Remove Hunts from PVP

I got to thinking, why are hunts included in PVP when their purpose is fighting monsters? If huntresses were removed from pvp, I think the players in this game would have a far better playing experience than they do right now.

Benefits: No matter if a player is zeroed, their hunts would be 100% protected so they could continue playing the game and rebuilding their pugs/knights to continue pvp'ing.

Side effect: Walls would be lower since hunts would be taken out of the equation, but players could focus on buildings knights/pugs to make up for that. Is the lower walls such a bad thing though? Hunts don't add much to defense anyway.

This would allow for the current garrison and hospital cap to focus on only troops meant for PVP, and this would remove the issue of players quitting because they can't monster hunt after being zeroed. What do ya'll think?

 

Hunts wouldnt be an invincible defensive troop since they wouldnt be in the equation. Im only saying for hunts to be removed from defensive walls since they arent designed as a pvp troop to begin with.

Maybe I should have explained that better?

The idea is that huntresses wouldnt defend when being attacked since they are designed for pve. Instead the defending troops would be the militia, guards, knights, and pugs since they are based on pvp. The hunts would stay safe in the city so the player is still more than capable of playing the pve aspect of the game even if his pvp ability is hindered by being zeroed.

 

For that matter though, using hunts in a pvp offensive march usually only works if the attacker is drastically stronger than the defender. If that is the case, pug marches are already large enough to take large sums of rss. A few extra attacks wouldnt hurt.

 

Well that is the main reason players quit. Players play with the sole purpose of trying to ruin the game for others. If this kind of change was made, players could enjoy the game for what it is while still having the ability to pvp all they want.

All you see on the forums are players complaining about not being able to play after being zeroed. With this kind of change, players could zero each other all day and still have the ability to play the game at the end of the day. Less players would live under a shield and more players would participate in pvp.

People play games to have fun after all. Where is the fun in playing a game if other players only try to stop you from playing it?

 

You are quite devoted to the idea of making the game unplayable for other players.

Although the point of the game is to pvp, that idea goes out the window when there aren't other players to pvp against. The concept is to maintain a larger player base so there is more activity at the shrines and more troops to kill in FFA without ATA having to merge realms every time the top clans make enough players quit.

I understand where you are coming from since it is definitely an effective tactic for pvp to hinder the ability of another player to monster slay. However I would prefer to see more players still active in the game and actually enjoying their time instead of having to devote their life to living under shields just to protect their ability to play the game.

 

Raising the hospital cap doesn't change anything though. Hospital cap barely covers 1 to 1/2 marches. As it is. Even if the hospital cap was raised to cover 4 marches, that would still only cover 2 marches of hunts, 1 march of pugs, and 1 march of knights. The hospital cap as it stands now is fine if it only had to account for the troops meant for pvp.

Yes it is easy to hide troops, but what happens if you can't log in for a period of time because of a rl event? Do you want to come back to being unable to complete DQ's because instead of hitting 7's, you are stuck with knights and pugs which are only good for hitting 5's or slow killing 6's? How much fun are you having at that point?

You seem to be missing the bigger picture here. Hunts have little to no impact on pvp. If they are taken out of the equation, you are then able to focus primarily on training pugs for offense or knights for defense instead of having to retrain 500k+ hunts every time you don't log in for a day and get zeroed. You are still able to cripple a players ability to pvp, while the player is still capable of playing the game and attempting to rebuild to catch up.