What is R9?

Quilue - Sanctuary
Quilue - Sanctuary Posts: 5,787 Arc User
edited June 2011 in General Discussion
What does the description on the R9 ring say? "The Token of Ultimate Honor"...but what did people do to deserve "Ultimate Honor?" By being rich?

Rank used to be something hard to get; rep had to be obtained by killing things and being victorious in dungeons. Now that all this has become available in the cash shop, people can get R9 overnight by being stationary.

You know how in a certain really old MMO, you had to do a Dragon Slayer quest in order to wear Rune Plate? You had to do quests or unlock a hall to be able to buy each Dragon item? Something like that...The cash shopping aspects of R9 can stay for all I care, but there should at least have been something fun ingame associated with it...like a quest line.

None of this "I'm gonna get R9!" *turns into a cat*

Guess it's too late now that all these people have it, but if there's going to be R10...
Elena Costel: I wash my hands of this affair.
Legerity: *drags you back* *stains your hands with said affair*
Elena Costel: Noooo... I don't want to have a dirty affair with Lady Legerity...
Qui: b:dirty
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  • Burnout - Harshlands
    Burnout - Harshlands Posts: 2,585 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    There's those quests to open 60000 chip packs 100 chip packs at a time. Doing all of those in one sitting, would be totally epic.
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    I replied to the 7th topic on the 1st page of mystic forums, and got reported for necro. Plz save mystic forums.
  • _Nuriko_ - Lost City
    _Nuriko_ - Lost City Posts: 1,004 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    You forget though, pwi doesn't care about its long time player base, there about the short term money making. Once pwi gets there hands on all the money people spend for r9, they no longer care.
    Ahira is a spyb:cryb:cryb:cry
  • Talihina - Raging Tide
    Talihina - Raging Tide Posts: 104 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    There's nothing more satisfying than dropping a r9 who FC'd from 1-101 and has no idea how to use their character.


    You can buy gear, you can't buy skill. b:victory
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  • IrenaSteiner - Dreamweaver
    IrenaSteiner - Dreamweaver Posts: 127 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    They should have left the single chip opening process. Bulk opening makes it too easy, oooh the torture of opening one at a time lol. I loved it when people raged about it hahab:laugh
    Talihina - Raging Tide wrote: »
    There's nothing more satisfying than dropping a r9 who FC'd from 1-101 and has no idea how to use their character.


    You can buy gear, you can't buy skill. b:victory

    Technically we do buy skill with coins and spirit, ijs xD
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  • ReMakaBo - Archosaur
    ReMakaBo - Archosaur Posts: 845 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    Water Sprinkler of Nem Ankh, true epic achievement. Never get that feeling in PWI.
    re
  • _Nuriko_ - Lost City
    _Nuriko_ - Lost City Posts: 1,004 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    That r9 doesn't need skill if he catches you off guard though x.x;
    Ahira is a spyb:cryb:cryb:cry
  • Talihina - Raging Tide
    Talihina - Raging Tide Posts: 104 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    IrenaSteiner - Dreamweaver wrote: »

    Technically we do buy skill with coins and spirit, ijs xD

    Touche.

    _Nuriko_ - Lost City wrote: »
    That r9 doesn't need skill if he catches you off guard though x.x;

    b:shocked Thank god for peripherals. b:pleased
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  • ZAPATON - Sanctuary
    ZAPATON - Sanctuary Posts: 875 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    Money buys honor. Just like it buys everything else. Its nothing new b:pleased

    Just like centuries ago, when money could be used to buy a ticket to heaven b:laugh

    ^The above link is not meant to criticize the Catholic Church, but only a historical review on how money has always been used by humans to buy... everything.
    Madness?

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  • Pyrostormz - Raging Tide
    Pyrostormz - Raging Tide Posts: 956 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    you also to pay a monthly fee to access 95% of the content in that "old MMO"
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  • Talihina - Raging Tide
    Talihina - Raging Tide Posts: 104 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    Pyrostormz - Raging Tide wrote: »
    you also to pay a monthly fee to access 95% of the content in that "old MMO"

    At least they fix bugs and add new content consistently in that MMO b:surrender
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  • ReMakaBo - Archosaur
    ReMakaBo - Archosaur Posts: 845 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    Lol, comapreing 14 bucks to 1,500 bucks.
    re
  • SashaGray - Heavens Tear
    SashaGray - Heavens Tear Posts: 3,765 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    Pyrostormz - Raging Tide wrote: »
    you also to pay a monthly fee to access 95% of the content in that "old MMO"

    r9, unsharded, unrefined costs enough to play a P2P MMO for 10 years
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  • _Nuriko_ - Lost City
    _Nuriko_ - Lost City Posts: 1,004 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    SashaGray - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    r9, unsharded, unrefined costs enough to play a P2P MMO for 10 years

    QFT x.x;
    Ahira is a spyb:cryb:cryb:cry
  • Mumintroll - Heavens Tear
    Mumintroll - Heavens Tear Posts: 3,393 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    I'm telling this for a while already. P2P game is MUCH cheaper, balanced, fun and equal to everybody THAN PWI. And these type of game. If I would play another MMO in my life I would choose P2P for sure.
    In my country we telling this. :"Not everything is gold what is shinning."
    Translate. Free game is not as good as seem to look on first sight.
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  • Boogiepanda - Raging Tide
    Boogiepanda - Raging Tide Posts: 4,682 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    That 'old MMO' actually listens to their player base.

    Wilderness
    Free trade to just name a couple.
  • Okeano - Harshlands
    Okeano - Harshlands Posts: 4,943 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    Boogiepanda - Raging Tide wrote: »
    That 'old MMO' actually listens to their player base.

    Wilderness
    Free trade to just name a couple.

    Umm did those get bring back? Because taking those 2 out completely killed the game for me. It was fun until they said "**** it, instead of fighting bots, we'll just take out free trade".


    TBH, idk how much longer I can keep playing this game. It'd be hard to give up a game you know so well and learn a new one. It's a shame that such a good game got ruined by bad management. The only thing that's keeping me here is like TW.
  • Boogiepanda - Raging Tide
    Boogiepanda - Raging Tide Posts: 4,682 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    Okeano - Harshlands wrote: »
    Umm did those get bring back? Because taking those 2 out completely killed the game for me. It was fun until they said "**** it, instead of fighting bots, we'll just take out free trade".

    Yep, reverted it what it was pre-changes.
  • Woneo - Harshlands
    Woneo - Harshlands Posts: 1,086 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    I played said mmo for countless years, and had overall a better experience with the game (not social) then with this, ijs.
  • Okeano - Harshlands
    Okeano - Harshlands Posts: 4,943 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    Boogiepanda - Raging Tide wrote: »
    Yep, reverted it what it was pre-changes.

    Grr I'm tempted to back lol. It was my first MMO. Wish I didn't sell my santa hat.
  • Tremblewith - Heavens Tear
    Tremblewith - Heavens Tear Posts: 1,558 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    Quilue - Sanctuary wrote: »
    What does the description on the R9 ring say? "The Token of Ultimate Honor"...but what did people do to deserve "Ultimate Honor?" By being rich?

    Rank used to be something hard to get; rep had to be obtained by killing things and being victorious in dungeons. Now that all this has become available in the cash shop, people can get R9 overnight by being stationary.

    You know how in a certain really old MMO, you had to do a Dragon Slayer quest in order to wear Rune Plate? You had to do quests or unlock a hall to be able to buy each Dragon item? Something like that...The cash shopping aspects of R9 can stay for all I care, but there should at least have been something fun ingame associated with it...like a quest line.

    None of this "I'm gonna get R9!" *turns into a cat*

    Guess it's too late now that all these people have it, but if there's going to be R10...

    In theory, it can be broken down like this...

    Rank 9 is supposed to be a rank. Examples of ranks in real life would be the army, where you work you're way up to the top ranks, through time and hard work.

    Rank 9 as well as all rank gear in PWI, requires reputation (rep). Reputation is something that is supposed to be earned through, again... Hard work. You can't get a lot of good reputation in real life without first doing something(s) of hard, valued work.

    However...

    Rank 9 can be purchased in PWI with real life cash, as with most in-game things. The same goes for the character's reputation. The player can obtain something that should be worked for, by pulling out a credit card and punching the digits via the keyboard, into the form and pressing "Charge Zen". Without killing one monster (assuming the player is level 101), they can obtain end-game rank 9 gear as well as the reputation. The most movement needed is a few steps around Arch.

    Where is the work in this?

    (I agree w/ the OP 100%)

    Talihina - Raging Tide wrote: »
    There's nothing more satisfying than dropping a r9 who FC'd from 1-101 and has no idea how to use their character.


    You can buy gear, you can't buy skill. b:victory

    While this is completely true, and there is nothing that gets me off more than dropping a rank 9 player that has cash shopped their levels (1-101) as well as gear, there are some stipulations.

    Dropping a rank 9 user that has no skills, still is difficult. While you, the hard working player has to use various tactics, strats, and skills to kill them; they are able to kill you in one or two hits by pressing the "F1" hotkey, which holds the skill "Gush".
  • Longknife - Harshlands
    Longknife - Harshlands Posts: 4,843 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    A r9 fighting anyone else is like a level 100 fighting a level 50 while wearing level 80 gear.
    I <3 AGOREY
  • Kiyoshi - Heavens Tear
    Kiyoshi - Heavens Tear Posts: 2,385 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    Talihina - Raging Tide wrote: »
    There's nothing more satisfying than dropping a r9 who FC'd from 1-101 and has no idea how to use their character.


    You can buy gear, you can't buy skill. b:victory

    Thats fun to say and all. But I am pretty sure most r9s can afk tank you to grab a drink... and come back to smack you around.
    1. If I kill you; do something about it yourself, don't go complaining to my wife.
    2. If you have less kill counts then me, don't expect me to take pk advice from you.
    3. If you are hiding behind an alt, don't expect me to acknowledge your existence.

    Tokichiro - Heavy Armor Fish / Kiyoshi - Dual Blade Elf
  • Michael_Dark - Lost City
    Michael_Dark - Lost City Posts: 9,091 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    Quilue - Sanctuary wrote: »
    What does the description on the R9 ring say? "The Token of Ultimate Honor"...but what did people do to deserve "Ultimate Honor?" By being rich?

    Rank used to be something hard to get; rep had to be obtained by killing things and being victorious in dungeons. Now that all this has become available in the cash shop, people can get R9 overnight by being stationary.

    You know how in a certain really old MMO, you had to do a Dragon Slayer quest in order to wear Rune Plate? You had to do quests or unlock a hall to be able to buy each Dragon item? Something like that...The cash shopping aspects of R9 can stay for all I care, but there should at least have been something fun ingame associated with it...like a quest line.

    None of this "I'm gonna get R9!" *turns into a cat*

    Guess it's too late now that all these people have it, but if there's going to be R10...


    You don't understand...

    In China, Rank 9 is hard to get. You really need to work for it. You can't buy it like you do here.
    I post in forums. This one and others. That's why I post.
  • _blood_rain - Sanctuary
    _blood_rain - Sanctuary Posts: 2,532 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    Supposedly, Frankie was going to try to get us a new in game way to get medals. But I think we know what that means.

    And do you really foresee a rank10? G17? TBh I don't think this games gear is meant to go up that high. PvP will probably be about who gets the first stun in. And what will happen when every idiot has r9? Then in what direction does pwi go?
    Anyway, Imo, 90% of r9ers on the server are a waste of their own gear. The gear completely defines their ability, the gear practically wears them. They should really change the death notifications in TW.

    EXample:
    You have been killed by Nebulous Shooter

    Instead of:
    You have been killed by *******
  • Kiyoshi - Heavens Tear
    Kiyoshi - Heavens Tear Posts: 2,385 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    _blood_rain - Sanctuary wrote: »
    Supposedly, Frankie was going to try to get us a new in game way to get medals. But I think we know what that means.

    And do you really foresee a rank10? G17? TBh I don't think this games gear is meant to go up that high. PvP will probably be about who gets the first stun in. And what will happen when every idiot has r9? Then in what direction does pwi go?
    Anyway, Imo, 90% of r9ers on the server are a waste of their own gear. The gear completely defines their ability, the gear practically wears them. They should really change the death notifications in TW.

    EXample:
    You have been killed by Nebulous Shooter

    Instead of:
    You have been killed by *******

    Someone is bitter that they don't have r9 gears. Or let me guess... you are one of those who insist on not getting any r9 gear for the principle of things. Seriously... don't make me laugh. Good players will have good gears... regardless of what they are. Those r9 who are kicking *** (now) have long kicked *** before r9 or even r8 became affordable. And those r9s who get laughed at... have long got laughed at.
    1. If I kill you; do something about it yourself, don't go complaining to my wife.
    2. If you have less kill counts then me, don't expect me to take pk advice from you.
    3. If you are hiding behind an alt, don't expect me to acknowledge your existence.

    Tokichiro - Heavy Armor Fish / Kiyoshi - Dual Blade Elf
  • _blood_rain - Sanctuary
    _blood_rain - Sanctuary Posts: 2,532 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    Kiyoshi - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    Someone is bitter that they don't have r9 gears. Or let me guess... you are one of those who insist on not getting any r9 gear for the principle of things. Seriously... don't make me laugh. Good players will have good gears... regardless of what they are. Those r9 who are kicking *** (now) have long kicked *** before r9 or even r8 became affordable. And those r9s who get laughed at... have long got laughed at.

    lol resort to insults so fast? It's no fun bantering with an idiot so I'll keep it friendly.

    Not everyone with r9 is unskilled, yes I may have exaggerated the fail percent its probably realistically more around 60-70%. My statements come from the fact that many people considered "top" are only so because they have r9. they were unheard of before and their skills were only so-so, still are. There are r9 archers on my server that I can reluctantly admit that I play better than. My main concern is that skill is even less of a factor.

    I admit I do not like r9, I personally think it is too powerful for being that simple to obtain. But for those hardworking, well-skilled individuals, It's nice to see them in r9.
  • SQUISHKASS - Sanctuary
    SQUISHKASS - Sanctuary Posts: 269 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    Michael_Dark - Lost City wrote: »
    You don't understand...

    In China, Rank 9 is hard to get. You really need to work for it. You can't buy it like you do here.

    ^ This.
    No rep sales, medals only in tw.
    That's why warsoul weap are so popular there, cause r9 is a much bigger pain to get.

    They also don't have ocean orb sales.


    I just wish I could read chinese to play it :/
  • Azura - Lost City
    Azura - Lost City Posts: 2,281 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    Getting rank9 is hard work. It is specially hard with this gold price and the removal of medals from dq.
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  • Mumintroll - Heavens Tear
    Mumintroll - Heavens Tear Posts: 3,393 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    Azura - Lost City wrote: »
    Getting rank9 is hard work. It is specially hard with this gold price and the removal of medals from dq.

    Hard? You mean expensive no?b:chuckle It's not the same.
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  • Valrain - Archosaur
    Valrain - Archosaur Posts: 105 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    There is this other MMO, sounds like "sift". b:chuckle I'm there and have been having a blast.

    Do yourself a favor and cough up $15/mo to play a game where the devs actually give a damn about the players and the community. PWE works for China, not for us. In "sift", the devs live in Redwood City, CA.

    "Goof Wads 2" and "Dynablo 3" also look promising...

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