Harder to make ingame friends than it used to be

_Bloody_Fox_ - Sanctuary wrote: »

I remember when quests were a good way to make friends as all you would have to do is ask someone to party up for a certain quest.
But now this game barely has any quests any more, and no one even does quests after 40.
It's so sad i used to LOVE this game but now it has let me down so much =/ QQ

The presence of cheap oracles, hyper stones, 3x bounties nullifies the need to do any quest.

Most people have their time sucked into doing dailies. Doing world quest and bounty already takes at least 1.5-2 hours each day.

The reward of quest is pale compared to dailies, thus this is pushing people to be much less social.

ValenaHaiko - Heavens Tear wrote: »

The presence of cheap oracles, hyper stones, 3x bounties nullifies the need to do any quest.

Most people have their time sucked into doing dailies. Doing world quest and bounty already takes at least 1.5-2 hours each day.

The reward of quest is pale compared to dailies, thus this is pushing people to be much less social.

oh, because quests are supposed to be done by a squad and bh solo, right?
hypers cant be used without doing something too

but i aggree that wq is done while afk (most of the time)



to the OP, most of my in-game friends are RL friends or faction mates or ppl i met in BH. i've never added/got added by someone just because we did a quest together with 1 exception on my cleric. my psy soloed most of the quests anyway

Michael_dark - Lost City wrote: »

Yeah, you don't meet many people around your level and level up with them for months anymore.

Now you see people hitting 100 and 101 that you've never heard of or even have seen in-game because they've been stuck in a nearly endless BH loop. Then they get there, expect respect and everyone is like who the hell ARE you?

And then you look at their gear and lol. It's either **** or highly cash shopped.

This +1.

All the people I have leveled with have either stopped playing, or play less and less these days. So I leveled my archer hoping they'd come back. They haven't. Oh well. Guess I'll just make some new friends, or do my BHs in faction.b:laugh

Islamey - Dreamweaver wrote: »

He should join a decent faction . I also found TT and FC to be a great way of meeting people/making connections.

Lies you dont fc lool

Lies you dont fc lool

I'm just trying to sound popular..shhhhh.

To me regular mob quest were never good for squading. The range on the party was not wide enough. You get more than around 20 meter away from squadd members and it no good. the mobs are so spread out that i found squading really never work good. If you stay clse enough togther there will not be enough mobs. If you sqread out a bit then you dont get credit for the other kills.

Squads only needed for bosses. I dont really go out of my may to kill a boss that will only give me 2 or 3 % whn i can do a daily that gives 10 to 20%. Bosses give high reputation but after you get rank 3 or 4, it time to give up unless you want to spend boku bucks.

All that being said i love the daily BH's and other stuff. It allows you to build many characters whcih i enjoy. I also like that not many peoel are grinding, getting in my way when im triyng ot quickly do a mob killing quest.

I agree. I've only had one group of I guess online friends once, and that was around the level 20-40's. It's really fun to get in a good squad and chat and whack mobs all day. But now there isn't anyone to get into a squad with. b:sad Not to mention my friends list has been empty for at least three months now lol. Maybe I'm bad at finding social people. b:shocked

It does suck that the game is almost nothing like it used to be. Almost all of the good players have quit, and the new generation mostly hypers to 100, skipping all the content (and learning process that goes with it). You got high-levels running around with no clue what's going on, and the lower-level areas are ghost towns. Granted, everyone enjoys the game in different ways, but I think a lot of what used to make this game great has been phased out by greed. I started playing in 2008 and it was a whole different experience back then, much more fun and easier to meet random people, and people did more than just dailies. If I hadn't reached a good high level before the major changes were made, I never would have bothered the way it is now. This is still a good game that I enjoy, but I'm sad that it's no longer a truly great game.

I kind of agree... I'm a little worried how this might impact new players. The low level areas around the starting cities seem fairly empty b:sad

My problem is that 99% of the time I squad with "Anyone" I get **** for drops - doesn't matter if I am highest or lowest lvl in the squad! Doesn't matter if I do the most kiling or not - I GET SCREWED out of the valuable drops.

NO!! I am not exagerating in the least - it "always COSTS me" to squad with anyone!

Once I realized - the only way I can come out ahead on a quest is by doing solo I lost all interest in squading!

The only time "most" friends called me was when they needed my toons skill sets (Cleric/BM). They were usually "too busy" to assist me when It was my turn to run a quest That I helped them complete.

In game friends are overrated - most are only friends when they need you. They will learn to power level and leave you in the dust, eventually they are too good to be bothered with you as the level difference increases.

All that said - I have a few "very good" and loyal in game friends who have leveled at about the same pace as myself and we will log what ever alt needed to assist each other.

They, like myself, prefer to solo as much as they can, we will squad each other despite the fact we are each doing different things - just for the convenience of party chatting.

If in game comoradery is what you seek - I support a previous suggestion you find a friendly guild with common appeal to your personality.

Most of the friends I maintain regular contact with I met in my 60's levels - most that I made in my 40's have since - either leveled to 100 or quit altogether. I figure most of my active friends average about 20 levels of loyalty before something causes a faling off or end of commitment to one on one loyalty.

Well, i'm fairly new to the game (about 4 months playing) yet i find it somewhat easy to make friends, maybe because i'm an old school player who likes to level the old school way, quests, grinding, stuff like that, i do BHs but i'm lazy and tend to stack like 3 of them before i actually do any, so i don't do BHs on a daily basis, and i stopped doing CS when i hit 81 (76k for 216k exp doesn't seem like quite a fair deal), so i find people i like every now and then, and add them to my friends list

Good ways to make new friends:
-join a widely known faction, doesn't even need to own any land, just a faction that is well known in your server, popular factions are popular for a reason, they usually have interesting people on them, if you feel it's not the faction for you kindly let them know and try another one
-do TTs, i've got about 50% my friends list this way, with people i know is capable of handling their roles and playing their chars, if i happen to know someone who total and absolutely fails to play their vocation (i won't say names on these forums) i refuse to squad with them ever again
-do FCs, same reasons as TT, but TT = money and FC = exp
-advertise a little (JUST A LITTLE) in real life, i know it sounds crazy, but if you have friends in real life who might be interested into the game, let them know! maybe they like it, get hooked up with it and you have someone to chat or do quests with, plus they will make friends of their own and you might like them

heh, i got some best mates in here, including Shadowfish (hes so fit o.o)
my facitons prett close knit, we all laugh and joke and help out when we can
i conclude my psot with a PWI meme

EDIT: damn page stretcher XD
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