State of the Game: Summary of Two Questions thread

[thekragle]

Yes Justg! What a great outline of community requests! Seems like doing anything with old and new elite maps would be a great step in the right direction. It would kill several birds with one stone if you know what I mean. Farming, excitment, loot, challenge.

[Zeus]

OK folks, this has been an extremely productive thread. Here is what we have heard.

Major Caveat: Nothing on this list is on the roadmap, I just want to verify that we are talking about the same things for now:

Make farming worth it:
- Better loot distribution across all maps (bring new life into all the old maps)
- More competitive gears available purely through farming (Planar Tombs was a good model for this).
- More and varied crafting materials, scattered across all maps
- More items like Necro, Planar Pendant, Mythic amulet (farmable crafted)
- Items that are very rare to loot off bosses (high level jewels)
- Scale all elites to current level cap w better loot (crate keys, ankhs, old arcane eggs, combo lix, extra gold, high level jewels)

More/ new loot:
- Better gear progression
- Original stuff, less re-colors
- Add great sets with powerful set bonuses, distributed across crates/ boss drops/ craftables
- More recipes: (Weapons, Eggs, pet food, potions, vanities, ankhs, crate keys, time keys (accelerate crafting))
- Overhaul of the token vendor inventories so people have new shiny things to buy with dragkin tooth, Rengol tokens, Underhul coins, Planar fragments, etc.
- Stashable crafted energy kits
- Vanity “trail” for pets
- 1000 gold, 1000 hp pots, 1000 mana pots

Events that encourage group play:
- 2013 Tarlok event. Most of the time during that event we were on maps, killing bosses after bosses, for a chance of event portal.
- Harvest event, which encourage all three classes to work together and share their loot.

Game balance
- Tanks too desirable right now
- Sorcs crit very hard
- Rogues too nerfed in PvP

New PvP maps

Better inventory management
- Stacking (w/ mass sell)
- Sell All for specific rarities

Party System bonus – for all classes in PvE parties

Leaderboards
- Seasonal
- Bot protection

Progress meter for APs

Mailbox for offline communication

Guilds :
- Wall/ MOTD
- Guild V Guild
- Guild-wide prizes for competitions

Does this sum up what we have been talking about? Again, no promises on any of this, but it is a great conversation thus far!

Thanks,

- g

Yes it does, thank you very much for effectively gathering all points.

[nightmaresmoke]

Definitely not meaningless, in fact I very much respect your opinion. Just trying to prioritize what was asked for by multiple people.

Hi JustG in all of those suggestions i think this should be the first you need to fix

Game balance
- Tanks too desirable right now
- Sorcs crit very hard
- Rogues too nerfed in PvP

If you fix this first then everything will be done smoothly, coz right now this is the most important thing from my perspective anyway just sayin.

Spacetime Studios thank you for listening to the community and good luck (^_^)/

[extrapayah]

sad fact, majority doesn't want shared pet stable... please consider having shared pet stable (or for any sub-character that has level) on your future game

[Lastmind]

Definitely not meaningless, in fact I very much respect your opinion. Just trying to prioritize what was asked for by multiple people.

I also mentioned new skills/classes/archetypes btw.

[zerofort]

I rly hope the coins were farming for are able to buy good gear also well we're farming for coins I would li,e other loots to make gold from well we're farming for the coins

[Serancha]

Excellent summary, thanks G.

Regarding the gear progression, it is worth noting that the mythic weapons (aside from warrior) in the past few seasons have been an average of 100+ damage more than the legendaries of the same level. At the same time you have been regressing armour stats to compensate for us being "too strong". It would be better all around to make the damage gaps significantly less between rarity levels on single items, and then all new gear (armour, jewelry, weapons) could be higher stats than previous gear.

Back in season 1 and 2, the difference between "best" and "next-best" was only 1 or 2 damage points, so maybe making it something like 10 damage difference between rarities would be more suitable, and make the larger stat difference be that between levels (level 56 gear should be far better than 46, but level 56 mythics shouldn't be massively higher than 56 elite legendaries).

Honestly, seeing a level 50+ mythic in the vendor that was lower in almost all stats than a 46 padded helm was a major what-the-hell moment. Without progression, the game has no purpose.

[Fpsmode]

1. GUILD BANNERS
the leader of the guild can make a emblem on a banner to represent their guild.

2. PET EVOLUTIONS
Through a series of quest you can now upgrade your arcane pets. Example upgrading nekro will give better stats.

[Tatman]

Only things asked for by multiple people eh. So, no-one wanted better testing of stuff you release.

[Java]

Just for FUN.

A small biography section on our character screen to tell a short story about the character.

A 'hide' feature for pets we never or rarely use.

Drinking coffee...for your protection!

[tokko]

our beat up an emotion now ... very good!

[Ticklish]

Only things asked for by multiple people eh. So, no-one wanted better testing of stuff you release.

I second this! I'm sure there are many more who would agree. Please put priority into releasing error-free updates because they really affect the player base. Thank you!

[Hercules]

Justg Thank you for consider my idea of "Time keys" hehe

[Justg]

Only things asked for by multiple people eh. So, no-one wanted better testing of stuff you release.

Obviously we could do better with our releases. Thanks for the gentle reminders

[Jazzi]

A great summary. Only thing it is missing is the bug squashing. I think several people asked about that too

[Kakashis]

Dang, that summary pretty much covers everything on my mind. If STS does most of those things, the game would be vastly alive all the time.

[Justg]

A great summary. Only thing it is missing is the bug squashing. I think several people asked about that too

/agree!

- g

[Kaziscate]

Hehe how clever u were to put this in the General Discussions instead of the Feedback section because thats kinda the most viewed part of the forums lol. Also thanks for making this post. It really brought out the "Lightbulb of Ideas" outta us.

[ilhanna]

Thank you for listening. I hope the conversation continues.

[Xinandy]

this must be amazing :3