QoL Suggestions

Started 11 Dec 2019
by Wasted_Content
in Suggestions
1) Know how RW macro opens and closes window with one press? Make /task, /train, etc do the same thing. Maybe not a possibility but it sure would be nice to hit a button instead of X the window every time.

2) Increase Mob % XP back to it's pre-nerf value. 400 max, then 300, then 200, then 100. 0 shouldn't even be an option. Incentivizing people who want to explore (and let me tell you, switching to a new realm and not knowing where mob types are is actually brutal right now) is fine, but penalizing people who want to just find some yellows and grind them isn't conducive to..well..growth.

3) Increase XP on 35+ XP items. The nerf is just too hard. Especially now that the drop rate is 1 per 2minute FLAT rate. Doesn't matter if you kill 10,000 mobs a second, you only gonna get 1. It does not feel good to actively level a character with this change.

4) Up the drop rate of XP items. It would be really nice quality of life to be able to hit up housing again and buy stacks of XP items at a reasonabl price. Previously, the housing market was ruined by this change. The ServerRich got a bunch of free 50s, everyone who had farmed XP items hard and stacked housing to help people who were casually leveling got SHAFTED, and new players now have nothing to look for in housing. Prices are through the roof, and most items just aren't stocked anymore because farming them is impossible now.

5) Incentivize BGs. REVITALIZE BGs.
5a) Install live-esque merchants/quests to the BGs. I know, "LIVE" - BOO HISS. Live had an excellent system where a quest master sent you to an area to kill X mobs and the reward was Bounty Points that you could turn in for gear. This brought people into ALL of the BGs because leveling was fast and there was ALWAYS SOMEONE TO FIGHT. WHO DOESN'T WANT THAT?
5b) Make the XP item turn in available to everyone. Stick one in ever realms PK. Why it's CK only boggles my mind.
5c) Open and populate ALL the BGs with this system. This will make twinkers less likely to twink, help new players ease their way in to PvP, and give old players somewhere fun to level and fight as they are grinding from 1-50.

6) Rework task tokens. The reward simply isn't worth turning them in past turn in 4 or 5. Once it takes 8 or more it's literally better to just save them and use them after the task resets. Maybe make them flat turn in instead of scaling? Or scale the XP with the turn in? Either change sounds pretty damn awesome to me.

7) Give players a way to receive credit (purchase with BPs? Use soil/branch/snow?) for raids. Many players don't have the time to sit through a 2-3 (or more) hour raid for credit these days, and even with the feather bonuses they aren't being run frequently.

8) Give players something to do with all the soil/branch/snow they collect at 50. The payoff for turning them in post 50 is completely negligible, even if you turn in 10,000.
Wed 11 Dec 2019 1:31 AM by Forlornhope
All are good ideas, except for the bg post imo. The server's greatly declining in pop and I think that their time should be spent elsewhere rather than bgs. They're meant to be stepping stones, and I don't think they should waste time with that when there are so many other issues in balance. Again, it's just an opinion and if ya love bgs then more power to ya.
Wed 11 Dec 2019 2:27 AM by Warlogy
Make it so you can buy items with feathers without needing the credit required. Many of us are busy and can only play a couple hours here and there and when we can play we are often interrupted and need to quit suddenly. This makes attending raids difficult if not impossible. It would be nice to be able to spend the feathers I have.

Make it so you can use the solo pvp porter with out having died there. What am I supposed to do? just afk there for hours and hours and hope someone comes to kill me? I never seen anyone there any of the times I've checked it out.

Make POC more attractive to go to and make it easier to travel between sides. It'd be nice to go kill some mobs and also find some players to kill. Df is nice but midgard has it 90% of the time.

Give us something to do with the thousands of soil/branches/snow that we collect past 50.

increase gold earned while rvring, we shouldn't have to stop fighting players because we need to go kill monsters to pay for our repairs/pots/recharges.
Thu 12 Dec 2019 3:13 PM by Wasted_Content
Forlornhope wrote:
Wed 11 Dec 2019 1:31 AM
All are good ideas, except for the bg post imo. The server's greatly declining in pop and I think that their time should be spent elsewhere rather than bgs. They're meant to be stepping stones, and I don't think they should waste time with that when there are so many other issues in balance. Again, it's just an opinion and if ya love bgs then more power to ya.

The thing is that there are a lot of people that love the BGs and they could essentially replace PvE grinding for a lot of people. Should never pass up a chance to replace PvE with PvP.

Also, IMO, the lack of BGs and fun stuff to do pre 50 (besides grind PvE) is one of the reasons populations decline on these freeservers. Give us something fun to do with the leveling experience and you'll keep more players around.
Thu 12 Dec 2019 3:14 PM by Wasted_Content
Warlogy wrote:
Wed 11 Dec 2019 2:27 AM
Make it so you can buy items with feathers without needing the credit required. Many of us are busy and can only play a couple hours here and there and when we can play we are often interrupted and need to quit suddenly. This makes attending raids difficult if not impossible. It would be nice to be able to spend the feathers I have.

Make it so you can use the solo pvp porter with out having died there. What am I supposed to do? just afk there for hours and hours and hope someone comes to kill me? I never seen anyone there any of the times I've checked it out.

Make POC more attractive to go to and make it easier to travel between sides. It'd be nice to go kill some mobs and also find some players to kill. Df is nice but midgard has it 90% of the time.

Give us something to do with the thousands of soil/branches/snow that we collect past 50.

increase gold earned while rvring, we shouldn't have to stop fighting players because we need to go kill monsters to pay for our repairs/pots/recharges.

I want to just copy and paste your post to the bottom of mine All good suggestions. There definitely needs to be away to get feather items without credit. The Feather bonuses helped for about a week but now people are back to not running raids again, so good luck getting credit.
Thu 12 Dec 2019 4:23 PM by Forlornhope
Wasted_Content wrote:
Thu 12 Dec 2019 3:13 PM
Forlornhope wrote:
Wed 11 Dec 2019 1:31 AM
All are good ideas, except for the bg post imo. The server's greatly declining in pop and I think that their time should be spent elsewhere rather than bgs. They're meant to be stepping stones, and I don't think they should waste time with that when there are so many other issues in balance. Again, it's just an opinion and if ya love bgs then more power to ya.

The thing is that there are a lot of people that love the BGs and they could essentially replace PvE grinding for a lot of people. Should never pass up a chance to replace PvE with PvP.

Also, IMO, the lack of BGs and fun stuff to do pre 50 (besides grind PvE) is one of the reasons populations decline on these freeservers. Give us something fun to do with the leveling experience and you'll keep more players around.

I would honestly love enough action in EV to have an alt or two in there. It's not molvik, but it's close XD
Thu 12 Dec 2019 4:28 PM by Wasted_Content
I want at least Thid/Molv/annnd the last one (name escaping me right now).

The big problem with EV is that it's laggy as hell. People drop frames and LD there all the time. I'd never take a real PvP group there and I only run around there to kill groups of XPers.
Fri 13 Dec 2019 1:54 AM by gruenesschaf
Wasted_Content wrote:
Thu 12 Dec 2019 4:28 PM
I want at least Thid/Molv/annnd the last one (name escaping me right now).

The big problem with EV is that it's laggy as hell. People drop frames and LD there all the time. I'd never take a real PvP group there and I only run around there to kill groups of XPers.

While EV is probably the worst performing zone, all the mini freezes are basically due to the way the game loads assets, once everything is loaded it runs comparatively smooth (first lap is somewhat bad, any lap afterwards doesn't have the freezing at all).
If you have a somewhat recent ssd and excluded the relevant asset folders (or entire daoc folder) from anti virus real time checks you shouldn't see any freezes at all anymore and just very minor stuttering / frame drops.
Fri 13 Dec 2019 1:56 AM by Forlornhope
Wasted_Content wrote:
Thu 12 Dec 2019 4:28 PM
I want at least Thid/Molv/annnd the last one (name escaping me right now).

The big problem with EV is that it's laggy as hell. People drop frames and LD there all the time. I'd never take a real PvP group there and I only run around there to kill groups of XPers.

Rip that was a typo, I totally meant CV.
Fri 13 Dec 2019 4:07 AM by Wasted_Content
gruenesschaf wrote:
Fri 13 Dec 2019 1:54 AM
While EV is probably the worst performing zone, all the mini freezes are basically due to the way the game loads assets, once everything is loaded it runs comparatively smooth (first lap is somewhat bad, any lap afterwards doesn't have the freezing at all).
If you have a somewhat recent ssd and excluded the relevant asset folders (or entire daoc folder) from anti virus real time checks you shouldn't see any freezes at all anymore and just very minor stuttering / frame drops.

While I appreciate you addressing what’s making my (and many others) machine lag in EV I don’t think I’m going to upgrade my HD to visit an empty zone. Also the zone is pretty huge so I generally do a lap and leave, rather than a lap to load the zone, then a lap to find PvP.
Fri 13 Dec 2019 7:28 AM by bysfall
Some good idea except for the BG i think it was BG who kill the serv, so many in bg and too less FG roaming to intercept FG :/

If each group in the BG, go roaming it would be the best thing that could happen to the game…

There would be lots of diversity and different levels in the groups and I think that everyone would find their account and their satisfaction
Fri 13 Dec 2019 6:56 PM by Wasted_Content
bysfall wrote:
Fri 13 Dec 2019 7:28 AM
Some good idea except for the BG i think it was BG who kill the serv, so many in bg and too less FG roaming to intercept FG :/

If each group in the BG, go roaming it would be the best thing that could happen to the game…

There would be lots of diversity and different levels in the groups and I think that everyone would find their account and their satisfaction

This has been a classic counter argument to BGs and it’s simply not the case. People who preferred to camp BGs were never going to come roam in your 50 zone, and people who want to come do 50 rvr could just use the BGs as a fun way to level through PvP (which is what this game is all about)
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