Hate it when a game forces you to play a certain way. Making throwaway alts just to circumvent an artificial restriction/throat-slice is not my cup of tea. Not to mention it means putting on a halt any and all society progress your actual character you care about was working on, and their personal storylines, the businesses they were running, etc.

Then imagine the bonuses from the Hunt actually working. As of late, it only seems to mess up the background code more. I’ve never seen contacts fail to provide me with anything, daily RPXP seems completely staggered and derailed and only comes in small bursts after many days of seeing sub-100 or none at all.

And then imagine if this entire Hunt idea would be opt-in, providing some actual narrative reasons and motivations, and some actual coded incentive to engage with it.

I’ll never pursue or enjoy character swap-out if a game makes me. If you want to see healthy character swap-out, you actually need to design a system/game that works with it to begin with. All Haven seems to do is cripple characters that want to stay around, and uses several mechanics to do so. That’s kind of it. So, instead of swap-out, people much rather invest in characters. I don’t think I’m the only one who loathes this idea where we are kind of pushed to play characters for no longer than a few months.

I legitimately wonder if there has been a single character/player that has reached T4 or T5 since the launch of this iteration, of course without using a Lieutenant to do so. This current system seems to much rather promote staying at T2 to be able to actually stick around for as long as possible without mandatory Hunt abductions, and then gaining Karma to stack bonus focus points. (which I wager aren’t removed on a Hunt?)