Regarding Old PW/ VOS

[Phoenix234]

Is there any news on this version? or Laszlo's latest version?
I feel like Version 4 although impressive limits my personal and the creativity of my ingame faction which i never had issues with on the older versions

So yea, i couldn't see any information about servers for the older version or updates from las So can someone fill me in? its been a while since i visited this forum

 

[splofot]

Those times lie forever in hidden in the sand of time, to no more be dug up.

 

[Phoenix234]

did las leave? he logged on yesterday? :S

 

[Splintert]

Let's put it bluntly:

Laszlo used Vornne's v4 to give him the chance to completely abandon the project because he didn't want to work on it anymore.

 

[Ser Orindell]

Let's put it bluntly:

Laszlo used Vornne's v4 to give him the chance to completely abandon the project because he didn't want to work on it anymore.

While I hate to say it, this is probably true. Who knows his reasons, but it has become more and more obvious that Lazlo has left PW, almost certainly forever.

 

[splofot]

Exactly. He might be online but he sure as he'll doesn't give a you-know-what about this nice lil' mod here. Atleast Vornne is still kind of busy, right?

 

[(TWD)Tom]

Yea Vornne's been releasing a steady stream of updates, and sad that laz left sure coulda wished for v3.6

 

[Phoenix234]

i just tried 2 hours of vornnes new version and i havent ever been so bored since i started PW a long time ago :/
everyones to busy at war with each other for any other sort of rp :/, its all about who owns the castles now.

noones interested in witch hunts anymore

Dont get me wrong , the features are impressive, but its not a RP mod anymore

 

[splofot]

If you want more roleplay you should go away from where the masses are and find the drunks, transvestite assasins and tavern keepers. It's also a good idea to try to rp with the castle fans that walk up on you. A lot of them would love to rp but they're just a bit shy (that's what I have noticed).

 

[Tirok]

i just tried 2 hours of vornnes new version and i havent ever been so bored since i started PW a long time ago :/
everyones to busy at war with each other for any other sort of rp :/, its all about who owns the castles now.

noones interested in witch hunts anymore

Dont get me wrong , the features are impressive, but its not a RP mod anymore

Options for some old school RP in v4:

Become the leader of a faction, keep it small, own something non important (for example, the map on west_pw has 7 or 8 factions, little need of territory) that still allows for training and set off in the world as an explorer with some other guys.

Stay a commoner, hang out in the largest gathering of non-faction types and RP.

Become a ship captain, sail around offering services for the lowest price (you'll probably get boat-jacked eventually though)

Get some peasant clothes, do some peasant work, and RP with passers-by.

Become a mercenary, and offer your services from the local tavern (hopefully not to those engaged in active war, if you can)

Be a commoner doctor, travel around, offer your services. You won't be killed by factions this way, that's for sure. (Watch for randomers and outlaws though )

These are all fairly basic forms of RP that are easy to do and can be quite fun. And then of course, you can always enjoy more eccentric forms of RP.

 

[(TWD)Tom]

i just tried 2 hours of vornnes new version and i havent ever been so bored since i started PW a long time ago :/
everyones to busy at war with each other for any other sort of rp :/, its all about who owns the castles now.

noones interested in witch hunts anymore

Dont get me wrong , the features are impressive, but its not a RP mod anymore

Try west PW sever I find that it's small group of mainly the older players makes it better even though 5-15 players at the most it still provides me the most amount of fun compared to EU which is constant war and rule breaking and admins doing almost nothing except abuse their power, or NA where RP there just isnt right for some reason, but yea I start up Warband with PW and just think and look at teh servers and give up right there it's really boring now

 

[Serann]

Options for some old school RP in v4:

Become the leader of a faction, keep it small, own something non important (for example, the map on west_pw has 7 or 8 factions, little need of territory) that still allows for training and set off in the world as an explorer with some other guys.

Yes, lead a faction and have war declared on you for no reason, get killed over and over again, and enjoy the pleasure of a really boring version of native siege mod

Stay a commoner, hang out in the largest gathering of non-faction types and RP.

Stand around doing nothing, until you get randomed.

Become a ship captain, sail around offering services for the lowest price (you'll probably get boat-jacked eventually though)

Get randomed so people can steal your ship.

Get some peasant clothes, do some peasant work, and RP with passers-by.

Do the most boring thing ever in Warband: cutting down trees and mining.

Become a mercenary, and offer your services from the local tavern (hopefully not to those engaged in active war, if you can)

Since you can't be a commoner merc anymore: join a faction as merc, and join the castle wars in all their boring glory.

Be a commoner doctor, travel around, offer your services. You won't be killed by factions this way, that's for sure. (Watch for randomers and outlaws though )

Get robbed and/or killed.

These are all fairly basic forms of RP that are easy to do and can be quite fun. And then of course, you can always enjoy more eccentric forms of RP.

The blue lines are the reasons why they are not fun.

 

[(TWD)Tom]

I thought that in 3.5 mining was kinda fun forcing traders to pay you extra to mine so they can get their mules, I would sing songs and for some reason you gained like a commradship with the other miners and  the mines were like the center of attention and constant bandits or factions and something going down, and the old ming ppick could actually be use as a good weapon 

 

[Azrayel]

Well;

You were an assassin grand-master, Phoenix.

You could start it up again- there's now another family in that business, and a rival group could be quite interesting for role-play 

I'm going to shut up now, before someone shoots me, but archer training's 1k and a long-bow and arrows aren't much more (hint: don't use spawn weapons, you literally cannot kill with head-shots if they're wearing anything above a cowl).

 

[(TWD)Tom]

But what I've noticed as being in three assassination groups myself including fenny's here, it's dead in game basically assassinations go to the guy that armed himself and was bored and just needs to kill someone but I don't see them going on too much anyway, had to shoot you down 

but fenny I remember how before you left we tried to make over and over a peaceful merchant faction but always got into a war somehow its the same but like 10x worse 90% if the players now play just for castle wars

 

[Azrayel]

But what I've noticed as being in three assassination groups myself including fenny's here, it's dead in game basically assassinations go to the guy that armed himself and was bored and just needs to kill someone but I don't see them going on too much anyway, had to shoot you down 

but fenny I remember how before you left we tried to make over and over a peaceful merchant faction but always got into a war somehow its the same but like 10x worse 90% if the players now play just for castle wars

Not really; good assassins don't run in guns blazing and make a big deal out of it.


I'd be very surprised if 50% of assassinations didn't go unnoticed entirely, by contriving arguments/reasons and/or joining warring factions and\or baiting randomers in the right direction to take the fall.

That way, there's no "contract accepted/contract complete" and it's just another kill message on a loaded server.


Good assassins are not vocal assassins 

 

[(TWD)Tom]

Azy do you ever remember back on VoS prince charles Hired me to kill you and I came up behind you at a tourneyment held in your honor buzzing with whitelions and siege bowed you to the back of the head from a small hill, and was able to sneak off since all your men decieded that it was a good idea to try and charge up a hill, see that was a semi better assassination but from what I see now is a guy riding by his target asking is your name ..... then rides out a little and then couchs from behind

 

[Draco Wrath]

I remember when me and a friend (V3 btw, and we were heavily armed knights) helped out the blue faction since all the other factions had banded together to fight the blue, even though they hadnt done anything.

Or when myself and Braveheart led a bandit rebellion and took over New Zendar, until all the factions came to take it back. (Also V3)

Good old times, and now there gone... 

 

[Citizen_Kane]

I used to RP as a spy. It worked out pretty well until they got suspicous of a cloaked man lurking around in a castle and watching armies...

 

[95th_Daniel_Hagman]

christ sake so much negativity.

who care's what the mod was created for. if you want to RP then bloody create it. hate all this "no one roleplay's" "oh no rp is dead"

if you think your a roleplayer, then damn well create some. roleplay doesn't come to you.

you'd be surprised how much roleplay is actually happening behind the castle warz screen.

..... how many time's do i have to repeat this.

i suggest just finding the roleplayer's. and introducing a story with them.

soo many of these thread's popping up, from players of v3. i also come from that older version.

sometime's i wonder whether it's just a lack of creativity, because of the change. i dont believe it's the version's fault. rather your ability to adapt.