Constructive Ideas

[Obould]

Kombat and I were conversing with Galnor last night about what could be changed in the game to enourage player activity, KOmbat had a great idea and I had a few as follow.

1. Change arena from pussy arena to having a gamble system, we could gamble for gold, qps, wps, eq etc.
2. Create smart AI's or OP semi dumb ones in pk zones, possibly have them issuable similar to Koradin's raids but the AI's would be worth some type of gain and loss making the pk worth while.
3. Create a 3rd race (aiel or seanchan) and convert one active player (not me) to said race and give them an encampment somewhere around Niamh, let's see if a 3rd race is positive or negative to the mud rather than just assuming.

Let's hear some ideas that don't require Galnor to code for a year (one day if he wasn't so lazy).

[Fogel]

Gambling would make the arena much more fun. Would need to put a lot of thought into the implementation though, we don't want something that people can easily abuse.

Creating a good AI is something I'm definitely interested in doing someday. Would need to find time and motivation first though.

I don't think a third race would do much besides frustrate people trying to PK. Plus, there would be some work involved making sure random shit doesn't break because of it. This is probably the least likely of these suggestions.

[Tiberius]

Bring back some form of raids, they always made the single player experience more fun and immersive for me.

Apart from that we've a great number of quests, trades and other features that make this mud a cut above say our nearest competitor, just need to advertise and remind people of that.

[Galnor]

People by and large hated the automated raids.

[Obould]

Raids were cool as a solo thing up until it was time for some pk or a statter logged on, ds statters would get spam killed and pk would be interfered with by tons of OP mobs that would never leave.

[Galnor]

Also I agree with Fogel about the races. I have rallied against the idea for some time. Although it could possibly be neat to try it out with one player as Kombat suggested. idk.

[Galnor]

Gambling would make the arena much more fun. Would need to put a lot of thought into the implementation though, we don't want something that people can easily abuse.

This was my favorite idea. I think we could do it very easily with "monetary" prizes(gold, quest points) but things like equipment would be trickier to figure out due to the group distribution. We would have to have some kind of lottery system to make sure things aren't ganked by toolbags.

[Fogel]

With equipment we'd also need a way to assign a value to it, at least if we're going to let people wager it. Can't let people bet wooden practice swords against herons. A lotto system would work well for awarding it afterwards.

Quest points and gold could be fun, but we'd need to monitor it. Otherwise we risk giving people an easy way to share qps with their friends.

[Galnor]

For equipment, I was thinking the main purpose for that could be immortals putting items into the pot rather than players using gear to wager. Seems the latter would be difficult.

[Kombat]

well i loved all the ideas and as I said last night im willing to be the 1 person switched to said third race, which would essential destroy all the work into this character thus far but im ok with that.

been thinking more and Ill have more ideas in a few days.

[Kerian]

*cough* Kombat should be remorted to a seanchan damane.

[Kyrana]

that would render him useless. he needs an a'dam or what ever their called

[Kerian]

psh I vote Otar for suldam

[Lamgwin]

quit kinslayer, play diablo 3

[Evilina]

yeah fuck it I quit, gonna go play diablo 3.

[Nyoga]

me too

[Kyrana]

why is the above post a lie? and evilina, don't leave! nico doesn't play much anymore.... we need someone with skillz teh pkz

[Evilina]

lol only newbs think I has teh skillz.

honestly if you think I am good at pk then you need to try fagwin, cifon, nico, chase, vurek, zeduis, dobry (when he wasn't sucky), etc.

[Kyrana]

do you see any of them online? no... which is what i was getting at.

But i change my mind, you're just a hypocritical wanka. you can leave

[Chase]

I was actually on Chase all last week.