What would you do to make the game better?

Venekor · 10-19-2006, 12:03 PM

In your opinion what would you do to make this game better? I am looking for some creative suggestions not just simply "Give rangers more DPS".

I have many ideas about this but I think I'll start with my idea about group synergy. I am stealing this from an old snes game ogre battle btw.

But basically it would make it so your group gets different bonuses based on who your group leader is. It would give us something else to tweak and could be great situationally. These bonuses could range from stat bonus's to buffs that do different things. Taking this even further, how about raid leader bonuses? Or Raidwide buffs for that matter.

How about items that only work in raid situations. For example something that adds to your DPS while in a raid but if you are solo or grouped does not have the same effect.

Just some suggestions.

Gori · 10-19-2006, 12:35 PM

The single biggest thing they could do to make this game better would be to make the leveling curve steeper while maintaining some sense of "reward" along the way. The game flys by without even trying, resulting in missed and unused content, as well as level 70 characters who know jack shit about their class.

Telpacpaw · 10-19-2006, 03:46 PM

Broken record, I know. But I would still be playing had they made more ornate and colorful armor and weapons, and didn't leave EVERYTHING broken high end. People have no idea how much that pisses me off. Makes me want to stomp on the heads of small woodland creatures. I played WoW for 4 months after I quit eq2, and not one quest was broken, not one mob all fucked up.

Kaitlin · 10-19-2006, 04:03 PM

working content/quest/raidmobs on the release on an expansion, I have a feeling we are going to see some messed up shit when EOF is released.

Better servers would help too, as I'm expectly the nightly crashes again when the expansion goes live

more contested raid mobs, and make them harder too

Kurizo · 10-19-2006, 04:34 PM

Fix the loot tables. Every fucking single one of them.

Ninibi · 10-19-2006, 04:54 PM

No ninja fixes/boosts? I don't care if you make the mobs harder - in fact, in most cases I like it, as, something being ridiculously easy is a boring fight. But please TELL US you changed the freakin mob. That doesn't require any extra time spent working on the game, just stick a line in the update notes: "X mob took a rest and got his strength back, you'll find him a bit less tender and more chewy this week."

Granted, then there's the whole "fix one thing, another thing breaks" problem which can't really be announced, but it shouldn't be making it out of test.

Lag... lag lag lag lag lag lag lag lag. Lag. Granted it's been a lot better on BB lately but that's onlly if you don't mind standing there for a minute waiting for the mender/mailbox/your raid/an NPC to materialize. Any public zone should have the capability of going to two instances. I understand why, granted, Zek, Feerrott, RV, EL, EF, LS don't - but in any new zone this should be a given... 3 if necessary. I'm really hoping they've got this going on EoF before it hits otherwise the Fae newbie zones are going to be stop animation.

Or maybe just on Butcherblock, but I digress.

Clone the French GMs and give them to us?

Most of my other stuff is small/cosmetic, but:

An option to archive completed quests into a notepad file in your EQ2 folder and purge the ingame "completed" journal would be nifty - or delete individual completed quests.

Auto archiving logs would be nice, as well. User Interface settings could have an option to archive logs daily, weekly, monthly. I think this can be done with ACT? But it should probably be built into the game.

Some clean up on the Options/UI Settings, etc. menus.

In game Notepad/Sticky notes. I need to go dig through EQ2 UI and get better UIs all the way around, granted.

Update ingame webbrowser so you can keep it open like your quest journal, etc. and still fight (you can do limited things if the webbrowser is up, and the browser itself is very, very primitive, last I checked) Or, remove the browser option all together (not sure if adding MORE to the UI would make the game more laggy? you guys decide).

I'm sure there's plenty more... better communication between CSR and playerbase would be a major plus.

Dio · 10-19-2006, 05:04 PM

Alot has been said already but this is my vote...

New/varied Loot tables...

New armor--colors, textures or dyes...

I like the curve idea...make it much more difficult to hit higher levels...

Add a few more raid zones...

I wouldn't even mind having a few raid zones be larger...meaning more mobs/etc...

Taelana · 10-19-2006, 05:08 PM

If they merge classes can we get new ones ie Beastlord (Dont Yell At Me!!!!), Ninja, Runecrafters, etc?

Oops I totally put this in the wrong thread...lol. I meant this for They shouldnt merge...thread... My bad, but can we? lol

Ninibi · 10-19-2006, 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Dio

New armor--colors, textures or dyes...

That'll be part of EoF - there's a new leather/chain/plate that can all be dyed. Here is the thread.

The leather doesn't look bad at all, the chain I'm neutral, the plate has - and this is my favorite touch EVER...well... I'll just show you:

A pair of crossed hammers RIGHT smack over your family jewels. Nothing like "X marks the spot" to remind the mob this is the place to aim for. LOL

We have not yet seen any casual clothes...I'm thinking though, if those hammers are any indication, codpieces are coming back to fashion!

ETA - Everytime I see that plate pic, I start humming "we're off to see the Wizard"

Shaggis · 10-19-2006, 06:53 PM

They don't need new gimmicks, they need to start by fixing 3 things:
1. Pathing
2. Mob AI (a warlock should not charge a guardian and hit him with his staff)
3. Itemization