Posted by Rexx

Believe it or not back in the early tower days guilds took towers for bragging rights and to be at the top of the leaderboard. There is no spirit of competition anymore for taking towers. No more rivalries. The tower system sucks and I only wish people could have experienced it during the earlier days on iClassic. Back then nobody was in it for the hat, it was to prove dominance and gain recognition as a guild.
Now who gives a rats behind about fort time? It's nothing special anymore.

This ^^^

Before PULSE reached 1k it was all about stats. Same way sparring is now. You would only tower just to be at the top. No one knew that you would receive a hat for reaching 1k until PULSE did. And most guilds still didn't really care so much at that time about it either. People were still busy ganking one another left and right to be at the top. And you know what? It was fun. The competition, the wars, the hatred between guilds. Sure it seemed silly and somewhat immature, but things got exhilarating the way things lit up. When you reached 1k back then it was an accomplishment. Not everyone was cut out for it and that's what made you feel proud of you and those who helped. Hats were trophies back then. Trophies that have begun to lose their glow as of late...  

About joining at 900 . If you join at this point you will probably not get a hat , that's I'd if your leader isn't really stupid that it  

Posted by Vladdy

It's a game, lol.
I don't know why you're complaining how people play the game. Let people play it their way, and you play it your way. There's a reason your guild (SHRUB) is dead, well based in Tower Coummunity, is because your members are so inactive, but covers the loyalty and commit field. I'm not complaining or anything, but just because you have a one hit wonder tower guild, shouldn't give you the ego to know what makes the people happy towards the Prize system in Towers. Yet alone, all your complaints on this forum was useless and will never be taken into consideration because the fact is, no one cares.


It's a game, let it go.

I'm sorry, I didn't intend to use my past tower experience as a way to sound better and more important than everyone else.

Yeah SHRUB is dead now, several members and I don't really play much anymore and taking towers got boring after a while. I pretty much just check in for updates every now and then and maybe talk to a couple friends for a bit, then log out. I don't play like I used to.

Posted by Rexx

Sure Kendama that would be impressive but this system is flawed so it's basically impossible for anyone do such. It's impossible to get new recruits unless you dangle a reward in front of them, how sad is that?
All the tower guilds buddy up and agree to not attack each other so that they can stay steady on their way to getting some crappy hat.

Believe it or not back in the early tower days guilds took towers for bragging rights and to be at the top of the leaderboard. There is no spirit of competition anymore for taking towers. No more rivalries. The tower system sucks and I only wish people could have experienced it during the earlier days on iClassic. Back then nobody was in it for the hat, it was to prove dominance and gain recognition as a guild.
Now who gives a rats behind about fort time? It's nothing special anymore.

The system was flawed since the day (whoever was in charge of the decision) let guilds make their own 1k hats. It should have stopped after the 10th or so guild because it was becoming more common for guilds to hit 1k.

I kind of have to agree with this. It was a blast trying to hold my place up on the leaderboard, now it feels like no one even cares anymore.

Posted by Blueh

This ^^^

Before PULSE reached 1k it was all about stats. Same way sparring is now. You would only tower just to be at the top. No one knew that you would receive a hat for reaching 1k until PULSE did. And most guilds still didn't really care so much at that time about it either. People were still busy ganking one another left and right to be at the top. And you know what? It was fun. The competition, the wars, the hatred between guilds. Sure it seemed silly and somewhat immature, but things got exhilarating the way things lit up. When you reached 1k back then it was an accomplishment. Not everyone was cut out for it and that's what made you feel proud of you and those who helped. Hats were trophies back then. Trophies that have begun to lose their glow as of late...

I still remember the race to 100-didn't pandemonium win? That was way back when Characters Japan were rampant hackers and somehow never got reset.  

I still think what you guys are asking is what a high majority of the classic community doesnt want. Its not sad that people want to recieve 1k hats, they are one of a kind and in many peoples opinions they are the best hats you can have. Believe it or not thats a big deal in this game.
Its about the community which is majorly new(ish) or somewhat active players. What they want matters more than what you guys think is not cool  

Posted by Blueh

This ^^^

Before PULSE reached 1k it was all about stats. Same way sparring is now. You would only tower just to be at the top. No one knew that you would receive a hat for reaching 1k until PULSE did. And most guilds still didn't really care so much at that time about it either. People were still busy ganking one another left and right to be at the top. And you know what? It was fun. The competition, the wars, the hatred between guilds. Sure it seemed silly and somewhat immature, but things got exhilarating the way things lit up. When you reached 1k back then it was an accomplishment. Not everyone was cut out for it and that's what made you feel proud of you and those who helped. Hats were trophies back then. Trophies that have begun to lose their glow as of late...

I miss those days. I still remember the Venus Gospel and Project Soul rivalry wish there was more of that now makes things interesting.  

Posted by kush420swagYOLO

I miss those days. I still remember the Venus Gospel and Project Soul rivalry wish there was more of that now makes things interesting.

Old vg got falsely accused of hacking and got their ~500-600 hours deleted, so they reformed as project soul

Then the current Venus Gospel stole the name for themselves and made it.

Old VG/Project Soul would have made it to 1k before pulse if they didn't get cheated by admins, so Project Soul is considered the true first 1k guild to me.  

Posted by Rexx

Believe it or not back in the early tower days guilds took towers for bragging rights.

*remembers the days when post a screen shot of guild holding a fort as guild pic was cool*  

guild hats are like.. the only bragging right that noobs have. If you take out rewards from towers then Graal would be just a 2d version of Club Penguin. There wouldn't be any competition apart from GST.

Its a good thing that they have 1k hats because it keeps 10yos away from role-playing around the main city.. and anyway, PK and Sparring would be too competitive for younger players.  

Posted by Skill

joining for the sake of obtaining an item...

Rewards:
I'm thinking all kinds of items should be purchaseable with guild points, such as:
furniture
hats
custom upload tickets(substitute for the gralat price.)
other cool stuff.

Still joining for the sake of obtaining an item, just makes them more loyal to the guild.

I do however like this idea. Staying loyal to one guild, and receiving items for it sounds awesome.

Posted by Rexx

Believe it or not back in the early tower days guilds took towers for bragging rights and to be at the top of the leaderboard. There is no spirit of competition anymore for taking towers. No more rivalries. The tower system sucks and I only wish people could have experienced it during the earlier days on iClassic. Back then nobody was in it for the hat, it was to prove dominance and gain recognition as a guild.
Now who gives a rats behind about fort time? It's nothing special anymore.

I would give anything to go back to these days. The guilds I were in weren't as serious as most tower guilds are now. I could actually enjoy taking, and holding.

Posted by iChronic

Its a good thing that they have 1k hats because it keeps 10yos away from role-playing around the main city.. and anyway, PK and Sparring would be too competitive for younger players.

Last time I checked, the ten year olds towering were exchanging Xbox lives to play Call of Duty on. I doubt changing the reward system would cause towering to be too competitive to those towering for the hat.

Posted by Kendama

I still think what you guys are asking is what a high majority of the classic community doesnt want. Its not sad that people want to recieve 1k hats, they are one of a kind and in many peoples opinions they are the best hats you can have. Believe it or not thats a big deal in this game.
Its about the community which is majorly new(ish) or somewhat active players. What they want matters more than what you guys think is not cool

I think it's fine for someone to attempt to get a one-in-a-kind hat, but if it has to warp a system we all know and love, I don't like it.  

Posted by Yogurt

Last time I checked, the ten year olds towering were exchanging Xbox lives to play Call of Duty on. I doubt changing the reward system would cause towering to be too competitive to those towering for the hat.

last time i checked, ten year olds preferred chasing guild hats over COD. Why did you even bring up COD?

Changing the reward system is sooooo gaiiii and not even needed...y'all just using "hat chasers" as an excuse. BTW when did i say that it would make towering more competitive? It would be completely the opposite, less people would be towering therefore making it easier for you guys (the real hat chasers) to tower.

edit:

TBH, Im only disagreeing with you guys because i feel like it wouldn't make a change. I've been in the same guild for over a year now and have had no conflicts with the hat chasers. Anyway, hat chasing guilds were a thing of the past. The real hat chasers were the ones who towered in FB.  

FB was fun you weren't allowed to hold towers because (Trollin) decided who held what for a period of time anyway. Wished they hadn't gotten rid of it and just made the time for hat extend to 5k  

Posted by iChronic

It would be completely the opposite, less people would be towering therefore making it easier for you guys (the real hat chasers) to tower.

Before guilds started hat chasing, towering was way more competitive than nowadays.

If we are wanting 1K hats to be removed, how will we become hat chasers?  

Posted by Yogurt

Before guilds started hat chasing, towering was way more competitive than nowadays.

If we are wanting 1K hats to be removed, how will we become hat chasers?

It wasn't competitive back then.. VG and CoM used to camp Swamp tower because no one really bothered to compete with them.

sorry for calling you a hat chaser. i meant a sore loser.. you just cant handle the fact that its harder to get towers with all the "hat chasers" stealing your towers.

edit:

like Vlad said, Let people play it their way, and you play it your way. The game doesn't have to change just because you suck at it.  

Posted by iChronic

It wasn't competitive back then.. VG and CoM used to camp Swamp tower because no one really bothered to compete with them.

sorry for calling you a hat chaser. i meant a sore loser.. you just cant handle the fact that its harder to get towers with all the "hat chasers" stealing your towers.

edit:

like Vlad said, Let people play it their way, and you play it your way. The game doesn't have to change just because you suck at it.

VG didn't start camping swamp until after 1k as far as I remember.  

Posted by iChronic

you just cant handle the fact that its easier to get towers

Fixed that for you.