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Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo
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@Arethusa said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
Cujo’s recent board posts read like something put out by the EA marketing department. And given what the rebels have to work with, and what they’re up against, the Sith Empire will be ruling the galaxy until the game shuts down for sure. Whenever that might be.
There’s few GM’s left at this point and the actual remaining playerbase is a lot smaller than it’d seem from looking at +who on there as the logins are massively inflated by alts. And that’s not even factoring in players who continue to log in despite not actually playing. There’s a few players that have been a bit more active lately than they were before, but most of the game is pretty much staff + Kora clique on their various alts at this point. And Jallo’s player if you don’t count him in that group, but he might as well be. Can count on any events going forward to be comprised of them on one of their alts and one or two other players.
Also, Hadrix on his staff bit seems to run the game as much as, if not more than, Cujo at this point so of course he wasn’t going anywhere.
I am curious to why you say Jallo may as well be one. I know his player and throwing him into a group you guys say are some of the worst without saying why just comes off as you having a grudge. Sometimes, as it has been expressed here several times, people have troubles leaving games because they care about the character they’ve spent a long time on/building up. I’m not going to say anything about the rest because I don’t know them.
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I don’t really know Jallo’s player enough to judge him, but they’re pretty closely tied to one of the staff members - Discordia - and frequently shows up at Clan Kora-specific events despite not being a member of the Koras himself. I don’t think everyone that grouping includes is necessarily bad either, just that group pretty much covers the active playerbase on the game at this point. Staff and players in Clan Kora.
“people have troubles leaving games because they care about the character they’ve spent a long time on/building up”
That, in particular, AoA has a LOT of, and probably one of the biggest reasons many people stick around. The game’s practically designed to cause those kinds of feelings not just from the typical earning of xp and building a character through roleplay, but the way equipment and ships are handled on the game.
I don’t know if this has been mentioned in detail before now, but the game has a randomized vendor system. At least once a day, at random times, the items a vendor has for sale are randomly determined. Most of the items a vendor has will be common/uncommon items based on the kind of vendor it is. Armor, weapons, weapon mods, ship mods, etc.
Sometimes, though, rare items will spawn on those vendors. There are a LOT of different rare items in the game including high tier mods, powerful weapons, armor, not-so-powerful weapons/armor that are just… rare for some reason. Some of the best weapons in particular can be pretty hard to find. And even after you’ve found them, you’ll want or even need to find rare mods before using them in combat, which are also hard to find. Armor doesn’t tend to suffer from this as much, there’s not much in the way of rare armor and even less that’s worth buying, but there’s some pretty highly sought after weapons, weapon mods, and ship mods in particular that you could be searching months or more to obtain.
On top of that, ships themselves are limited. There’s only a few of any given type of ship available in the game. Usually less than five of a given type of ship. This isn’t as much of a problem now after so many players left - staff were unusually quick to take ships from the recently banned players - but prior to that the pickings at the shipyards were pretty slim especially if you wanted something that had an ideal setup for cargo. So you were pretty lucky if you even found a good ship or one you really wanted. Which you’d then be upgrading with those rare ship mods mentioned earlier. So you can end up pretty attached to your ship there, and even now there’s certain types of ships you just can’t get because they’re all bought up already.
It can be a pretty miserable system to deal with and just adds to that reluctance to leave once you’ve managed to get the things you want.
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@Arethusa Did the events say only Kora types can go? I would go to scenes to get rp that are not my thing if they are open even if the focus is specific people. I don’t know who Discordia is or anything and only loosely following this thread. Is she someone who has shown to be one of the bad people on the game? I try not to paint all staff with the same brush even if they staff on the same game.
Getting anything on this game sounds complex. I assume the reason for limited ships relates to trying to get people to rp together. I don’t know if that is true. Though, Getting attached doesn’t necessarily mean ‘physical’ things. I have seem people invest in the characters stories and the people around them. I know I have stuck around on a game for people I enjoy talking to/telling the stories with. It sounds like it is a lot of hard work invested into achieving anything on this game, though. So, I don’t entirely blame some people for clinging to their character despite everything said about the place.
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At least once a day, at random times, the items a vendor has for sale are randomly determined. Most of the items a vendor has will be common/uncommon items based on the kind of vendor it is. Armor, weapons, weapon mods, ship mods, etc.
Sometimes, though, rare items will spawn on those vendors. There are a LOT of different rare items in the game including high tier mods, powerful weapons, armor, not-so-powerful weapons/armor that are just… rare for some reason.
Yup. It took me… 2 years to see T1 for pistols (rifles were oddly easy to find good mods for, as a side-note), and usually only a single being sold for 100k. If you had too little money at the moment… tough tits, you are out of luck.
And the system was defended since it encouraged ‘exploration of the grid’… while also getting a softlock on checking vendors if staff felt you checked too many.
And, to, I believe quote Banshee… there are just 300 vendors or so around the whole galaxy. Each of which had a chance to get a rare item that day.
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If you always pal around with somebody who openly abuses other people, you don’t get to be offended when you get painted with that brush, or when people decide that you condone the behavior. It was a hard lesson for me, but it is what it is. I STILL apologize to people for the PF shit. I was bad. I was culpable. Just because I didn’t do it doesn’t mean my presence didn’t support it or let it hurt more people. Same with Spider’s enablers. Spider might be awful, but they never ever would have managed the damage they did without the folks blowing smoke up their ass or the staff on games they played in cheating for them.
Lay down with dogs, get up with fleas.
the entity previously known as Sunny
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@IoleRae said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
the staff on games they played in cheating for them
And now I help run an internet forum. Redemption is possible… or I’m in hell, whichever.
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@Warlander IMO it currently feels like those parasites/fungus that hijack bugs so they can reproduce. The bug’s still walking around, but it’s already braindead/not in control any more. It’s the parasite wearing the corpse until it finds the right conditions.
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@SolarFlare One of several varieties of Cordyceps fungi. In which case I’m guessing the fungi are a certain group of staffers and one headwiz.
But to continue the simile, based on my own experiences, that bug can stagger around brain-dead for a long time before it finally keels over. Guess time will tell.
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@Das-Auto Given that Mace Windu is the guy who almost defeated Darth Sidious, this sounds just like Banshee’s cup of tea.
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@Warlander There’s also a bunch of parasitic worms that live in mantises and then explode out when it goes into the water.
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@SolarFlare I’m so excited about using those in future plots.
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@Arethusa And don’t forget that if you don’t log in for X amount of time (30 days? I can’t remember how long they set) you lose your ships, weapons, Vendor ownerships, etc.
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@icanbeyourmuse said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
@Arethusa Did the events say only Kora types can go? I would go to scenes to get rp that are not my thing if they are open even if the focus is specific people. I don’t know who Discordia is or anything and only loosely following this thread. Is she someone who has shown to be one of the bad people on the game? I try not to paint all staff with the same brush even if they staff on the same game.
Kora events are almost always exclusive to Koras, or their few non-Kora friends. It’s a highly elitist and exclusionary group (go figure, with who the players are). Unless you’re a hot female, then they make an effort to bring you in because Kora is basically a big brothel.
Getting anything on this game sounds complex. I assume the reason for limited ships relates to trying to get people to rp together. I don’t know if that is true. Though, Getting attached doesn’t necessarily mean ‘physical’ things. I have seem people invest in the characters stories and the people around them. I know I have stuck around on a game for people I enjoy talking to/telling the stories with. It sounds like it is a lot of hard work invested into achieving anything on this game, though. So, I don’t entirely blame some people for clinging to their character despite everything said about the place.
Ships aren’t limited. Cool ships are. Everything of value is hoarded, including good ships (fast, good for cargo, prestigious), leaving crap for the average player. At least that’s been the case, a whole lot of ships have probably been recycled with all the bannings and exodus.
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@crawfish They’re terrifying. Do not click unless you want to see a bunch of worms exploding out of a mantis.
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Confirming that the rarer ships of departed individuals were scooped immediately by staff alts and Koras who know staff alts.
To perhaps no one’s surprise, the only things left for the rest of the player base are table scraps. This is far from the first time it’s happened. It won’t be the last unless AoA dies beforehand, which is looking like a very real possibility considering their active player base has been reduced by around 2/3rds.
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As I said before, denigrating sex work is no bueno.
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@SolarFlare I’ve probably seen it! It’s horrible.
thank you for the share!ETA: yep!
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@Pavel Is anyone denigrating sex work, or are they denigrating an insular cluster of dudes who apparently only have interest in women if those women can be paid to be sexually available to them?
