02-15-2009, 05:08 AM
Where to start...
Making skills GM so easily you can be a 10x GM in one day... yeah if that happens I am gone. There are 89234 other shards like that, we aren't followers here and we want our players to stay because they like it, not because we hand them free junk and hold their hands while doing so. I hate this idea:p
We (the staff) have discussed possible incentives to joining, such as: better starting packs, better stats/skills from the start, possible ways to give them simple, achievable boosts, and so on. This is far from out of the question. We aren't trying to make this hell and we want players to have fun but the faster everything is GM'd the faster players get bored. There needs to be a fine balance with skills because if its too much it will already be too late to undo by the time we notice. This will probably happen but not to some outrageous degree.
Okay armors and ingots now. This is something I agree with personally. I miss things like fire, amethyst, serpent, griffin, and some others. I think XUO had some left out armor types as well and they should be added as well. Also maybe 1 or 2 completely new types of armor. My thoughts on this though are that these armors should either take some sort of quest or achievement to unlock for players or they should only be accessible in certain areas, like fire ingots are only available at the bottom floor of fire dungeon. This is something I'd like to push for sooner or later but right now I don't see this bringing in players, just keeping old ones busy with something newish. Though if I got the okay to do it I would get started on it.
Jiraiya and Rabbi, you guys seem to have very different views on how mounts should work and I have tried to slowly integrate those ideas in game. Like I have said in previous posts though, we can't have too many mounts til the player base picks up. As for a totally random colored mount... if I see I sparkly one spawn I would just .kill it. There are some colors a mount should just never be. There is no problem with making a mount a few random colors though, like the one thats on that island.
I can't argue the fact that we either need a decent wiki page or a much better web page. That really isn't my thing though. Any player could feel free to get started on a wiki and we would greatly appreciate it and help in any way we could, for the most part at least.
Hmm, the pvp stone seems to be disliked by quite a few players... I know some want cheaper prizes and some want better prizes or just simply both. This is something we will look into.
As for staff being accountable for what they do... meh I dunno. This might push some to work harder and it might make some feel like they aren't pulling their weight. In reality do you really need to know who does the updates? The changelogs are typically a contribution of all the staff put together, not just who posts it. Isn't that enough to know really? Oh and posting future adds and features before they are done, well I don't think thats a good call either. I have started like 30 projects that I have yet to finish, mainly cuz I suck at scripting compared to our devs, but somethings I got excited about and on finishing or coming close I would realize that it wouldn't work or this would just change too much. Its my opinion that its best how we do it now, with change logs, granted they could have more info sometimes but this is really for the best I think.
Account transfers were deactivated, I think, because people started finding bugs or trying to abuse it. Don't quote me on this because I wasn't staff until after they ended but thats what I heard when they stopped. Will they ever be done again? Don't ask me dammit.
As always, these are my own views and I do not talk on behalf of the entire staff. I just feel its good for players and staff to snowball their thoughts off one another for better feedback and more accurate conclusions to the problems at hand.
Making skills GM so easily you can be a 10x GM in one day... yeah if that happens I am gone. There are 89234 other shards like that, we aren't followers here and we want our players to stay because they like it, not because we hand them free junk and hold their hands while doing so. I hate this idea:p
We (the staff) have discussed possible incentives to joining, such as: better starting packs, better stats/skills from the start, possible ways to give them simple, achievable boosts, and so on. This is far from out of the question. We aren't trying to make this hell and we want players to have fun but the faster everything is GM'd the faster players get bored. There needs to be a fine balance with skills because if its too much it will already be too late to undo by the time we notice. This will probably happen but not to some outrageous degree.
Okay armors and ingots now. This is something I agree with personally. I miss things like fire, amethyst, serpent, griffin, and some others. I think XUO had some left out armor types as well and they should be added as well. Also maybe 1 or 2 completely new types of armor. My thoughts on this though are that these armors should either take some sort of quest or achievement to unlock for players or they should only be accessible in certain areas, like fire ingots are only available at the bottom floor of fire dungeon. This is something I'd like to push for sooner or later but right now I don't see this bringing in players, just keeping old ones busy with something newish. Though if I got the okay to do it I would get started on it.
Jiraiya and Rabbi, you guys seem to have very different views on how mounts should work and I have tried to slowly integrate those ideas in game. Like I have said in previous posts though, we can't have too many mounts til the player base picks up. As for a totally random colored mount... if I see I sparkly one spawn I would just .kill it. There are some colors a mount should just never be. There is no problem with making a mount a few random colors though, like the one thats on that island.
I can't argue the fact that we either need a decent wiki page or a much better web page. That really isn't my thing though. Any player could feel free to get started on a wiki and we would greatly appreciate it and help in any way we could, for the most part at least.
Hmm, the pvp stone seems to be disliked by quite a few players... I know some want cheaper prizes and some want better prizes or just simply both. This is something we will look into.
As for staff being accountable for what they do... meh I dunno. This might push some to work harder and it might make some feel like they aren't pulling their weight. In reality do you really need to know who does the updates? The changelogs are typically a contribution of all the staff put together, not just who posts it. Isn't that enough to know really? Oh and posting future adds and features before they are done, well I don't think thats a good call either. I have started like 30 projects that I have yet to finish, mainly cuz I suck at scripting compared to our devs, but somethings I got excited about and on finishing or coming close I would realize that it wouldn't work or this would just change too much. Its my opinion that its best how we do it now, with change logs, granted they could have more info sometimes but this is really for the best I think.
Account transfers were deactivated, I think, because people started finding bugs or trying to abuse it. Don't quote me on this because I wasn't staff until after they ended but thats what I heard when they stopped. Will they ever be done again? Don't ask me dammit.
As always, these are my own views and I do not talk on behalf of the entire staff. I just feel its good for players and staff to snowball their thoughts off one another for better feedback and more accurate conclusions to the problems at hand.