What would YOUR patch notes say?

RainbowVidel - Sanctuary

Imagine you're in charge of all game content for one update. What changes would you make? I'll start with mine.

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Patch Version ###
Released January 28, 2010

[Apothecary Changes]

The number of each herb type required to craft an apothecary item is reduced by half.

The following crafted items have been modified as follows:

- Life Powder and Focus Powder are now combined as Energy Powder (type 1 item, level 10 req). Restores 55 HP and MP per second for 30 minutes.

- Flourish Orb is now a type 2 item (level 30 req). Restores 70 HP and MP per second for 40 minutes.

- Healing Orb and Concentrate Orb are now combined as Energy Orb (type 3 item, level 45 req). Restores 85 HP and MP per second for 50 minutes.

- Renewal Orb is now a type 4 item (level 60 req). Restores 100 HP and MP per second for 1 hour.

All herb types and non-instance crafting materials can now be purchased from any apothecary npc. They are no longer in the Boutique.

All apothecary items no longer have a shared cooldown time.

[Skill Changes]

Enemy Mobs

Damage from skills used by monsters that take effect over time are reduced by half, have a 30 second cooldown and are not stackable.

Only monsters you or a member of your squad attack will engage in battle. This does not apply to "elite" mobs or bosses.

All Classes

(PvE and PvP) All skills that do damage over time no longer ignores the target's defense and damage will be adjusted accordingly.

Each attack and skill use increases the player's Chi by 10.

Mana costs of all skills are reduced by 75%.

Players will not lose MP if a skill they are casting is interrupted or cancelled. It must be successfully cast for MP to be reduced.

Cleric

Celestial Guardian's Seal
Functionality has been changed. At skill level 1, the regeneration rate is 55 per second for 30 minutes. For each additional level, the rate increases by 5, up to 100 at level 10. The duration increases by 15 minutes at levels 4, 7 and 10.

Exalted Renewal
Functionality has been changed. Same effect as a level 10 Celestial Guardian's Seal but with a duration of 2 hours.

NOTE: Both of these skills will not cancel the effect of the apothecary items listed above unless the skill provides either a higher regeneration rate or longer duration.

Blademaster

Diamond Sutra
Chi cost is reduced to 50. Cooldown time is reduced to 15 seconds.

Alter Marrow Physical, Alter Marrow Magical
Both skills now share a 30 second cooldown time. Defense reduction is removed.

Cloud Sprint, Will of the Bodhisatva
Cooldown time is reduced to 20 seconds.

Venomancer

Any monster that is not "elite" or a boss can now be tamed.

[Territory Wars]

No faction may own more than 5 lands at a time. All major cities are not eligible to be owned. Any faction currently owning more than 5 lands will lose lands, selected at random, until the number is reduced to 5.

[UI and Misc Changes]

Fixed the "rubberbanding" glitch.

Fixed an issue witth some players experiencing blinking graphics or screens during certain conditions.

Ranged mobs will no longer score an extra hit immediately on death.

Many more quests have been added for every character level, starting at level 30, to greatly eliminate the need for exp grinding. All mobs now give permanent double experience and item drops. The number of coins dropped greatly increases with monster level.

Repair costs for all classes is reduced by half.

Boutique items will no longer contain high level or endgame gear. All boutique prices are permanently reduced by half.

All mail is sent instantly, including those with items attached. Fee is reduced to 50 coins per mail. Up to 3 items can be attached to a single mail.

Meditation regeneration rate is increased to 50%.

Teleporting fees are reduced by 75%. A player that achieves a sage or demon cultivation level will receive a permanent Teleport Stone with unlimited uses and no cooldown time (cannot be traded or sold). Existing sage and demon players will receive this item in their mailbox.

Fixed an issue with Tideborn characters having a different face color than their body.

Restored all broken or missing hairstyles.

All NPCs now have an invisible 10 meter "bubble" surrounding them. No player or mount can enter the bubble or stand on it, providing greater ease of clicking on the NPC. Normally, players tend to stay huddled near NPCs while on their mounts. Any mount not moving and in contact with a NPC bubble is instantly stowed and cannot be re-summoned until you move outside the bubble range for at least 5 seconds.

All mobs will no longer remain aggroed to a player indefinitely (maximum chasing time is 10 seconds before returning to where it was).

Random pigments and color packs are removed from the Boutique. Individual color pigments can now be purchased from any Cosmetic Master NPC at the set price of 50,000 coins each.

Consignment shops can no longer have the same item in both the buying and selling sections.

The following system options have been added: Ignore Faction Invites, Ignore Duels, Ignore Consignment, Ignore Genies. NOTE: The last two options mean you will not see them at all, which will improve game performance.

Red system messages can now be toggled on or off.

All hairstyles are now available to all non-Barbarian classes. All characters will receive a free makeover scroll in their mailbox. This scroll cannot be traded or sold.

Venomancers and Barbarians, when using their animal morph skill, will now transform into the animal they represent. The skill name itself will be changed based on the animal type.

All NPC characters that is not involved with quests or any other purpose are removed from the game until further notice. All other NPCs that were missing as a result of previous patches are restored.

The level requirement to use the Trade channel is removed. All trade messages that would have been seen in Common or World chat is automatically transferred to the Trade channel. Any attempt to bypass this filtering process will result in being automatically muted from all channels (except Squad, Faction and Whisper) for three days and the message itself will not be displayed. If muted in this manner three times, the duration becomes permanent.

The number of names allowed on your friends list or blacklist is unlimited. Both lists are now stored in your PWI folder. Both you and blacklisted characters will be invisible to each other and interaction of one to the other will not be possible.

Headgear, such as sunglasses and hats, are no longer bound to specific hairstyles and are available to all characters.

NOTE: As a reminder to all players, Venomancers will always be female only and Barbarians will always be male only. These will never change for any reason nor will same gender mount riding/embracing/marriages ever be allowed.

Bowlinbob - Lost City

Rainbowvidel - Sanctuary wrote: »

(PvE and PvP) All skills that do damage over time no longer ignores the target's defense and damage will be adjusted accordingly.

^^^^^^ @!@!!@!!b:chuckle



Cleric: fix the animation bug for male clerics when channeling Wield Thunder while standing.

Cleric: Fix the magic def. buff timers (atm when cast on top of an existing buff to refresh, it does not refresh)

Miss_Teka - Lost City

Rainbowvidel - Sanctuary wrote: »

Imagine you're in charge of all game content for one update. What changes would you make? I'll start with mine.

---

Patch Version ###
Released January 28, 2010

[Apothecary Changes]

The number of each herb type required to craft an apothecary item is reduced by half.

The following crafted items have been modified as follows:

- Life Powder and Focus Powder are now combined as Energy Powder (type 1 item, level 10 req). Restores 55 HP and MP per second for 30 minutes.

- Flourish Orb is now a type 2 item (level 30 req). Restores 70 HP and MP per second for 40 minutes.

- Healing Orb and Concentrate Orb are now combined as Energy Orb (type 3 item, level 45 req). Restores 85 HP and MP per second for 50 minutes.

- Renewal Orb is now a type 4 item (level 60 req). Restores 100 HP and MP per second for 1 hour.

All herb types and non-instance crafting materials can now be purchased from any apothecary npc. They are no longer in the Boutique.

All apothecary items no longer have a shared cooldown time.

[Skill Changes]

Enemy Mobs

Damage from skills used by monsters that take effect over time are reduced by half, have a 30 second cooldown and are not stackable.

Only monsters you or a member of your squad attack will engage in battle. This does not apply to "elite" mobs or bosses.

All Classes

(PvE and PvP) All skills that do damage over time no longer ignores the target's defense and damage will be adjusted accordingly.

Each attack and skill use increases the player's Chi by 10.

Mana costs of all skills are reduced by 75%.

Players will not lose MP if a skill they are casting is interrupted or cancelled. It must be successfully cast for MP to be reduced.

Cleric

Celestial Guardian's Seal
Functionality has been changed. At skill level 1, the regeneration rate is 55 per second for 30 minutes. For each additional level, the rate increases by 5, up to 100 at level 10. The duration increases by 15 minutes at levels 4, 7 and 10.

Exalted Renewal
Functionality has been changed. Same effect as a level 10 Celestial Guardian's Seal but with a duration of 2 hours.

NOTE: Both of these skills will not cancel the effect of the apothecary items listed above unless the skill provides either a higher regeneration rate or longer duration.

Blademaster

Diamond Sutra
Chi cost is reduced to 50. Cooldown time is reduced to 15 seconds.

Alter Marrow Physical, Alter Marrow Magical
Both skills now share a 30 second cooldown time. Defense reduction is removed.

Cloud Sprint, Will of the Bodhisatva
Cooldown time is reduced to 20 seconds.

Venomancer

Any monster that is not "elite" or a boss can now be tamed.

[Territory Wars]

No faction may own more than 5 lands at a time. All major cities are not eligible to be owned. Any faction currently owning more than 5 lands will lose lands, selected at random, until the number is reduced to 5.

[UI and Misc Changes]

Fixed the "rubberbanding" glitch.

Fixed an issue witth some players experiencing blinking graphics or screens during certain conditions.

Ranged mobs will no longer score an extra hit immediately on death.

Many more quests have been added for every character level, starting at level 30, to greatly eliminate the need for exp grinding. All mobs now give permanent double experience and item drops. The number of coins dropped greatly increases with monster level.

Repair costs for all classes is reduced by half.

Boutique items will no longer contain high level or endgame gear. All boutique prices are permanently reduced by half.

All mail is sent instantly, including those with items attached. Fee is reduced to 50 coins per mail. Up to 3 items can be attached to a single mail.

Meditation regeneration rate is increased to 50%.

Teleporting fees are reduced by 75%. A player that achieves a sage or demon cultivation level will receive a permanent Teleport Stone with unlimited uses and no cooldown time (cannot be traded or sold). Existing sage and demon players will receive this item in their mailbox.

Fixed an issue with Tideborn characters having a different face color than their body.

Restored all broken or missing hairstyles.

All NPCs now have an invisible 10 meter "bubble" surrounding them. No player or mount can enter the bubble or stand on it, providing greater ease of clicking on the NPC. Normally, players tend to stay huddled near NPCs while on their mounts. Any mount not moving and in contact with a NPC bubble is instantly stowed and cannot be re-summoned until you move outside the bubble range for at least 5 seconds.

All mobs will no longer remain aggroed to a player indefinitely (maximum chasing time is 10 seconds before returning to where it was).

Random pigments and color packs are removed from the Boutique. Individual color pigments can now be purchased from any Cosmetic Master NPC at the set price of 50,000 coins each.

Consignment shops can no longer have the same item in both the buying and selling sections.

The following system options have been added: Ignore Faction Invites, Ignore Duels, Ignore Consignment, Ignore Genies. NOTE: The last two options mean you will not see them at all, which will improve game performance.

Red system messages can now be toggled on or off.

All hairstyles are now available to all non-Barbarian classes. All characters will receive a free makeover scroll in their mailbox. This scroll cannot be traded or sold.

Venomancers and Barbarians, when using their animal morph skill, will now transform into the animal they represent. The skill name itself will be changed based on the animal type.

All NPC characters that is not involved with quests or any other purpose are removed from the game until further notice. All other NPCs that were missing as a result of previous patches are restored.

The level requirement to use the Trade channel is removed. All trade messages that would have been seen in Common or World chat is automatically transferred to the Trade channel. Any attempt to bypass this filtering process will result in being automatically muted from all channels (except Squad, Faction and Whisper) for three days and the message itself will not be displayed. If muted in this manner three times, the duration becomes permanent.

The number of names allowed on your friends list or blacklist is unlimited. Both lists are now stored in your PWI folder. Both you and blacklisted characters will be invisible to each other and interaction of one to the other will not be possible.

Headgear, such as sunglasses and hats, are no longer bound to specific hairstyles and are available to all characters.

NOTE: As a reminder to all players, Venomancers will always be female only and Barbarians will always be male only. These will never change for any reason nor will same gender mount riding/embracing/marriages ever be allowed.

as long as EVERY single thing you said is ignored it sounds good.

Saitada - Sanctuary

We are happy to announce in this new patch that we will be updating and renaming your BOOT.INI file to BUHBYE.INI

Sadly, another MMO I play actually DID delete the BOOT.INI file off of users computers with a patch. Talk about an EPIC fail.

~Saitada

PequetteV - Lost City

some good point in it i give it +9

Meiko - Heavens Tear

Tideborn skin fix for ATI and the other card that has the issue b:cry

There are plently more but I am holding my Makeover scroll to make my stinky fishy have a more humanoid pigmented skin. b:surrender

Also most your ideas are good but some about the cash shop well you know, it may not work because like for example letting people choose their fash colors without ability to die means they buy fash and that's it. Thats great for us of course, but from a bussiness standpoint (they do have to pay a server upkeep) its an annoying gamble indeed butits one of the many CS things that keeps the servers alive. Also reducing the prices will be bad as well, but I do feel certain specific items should be cheaper namely that perfect hammer. $5 bucks and the many things it opens. heh prey to find one for less then 1.5 mil to open a $1million box. Is that a reward or a curse? That is the question

Smobo - Heavens Tear

Rainbowvidel - Sanctuary wrote: »

Random pigments and color packs are removed from the Boutique. Individual color pigments can now be purchased from any Cosmetic Master NPC at the set price of 50,000 coins each.
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I have to disagree on this. The cash shop is a double-edged sword.Someone needs to pay for the servers, and being able to buy your way to the top ruins the game. Seeing as fashion has no affect on gameplay, however is fairly high in demand, I see it fit to have all fashion related things kept in the cashshop.

Zoe - Heavens Tear

I won't use fancy colors but here is mine


Gameplay changes:

The venomancer pet skill "flesh ream" is no longer usable in a pvp environment. This includes open world pvp, Territory Wars and duels. The barbarian flesh ream is uneffected.

All class pets are no longer clickable. This change was made to address an issue with players abusing the pets to hide in a pvp envrionment.



Bug Fixes

The bushy tailed venomancer model no longer will only have the face change color when you change the skin color.

The reverse has been applied to tideborn characters. Their face will now change color with the rest of their body.

Botique changes

The item Lucky Coral has been removed and will not be returning. This also applies to anniversary packs.

Tokens of luck are now sold in-game by the Merchant NPC for a price of 15,000 coins each. Tokens of best luck will not be returning.



Other changes

All items that are bought from a player shop are instantly bound to the player that bought them. This was done to address the inflation caused by resellers. This does not apply to the auction house.

Auction house fees have been rasied by 15%. This has been done in conjunction with the above to create a much needed coin sink.




I haven't actually played in a while so I don't know all the current issues but this is my update.b:victory

Olba - Sanctuary

Rainbowvidel - Sanctuary wrote: »

1. The number of each herb type required to craft an apothecary item is reduced by half.
2. All herb types and non-instance crafting materials can now be purchased from any apothecary npc. They are no longer in the Boutique.
3. All apothecary items no longer have a shared cooldown time.
4. Mana costs of all skills are reduced by 75%.
5. Alter Marrow Physical, Alter Marrow Magical
Both skills now share a 30 second cooldown time. Defense reduction is removed.
6. No faction may own more than 5 lands at a time. All major cities are not eligible to be owned. Any faction currently owning more than 5 lands will lose lands, selected at random, until the number is reduced to 5.
7. Boutique items will no longer contain high level or endgame gear. All boutique prices are permanently reduced by half.
8. Teleporting fees are reduced by 75%. A player that achieves a sage or demon cultivation level will receive a permanent Teleport Stone with unlimited uses and no cooldown time (cannot be traded or sold). Existing sage and demon players will receive this item in their mailbox.
9. All NPCs now have an invisible 10 meter "bubble" surrounding them. No player or mount can enter the bubble or stand on it, providing greater ease of clicking on the NPC. Normally, players tend to stay huddled near NPCs while on their mounts. Any mount not moving and in contact with a NPC bubble is instantly stowed and cannot be re-summoned until you move outside the bubble range for at least 5 seconds.
10. Random pigments and color packs are removed from the Boutique. Individual color pigments can now be purchased from any Cosmetic Master NPC at the set price of 50,000 coins each.
11. Consignment shops can no longer have the same item in both the buying and selling sections.
12. Venomancers and Barbarians, when using their animal morph skill, will now transform into the animal they represent. The skill name itself will be changed based on the animal type.

All of these changes I quoted are bad, and here's why:
1. This would mean that you could make some items with as few as 13 herbs total.
2. Then what would happen to farming them?
3. This would mean that you could use items to be simultaneously temporarily immune to damage, movement impairments and have no channeling.
4. LOL! Ridiculous. This would mean that MP would be worthless, mana charms would only be used for automatic regen.
5. So wait? You could use Alter Marrow Magical to boost your magical defenses without losing anything at all?
6. This would leave the highest level players with nothing to do. When you got all the gear, high levels, there just isn't anything left. And if you cannot even TW, there really is no reason to play the game. You would practically lose every member that is 100 or higher.
7. This would mean that some of the cheaper items, such as Wind Widgets and Training Esotericas would be terribly cheap.
8. LOL! Seriously, it's a coin sink. Be glad that there even is one.
9. This would cause the catshops to be piled on the other areas, causing for them to be packed really closely, possibly causing difficulty on going through them.
10. Why?
11. People would just buy and sell at different times, people already do it.
12. Well, what about the bats? Those would have to be very small and therefore hard to target in PvP.

Asperitas - Lost City

Zoe - Heavens Tear wrote: »

All items that are bought from a player shop are instantly bound to the player that bought them. This was done to address the inflation caused by resellers. This does not apply to the auction house.

No. Inflation is inevitable. Drastic inflation is not caused by reselling goods. There's two types:

1. Demand pull
2. Cost push

A single person does not cause inflation. Market demand does, and so do events that push up the cost of obtaining things.

Zoe - Heavens Tear

Inflation is not real. People do not have to sell for a high price, the fact that they do is simply being greedy.

The point of that was to remove resellers entirely, it will make prices much lower overall.

rikako

that pve and pvp / functionally changed stuff looks rly much like taken from guild wars.

MoonUsagi - Heavens Tear

No one want, chest of coin removed ? (that mean bye bye hammer) b:bye
Btw, lowering hammer price will increase gold price per coin.
1 chest of coin = 1m
1 hammer = 5 gold x 200k = 1m
If hammer were 2 gold . . . woot 500k coin per gold. b:shocked
With anni / coral pack it will jump to 750k ?

So, remove the chest of coin please. b:cute

Asperitas - Lost City

Zoe - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Inflation is not real. People do not have to sell for a high price, the fact that they do is simply being greedy.

The point of that was to remove resellers entirely, it will make prices much lower overall.

And you are not being greedy for wanting to buy something for the lowest price possible?

Removing resellers doesn't lower prices. When market demand exceeds supply, in the short run, firms will increase output to meet demand, also increase their marginal cost. They will then charge higher prices to compensate for the excess cost they must go to to supply the extra goods. If I normally spend 3 hours farming mats for you to buy, and all of a sudden you want 4 hours worth of mats, I will charge a higher price, because I am giving up my time for something else to do that for you.

That has nothing to do with reselling, and everything to do with supply and demand.

That has nothing to do with reselling. That's a price raise to compensate for the fact that i have increasing costs in the short run to raise production.

Another factor is cost push inflation, when the cost to produce something goes up. Would you continue to supply something at a loss? I wouldn't. Therefore they jack up prices to compensate for higher expenditures on intermediate goods.

Unless a (re)seller is a monopolist, they have no power over the price, and ultimately it is the buyer themself, who are sending signals to the supplier as to what prices are reasonable. If people weren't willing to pay higher and higher prices for a rarity, do you really think sellers would put it that high? Of course not. It doesn't make sense.

A simple example would be auctions. The auctioneer puts up an item for sale. Person A bids $10. Person B bids $20, and person C bids $30. The process continues until the bid meets the perceived value of the item. This will happen regardless if there are resellers or not. People are not going to pass up an item that is undervalued. They will keep fighting for it until they think the value they receive is equivalent to the cost they are paying.

It's not about resellers. It's about supply and demand.