening though is newb A goes out on first mission after tutorial wanting to try out their brand spanking new Prometheus, finds the quest area..........full of larger mechs and containers all over.......
"oh, there is a bot i need to kill! hmmmm, what do i do now, ok, lock....oh, it's dead already, there another, wow, these guys lock fast......
30 mins later said newb logs off not even getting one kill, they may or may not have dropped the mission to try another area which is also farmed.
People that cannot see the problem here either are mentally deficient, or hate this game and want it to fail. If you piss off enough newbs, they will leave, they will tell their friends which are other possible newbs, this also inhibits people coming to look because their friends are here. I refuse to recommend this game to others right now because i know that they would not like this, i tell them it is a good game, good potential, but they aren't there yet, wait a while.
As i have said before it will end up with a group of old-timers sitting in their empty outer islands blaming everything but themselves that the game is dying before the plug is finally pulled.
Does this mean dumbing down the game, or catering to the newbs?
Perhaps, but it is not something that has to change the whole game, or affect anything beyond the first week of play for many. There are many easy ways to fix this, one of the easiest being to move the the things that are being farmed to other mechs in other areas. If there is nothing the old timers want there, then they will not farm there. This is just one suggestion, there are probably many others that would work, many would likely be better than mine.
The only stupid thing to do here is to ignore the problem.....
Who the $#@% is stEvE?