I have decided to be nice about how I reduce my motivation each morning. It is not high, maybe 4% tops in the morning after 8 hours sleep, so I find 2 of the lowest level duel opposition I can find. Now, however, I have changed as I have decided to be nice
I now equip a Drake's (normal weapon Howdah) and duel them with Drake's instead as I give 1/3 of the damage I would normally give. This gets my duel mot down, doesn't ruin someone else's day and gives us ZMD a better name
Good idea! I've started to do the same... Figaro's for my melee and Huck's for my ranged.
I encourage other ZMDs to do the same... Sure you may like to get the KO, but that also means you will have fewer possible low level targets available if you KO them all. Or you'll have to do more travelling... I also try not to hit the same ones every day (may not always be able to do that... sorry!). I'm not trying to mess up someone else's game... I'm only doing this so my own game doesn't get messed up. Sorry, I have no choice now that I can no longer use NPCs to keep my mot low.
I've always known WHY the dueling level system is in. The issue is that the population of the game doesn't support that kind of system now. That system was here when there were hundreds of thousands of accounts per world. The top level was 99 not 150. I'm simply saying update the dueling system like you have FFing, like you have jobs, etc... The dueling system other than massively powerful sets that you had to spend real cash to get in most instances has had no upgrade since what 1.30? And many argue that is a DOWNGRADE. Myself included.
I have no issue with putting in some sort of dueling protection maybe you can make it a premium feature. 50 nuggets every 14 days for duel protection. GOOD MONEY there right? It completely solves the issue of people needing protection
I agree... The large population waaaaay back when I started gave us a lot of targets to start with... But even then with the larger population, duelers were limited when their dueling level got too high. That's where the "
less than a dozen possible targets with half of them KO'd/sleeping/in battles" issue came from. The issue of a lack of targets existed
before ZMDs. Now that we have 1/10th the population as we had then, the lack of targets will be far worse when you get up too high. To those who are saying after there are no ZMDs and everyone's duel levels increase, we will have more targets... If that's the case, then why did the duelers of a few years back have such a hard time when there weren't any (or many) ZMDs and the population was +10x as big as it is now?
For those who are fort fighters... What if after every 10 forts you win, one fort gets removed from the world. 14 Counties... 3 per County... 42 forts total per world. Win 420 battles and POOF! No more forts... Now what? Just keep calling battles on that one fort in County 15 that no one can own? Doesn't that sound like fun? Kinda like duelers in a fishbowl...
I wouldn't have a big issue with extending the dueling cooldown to more than an hour... For non-duelers at least. I mentioned adding a "Non-Dueler" option in the
"Ideas and Brainfarts" section, which would further limit the range of those who can duel them. (If we got rid of duel levels and focussed on a range around the regular level instead.) They could also add the longer cooldown between duels as part of that "Non-Dueler" option. I wouldn't want the 1 hour cooldown to be extended for everyone, because sometimes you need to smack down a bully and may need as many hits as possible on them. Of course if a "Non-Dueler" decides to duel, then the protection would be removed or they would get an error stating they can not duel until the protection is over.
Also, the protection (in whatever form) should have a waiting period so it can't be abused by duelers that just dueled a bunch of people and want to hide. Or... Have it start right away unless you have just dueled... Maybe make it so you have to wait 24 hours until after your last duel to activate the protection. I don't think any protection should be a Nugget only option... Atleast have it available using both Bonds and Nuggets so anyone can have a chance to activate it.
I'm very leery about the path Inno is going down... I don't know what to expect next. Quite frankly, it looks like they are trying to get rid of dueling. If you look over the past updates, they are very fort-oriented. The only "updates" to dueling have nerfed possible builds... Resistance for example... Now ZMDs. Soon there won't be any variety in the builds... Soon after that, we won't need the dueler builds because dueling will be squashed.
Joony's wording may be spot on. ("This is a
first step to fight Zero motivation dueling...") It does seem like there is a war to get rid of the vermin aka duelers.
BTW, I have a lot of respect for DT... We may not always agree, but I do still believe he tries to remain as neutral as possible... However, he's still as human as the rest of us. Oh and... I'm still gonna duel ya!
(I've skipped over replying to a lot of the posts... Sorry, just been too busy to get on here to post very much. I don't mean to leave anyone out, I just don't have the time.)