Rizla wrote:Cruor wrote:more seasoned players
This game is not hard. This game is a grind requiring ZERO skill.The only difference between a 'seasoned player' and a nub in SRO is that the seasoned player knows more facts pertaining to SRO. SRO is only a sequence of the correct buttons being pushed, and many sequences are correct lol.
A person could become a seasoned player in a day just coming here and reading a couple guides...
You missed what I meant by more seasoned players. More seasoned means that they have been playing since before the Euro update and thus, before powerleveling became so ridiculously effective. When I say seasoned players I mean players that have actually bothered to level themselves to a relatively high level at least once. It has nothing to do with skill.
In a FPS, you have a completely level playing field. No character can run any faster, hit any harder, aim any more accurately than any other. How effective you are at killing in a FPS depends on how long you have played on a particular map, or with a particular weapon, or with differing people who have differing strategies. You could say that how long you play has a direct relation with how strong you are.
In a MMORPG like Silkroad, as you said there isn't much skill involved. Once you have a basic idea of which skills do what you are set for the whole game. However, there is a direct relation between level and how strong you are. Your level depends on how much time you (or a computer, or someone else) has put into your character. It's similar to a FPS in that the stronger people are the people who have been playing longer, but when you let someone else play for you, your character will be strong with almost zero time commitment from you. Thus, we can have someone who came to the game yesterday get powerleveled up to 60 within a week and become significantly stronger than someone who has been playing the game for the past two years who chooses to level a new character by himself during the same period of time, even though the newbie has been "playing" for only a week.
From another viewpoint, it's like having a child who has never played chess before go up against a chess master, however the child has Gary Kasparov sitting next to him telling him every move to make (where botting would be like having Deep Blue at the kid's side). Who will win that match, and who deserves to win that match?
You can call it "playing smart", but the way I see it, it isn't in the competitive spirit to be powerleveled. It ruins any sense of balance between new and old players this game used to have. If the only reason these new players have to be capped is to compete, then getting powerleveled is like taking steroids to get to the top.
Now on the other hand, for someone who has already capped a character or two by hand, I can sympathize with your choice to powerlevel your characters. You have put your time into this game, so you deserve to be relatively strong at any given point in time, just as you would be in a FPS for your time commitment.
