Especially with the heavy (to me) intimacy limitations.
Seemed to me that there may have been discussion/developer talk back when I left (2005-2007? I ferget) RO from Gravity about introducing the homunculus system.
(I had left not long after Monks,Rogues and Dancers were introduced..had made 1-2 of each back then)
So had wondered when they arrived in RO and how long the system has been setup this way.
It just seems to me to be quite a bit lopsided as far as the general EXP levelling is comparing to intimacy levelling + its functionality limitations (going thru 2 "rounds" of intimacy levelling before going thru a 3rd as homun-S and dealing with the loss of loyalty skill otherwise /or overlevelling in 2nd stage to lose out on stats).
My first Gene/Homun is still in the 2nd Neutral stage of intimacy (for a month now). Thanks to not wanting to overlevel past 99 before -S'ing, the whole character has been pretty much only on sitting idle in places and feeding.. This char I did do some AFK levelling on during the "trip".
Now thanks to the restrictions, that char in general is stalled too. And it's very boring "playing a game" to just sit around and click a mouse every 10-20 minutes...
So I decided to create another new char, one that I'd go thru full levelling, transcending, the whole works. (yeah I know...this sure doesn't help the first char
This one I actually have not AFK levelled the homun at all, trying not to rush its levelling against base exp. Unfortunately, I'm seeing even with this char being battle, and doing most of the "work" (the homun is a Lif so it's sure not doing major damages/exp gains Even so, I'll be very lucky to not be stuck in the same way as my first char (spending 2nd form time just idle). Currently the char itself is 81, the homun is still in Shy at level 40 in first form but I can tell already that I'd get to first form 99 (or at least 90's) way before getting loyal.. :/So with all this.. I find it hard to believe it's ran this way for so long even in KRO side w/o complaints/issues and without some addition of Intimacy quests. Added to this the fact that to get some of the new -S types in the game they had to initially supply an NPC to loyal it up for you. I restarted RO during that event and missed out
I'm wondering if there's not going to be a big "gap" in Homunculus'er populations due to this (those that were able to get S-es and the months it takes to get any "new" people in and up to S-class)Eh sorry... guess this is more rant-sih maybe, I dunno. But sure wonder how the intimacy didn't get reworked a bit better.
Maybe we need a new skill, a homun Metabolism Booster... makes it work thru the "food" faster than the general 10 min per munching....
