I don't know how some of you can find towering fun when there isn't anything interesting about it. You're literally standing in a fort, watching over a flag for X amount of hours, and get rewarded at 1K, 5K, 10K. The pace can either go slow or fast depending how organized and efficient the guild is. The only thing I can see that's beneficial of towering is that you get to meet people from different places and build those connections but other than that, I don't see how it's fun.  

Posted by Bryan*

I don't know how some of you can find towering fun when there isn't anything interesting about it. You're literally standing in a fort, watching over a flag for X amount of hours, and get rewarded at 1K, 5K, 10K. The pace can either go slow or fast depending how organized and efficient the guild is. The only thing I can see that's beneficial of towering is that you get to meet people from different places and build those connections but other than that, I don't see how it's fun.

To be honest, I'm not even sure why I still tower. I do love getting to meet awesome people though,
*cough*Elysium*cough* which is probably why I keep at it. I get your point though, it does get very repetitive and boring at times.  

Posted by Xeria

To be honest, I'm not even sure why I still tower. I do love getting to meet awesome people though,
*cough*Elysium*cough* which is probably why I keep at it. I get your point though, it does get very repetitive and boring at times.

Oh I remember you know, that girl that used to be GP. Never knew you were into towering.  

Posted by Bryan*

Oh I remember you know, that girl that used to be GP. Never knew you were into towering.

Yep, that girl. ^-^
I actually was taking a break from towering at the time, just hanging out in social guilds. One of my friends told me I should apply for GP.


The whole reason I "retired" was because I had such limited free time to devote to being on. So yeah, now I'm back to towering/getting serious about PKing with the time I do have.  

Towering is fun in social aspects too, as Xeria said. You can make some nice friends and just chat whilst holding a tower.
Holding a tower off from a massive wave of people is fun & if you're holding it off with few members is also fun too!
It improves your skills as a sparrer and a pker.  

The players made towering boring, towering hasn't changed at all in the past few years  

*waits full ldrbd of 1000hr guilds* then scraps it and put hall of fame of all the guilds/time they got then its starts allover again!(with point system?)wasn't there meant to be a point system or something coming in anyway, maybe just waiting for that?  

Would implementing a rule where if no members of the holding guild were in the flag room level, the fort switches to the guild who has the most members in the level after 20 seconds? This would make survival a key part rather than noob recruits; its just an idea. Thoughts?  

Posted by Droid

Would implementing a rule where if no members of the holding guild were in the flag room level, the fort switches to the guild who has the most members in the level after 20 seconds? This would make survival a key part rather than noob recruits; its just an idea. Thoughts?

Would just make noob recruiting more beneficial because the more players you have the easier it is to survive and dominate the flag room  

Posted by Droid

Would implementing a rule where if no members of the holding guild were in the flag room level, the fort switches to the guild who has the most members in the level after 20 seconds? This would make survival a key part rather than noob recruits; its just an idea. Thoughts?

This idea has potential for sure. I'd maybe increase the 20 seconds a little bit though, maybe 30 seconds? I get the feeling that some guilds wouldn't be happy with this, but you can't please everyone.

Posted by Colin

Would just make noob recruiting more beneficial because the more players you have the easier it is to survive and dominate the flag room

Yeah, I suppose that's true.

There's always the chance that those "noobs" will leave after you recruit them (happens a lot in the guilds I tower with), but I'm not sure if that's a big enough chance.

But, if the noobs aren't very good at towering, the guild holding the tower could probably be very quickly overtaken by a smaller guild with more experienced players. I see that happen a lot at MoD.  

Towering doesn't need to be changed, the entire guild system itself needs to be changed in a way that punishes guilds for unnatural/negative behavior and rewards guilds for natural/positive behavior - it will happen eventually  

Posted by Thallen

Towering doesn't need to be changed, the entire guild system itself needs to be changed in a way that punishes guilds for unnatural/negative behavior and rewards guilds for natural/positive behavior - it will happen eventually

^ agree, but i hope it doesn't go to wrong direction.  

Posted by Zetectic

^ agree, but i hope it doesn't go to wrong direction.

Yeah, I hope admins don't totally mess up everything. I doubt that they would, but still...  

Posted by Ryan

The players made towering boring, towering hasn't changed at all in the past few years

It was more boring back in 2004. The differences between now and then: More players, and an "economy" that puts more value on prizes.

Posted by Droid

Would implementing a rule where if no members of the holding guild were in the flag room level, the fort switches to the guild who has the most members in the level after 20 seconds? This would make survival a key part rather than noob recruits; its just an idea. Thoughts?

Bad idea; see other responses.

Posted by Thallen

Towering doesn't need to be changed, the entire guild system itself needs to be changed in a way that punishes guilds for unnatural/negative behavior and rewards guilds for natural/positive behavior - it will happen eventually

I would say it's a mix between the two, such that the way towering is set up promotes unnatural/negative behavior.  

My thoughts on towers... hmm.
They're big! and looks like castles! and has alot of floors! and Rapunzel was trapped in one! and They towers in graal! and They're built by hoomans.
This obviously not off topic.