The prices of wares have multiplied.

Here’s a little comparison:

• Timber = 8-10g/ea (before ~3g)
• Wood = 20-22g/ea (before ~8g)
• Iron Ore = 12-15g/ea (before 4-5g)
• Iron Ingots = 30-40g/ea (before 10g)
• Rare ingots like Veilron, Selentine, etc. = 1k/ea (now 2k)

Why is this happening?

The expansion brought few new features, made PvE’ing more profitable and SHIPS/WARHULKS!

Not enough gold sink

I’m sure the slot machine is causing some gold sink in the world of Agon, but it’s not even close to enough. Crafting is as before the main gold sink in the game, however this can’t keep up with the current gold influx. Every day there’s thousands/millions of gold influx from capturing villages, PvE, all kind of chests which drop gold. This is simple too much.

Over the past 2 weeks, the prices as you see in the comparison above, raised by a lot. If it continues like this, Darkfall will soon simulate the inflation in Germany(1921-1923). Important materials would soon reach the 100g mark/ea. The economy would be pretty doomed.

Ships/Warhulks

These two wonderful vehicle types had a little revamp in the expansion. Prices to produce them were reduced and the damage was greatly increased. Also AV added sea towers to the north and east sea, which can be only captures by ships.

Most clans of course feel challanged and started producing ships like crazy. Ships require a really great amount of wood and iron. This leads to a huge demand, offers are unfortunately not enough, because in my opinion there aren’t many newbies in Darkfall running around and harvesting stuff to get some gold. If you were in school, you sure have learned that: high demand + little offers => high prices.

You may now think: “How can this be bad? There’s gold flow in economy like never before!” – That’s true, high gold(money) flow symbolizes a healthy economy. But there’s simple too much gold in this flow and must be reduced.

The inflation is not a lie!

That’s really funny how some players ignore this fact. The market price of almost all items increased greatly, not only the mats required for ships and warhulks. Steedgrass for example, which is required to tame mounts had a price increase of over 100%! Before it was only 200-250g, now it’s freakin’ 500+g.

<3 it

This is so damn cool to experience an economic crisis in an MMORPG. I have no idea how this all will develop this. How will Aventurine counter attack this?

I’m really excited. :D

/discuss

Meh … I’m so addicted to Darkfall Online again that I never found time to post here something or was too lazy. However, today I managed to overcome this. Server is currently down for patching, see patch notes.

Lemme share some epic videos with you in the meantime!

Mostly about sieges and some PeeeveeEeee, very well done.

OMG this bish dropped 90k gold! :O

NEW is a clan especially for new players. So if you just joined DFO recently, I’d highly recommend you to join them!

PEW PEW!

After a pretty long down downtime, the most recent expansion Conquer the Seas for Darkfall is finally up! Unfortunately AV had to bring the server down again due to a error in the database. I hope there will be no rollback, because it’s the first time I got something valuable from a chaos chest, a slot machine for gambling and sold it for 26k gold!

Thanks to the downtime, I can post some stuff here again. It will be of course about the expansion.

New features

Sea Fortresses

There are now 2 sea fortresses, one south, another north. Such fortresses float or stay on sea (must dive later to find out :p). Ships or its cannons must be used to destroy the stone at the top of the fortress and obtain control over it. Once a clan successfully takes it down and lands the final shot, it will belong to them for 3 days. After this time, it becomes vulnerable and can be taken by another clan. The current clan that owns it can protect their fortress by the installed cannons. The fortress cannons are currently the most powerful ones all over Agon, so it won’t be a piece of cake to take it down.

Of course there are also rewards for the owning clans. Once you gain control over it, the clan will receive gold and valuable items like ship modules, rare ores, etc. Check out this forum post for more info from the first clan that conquered one.

This is not all of course! There are clan stations in all NPC cities. Above them the name of the current clan that owns a sea fortress is floating. Now if a clanless player “uses” this clan station by pressing “F” in front of it, a window will open to apply for this clan. So this is another way to recruit members and become FAMOUS!

Racial Skills

Actually AV said that racial skills will be available at the launch but meh .. However, they’re here now.

Alfars got Alfar Cunning that increases the max. mana by up to 10 and Alfar Resilience which ads up to 3.0 acid protection.

Dwarves were blessed with the most useful racial skills, imo, especially Dwarven Steelmaster which increases the durability of crafted armor by up to 10%. Another one is Dwarven Durability, it gives you up to 5HP extra and Dwarven Perseverance which increases the protection against debuffs and causes less stamina loss on using melee skills.

Mirdain(Elf) got imo the worst ones … One of them is Elfsight and increases the max. ID range, means: You can identify players and most likely mobs from longer distances. The more useful one is Mirdain Insight which increases mana by up to 10. I’m a Mirdain and damn disappointed by these lame skills. :( QQ

Humans get a skill that increases the duration of nourishment effect by 50%, called Human Ingenuity. Also same like Mirdains, a bonus for mana, Human Willpower.

Mahirims got a skill that increases their running speed NOTE: Running, not sprinting. This makes this skill really useless, because you almost never run, but sprint. It’s called Mahirim Huntspeed btw. Another one is Mahirim Endurance => up to 5 moar HP.

Orks do up to 3 more damage by using high ranked greataxes(2-handed) thanks to the skill Orkish brutality and 5 maor HP with Orkish Toughness.

A GODDAMN KRAKEN!

Seamen, fishermen beware! The wide seas are no longer dull, boring, empty. The kraken will from now make your life harder. No longer romantic fishing afk trips, my childs.

The Kraken will from now on attack you, especially your expensive ships and rafts. You really shouldn’t underestimate it. Check out this video, the ships and its crew was pretty much pwned. Looks like a Brig wasn’t enough to take it down or there were not enough ship repairers. I personally can’t wait to experience this myself! My clan, Hew Hope is still not fully naval ready but very soon we’ll make the seas unsafe and possibly take this damn Kraken down! :D

Free-Spawn Objects

Alongside the chaos chests, there are now more things randomly spawning all over Agon. Broken chests, lobster cages etc. are included.

Trade Routes

This part is imo one of the most interesting ones. There are trading route societies on Agon. You can go to the locations which can be seen on the world map and “get a job” as a route runner from a NPC. Actually you buy stuff from him and get a backpack that is visible to all other players and tell you to deliver this one to the other trading route location. Once you’re done, you get more money than you invested and possible a special reward.

Like I said before, you get a backpack that is visible to everyone. This makes you to a target of course, because the PK’ers can make plenty of money from you. If one kills a trade runner, they can be looted for 80% of the invested money. So imagine you bought stuff for like 10k gold, the PK’er would get 8k gold. This is a lot and is I think a very profitable stuff for PK’er and trade runner.

kthxbye

I don’t want to post the less-interesting stuff here. Full patch notes can be read here.

The Darkfall servers are down since 1AM GMT. Aventurine is currently applying the long awaited expansion, Conquer the Seas.

Aventurine moved to a new, larger office last week, that’s why the expansion was delayed. During the downtime, they updated their website at Aventurine.gr with some pics of their new office. Looks pretty nice.

Here ya go!

OMGZ! This blonde chick has to get to work, ffs! Flirting while we wait here for a expansion. Unforgivable!

Such wide cameras exist?

A little bit weird furniture decoration, huh?

Missing the AV logo.

3 terrorists doing their job. j/k :p

… in the Darkfall addiction

I decided to give DFO a try after 3 months long break. Not expecting a lot, I slowly got used to the game again and at the same time the bond has become stronger. My daily playing hours increased buoyancy. I feel like some no-lifer now. I come from work, start DFO and play it until I go sleeping again. This is really no good.

Why am I playing this game?

I wish I could tell. Even though Darkfall has so many, actually TOO MANY flaws, I still love this game. What is it what keeps me playing it? PvP? PvE? Crafting? Sieging? I really can’t tell, but I guess it’s the sandbox part that keeps me there. I can be whatever I want. I MUSTN’T do what other players do.

I can go explore the world and make money at the same time by opening the chaos chests and hopefully even get a house deed. Apropos housing, want your own house on Agon? You can build, decorate and even life with your friends there or use it as a bunker where you can relax from the harsh world of Agon. Soon even keeps can be claimed with up-to 10 bind-spots and add slot machines into it to gamble with friends. Damn I can’t wait for this week’s expansion!

• Fight mobs
• Craft and sell stuff
• PeeeVeePee
• Siege
• Naval battles
• pwn noobs
• Capture villages
• Become a traitor and switch sides.
• Cause drama
• Contribute to the development of the DFO politics on your server
• Become a king
• Build your reputation. Are you a coward? Traitor? Coward? Eternal Noob? Troll? People will remember and treat you accordingly. I love this part
• Become a heartless griefer

Sandbox MMO’s are imo all based on your imagination. You can really do whatever you want.

Players that are used too much to theme park MMO’s may fail in Darkfall. Here you are your own quest giver. You decide what to do. There’s no light at the end of the tunnel. No dumb daily boss raids here. Instead there are adrenaline filled player city raids, sieges, etc.

Your list can go to the infinitum if you let go of this mainstream themepark principle.

There are no classes. You are you. Play however you want. Wanna just be some old perv stalking female characters? A fat, greedy dwarf? Men-loving male Mirdain? A racist(ingame)? It’s your choice. Go on.

One week ago I posted about some of the new features/changes of the upcoming Darkfall expansion, Conquer the Seas.

In the meantime another features was announced and it’s the:

Slot Machines

I’m sure you know these machines from casinos. You throw in a coin, the 3 images start to spin and stop. If all 3 images are the same, you will get a price.

Slot machines are furnitures that can be placed in your house, village, keep, etc, so a slot machine deed must be found first either from the chaos chests or mobs.

There will be a global jackpot, so everyone who plays will have a chance to win a lot of money. This sounds like fun! :D

Can I haz’ a keep?

I’m currently saving gold like crazy to afford my own keep. Keeps will be rare, but I still hope getting one. So excited!

Release next week!

Aventurine said that the expansion will be available next week. However, they added “try” into their announcement, so it may be pushed back.

Once I left Darkfall Online 3 months ago, I said: “I will never ever return to this game.”. Yesterday I re-subbed again. xD

• The grind was horrible. - You needed several real lives in order to reach 100 in a mastery.
• Game felt abandoned – The developers of DFO haven’t posted any news for over one month. I thought it’s really gonna die.
• NA+EU is no good – Both live in defferent time zones. While ones is still sleeps, another is playing. Castles were cowardly takes like this over and over again.
• PvE’ing was no good – You couldn’t kill a mob stronger than a Troll. A mount was required in order to kill them.

3 months later …

• Grind is much, much better. - The skills and spells level up so much faster now. Level 100 magic school can now be reached in one week instead of several months.
• Dev to player communications exist. – The news are now done much more frequently. Also there’s “Spotlight” forum section with official community news.
• NA transfers a live - Finally the transfers are available. Finally only one time zone is left. This is imo really good.
• PvE’ing is now possible – As I heard in the forum, the mobs were tweaked so most of them can be actually solo’ed without using a mount.
• Official Events – Darkfall had its first official event few days ago. Good sign, imo.
• Expansion is coming – Next week, a big expansion is coming to DFO, called “Conquer the Seas”. It’s supposed to add some features and fix major issues and unbalances.

Hyperion is alive!

Hyperion, once the mightiest alliance in Darkfall is back to live. And my clan, New Hope is in. I think it will be fun to play under the kings orders. I have no idea yet, what’s his name is.

Let the addiction begin

The download of nearly 10GB has just finished, so it’s time for me to enter the world of Agon once again! Time to pwn some noobs! Wooohoo!