Besieged @ Pandemonium

[Victalyssa]

Everyone on Leviathan just watched the trolls approach the city. There are ~500 people in Al Zahbi. They just breached the Bahran line or whatever, and I tried to zone into Al Zahbi and got booted off the server.

Now I can't log in because "the server is currently congested."


<--- owned

[Elemmire]

people that bitch should go play WoW...





oh wait..

[Vobent]

Troll mercenaries have retreated. .

[TsingTao]

It's not SE's fault you all zerged the shit out of those poor Trolls. They were expecting a gun fight and you brought nukes.

Seriously, in a few weeks when there's not 300+ twinked level 75s just waiting to see the first town attack things will be different.

[Meara]

500 people on Shiva. 5 monsters.

Took about 15 seconds.

Pretty sure things are gonna be tweaked.

[Suci]

lol same thing on cerberus i just heard now. It was over before it started

[Beltran]

Honestly, this was the first besieged that happened, no one knows what the next one will be like. Maybe because it's the first one, they start with a small number of forces, like 50-100. And the more we defeat them, the bigger and stronger they get in the future.

So if it lasted 2 minutes now against 50 trolls, maybe the next one will be bigger according to the number of people that participated in besieged. No one knows how this works yet.

[Koga]

Honestly, this was the first besieged that happened, no one knows what the next one will be like. Maybe because it's the first one, they start with a small number of forces, like 50-100. And the more we defeat them, the bigger and stronger they get in the future.

So if it lasted 2 minutes now against 50 trolls, maybe the next one will be bigger according to the number of people that participated in besieged. No one knows how this works yet.

There were mabe 8-10 Trolls?

[Beltran]

Pardon me...

200 people against 8-10 trolls...

you get my point though

[Kuponut]

Square must have tested besieged with their 18-person development team

[XxSlusherxx]

I like the fact that these problems are being looked at and addressed after like only a week of release. Everyone needs to quit their bitching; they're not fucking psychic they can't see the problems before they happen.

Seriously lol. Like everyone has said, they didn't expect the amount of people in Aht Urgan to be bigger than all the jeuno zones combined. This is the first time this has happened, everyone is fucking excited and wants to kills the trolls; therefore, they all go out after them.

Actually, they SHOULD anticipate this stuff. Do you honestly think they didn't realize that a majority of the players would go batshit for this expansion pack and flood the new zones?

Considering the way CoP went. No.

And even if they did anticipate this many people in the new zones, maybe they were unable to anticipate the correct number of beastmen that's needed to make besieged longer and more enjoyable.

OK Lets make it really fucking hard, then in a month when people don't care as much the 15 people that show up for besiged can get their salads tossed.

[GRT]

Pardon me...

200 people against 8-10 trolls...

you get my point though

this is the reversed dynamis... too bad trolls are too stupid to sleepga XD

[Firestarter]

Besieged.... Fails! Hard

maybe when the trolls training increases to higher levels, it may be more difficult for 200 people to zerg them.

[FFXIFlux]

There are over 3000 players on most of the time. This number has fallen a lot from the high number and with the 2nd expansion in a row looking like an abysmal failure no doubt it will continue to drop. DESPITE that however, it doesn't take a brainsurgeon to figure out that 3000 players, many many of which have 1 if not more level 75 jobs, is going to laugh at 100 mobs. It also doesn't take a brainsurgeon to figure out that /sea region in Jeuno returning 1k people will mean that when you have a new city that is very hard to get to from jeuno but very easy to get to jeuno from it, that 500 player limit in is ridiculous.

And even if besieged defence fails, who gives a fuck? YOU LOSE NOTHING aside from the free warp taru. Let the fuckers take the zone, who cares? In fact it might even increase the return on assault missions, so losing Al Zhabi could very well be a GOOD thing. Go trolls, go!

Fail. Not that the expansion will even be done for a year. Maybe a year from now when they've put everything in and you've finally gotten the expansion you payed for it might get a grade of D-, but right now it's an F.

[FFXIFlux]

Honestly, this was the first besieged that happened, no one knows what the next one will be like. Maybe because it's the first one, they start with a small number of forces, like 50-100. And the more we defeat them, the bigger and stronger they get in the future.

So if it lasted 2 minutes now against 50 trolls, maybe the next one will be bigger according to the number of people that participated in besieged. No one knows how this works yet.

There were mabe 8-10 Trolls?

I heard Gilgamesh's trolls went on their rampage last night sometime. Something like 15-20 trolls were repulsed by the 500 people in the zone and the 200 waiting outside who couldn't get into the zone.

[Gamutstreet]

There are over 3000 players on most of the time. This number has fallen a lot from the high number and with the 2nd expansion in a row looking like an abysmal failure no doubt it will continue to drop. DESPITE that however, it doesn't take a brainsurgeon to figure out that 3000 players, many many of which have 1 if not more level 75 jobs, is going to laugh at 100 mobs. It also doesn't take a brainsurgeon to figure out that /sea region in Jeuno returning 1k people will mean that when you have a new city that is very hard to get to from jeuno but very easy to get to jeuno from it, that 500 player limit in is ridiculous.

And even if besieged defence fails, who gives a fuck? YOU LOSE NOTHING aside from the free warp taru. Let the fuckers take the zone, who cares? In fact it might even increase the return on assault missions, so losing Al Zhabi could very well be a GOOD thing. Go trolls, go!

Fail. Not that the expansion will even be done for a year. Maybe a year from now when they've put everything in and you've finally gotten the expansion you payed for it might get a grade of D-, but right now it's an F.

Dammit. Why do you still play this game? I've never seen a post from you that you aren't bitching about something.

[Wizerd]

There are over 3000 players on most of the time. This number has fallen a lot from the high number and with the 2nd expansion in a row looking like an abysmal failure no doubt it will continue to drop. DESPITE that however, it doesn't take a brainsurgeon to figure out that 3000 players, many many of which have 1 if not more level 75 jobs, is going to laugh at 100 mobs. It also doesn't take a brainsurgeon to figure out that /sea region in Jeuno returning 1k people will mean that when you have a new city that is very hard to get to from jeuno but very easy to get to jeuno from it, that 500 player limit in is ridiculous.

And even if besieged defence fails, who gives a fuck? YOU LOSE NOTHING aside from the free warp taru. Let the fuckers take the zone, who cares? In fact it might even increase the return on assault missions, so losing Al Zhabi could very well be a GOOD thing. Go trolls, go!

Fail. Not that the expansion will even be done for a year. Maybe a year from now when they've put everything in and you've finally gotten the expansion you payed for it might get a grade of D-, but right now it's an F.

I'm going to disagree.

Assault is A-
Besieged is F
New versions of old content (ie: random quests, exp areas, crafting, etc) is an overall B
New NMs is C-
New Missions are C- (I want to fight something)
The town is a fucking A+

I'd grade the expansion an overall C+/B so far, with hopes that it will improve.

500 player zone limit isn't something they chose to put in, they had to do that, especially with the addition of mobs in there.

Also, failing at Besieged won't increase the return on Assault. It's already been discovered that other than storyline, Assault has no effect on Besieged. The only thing losing Besieged does is reset or lower the exp bonus gained from Sanction (which as of now on most servers sits at 200, or 5% bonus).

Edit: Also, Remora's jeuno region typically returned 500ish before the expansion, not a thousand. Maybe your server is too busy sitting on their asses complaining about stuff like this, doing nothing about it.

[Beltran]

There are over 3000 players on most of the time. This number has fallen a lot from the high number and with the 2nd expansion in a row looking like an abysmal failure no doubt it will continue to drop. DESPITE that however, it doesn't take a brainsurgeon to figure out that 3000 players, many many of which have 1 if not more level 75 jobs, is going to laugh at 100 mobs. It also doesn't take a brainsurgeon to figure out that /sea region in Jeuno returning 1k people will mean that when you have a new city that is very hard to get to from jeuno but very easy to get to jeuno from it, that 500 player limit in is ridiculous.

And even if besieged defence fails, who gives a fuck? YOU LOSE NOTHING aside from the free warp taru. Let the fuckers take the zone, who cares? In fact it might even increase the return on assault missions, so losing Al Zhabi could very well be a GOOD thing. Go trolls, go!

Fail. Not that the expansion will even be done for a year. Maybe a year from now when they've put everything in and you've finally gotten the expansion you payed for it might get a grade of D-, but right now it's an F.

Well I like it, I love it in fact. If they take the city, it won't matter because it'll be fun rescuing the NPCs back. If besieged is too easy right now, that's ok, it'll get tougher later. It is impossible to please everyone at the same time, so if it's too hard people complains, if it's too easy, people complains. So I hope besieged keeps scores and realizes the amount of people that participated in each besieged so the number of armed forces increases according to the amount of people that participated in the last besieged.

[Beltran]

Besides... according to SE screenshots, they have besieged screenshots in which they show Lamias with trolls with mamools all in one. Right now, all we had was 1 besieged from just Trolls. Who knows if in the future they ally together and rape us? or if they all get to 100% and come together?

[Wizerd]

There are over 3000 players on most of the time. This number has fallen a lot from the high number and with the 2nd expansion in a row looking like an abysmal failure no doubt it will continue to drop. DESPITE that however, it doesn't take a brainsurgeon to figure out that 3000 players, many many of which have 1 if not more level 75 jobs, is going to laugh at 100 mobs. It also doesn't take a brainsurgeon to figure out that /sea region in Jeuno returning 1k people will mean that when you have a new city that is very hard to get to from jeuno but very easy to get to jeuno from it, that 500 player limit in is ridiculous.

And even if besieged defence fails, who gives a fuck? YOU LOSE NOTHING aside from the free warp taru. Let the fuckers take the zone, who cares? In fact it might even increase the return on assault missions, so losing Al Zhabi could very well be a GOOD thing. Go trolls, go!

Fail. Not that the expansion will even be done for a year. Maybe a year from now when they've put everything in and you've finally gotten the expansion you payed for it might get a grade of D-, but right now it's an F.

Well I like it, I love it in fact. If they take the city, it won't matter because it'll be fun rescuing the NPCs back. If besieged is too easy right now, that's ok, it'll get tougher later. It is impossible to please everyone at the same time, so if it's too hard people complains, if it's too easy, people complains. So I hope besieged keeps scores and realizes the amount of people that participated in each besieged so the number of armed forces increases according to the amount of people that participated in the last besieged.

Unfortunately that wouldn't work due to the fact that the amount of people online changes every hour, and if the last Besieged was done during primetime (like the ones we all had last night), and the next was during, say, European primetime, it would be unbalanced. Vice Versa for not having enough mobs to attack the town.