A question regards the level cap removal

[Eruditus]

I am curious as to whether the consequences of this change have been fully considered in terms of the guild social dynamic.

The problem I have is that if my patron was to leave the game then I would be unable to swear back into my monarchy under the new system.

By the same token if my patron wished to leave the monarchy and I did not I would also be unable to sign on to anyone within the monarchy.

I have neither time or desire to be a monarch and even if I did and our long standing monarch was amenable to this then it would require him being willing hand over the mansion to me (not going to happen) and me being willing to give up my cottage to receive the mansion(not going to happen as I love my cottage).

While I can understand the reasoning behind players only being able to sign to those above them at the lower levels I would question its validity when you increase the cap to 275.

I personally feel that at level 100 you should be able to swear to anyone in the game at or above that level and they to you since this would solve the issue.

I understand you want to stop power levelling of lower players via the wheeel system of patronage used by some guilds for mules and other players but the costs of this to the small friendly monarchies such as my own could be ridiculously high.

AC is about the friendships we have all made, many of us having made them over the past 4 or 5 years and that is what has kept us here through through the best and worst of your changes. Most of us form monarchies not with strangers for profit but friends and these changes could prevent this from being possible.

Would you be willing to consider an alternative method or retaining the 126 level as the point where anyone can swear to anyone else of the same level or above? Just for once forget about the chaining and consider the normal AC players and the effect this has on them.

Anyhow any response from the devs on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Eruditus - a member of the Walkers of Legend on Leafcull.

[Renswic]

Eruditus
makes a good point, with the new cap, who will people be able to move around toons in clans, or even change clans? theres only a hand full of people on each server that are lvl 200 let alone 200+, how are you gunna handle the clan aspect of this? like in AC2 where after lvl 50 any one can swear to anyone? or will the low lvl monarchs get hte shaft when tring ot expand there clans?

[Yinchi]

This will hurt many monarchs, perhaps costing them their mansions and everything they have worked so hard to obtain.

If your rank mules are under your level 180 vassal and his patron breaks, he will be unable to swear back into your clan. If this happened on the day of your maintenance, good bye mansion.

There will be many sad moments in days to come after the expansion pack unless Turbine rethinks their level 275 cap. I would hate to lose a good friend simply because he is higher level than I am. (I am a monarch).

[Eruditus]

Thanks for the support, unless the problem is addressed I can see monarchies being broken apart through the actions of a single member, until now it is nearly always possible to find someone you can re-swear under in even the smaller guilds but this will change.

Being a monarch is not about levels and I like the current system where monarchs are usually chosen for their ability to lead and guide their members as opposed to their level.

[Calladyn]

Simple solution:

anyone can swear to anyone else and there are no level restictions on purchassing housing besides the ones already in place.

What's the catch?

if lets say a 126 did swear to a level 1, the level 1 would recieve xp in porportion to his level, so even that a 126 would be generating millions of xp in passup, the level one would only recieve about 100 xp...it would only recieve full benefits of the system whenthat level one was around the same level or higher.

the only hard part is the coding...

[Wolfe]

That's an extremely good point indeed. Hopefully there will be a well thought out solution to it, since there appears to be plenty of time left to figure it out.

[Arch Magi]

Here is something that should be easy to code.

KEEP IT THE WAY IT IS. Anyone level 126+ can swear to anyone else level 126+ regardless of who is "higher level". Just like anyone who is level 50+ can fellow with anyone who is level 50+.

There problem solved. When do I get my paycheck from Turbine?