Boost PKO player base, retain players initiative

[jonisabon]

Hi,

Vet player here who went from pko(HK) > top2 > pko.

Logging on for the first time in a while I'm hit with a wall of afk stalls and one or two very high level players just passing through argent to use the teleporter.

Issue:
This is extremely off putting and certainly gave me the impression of a dwindling player base, if I were a brand new player I who wasn't playing for nostalgia I would be repelled by this.

Proposals:
- Increase minimum stall distance length.
- Much like chaos argent have NPC characters with generic names (sometimes saying generic phrases) dressed in various low equipment running around the major cities doing things like chopping wood hunting low level mobs etc. (Many other games implement bots and such to give the impression of a thriving game).

Desired result:
Makes major cities seem more alive with more active players, retaining newcomers.

This does not address the massive skill and equipment gap between vets and newbies but it's a start.

 

[Developer]

Much like chaos argent have NPC characters with generic names (sometimes saying generic phrases) dressed in various low equipment running around the major cities doing things like chopping wood hunting low level mobs etc. (Many other games implement bots and such to give the impression of a thriving game).

I like this idea. Will assign a Task to one of our Dev's.

This does not address the massive skill and equipment gap between vets and newbies but it's a start.

The paradox of power leveling. Many newcomers or just drop off or go for power leveling leaving a huge gap between Lv1 and Lv55.