Agony in Darkfall
#1
Posted 21 April 2009 - 03:29 PM
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#2
Posted 21 April 2009 - 05:01 PM
http://darkfall.agonyempire.com/
Also, lilly (Hael's girlfriend) modified the Agony hydra logo to be more Darkfall-ish.
Brief recap of events in Agony to this point:
The first several weeks in game consists of us hanging around the Dwarven npc cities learning the game, exploring, making money, skilling up, defending against pvp raids, and launching our own raids west into Mahirim terrirtory.
A few people then decide to explore the jungle sub-continent of Yssam and find a player city under siege. They talk to the defenders (Covenant of the Phoenix [Stasis Alliance]) and jump in the fight helping them defend their city.
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A few days later
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Breg meets Lys Noir (currently our French and French Canadian counterparts) and forms a relationship with them. Shortly afterward, Lys Noir declares war on Juevos del Diablo and challenges them for their island hamlet between the main continent of Agon, and the northern ice continent of Nifelheim.
Political Map (3/23)
Agony travels to the island by raft to aid them in their siege where Lys Noir uses the first Warhulk hover tanks in Darkfall to destroy the clanstone and win the hamlet for their own.
Political Map (3/24)
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Over the next few weeks
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Agony/Lys Noir comes to the aid of the Stasis alliance on Yssam wanting to join the Stasis Alliance and take a hamlet or city for Agony. Many leaders of the Stasis alliance don't want to fully accept Agony and Lys Noir into the alliance unless they're being sieged and want our help.
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The next day
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The Dark Hand of Valor decides to siege a city of Stasis. Stasis offers the city to them if they would join them and Agony/Lys Noir decide to turn away from Stasis after we consistently fought for them bringing 1/2 as many numbers as they brought though they had roughly 5-6 times our member count.
The Dark Hand of Valor being a friend of ours with a defence pact between us, Agony/Lys Noir defend The Dark Hand of Valor's hamlet while they go to siege Stasis' city on Yssam. Agony/Lys Noir along with Hyperion clans (many of which we had fought against the previous day when we were with Stasis Alliance) dug in and defended the Dark Hand of Valor's hamlet from attacking waves of the Goons and Stasis Alliance clans (most of which we fought alongside with the previous day).
When asked who our targets were and weren't, the response was "Basically our friends are now our enemies and our enemies are now our friends". !lol
Breg explains our actions in an official statement:
http://forums.darkfa...ad.php?t=170391
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Several days later
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The Dark Hand of Valor, now secure with their new city on Yssam as a member of the Yssam Coalition, allows Agony to siege and take their hamlet on the northern coast of Yssam. Agony/Lys Noir obtain one of the richest hamlets in the game having 3 resource nodes (a mine, a farm, and a quarry) and a harbor.
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Over the next few weeks
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Agony/Lys Noir build the farm and quarry and begin saving up to build a harbor potentially unlocking a shipyard to build the first ships in Darkfall. Agony/Lys Noir begins to suffer multiple raids by Sinister of the Lords of Death LoD alliance. Agony/Lys Noir join the Latin Federation, an alliance in the Dwarven lands of the main continent of Agon to obtain allies for siege defense. LoD alliance raids Lys Noir's island hamlet destroying their bank. The next day, Lys Noir and clans of the Latin Federation retaliates with a raid on the Sinister city incapacitating their Keep. Sinister retaliates by incapacitating all the buildings of Lys Noir and Agony's hamlets.
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A week later
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LoD challenges Lys Noir's island hamlet and takes it for their own. The Latin Federation are disorganized and begin to fall apart as several clans leave the alliance. Agony seeks help in defending their hamlet from seiges by joining the Hyperion alliance.
Political map (1 week ago)
Agony/Lys Noir weather raid after raid on the hamlet repairing buildings and defending against raids of superior numbers to the best of their abilities while launching raids against the LoD island hamlet that was taken from Lys Noir.
Lys Noir attack the LoD bank on the island hamlet with a warhulk. Fraps is taken and a video leaked on youtube which made the Agon Tribune news and was the first public known use of a warhulk.
Darkfall forum thread
Agon Tribune article
Youtube video (terrible music. Obviously I didn't make it)
LoD alliance responds destroying the Agony hamlet bank and incapacitating the buildings. Agony/Lys Noir rebuild and repair.
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2 days ago
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Sinister challenges Agony's hamlet. Agony calls on the aid of Hyperion and, though the rest of Hyperion was very far away, Hyperion sent an army of 120 soldiers to help defend. Instead of bunkering down in the hamlet in defence, the Hyperion army chased a LoD strike force of ~50 west across the river where the main LoD army of ~100-150 moved in from the south catching the Hyperion army in a cross fire and cutting them down showing the importance of tactical military troop movements when pvping with a large number of people. LoD take tha hamlet.
A tactical analysis and summary of the Battle of Skogul on the darkfall forums:
The Battle of Skogul
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The Present Day
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Agony/Lys Noir decide to head south to border of the Human and Alfar lands where Hyperion's main front is focused on killing the Goons and their alliance (Coalition of the Chill'n). With no hamlets to defend nor buildings to lose, we will be the main aggressive force pushing the Hyperion front as we seige the nearby goon cities and hamlets leaving their buildings in ruin.
We went from one front line to another because that's where we like to be... where the action is.
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#3
Posted 21 April 2009 - 06:52 PM
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Posted 22 April 2009 - 03:47 PM
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Posted 22 April 2009 - 10:38 PM
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Posted 23 April 2009 - 12:39 AM
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#9
Posted 23 April 2009 - 03:03 AM
A subscription to Darkfall is harder to get than enrollment in one of our classes.
Yes, but unlike our pvpu classes, the decrease in availability is causing a decrease in demand as people are giving up trying to buy it.
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#10
Posted 23 April 2009 - 03:10 AM
A subscription to Darkfall is harder to get than enrollment in one of our classes.
Yes, but unlike our pvpu classes, the decrease in availability is causing a decrease in demand as people are giving up trying to buy it.
Yes, they are really cocking it up
#11
Posted 24 April 2009 - 05:10 PM
#12
Posted 24 April 2009 - 06:01 PM
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#13
Posted 24 April 2009 - 07:31 PM
I was going to give it a try a few weeks ago. I asked a handful of buddies in Eve about it and they said Darkfall has went the way of Warhammer. I just assumed no one was playing it anymore and by the comments about getting a subscription I now know why.
The shop still shows "Temporarily Sold Out", which is an amusing state of affairs for a upstart MMO. I do understand they have to consider server load and all that jazz, but they should have ironed this out before going live.
"went the way of Warhammer"
Well, it seems to people that less people have been logging in in the last 2 weeks but not for the same reason as Warhammer. Warhammer was great fun for a few months until you got to level 40 and realized there's no end game and nothing to do. Darkfall has an endless sandbox endgame like EVE so its like... "there's nothing left to do". Major problem is that I think it still feels like a beta. Its very playable and fun, but there's still a lot of balancing they have to do, and a lot of features they haven't implemented yet, and bugs and problems they need to fix. Add on top that sales are still limited and it makes it feel more like a beta.
The first 1/2 month or so there were lots of problems with AV allowing too many people to purchase the game and their server hardware wasn't upgraded and optimized (which came later). Lots of people complaining about several hour long queues that people had to wait in. After the server optimizations, there were no more queues and lag seemed much less of an issue. Now there's less people that have logged in or cancelled subscriptions because there's still lots of balancing that AV haven't done yet (magic and naked fighting are the 2 that come to mind). AV should be opening the store more because there are many people whose subscriptions haven't run out but who aren't logging in.
Though AV have handled their game opening horribly, its still a fun game that they're slowly making better and better each week and has a lot of potential but people want their cake and they want it NOW.
Big patch today so we'll see what sort of changes that brings. Hopefully they un-bug the Czech Heros' hamlet so we can take it. (Czech Heroes owns the hamlet but only 6 members that left and the clan doesn't exist for people to declare war on and challenge it but the hamlet is still claimed by the *dead* clan. Happened before with a city that they fixed with a patch. Seems they can only fix those sort of database issues with patches.
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Posted 25 April 2009 - 12:46 AM
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#16
Posted 25 April 2009 - 04:21 AM
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#17
Posted 25 April 2009 - 05:59 AM
A subscription to Darkfall is harder to get than enrollment in one of our classes.
Yes, but unlike our pvpu classes, the decrease in availability is causing a decrease in demand as people are giving up trying to buy it.
Yeah I've majorly lost major interest because of this. Is it reeeeaally still worth waiting for AAAND learning a new game and the money associated with it?
#18
Posted 25 April 2009 - 07:44 AM
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Posted 25 April 2009 - 07:48 AM
#20
Posted 25 April 2009 - 04:30 PM
LOL. Another two months to let them sort out more things doesn't sound very promising. I'm definetely interested but it's EXTREEEEEMELY hard to maintain that interest level with the current state of affairs. I'm hoping though. !lol
Nah, I mean... forget about it, and then 2 months later be reminded about it and then try it out
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Posted 27 April 2009 - 10:54 PM
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Posted 29 April 2009 - 08:57 PM
#23
Posted 02 May 2009 - 03:21 PM
Imagine if Eve was all 0.0 from the beginning
A more accurate analogy would be, imagine if EVE was all low sec and you could be killed in stations! The only truly safe place is offline.
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#24
Posted 04 May 2009 - 07:11 PM
my wife is between novels (she is a writer)
Cool!, not to hijack the thread but what is her area (fiction, historical fiction, mystery)? My wife and I read a lot so one of us might be interested in checking her work out. We buy books instead of going to the library so it may end up with a few real life ISKies her way.
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#25
Posted 04 May 2009 - 09:17 PM