DocHollidaze 1,151 Share Posted December 8, 2020 On 12/4/2020 at 12:29 PM, Medicaid said: while we are at it, why get mobile bank at all? just get loot. log out. unlock from campaign world. simply reenter campaign world and BOOM, all ur gear goes to your bank and u get a free recall. Damn Medicaid. You're over here playing 4D chess in Crowfall... Link to post Share on other sites
DocHollidaze 1,151 Share Posted December 8, 2020 Anyway, why was mobile banking ever added? We had spirit banking from anywhere for the longest time and it was primarily made harvesting or farming a zero risk activity. ACE comes on and says, hey we are finally getting rid of global spirit banking! And people were like, yahh! And then ACE says, we're adding mobile banking. lolwhut? Nightmarian 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Karoshi 4 Share Posted December 8, 2020 Remove Mobile Banking / Make Recalling drop your inventory as a Cairn or something Earn your keep. blazzen and Tofyzer 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Chillmate 20 Share Posted December 8, 2020 It makes all the sense, game needs more risk, all the Warstories of people defying odds and getting the loot to the temple will start flooding in. FatLarry 1 Link to post Share on other sites
blazzen 4,339 Share Posted December 8, 2020 13 minutes ago, Karoshi said: Remove Mobile Banking / Make Recalling drop your inventory as a Cairn or something +1 Sirktivo 1 Blazzen <Lords of Death> YouTube - Twitch - Website Link to post Share on other sites
Sirktivo 119 Share Posted December 8, 2020 On 12/4/2020 at 11:11 AM, Ruq said: The case for removing mobile banking: Players have been yelling about mobile banking, often times in very direct ways (https://community.crowfall.com/topic/29397-mobile-banking-is-stupid/), for quite a while now. But why is the community so opposed to Mobile Banking as a gameplay mechanic? Let’s dive in. Risk versus Reward: Mobile banking provides a risk-free way to secure rare resources in campaign worlds that otherwise would require strategic thinking and group coordination to obtain. One extreme example of this is the looting of forts. Currently, players can utilize the Mobile Banking buff to secure thousands of Ethereal Dust and Gold with zero risk. These players are protected by the invulnerable guards positioned at each fort for defense and each hour (or once a day) can login, loot the chests, and utilize mobile banking to secure a huge resource advantage for their guild. This removes all risk from looting forts, a massive problem in the current gameplay loop. Emergent Gameplay versus Static Gameplay Loops: Beyond the reduction of risks outlined above, the Mobile Banking buff decreases active engagement in a campaign world. It limits the need for players to either travel to a world bank or a keep and thus robs players of the chance of stumbling upon emergent gameplay. It ends the need for any type of caravan system to be organized by a guild because a single stealth player can refine and bank within seconds. Zero risk. Zero chance to be found out and punished for the risky behavior. The simple fix to this problem is to remove the Mobile Banking buff from the game. R3 Storehouses can provide some other benefit, possibly additional keep storage chests (beyond the default of 2 per keep). /sign P.S increase the timer on recall 24 hours, force inventory to drop, or remove it from game Tofyzer 1 Link to post Share on other sites
veeshan 1,650 Share Posted December 8, 2020 33 minutes ago, Karoshi said: Remove Mobile Banking / Make Recalling drop your inventory as a Cairn or something Earn your keep. or super long CD like once a day kinda thing Sirktivo 1 Veeshan Midst of UXA Link to post Share on other sites
Cur 2 Share Posted December 8, 2020 (edited) I always viewed Alt P and mobile banking as temporary things. In an ideal setup the zones would be larger, more of them and the player count higher. The further from a temple, the better the loot and the higher the odds. Holding a keep out in "the black" would mean something and moving materials to attack a keep would require logistics as well as moving materials to build said keep. Some kind of inventory size or weight change where having a mount that would move larger items (but be slower) would be ok too. There's not a lot of risk compared to reward right now Edited December 8, 2020 by Cur Link to post Share on other sites
doomstove 72 Share Posted December 8, 2020 The fact that a mega leader thinks this change should occur is a good indicator about the impact it would have on the health of the game. Troop movement in this game depends a lot on Recall currently, and it lets large groups of players have tons of access over the map as a mass teleporting mongol horde. Making larger groups of players reliant on running across the map, being harried, slowed and picked off sounds very cool and Crowfall-y. Recall prevents these interactions from happening, especially if we're able to Temple hotswap like before. It also reduces zerg zone of control and gives smaller guilds a better ability to play for objectives. Mobile banking further exacerbates this problem, especially with pain in the butt war machine items like siege equipment, seeds, and even stuff like food and bandages. It makes those early skirmishes outside keeps way more vital, as well, which I think is awesome! Thanks for the suggestion, Ruq, I love it! Cur and Communist_Puppy 2 Link to post Share on other sites
BarriaKarl 1,999 Share Posted December 8, 2020 Can we at least get a reply about why it is still a thing? @jtoddcoleman It is mindblowing to me that you guys had the guts to get rid of the Passive Skill tree but still allows for such a bad system such as mobile banking to stay. Whether we like it or not inst even the point, it clearly causes a bunch of issues to the game. heck, it goes against the core of what this game was supposed to be and what your core audience expect from it. Just remove it. Dont even need to worry to add a replacement to rank 2 banks. We can worry about it later. Just remove it... Link to post Share on other sites
PSIcoh 20 Share Posted December 8, 2020 Agreed on this. JTodd even said he doesn't want people farming without risk in God's Reach in the last Q&A. I don't see much difference between zero risk farming in God's Reach and the nearly complete risk mitigation that Mobile Banking provides. Link to post Share on other sites
Ivellian 76 Share Posted December 8, 2020 I agree mobile banking should be removed. It not only provides a benefit to the PvE gatherer, it also protects items one might need at one location but one does not want to carry there. For example, mobile banking allows one to refine materials at a refinery without the items in one's inventory for the trip to the refinery. Mobile banking allows individuals to place a mobile bank at a empty keep, retrieve a tree of life item from the bank, and claim the keep. Mobile banking allows groups of PvP players to retrieve only the food or bandages they need at a given time by placing the buff on each member of the group. All that, not to mention it disincentives PvP because it lessens the potential rewards from ganking harvesters. It also removes the natural funnels that would lead to PvP (i.e. the harvest no longer needs to return to a world bank so waiting at a bank for PvP is less viable). Additionally, the lore reasons behind mobile banking are unknown to me. Someone explain to me why I need to run pack pigs to a refinery (or keep) to get building materials, but I can deposit those materials into a summon-able chest at the refinery that then magically teleports those items to my bank in the temples/keeps. It's internally inconsistent as a matter of lore. Finally, to distinguish mobile banking from recalling (though I agree some of the arguments also apply to recalling), recalling to deposit items in the temples is on a significant cool down - in contrast, the mobile banking buff can be refreshed and functions from groups of individuals at a time (so a group can use several mobile banking buffs for multiple people). Moreover, recalling repositions the character (this also applies to the log out, unlock, and relog method). The character must go back to the temple and then navigate back to where they were to continue play (potentially allowing for PvP along the way). This also removes the character from controlling or farming a point of interest for a period of time (incorporating a visible cost to recalling with loot). To those who think of mobile banking as a favor to PvE players, all it does it provide an easy out for harvesters. They no longer need to locate, gather, and return safely with the loot. They only need to locate and gather the loot (the banking is rendered a nominal activity unless the gatherer is ganked while actively gathering). Why even have looting at all in Dregs if the objective is to even further reduce the risk of losing inventory items to PvP? For those that want that type of game play, Infected provides that type of game play. If we abandoned a core tenant of the game in passive training, I do not see the challenge of removing mobile banking. Simply eliminate the buff and replace that level of the bank with a different buff or reduce the max level of the bank for keeps (there are certainly enough other things to spend resources on). Jah, Atraeus, Arkdin and 1 other 4 Link to post Share on other sites
Kendread 40 Share Posted December 9, 2020 (edited) For this games economy and pvp to matter we need more scarcity and logistics based issues. As an ardent solo harvester, mobile banking needs to die in a house fire. Edited December 9, 2020 by Kendread Tofyzer and BarriaKarl 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Mogres 80 Share Posted December 9, 2020 Please remove it, there are allready to many banks on the map. Link to post Share on other sites
Groovin 549 Share Posted December 9, 2020 Mobile banking just isn't fun. Less people traversing the world back to a keep or world bank, whichever might be closer. If you have a keep, there's no reason not to have it, no hard choice to be made. Link to post Share on other sites
Ruq 209 Author Share Posted December 9, 2020 #EvenPamAgrees! Dissentient Link to post Share on other sites
EvilGhandi 118 Share Posted December 9, 2020 7 minutes ago, Ruq said: #EvenPamAgrees! #shenanigans I truly don't mean any harm, but I fully mean the disrespect. Link to post Share on other sites
Zarii 30 Share Posted December 9, 2020 Mobile banking AND being able to delete items WHILE IN COMBAT needs to be removed. Both these functions are completely against the foundation of this game. Arkdin, Communist_Puppy, Tofyzer and 1 other 4 Link to post Share on other sites
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