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I'm confused about why people farm alts

WesDoobnerWesDoobner Posts: 761Member Intermediate
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For this latest event, the pirate notoriety event, I see a lot of comments regarding people farming alts for this event. I'm of the opinion that farming alts would be extremely difficult for this event, or even impossible, but I'm curious as to why people would even consider it, or think it could possibly be a winning strategy. I mean, why would a person spend hours creating one alt to attack, or even logging in various alts that you already have, when you can gain the notoriety for the contest by simply attacking NPC's of your own nation? If you're near the national capital, as soon as you sink one fleet, another gets spawned, so you can sink dozens of NPC fleets in an hour compared to maybe 3 or 4 alts max? Are people just so paranoid about alt farming that they can't see any other possible explanation for why they get beat? And it's not like it's some secret strategy, it's listed right in the details on the event page:

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  • CrzyPsycoChickCrzyPsycoChick Posts: 667Member Intermediate


    Hi Wes


    Well one thing you have to realize is alot of the players in UWO are LAZY people and they have utterly PERFECTED the art of farming alts. They have been practicing this technique ever since the netmarble days well over 7 years ago thats ALOT of practice lol then they teach it to the newer players and cycle continues. 

    With that said now to answer your question it is alot easier and much more efficient and cheaper to farm your own alt vs NPC at the expense of self respect and pride something most players simply dont care about.  Anywho think about it the npcs sail around randomly and are not easily available right from the jump of you sailing in addition they fight back,  sail out of range,  lock you up in melee, waste cannon and weapon and equipment dura and cost you money in damaged parts that you must replace WASTING TIME. 

    Now vs farming your own alt… your alt is in a barca one shot with the weakest of cannons from the shipyard can sink or insta melee with no parts equipped at all then you can log in two alts side by side sink them log them out then log them back in and sink them again and like I said before the best of the best can do this all within 30 seconds so 2 kills in 30 seconds is as efficient as you can get! This is the allure of it its easy cheap and super effective with BS like this available its surprising that anyone still does it legit lol. This is why I was hoping for a condition where you cant earn noto on the same person for one hour after sinking. 

    Hope that answers your question why people cheat with alts lol. 
  • WesDoobnerWesDoobner Posts: 761Member Intermediate
    That doesn't really makes sense - NPC fleets are not hard to sink, and are all over the place. In front of Seville, there might be 3 or 4 NPC fleets visible at any one time. And all of them are pretty much one shot deals, you can sink these NPC fleets as fast as your name stops blinking from the previous battle. Literally sinking more than one fleet per minute until you run out of food or cannonballs. There's no way sinking alts can be better or faster, unless I'm missing something here. 

    Seriously, did no one notice me sailing between Seville and Cueta sinking hundreds of NPC fleets??? Just thought I was cruising around with my red name to scare newbies maybe?
    May the winds blow you well
  • CrzyPsycoChickCrzyPsycoChick Posts: 667Member Intermediate
    Im sorry what I mean is that npcs aren't hard to defeat just not as  easy as a mindless zombie alt


    Npc you have to sail around to them to engage them and defeat them then sail to the next one and repeat. Now picture a zombie alt you park next to your main in the exact distance to engage.  This eliminates sailing around to find next target lining up for crits just click click done ya know? 

    If you tried the alt farm method youll find its easier to just sit and do nothing just click rather than sailing to engage but much respect for doing it legit kudos. 

    Oh PS theres certain titles you get from sinking red and blue names so many people farm for that too 
  • WesDoobnerWesDoobner Posts: 761Member Intermediate
    well, I guess whatever floats your boat - if you want to sink your own alts have fun, in the meanwhile me and Nellemus will just have to be happy with our 100k notoriety.
    May the winds blow you well
  • VictoriasSecretVictoriasSecret Posts: 78Member Beginner
    I think it would benefit the game to just remove the leader board, and as for the tavern "warnings" about the highest noto pirate, change it to randomly warn about any pirate over 9k noto

    This would remove the incentive to farm alts to be recognized as the "best" pirate. And give everyone who puts in some modest effort a chance to giggle at the tavern keeper warning people about them.
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