Having played Neverwinter for a month now I've made a list of small changes that would increase usability and convenience without, hopefully, a lot of work or balance problems. Nothing major, no bugs, no new content, etc. Those would all be great, but this is a list of easy things I'd like to see. Apologies if some of these are already available in-game and I've missed them.
Crafting/Gateway - 'Collect All' button for crafting
- 'Collect (All) & Requeue' button (help stop Carpal Tunnel)
- Make crafting inventory viewable on gateway
- Show the next events with timers on gateway
- Give us a way to see a week or month of events so we can plan ahead
- (EDIT) Add profession vendor to gateway
- (EDIT) Show us the xp to next crafting level like in-game
Gameplay- Allow us to enter Epic Dungeons through the door or with "current team only" using the queue system. Or give us another way to 3/4 man epics
- Return people to the zone they came from after they leave a dungeon
- Heal injuries faster in town
- Make low level seals account bound, or drastically reduce low-level seal item costs
- Increase stack size in inventory for seal token things (eg blackdagger insignias)
- Have 2 event rotations: One for Gauntlgrym, one for the rest - Casuals have a hard time finding a DD or GG they can actually play. I have kids so I have a very specific window of time to play
- Let the party leader invite people in random dungeons if group members leave
- If a group of 3 or more joins, make the party leader in the dungeon the leader of that group
PVP- Give mountless people a temporary 50% mount horse when they join a pvp map. Lower level pvp when half the other team has 110% mounts and yours has no mount is an automatic loss on maps designed for mounted people. You can let them keep their 110% vs 50% advantage, but 110% vs 0% is ridiculous on the larger map.
- Add a vote-kick for botters
- Don't penalize the whole team for afk/botters, check for damage/healing done or something useful.
- (EDIT) Add easy bot reporting option during pvp. I don't want to /who someone and then type their handle.
Trade/Money- Let us mail gold
- Let us mail non-epic seals
- When we're outbid, return the money directly to our inventory
- Trade confirmation box to prevent scams
- Increase mail attachment limit
- (EDIT: KVET) Add donation mechanism for guild bank slots
Random- Show classes in friends list
- Add /who command to right-click menu on a player
- Show GG Faction, if available
- (EDIT) Make item links always display in client's language
- (EDIT) Make boss names, etc, always display in client's language
- (EDIT) If you have a window open where you can drag and drop an item, no longer prompt to discard the item if you miss the box slightly.
- (EDIT)Allow purchases of up to 100 of any item.
- (EDIT)Show companion's XP to next level, even if they can be trained.
- (EDIT: two30)Auto-pickup should work with any common items of which I already have a partial stack in my inventory. Already have 3 potions of minor healing? Auto-pickup any new ones until I have a full stack.
- (EDIT: two30)Companion's stat tooltips should show the percentage benefit. If I give my cleric 40 deflection, what's that as a percentage?
- (EDIT: two30)Invocation should heal injuries, which would make more sense than AD and XP, although I don't mind the AD.
- (EDIT: two30)A button that inputs @myaccountname in the To: field for quick mailing stuff to alts. I always worry I'm going to mistype and mail to a stranger.
- (EDIT: two30)Mail from the Auction House has the "Reply" button greyed out. The "Report Spam" button should probably be greyed out as well. (Incredibly unimportant)
- (EDIT: cinj216) Take All and Delete (All messages or just one) buttons for mailbox.
That's it for now. Thanks for reading.
Comments
On the PvP mount thing -- how about no mounts on normal PvP instances? the GG pvp instance is large and lvl 60 only, and if you're lvl 60 with no mount at all, well, that's sort of your own fault. But the others, just make them "indoor" and disable mounts completely. It will slow things down a little, but not incredibly so. Besides, pre-lvl 20 pvp matches have no mounts, and they work out just fine.
One big one missed in the OP's list (IMO): Guild bank repositories. We need a way to gather contributions toward buying the repositories. That means, A) Be like other cryptic games and use the currency you can deposit, or provide a way for all members to contribute toward the repositories maybe a deposit only box for ADs where not even the Guildmaster can get the ADs out once put in. There's probably other solutions, but the point is, repositories are very expensive to have to buy in a single lump sum for most players (if that's not you, dear reader, that's wonderful for you to be so rich in ADs. Wanna join my guild and buy a repo or two for us?)
Sekhmet@kvetchus_
Guilds: Greycloaks, Blackcloaks, Whitecloaks, Goldcloaks, Browncloaks, Spiritcloaks, Bluecloaks, Silvercloaks, Black Dawn
Tredecim: The Cloak Alliance
I 100% agree with your guild bank suggestions. You should be able to chip in and unlock repositories when the required donations have been deposited. Or, say, donate 1k to unlock one inventory slot.
Gratz
Allow purchases of up to 100 of any item.
Show companion's XP to next level, even if they can be trained.
Not real useful.
A "take and delete" option would be nice, or auto-delete mail without text/subject or from the AH when the attachment is taken.
A different way to do it, is to click "reply" to your own mails in inbox.
For some reason, I can't write
Maybe a better way to do it would be to make the "default" your @handle instead of the "character@handle", and have it disappear if you click on the To: field. If you don't put anything, it just sends the mail to your account.