Dark Age Of Camelot
Hey folks - Vanesyra's excellent site at www.excidio.net now includes a range of great graphs, etc., looking at balance. No need for me to do the full set of graphs. But just wanted to update on year on year character counts using the data from Vanesyra's site.The graph below shows the population line for the last few years. This year started off promising, but has tailed off. Note this time last year we were in the middle of a Come Back to Camelot Campaign, which helped spike numbers a bit over the summer.
In the Dark Age of Camelot, the world is under siege. Three realms offer different classes and races to play for hours of fast-paced adventure. The pastoral lands of Albion hearken back to the wonder of Arthurian legend. Visit actual historical sites such as Hadrian’s Wall and Stonehenge as you battle the hordes. Dark Age of Camelot is an MMO focused on Realm vs. Realm combat featuring three Realms at war - Midgard, Hibernia and Albion. DAoC features multiple class/race combinations, a robust trade skill system, and a comprehensive player Guild system.
No such boost this year so the summer is having a similar decline to what we saw in 2016. There is usually recovery over the summer, generally boosted by patches and Come Back to Camelot campaigns. Let's hope the same happens this year!Population last week was down 29% on the same time last year and down 39% on the same period in 2016. Now let’s think of what occurred at these high peaks and try to replicate them.
Your turn now BSbasically it's mainly come back to camelot campaigns, rp bonuses, and patches!i feel like there's a big patch with an rvr focus coming (but it might need a population to work.), which will probably coincide or precede a fall come back to camelot campaign, and i'm sure there will be an RP bonus in there somewhere.long story short, i do expect the population to get a significant boost when all that comes along. Depending on when the patch goes live. Holidays are coming up so maybe soon? I fear that population will drop even further by the time this patch comes out. I mean we were hoping by fall that the Endless Conquest would come out to boost the server population a little but even that's not coming till next year now which is a disappointment.We have. 2 coming out soon and only in beta and maybe CU and I feel Broadsword are squandering this time to improve changes to both the PvE/RvR side.
My fear Voldermort 2 will be better than the live servers and what I've seen of it so far has made me think of trying it out. So much of the content they are bringing out is what I loved!I just don't see the live servers fun anymore! In my opinion I honestly think they need to start a fresh server. Ywain is just not DAoC, it's like seeing WoW and DAoC put together. I was dead against having WoW in DAoC but man the PvE is awful and I've mentioned this to Beib and they think the PvE is amazing.
It's by far the worst implementation in DAoC history and sadly they won't listen to their player base that they would prefer to see nostalgia encounters than this buggy, pointless, headache, frustrating, random Campaign.The sad thing is no player base will agree with me about the PvE side because everyone far to interested to get into RvR. However people forget that New/Returning players do have to do this PvE stuff and if they can't understand or get on a raid it discourages them. Everyone says well that's where leaders like myself come in but seriously a campaign that gives BG leaders headaches and can't even help a player if we haven't got grantcredit.
I'm frustrated beyond belief and I'm really thinking of just stopping these PvE raids and just run RvR until Voldmort 2 comes out. If they were smart they would have put in a minor patch with some changes, just to spark some interest. We haven’t had anything essentially since like Valentine’s Day. To some it might seem BS has abandoned us as they have had little to no action besides words and empty promises. Most assumed f2p or some aspect in the producers letters would have happened by now but to release absolutely nothing in 6 months is just unacceptable. I myself have cut my play time in half and am contemplating canceling my bot account since the little I do play I can just use supp pots for anyway.
Dark Age Of Camelot Phoenix
Please BS, put something out before you lose more people, even if just minor stuff, it will show good faith and possibly keep some of us addicts around hoping for more. I've lost confidence and closed out my account for now. I'm having a blast PvEing mobs and just casually playing on a half-completed fan project rather than run around with the same stale action on EV night after night. Guess those 3fg of Mids are going to need to find a few other solos and duos to feed off of from now on.The problem is that the freeshards die faster as they were build up, on live i have all my toons.from release til today. I´d stop playing DAoC at all before i go back to a freeshard, but i would start over on a new live server.
I've lost confidence and closed out my account for now. I'm having a blast PvEing mobs and just casually playing on a half-completed fan project rather than run around with the same stale action on EV night after night. Guess those 3fg of Mids are going to need to find a few other solos and duos to feed off of from now on.The problem is that the freeshards die faster as they were build up, on live i have all my toons.from release til today. I´d stop playing DAoC at all before i go back to a freeshard, but i would start over on a new live server.To some people that is part of the fun. I don't mind if I don't have ten years of holdings. A fresh start brings new things, people come and go, those on top get tossed back into the shuffle.
Some people love it, others clearly hate it.Current DAoC live in like some bloated corpse. Bloated power creep on items. Bloated economy. Bloated RP's/RR's.
It feels like it's lost it's meaning and has become a subpar version of the idea that made it special in the first place.Essentially, all my stuff on live isn't worth a damn if there is nobody to play against in my timeslot. Only so much running around you can do. Late night PST is always low pop - so when famine hits, you feel it even harder. I've lost confidence and closed out my account for now. I'm having a blast PvEing mobs and just casually playing on a half-completed fan project rather than run around with the same stale action on EV night after night. Guess those 3fg of Mids are going to need to find a few other solos and duos to feed off of from now on.The problem is that the freeshards die faster as they were build up, on live i have all my toons.from release til today. I´d stop playing DAoC at all before i go back to a freeshard, but i would start over on a new live server.To some people that is part of the fun.
I don't mind if I don't have ten years of holdings. A fresh start brings new things, people come and go, those on top get tossed back into the shuffle. Some people love it, others clearly hate it.After 3 toons to 50, you know where.sorry, there isn`t anything new. Even on a fresh new server there will be nothing new, but i would prefer a new live-server. It would be simply fair to returning and new players 'if' f2p kicks in, and it would be full.Currently playing ppl would still have Ywain, or they join the fun.
I have two characters that are just weeks away from rr 13, a reset and i'm out. That would be the worst thing that happened to me in 30 years of gaming.I agree, resets lose more than they gain.But i didn't see anyone mention reset, a fresh server isn't a reset and whilst some may think it will split the population - it would probably bring more people back and have limited effect on the ywain core. Obviously a fresh server would need to be semi targetted at the huge player base that is missing and the reasons they are missing. Being a returning player I thought I'd throw in my 2 cents. Returning players have a difficult time in this game. People dont openly group with returning players in 8mans. So if ur on at a time with no bg zerg up u have no choice but to log or go feed all the stealthers hanging out at maze /boxes.heaven forbid if you unknowningly rolled a class that isnt desired for the main game meta.
People exile you so fast regardless if your a guildy or not.the bottom line is no one enjoys playing a game which stomps on ur face because ur new/returning for an extended period of time. My gutt feel is the community needs to change if they want this game to stay alive. There also needs to be something in place to encourage more grouping between various classes/rr levels.i have played on all three realms so far and found midgard is the worst for these atrributes while hib is the least for these attributes.
The original GearBunnyX and Classic template makers for the mmo, Dark Age of Camelot. GearBunny Fusion will be on another page once it is ready.May 19, 2019: This will probably be GearBunnyX's final update. I have much respect for Turbo Delphi 2006 for lasting this long, but I think it's time for it to be retired for good. (It was constantly crashing while doing this update from IDE failures. Not fun.)3/20/2018: GearBunnyX has received updates to bring it current with v1.124 of the game.
More details can be found in the patch notes included in the zip file or the dev blog.1/29/2018: GearBunny Classic can't be updated any further than it's last 1.118 version and is officially retired. It's final notes and compatible database file are included in it's zip file.In the near future, I plan to release a new version (GearBunny Fusion) that will combine the best of both versions to replace them and better utilize the information that Broadsword has given in their database.
It will be written with the more modern Lazarus IDE. I will be posting dev blogs here on Itch.io as I make progress on this version. Until then, I hope these two versions of GearBunny will still be useful to the Camelot community. Thank you for all your encouragement all these years.Donations are helpful, but not required. Thank you to everyone who has used and supported this application over the last 10+ years.