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Post by Roh on Jul 26, 2008 10:36:36 GMT -5
I was going to write a long essay about how I have nothing to do, but I'd rather say what I want to say in a simple manner. What else can a person with a bank full of females, a house full of mystic and stealables, an ever-imploding skill list, and a storage book full of incalculable wealth, do?
If the staff is planning something, a glimpse might be nice...? If there's nothing planned to make me, and other veterans, more active, what kind of suggestions are you looking for?
I don't recommend going the WoW route by upward expansion (+10 levels! Now you have to pay another two hundred dollars!), and I'm not sure what the staff would want to do for outward expansion (a new crafting system? new skills? new casting systems? new areas to explore?), but rest assured that the player base can come up with something for the scripters to work on.
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Post by matchstick on Jul 26, 2008 16:21:27 GMT -5
her her. im not as wealthy as some, but i feel like ive hit a plateau where there is very little to do, and nothing new to do really. some expansion and such would be very nice, and might bring back some activity.
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Post by Prescott on Jul 26, 2008 22:19:43 GMT -5
probably gonna get beat over the head for this,
But....
PvP would be an easy answer to some vets inactiveness.
I know on the shard i played before we had an arena, which was the only place PvP was allowed and kill books which recorded how many times you had killed a certain player.
It actually brought most of the shard together in a fairly good way. Most of us turned it into a friendly competition.
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Post by Sev on Jul 27, 2008 2:58:42 GMT -5
Not very active atm due to work however...... Ive always really liked the idea of a deep sea fishing town ...possibly which has to be sailed too not runed.. It wouldnt have to be community based like the underground city but...would be like a huge pontoon with several waterfront properties running along the sides... It should be a dangerous place to live,expensive & a npc selling tickets to get onto it for deep sea fishing for non owners. The future value of it as staff got time is good with competitions,fishing bonus clothing & deadly stats creature fun Lots more ideas to follow if any interest in this
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Post by kristeena on Jul 27, 2008 9:34:07 GMT -5
Sounds like an interesting idea Sev. Hope staff gives this some good consideration. I like the deep sea fishing myself. The creatures from the "deep" could really be cool and give staff some exciting scripting work.
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Post by Roh on Jul 27, 2008 12:24:59 GMT -5
Very good ideas for the shard. However, PVP will not appeal to veterans as much as the intermediate or lowbie players as a veteran with maxed parrying and full mystical is simply impossible to kill, provided that they have tailor keys full of bandages. With sky-high Dex and the ability to automatically heal damage with a keystroke, PVP for veterans is entirely moot. Or it takes literally all day for one person to run out of bandages before the other, though nothing stops them from having a stockpile banked or someone who can run and grab some and come back.
Sev, I like that idea. If it costs money to go there without living there, outsiders will be mostly kept out except for competitions and whatnot and people with money to burn get new material to experience. Perhaps if it takes a week of solid fishing to get the fishing bonus outfit, and some ancient deep monster battles along the way, it would be an exciting "money pit," wherein a smidgen of our excess billions is burned away for our enjoyment. I would certainly consider becoming a resident of said fishing community.
But the staff hasn't spoken, and I think either we need to bury them with ideas or we need to put up a disco ball. Why a disco ball? We have time to burn, waiting. Buuuurn, baby burn.
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Post by Sev on Jul 27, 2008 16:35:38 GMT -5
Thanks Kristeena & Roh for your replys & thoughts. Roh the idea i had was a nominal fee for an entrance fee ticket purchased from an npc it would be a one off ticket each visit..not a lot of money ...& imho any drop would be uber rare ....lets have some challenge to it I do appreciate the staff have to contribute out of their own personal time for these things tho & having not a lot myself with work & irl i can understand personal time is precious. Hope they like the idea..
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Post by Lynn on Jul 28, 2008 15:12:24 GMT -5
The idea of a deep sea fishing area is a cool one...
Maybe a small no-guard town on docks that is a spawn area and make it a no-pet zone with some challenging creatures that get fished up.
Not real sure about putting floating house plots though... Underground City was recently added and it seems about half those residents or more are not-involved with it.
I agree with Roh about the PvP... veteran players would be hard to take out.
The idea of limiting myst pieces worn or making skills/stats similar has already been done without success. There was a special PvP area not that long ago where characters started the same and had to build there way up again so it was not soo one-sided. After the initial start, there wasn't much interest in it and was removed I believe.
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Post by Prescott on Jul 28, 2008 15:44:01 GMT -5
Yea thats what we thought about PvP on the shard before. We had alot of similar stuff.
Our md's being blood stained deeds. Our armor was unleashed and way more high end than Mystical. Duels lasted only a couple minute3s though. just takes a little skill and timing to use the weapon skills
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Post by matchstick on Jul 28, 2008 16:19:17 GMT -5
i was on that shard i think. i seem to remember unleashed armor.
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Post by Prescott on Jul 28, 2008 18:58:28 GMT -5
I think you were too. Name sounds familiar
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Post by matchstick on Jul 29, 2008 3:14:19 GMT -5
if i remember correctly Geezer and RocC played there too. And if you look hard there is a "tribute" to that shard here on MU.
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Post by Prescott on Jul 29, 2008 3:32:56 GMT -5
Really?? Where might i find that? I love MU cuz it reminds me alot of that place
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Post by Roh on Jul 29, 2008 10:32:42 GMT -5
Combat skills and special attacks don't make any difference here, because with 130 parrying you parry almost 99% of all blows from any other PC, special attacks or otherwise.
If there is to be a fishing city, and pets are not allowed, and there are no guards, and there is a fee to get in, is it going to be only accessible via boat or can runes be marked? In other words, what facet will it be dropped in? I like it. However, if there are no guards, who collects the ticket fee? Surely someone has to guard the ticket-taker. And if there are wandering monsters, are they sea monsters or what? And how do fishermen defend themselves constantly from nearby spawners while trying to pull up their own challenges? Also, what are all the benefits to fishing here? Bigger monsters pulled, higher chances of ancient drops, rare unique drops of some kind - is that the gist of it?
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Post by Sev on Jul 29, 2008 18:21:12 GMT -5
It would be really great to open the debate on this ...& if staff are willing & acceptable to the idea come up with something unique,special with a great longevity in entertainment value for the shard.
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