Kiting stuff, keep it here!

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If you don't kite for drops and you actually kite for fun, then wouldn't a greater challenge be more fun even if it means you cannot get as far on your own?

It's only fun if the challenges are surmountable I would imagine. Whether or not they are at the moment, I'm not sure. I haven't had the time to play through every map update yet. Personally, I'm pretty bad at kiting. I just think it would be a shame if the trend in map updates led to the death of kiting.

Running around in circles doesn't require skill.  Now you have to kill them before you run out of places to run through.  That takes skill, have fun

Running around in circles really doesn't require skill, but nobody said it does. I would, however, agree with anyone who says that kiting takes more skill than being in a shield wall 

Just for the sake of argument, let me list all the things that require no skill when playing in a shield wall:

1. Spam healing.
2. Spam slashing.
3. Shielding.
4. Shooting at helpless Nords (who aren't even moving for the most part!)
5. Shuffling items.
6. Building barricades.
7. Standing around not killing Nords.

Oh look, that's pretty much everything you do in a shield wall. Isn't that a surprise? It's not, because that is the point behind the shield wall. To have a low skill requirement so there are no barriers to entry. Anybody can participate as long as they're paying the least bit of attention (or set up a macro and give the game an occasional glance -- don't do this though, you'll get banned). The majority of players behind the shield wall could be replaced by machines considering how simple their tasks are. I believe this would be what they call mechanization of the workforce (you lose your real life job to machines, and then you lose your in-game job to machines :[).

But I digress. Let's talk about kiting. Why wouldn't you kite for drops? Do you enjoy doing taxing work for no reward too? The new loot system should already address the imbalanced benefits so I see no point arguing about this.

Two people are kiting away from the rest of the team, denying the team experience and drops? Kick one of them and then ask the other if he'd like to play with the rest of the team.*

*Don't take this seriously. Always follow proper admin procedure when dealing with troublemakers.

There isn't much more to say on the topic. I'm sure there are still maps where you can kite to Ragnar in circulation and it's not all doom and gloom for kiting.  I hope what I've said has had some effect on the direction of the mod. Even if it doesn't, this thread has been moderately entertaining and I've had some fun. 4/10. Thank you to all who participated, and thanks to the devs for their hard work in keeping this mod alive. Have fun and I'll see you in-game.