Here comes 2013!
2012-12-25 · rumor
Merry Christmas 3Sers! 2013 is almost upon us and with it, you're going to see some big changes to our guilds. The changes will come starting this week and will probably continue for the next few months. In a nutshell, many of you have complained about "the grind" and how difficult it is to reach the upper tier of our guilds given our ban on botting and the real life constraints on play time that our increasingly adult audience has to contend with. We heard you. We are implementing a two-phased plan to not only combat that difficulty, but to also further differentiate ourselves from the play style of 3K. Phase One involves bringing all guilds up to the same level as our best guilds when it comes to ceiling. While this isn't an exact science, guilds will top out at a much more level playing field than they do today. We did quite a bit of guild testing and after determining where every guild is at, we're going to be tweaking most of them to boost them to a similar ceiling to that of our most powerful top-end guilds. This is much more complicated than it sounds given the many nuances of guild balancing, but to give you a very simplistic picture, think of hitting plus tanking as a flat number. For easy math, let's say that flat number tops out at 1000. Some guilds hit for 800 and tank for 200. Others hit for 200 and tank for 800. Others do 500 each. Our goal isn't to change this variety, but only to make sure everyone tops out around that same 1000 mark. Phase Two involves greatly speeding up the time from newbie to top end in each guild. The idea is that if you can reach the upper echelons of a guild quicker, you'll spend more time exploring, questing, trying other guilds with your legal seconds/thirds, etc. We know this won't (and shouldn't) stop the grinders, but it just means you won't HAVE to grind nearly as long in order to get "bs". I hope this excites you guys as much as it excites us. It's going to be a great year on 3S!