Comments on: Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. http://www.kiasa.org/2009/01/16/never-keep-up-with-the-joneses-drag-them-down-to-your-level/ Just these guys, you know. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:42:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ysharros http://www.kiasa.org/2009/01/16/never-keep-up-with-the-joneses-drag-them-down-to-your-level/comment-page-1/#comment-2877 Ysharros Sat, 17 Jan 2009 04:34:49 +0000 http://kiasa.org/2009/01/16/never-keep-up-with-the-joneses-drag-them-down-to-your-level/#comment-2877 Oh pish I played on Live too, I just ended up back on Test after... not very long. I like test servers. So sue me! Besides... Pete at <a href="http://dragonchasers.com/" rel="nofollow">Dragonchasers</a> is PLAYING VANGUARD RIGHT NOW!! Look over there! This isn't the Vanguard player you're looking for. Oh pish I played on Live too, I just ended up back on Test after… not very long. I like test servers. So sue me!

Besides… Pete at Dragonchasers is PLAYING VANGUARD RIGHT NOW!! Look over there!

This isn’t the Vanguard player you’re looking for.

]]> By: welshtroll http://www.kiasa.org/2009/01/16/never-keep-up-with-the-joneses-drag-them-down-to-your-level/comment-page-1/#comment-2876 welshtroll Sat, 17 Jan 2009 04:14:30 +0000 http://kiasa.org/2009/01/16/never-keep-up-with-the-joneses-drag-them-down-to-your-level/#comment-2876 The idea behind the pact is good, but when you get passed 20 you start to feel the effects. But I have to admit that even helping a friend to 20 is still rather nice. Receiving a 10th of your normal XP would be rather unbearable to any player I'd imagine, so I can't see the expansion of the system to include more than a pair. The idea behind the pact is good, but when you get passed 20 you start to feel the effects. But I have to admit that even helping a friend to 20 is still rather nice.

Receiving a 10th of your normal XP would be rather unbearable to any player I’d imagine, so I can’t see the expansion of the system to include more than a pair.

]]> By: Melmoth http://www.kiasa.org/2009/01/16/never-keep-up-with-the-joneses-drag-them-down-to-your-level/comment-page-1/#comment-2875 Melmoth Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:40:54 +0000 http://kiasa.org/2009/01/16/never-keep-up-with-the-joneses-drag-them-down-to-your-level/#comment-2875 Quick man, fetch me my rifle and my hunting underpants! We must capture and dissect this rarest of specimens in order for us to understand this so called The Vanguard Player. Quick man, fetch me my rifle and my hunting underpants! We must capture and dissect this rarest of specimens in order for us to understand this so called The Vanguard Player.

]]> By: Zoso http://www.kiasa.org/2009/01/16/never-keep-up-with-the-joneses-drag-them-down-to-your-level/comment-page-1/#comment-2874 Zoso Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:37:47 +0000 http://kiasa.org/2009/01/16/never-keep-up-with-the-joneses-drag-them-down-to-your-level/#comment-2874 Melmoth! Melmoth! We've found the Vanguard player! (OK, not as far as the live servers, but still.) Hadn't thought about spreading it over a whole guild/group, even more prone to problems I'm sure, but most interesting... Melmoth! Melmoth! We’ve found the Vanguard player! (OK, not as far as the live servers, but still.)

Hadn’t thought about spreading it over a whole guild/group, even more prone to problems I’m sure, but most interesting…

]]> By: Ysharros http://www.kiasa.org/2009/01/16/never-keep-up-with-the-joneses-drag-them-down-to-your-level/comment-page-1/#comment-2873 Ysharros Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:11:24 +0000 http://kiasa.org/2009/01/16/never-keep-up-with-the-joneses-drag-them-down-to-your-level/#comment-2873 Do you know, they had something like this (or tried to have -- I played on Test, no idea what actually made it to live) in Vanguard. It was called... ugh... fellowships, I think. Course you needed someone from another account to help out recruiting folks to it, but once in it was pretty much what you describe: all xp was spread out among the members of the fellowship regardless of who was online or not. It was plagued with bugs and sploitable loopholes, so I'm not sure what became of the idea in the end, but for the (very) brief time it lasted it was actually pretty cool. Do you know, they had something like this (or tried to have — I played on Test, no idea what actually made it to live) in Vanguard. It was called… ugh… fellowships, I think. Course you needed someone from another account to help out recruiting folks to it, but once in it was pretty much what you describe: all xp was spread out among the members of the fellowship regardless of who was online or not.

It was plagued with bugs and sploitable loopholes, so I’m not sure what became of the idea in the end, but for the (very) brief time it lasted it was actually pretty cool.

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