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Mercenaries have they been implemented?

Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:30 am
by Rehlioc
The title pretty much says it all. I never used the feature in live but understand maybe they were a diplomacy reward?

Re: Mercenaries have they been implemented?

Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 11:23 am
by Jakkal
I know other games made use of this, but VG never really had it.

VG had mercenary contracts that just gave you a retarded little minion that barely helped. We very rarely used them, and usually only to mess around. (Or pet pull exploiting).

Re: Mercenaries have they been implemented?

Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 3:04 pm
by Rehlioc
Too bad. I was hoping it might help me in my solo coloration of content.

Re: Mercenaries have they been implemented?

Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 7:40 pm
by Jakkal
You'd probably be best off playing a disciple. They're one of the best (if not the best) solo class.

Re: Mercenaries have they been implemented?

Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2018 7:34 am
by cgwars
Jakkal wrote: Thu Aug 02, 2018 7:40 pm You'd probably be best off playing a disciple. They're one of the best (if not the best) solo class.
Speaking of which, when can we expect to see the disciplines installed for the disciple?

Re: Mercenaries have they been implemented?

Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2018 3:06 pm
by dhew
R word

Re: Mercenaries have they been implemented?

Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2018 4:15 pm
by Rehlioc
Played one in live currently leveling Hida Matsu

Re: Mercenaries have they been implemented?

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2018 5:44 am
by Arkat_DOO
Rehlioc wrote: Thu Aug 02, 2018 3:04 pm Too bad. I was hoping it might help me in my solo coloration of content.
If you can get to an auction house, you can buy higher quality items which will make soloing much better. It made a huge difference on my paladin

Re: Mercenaries have they been implemented?

Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2018 8:49 am
by Kinshi
While I know VG never had it, neither did other MMORPGS that have been emulated, but they have been implemented to good effect, and frankly I think VGSOH will desperately need them, heck we needed them badly on live due to our chronic low-population issues that are only going to be more pronounced on the emulator.

Sure, more actual players would be better, but without them you wind up with more people "boxing" instead to achieve the same result and/or looking to do some sort of "MacroQuest" for Vanguard, or both.

Re: Mercenaries have they been implemented?

Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2018 9:12 am
by Xinux
Do not take this as a for sure thing but I've been thinking about adding bot's in at some point in the future but to do this a good bit of code would need to be redone.