Sunday, November 16, 2008

Territorial Wars Map Wipe out, Implications and Aftermath

Everybody was dismayed after Level UP Live, the reason? Clans will not have access to their former territories as LU decided to implement a complete reset of the ownership of the maps along with the latest Patch - Moon Valley.

Mixed reactions were voiced at the forums, some disgruntled over the lack of high level MP and HP pots as well as the high cost of Heirograms and Amulets, while some minor clans expressed happiness over the fact that they will have a chance to claim a land for themselves.

A month has passed and finally after several set backs, it was done.
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The map was clean again. Which kinda reminds me of the very first TW. However, this time, everything would be all too easy.
Bidding was quite an amusing event as clans battle each other for the right to claim ownership. Some even have to place 200M bids just to secure their posts.
And after the weekend, the map turned into something like United colors of Benetton haha....
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Honestly, I wish the system would let the clan leaders pick the color they want, haha...

Anyway, going back, the wipe out may have helped smaller clans to revitalize themselves, but as soon as the Major clans start their rampage (in response to the War of the Jade Throne event), we'll be back to the same situation before the wipe out.
Now what would this thing result to? Well, people will start moving again from those smaller clans back to the clans that still has territories, which in turn might cause these small clans to disband and just be absorbed by the major players.
As Sandro said at the discussion on PW forums, they could tip the scale of the battle between major clans, but not as a player on the map, but as pawns to the bigger clans.

And so, the goal of the map wipe out, will miserably fail. Well, it may enjoy success at the first part, but sooner or later, it will create that frustrated feeling creeping over these minor clans. They had their first taste of land, only to be snatched away from them the week after.

Which makes me think, is it really worth the hassle? Only time can tell...

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Concerning on the amount of map on perfect world, from what I see on the game it's a vast game but the world, I thought it would be bigger any comments on that?

Drew said...

it is relatively a 1 big map, However, the number of territories are limited.

Perfect Land's gonna get bigger as new patches will be introduced as the game progresses.