03-10-2010, 06:15 AM
Here is what I think can be improved on to make the shard more attractive and enjoyable for new comers. Some things others have said and I'm repeating them because I agree with these facts, others are things I think would help out.
Changes to hunting
-You shouldn't have to hunt in groups of 2 or more for all the monsters that give decent loot. On XUO I was at the point where I was hunting 2 xtreme dragons at a time, here I can't even kill one on my own.
-I forget the name of it, but back on XUO we had a special monster that had 5 mini bosses you had to fight before fighting it. I think it was the boss at the end of Doom Dungeon.... Anyways, what I'm getting at here is that this monster was too tough for 1 person to fight on his own and you needed 2-3, but the loot was also AWESOME! So having monsters that need groups of people to kill isn't a problem, the problem is when all the decent monsters are like this.
-If enough people agree on the fact that hunting needs to be made a bit easier, then I wouldn't be surprised to see the staff make some monsters a little easier to kill. Nor would I be surprised to see the loot cut in 1/2 to make up for the easier kill, which would defeat the purpose. In other words, make some monsters a bit easier to kill, but leave the loot as is on these monsters.
-As Gibran has pointed out it is absolutely pointless in killing some monsters, especially when it takes 10x more resources to kill it then profit you can make off them.
-Now I just know someone will tell me something along the lines of "well you're just hunting the wrong thing". Well what if I'm a new player? I'm not about to go fight the destard guardian so I need something to work on until I'm ready to go fight him. And even then, lots of people say there's no point in fighting him because the loot he drops vs his difficulty level isn't worth it.
Now why change hunting to make it easier? Because this will encourage more people to hunt making people richer and if people are richer that means they'll be more willing to carry better equipment on them, more willing to take medium quality equipment on them in loot tours, etc. And the reason they'll do this is because they'll realize it won't take 10 hours to get back 100k to buy a new set of armor.
Changes to Player Mentality and actions
-The players of IN:X are way too jumpy and aggressive. Nobody is willing to budge an inch when there's a new suggestion made so there's very little forward progress made. If people would be more accommodating towards others suggestions, maybe they won't try and shoot your idea down just because it came from you.
-Players also need to not try and make changes to systems or features they don't use and have no intentions of using the system in the way they propose to change it. As an example, if you don't make rugs/carpets, don't make suggestions trying to change how rugs/carpets should be made as it has nothing to do with you.
-The players of IN:X are also *ssholes. What I mean by this is that we have players going around killing noobies macroing in town. [With sarcasm] that's exactly what a new player wants, to get killed in town while macroing when they haven't even been playing here for 2 days.
-Instead of guards being changed to be more protective of players, they've been made LESS EFFECTIVE. I've yet to hear of a police force that wants to put less criminals away and leave them out on the streets...
-For a lack of a better term, we need some forum nazi's who implement a zero tolerance mentality for the forums and mod the shit out of them to clean em up, because let's be honest here, the forums look like a dump with all the arguing. Nobody will like the idea of a severe forum mod, but eventually people will ease up on the bickering if they want to get 2 relevant words in.
Nit-pickyness
What I fit into this category is all those little things you have to work so hard for to do something so simple, or how few conveniences are extended to players.
Ex: A while back I suggested you should be able to equip armor from a container on the floor, and I get a response along the lines of 'don't be so damn lazy and just put it in your pack first'. This isn't a drastic change to the server yet people are ready to burn me at the stake as if we were back in Salem Massachusetts.
Ex: New features are added but often there are little, or at best, cryptic instructions supplied. Where's the harm in giving a few straightforward suggestions to help people get started
Ex: Documentation. There is not very much official information for players to look things up. Instead they have to search forever to find answers to simple things. We need something like a general knowledge section on the main page. My suggestion is to create a new section on the forums where players can submit important information they feel will help everyone, and to have a group of 4-5 experienced players vote on the most important things that should be added to the main site. And I say players here and not staff because staff have enough to do.
Changes to hunting
-You shouldn't have to hunt in groups of 2 or more for all the monsters that give decent loot. On XUO I was at the point where I was hunting 2 xtreme dragons at a time, here I can't even kill one on my own.
-I forget the name of it, but back on XUO we had a special monster that had 5 mini bosses you had to fight before fighting it. I think it was the boss at the end of Doom Dungeon.... Anyways, what I'm getting at here is that this monster was too tough for 1 person to fight on his own and you needed 2-3, but the loot was also AWESOME! So having monsters that need groups of people to kill isn't a problem, the problem is when all the decent monsters are like this.
-If enough people agree on the fact that hunting needs to be made a bit easier, then I wouldn't be surprised to see the staff make some monsters a little easier to kill. Nor would I be surprised to see the loot cut in 1/2 to make up for the easier kill, which would defeat the purpose. In other words, make some monsters a bit easier to kill, but leave the loot as is on these monsters.
-As Gibran has pointed out it is absolutely pointless in killing some monsters, especially when it takes 10x more resources to kill it then profit you can make off them.
-Now I just know someone will tell me something along the lines of "well you're just hunting the wrong thing". Well what if I'm a new player? I'm not about to go fight the destard guardian so I need something to work on until I'm ready to go fight him. And even then, lots of people say there's no point in fighting him because the loot he drops vs his difficulty level isn't worth it.
Now why change hunting to make it easier? Because this will encourage more people to hunt making people richer and if people are richer that means they'll be more willing to carry better equipment on them, more willing to take medium quality equipment on them in loot tours, etc. And the reason they'll do this is because they'll realize it won't take 10 hours to get back 100k to buy a new set of armor.
Changes to Player Mentality and actions
-The players of IN:X are way too jumpy and aggressive. Nobody is willing to budge an inch when there's a new suggestion made so there's very little forward progress made. If people would be more accommodating towards others suggestions, maybe they won't try and shoot your idea down just because it came from you.
-Players also need to not try and make changes to systems or features they don't use and have no intentions of using the system in the way they propose to change it. As an example, if you don't make rugs/carpets, don't make suggestions trying to change how rugs/carpets should be made as it has nothing to do with you.
-The players of IN:X are also *ssholes. What I mean by this is that we have players going around killing noobies macroing in town. [With sarcasm] that's exactly what a new player wants, to get killed in town while macroing when they haven't even been playing here for 2 days.
-Instead of guards being changed to be more protective of players, they've been made LESS EFFECTIVE. I've yet to hear of a police force that wants to put less criminals away and leave them out on the streets...
-For a lack of a better term, we need some forum nazi's who implement a zero tolerance mentality for the forums and mod the shit out of them to clean em up, because let's be honest here, the forums look like a dump with all the arguing. Nobody will like the idea of a severe forum mod, but eventually people will ease up on the bickering if they want to get 2 relevant words in.
Nit-pickyness
What I fit into this category is all those little things you have to work so hard for to do something so simple, or how few conveniences are extended to players.
Ex: A while back I suggested you should be able to equip armor from a container on the floor, and I get a response along the lines of 'don't be so damn lazy and just put it in your pack first'. This isn't a drastic change to the server yet people are ready to burn me at the stake as if we were back in Salem Massachusetts.
Ex: New features are added but often there are little, or at best, cryptic instructions supplied. Where's the harm in giving a few straightforward suggestions to help people get started
Ex: Documentation. There is not very much official information for players to look things up. Instead they have to search forever to find answers to simple things. We need something like a general knowledge section on the main page. My suggestion is to create a new section on the forums where players can submit important information they feel will help everyone, and to have a group of 4-5 experienced players vote on the most important things that should be added to the main site. And I say players here and not staff because staff have enough to do.