[Server Maintenance] 9-20-2011 [COMPLETE]

Lanova - Dreamweaver

Make Jones Blessing only available to lvl 99 and below.

Ingrafer - Heavens Tear

Rank 9 b:bye everything else doesn't bother me

Aneurysmal - Heavens Tear

frankieraye wrote: »

If you could make just one gameplay change to PWI, what would it be?

Glitch cleanup.

So tired of random client shutdowns, rubberbanding, massive lag not related to my connection/vid card, etc.

LadyofReal - Heavens Tear

I can't choose just one thing to effect gameplay, I'd do the following:

-Fix the glitches
-Add end game content
-Raise the level cap, but do so while keeping the experience needed at a reasonable amount
-Add more dungeons, or different difficulty levels for the ones we already have
-More in game events like what we had in 08/09, i.e. Chinese New Years, Christmas Event, Halloween event (the good ones before we got the cheap rip off events in '10/'11
-Nerf sins. They have their uses, but yea, still insane damage
-While I'm speaking of Harpy, I'd fix the the damned quest for the Harpy kill!
-Various terrain maps for TW instances. Tundra, desert, meadows, mountains, sea, forest, depending on territory bid on.
-Upgrade of old classes

(More pending thought train).

nunomb

ChaoticShelly wrote: »

No glitches.

No, no, wait. End-game content!

Ugh, tough call.

b:chuckle

It's tea time!

+1 b:chuckle

Atonia - Dreamweaver

Krisnda wrote: »

Also I want the assault on Arch to actually make the mobs go in and kill everyone b:dirty.

I actually kind of like that idea... I think it would be neat if there were some sort of... danger added to the assault. I think it would be entertaining to say the least to see Duke Black chased around by mobs because we all chose not to save him due to his horrendous amount of system spam. XD

RioNHale - Archosaur

frankieraye wrote: »

If you could make just one gameplay change to PWI, what would it be?

Make it fun. >_>

Lord_Mot - Harshlands

Instead of -% chan have -chan time and add -cast time and -CD time. Imagine a Wizzy standing there twitching, hitting for 50K- 5 times per second. I guess you'd run through the herb though, but it'd be worth it.

Nniotora - Lost City

fix magic classes to trier skill damage is the same as phy skills ex

GUSH atm lv10;
Forces a powerful water column to spew up from the
ground, dealing water damage equal to base magic
damage plus 100% of weapon damage plus 1372.6. Has a
92% chance to slow the enemy by 40% for 8.0 seconds.
would be come :
Forces a powerful water column to spew up from the
ground, dealing water damage equal to base magic
866.7.

Broederjr - Lost City

Nniotora - Lost City wrote: »

fix magic classes to trier skill damage is the same as phy skills ex

GUSH atm lv10;
Forces a powerful water column to spew up from the
ground, dealing water damage equal to base magic
damage plus 100% of weapon damage plus 1372.6. Has a
92% chance to slow the enemy by 40% for 8.0 seconds.
would be come :
Forces a powerful water column to spew up from the
ground, dealing water damage equal to base magic
866.7.

lol this would criple them so much but would make it alot more balanced

_Perses_ - Lost City

Game play is fine....but starting to fix:

1. Change the Developers
2. Change the marketing team
3. ????
4. PROFIT!

Deceptistar - Sanctuary

frankieraye wrote: »

And for the usual maintenance question:


If you could make just one gameplay change to PWI, what would it be?

OP nerf bahaha b:laugh

Sarrafeline - Sanctuary

_Perses_ - Lost City wrote: »

Game play is fine....but starting to fix:

1. Change the Developers
2. Change the marketing team
3. ????
4. PROFIT!

Why not just play a P2P game then? I mean... That's basically what you are suggesting they do anyway. b:surrender

Gameplay? That's a tough one. I'd fix stealth. I mean really fix it. Inside of 10 meters, you should be able to see a Sin, Stealth should reduce move speed by 50%, can't fly, mount, or change weapons while stealth or it knocks you out, and every skill, even buffing, should knock you out of stealth. It should also have a set timer for how long you can remain invisible, and a much longer cooldown on escape and walk. Make it so other classes can get a valid stealth detection level closer to a Sin's, and let a second class use stealth.

Then again, this is basically copying Blizzard... But you know, stealth in that game makes it MORE FUN. In PWI, it just ****ing breaks everything. But this is a GAMEPLAY change I'd make... Executing the Devs isn't really gameplay related, directly...

Rubride - Lost City

More Solo Mode Twiight Temple Bosses and mobs. Especially in HH3-1, 3-2, and 3-3. Tired of seeing the Forbidden Pillars.

MoonUsagi - Heavens Tear

Nniotora - Lost City wrote: »

fix magic classes to trier skill damage is the same as phy skills ex

GUSH atm lv10;
Forces a powerful water column to spew up from the
ground, dealing water damage equal to base magic
damage plus 100% of weapon damage plus 1372.6. Has a
92% chance to slow the enemy by 40% for 8.0 seconds.
would be come :
Forces a powerful water column to spew up from the
ground, dealing water damage equal to base magic
866.7.

Seriously ? b:sweat

Adromada - Raging Tide

Give Adromada an awesome dragon pet summon that will out power all overpowered

and maybe a guitar as a wep so i can slam rift you all to Archosaurs graveyard

oh oh oh and a cool overcoat with a hoody so i can look sneaky and mysterious and take sins by surprise

or do what everyone suggests by fixing bugs < im not to bugged about bugs seeming i can pick them up and throw them at your face and laugh at you because it crawled up your nose, ate your brain and turn you all into zombies, (Pan Gu zombie pandemic. ijm).

b:cry + b:angry = b:surrender

Adromada - Raging Tide

Adromada - Raging Tide wrote: »

Give Adromada an awesome dragon pet summon that will out power all overpowered

and maybe a guitar as a wep so i can slam rift you all to Archosaurs graveyard

oh oh oh and a cool overcoat with a hoody so i can look sneaky and mysterious and take sins by surprise

or do what everyone suggests by fixing bugs < im not to bugged about bugs seeming i can pick them up and throw them at your face and laugh at you because it crawled up your nose, ate your brain and turn you all into zombies, (Pan Gu zombie pandemic. ijm).

b:cry + b:angry = b:surrender

Actually that just gave me an event idea

Event: day of the zombie

Two ways to win
A: be the last to survive all other zombie players
B: be the one to turn most players into zombies

Rules:
1: must be registered to play event in 1 or 2 hour window at the start of the day.
2: unregistered players cannot play the event ( but can still be turned ) < can also continue with quests as usual.
3: Must be lvl 30 or higher in case it requires you to be in PK mode.

Suggestions: could be played in an big instance or the whole pwi map, or there could be a genie skill added just for the event so noone is forced into pk mode.

I dunno sounds kinda fun id be running and laughing so i don't get turned pwi would be in an awesome state of crazy fun chaos and i it would be fun to turn catshoppers into zombies without them getting affected in anyway.

__Kikyo__ - Lost City

take away stealth from sins.and the game will be much better.

GoodStart - Dreamweaver

Reset all of the servers. Completely.


-or-


Give Barbarians in human form nipples.

Teiw - Sanctuary

After hearing lots of suggestions by the community, the devs finally remove tideborns from the game. Or, roll back all the servers to before the genie expansion and refunds all the botique gold (no real money, just gold) and locks gold prices at 100k each.

All the new fashion, items, since then disappear, map got smaller again.


What do you do now? ;3

sangodoc

OK, early manual patch link time: Patch 564-566 (10.9 MB)

As usual, do not install the manual patch until after the servers have gone down for maintenance. Installing before then will mean that you cannot play until after the servers come back up from maintenance.

Standard patch size, so likely only minor changes, but that's just a guess.

frankieraye wrote: »

And for the usual maintenance question:

If you could make just one gameplay change to PWI, what would it be?

Have a monthly or bi-weekly "What problem should we pester China about this time?" thread, where people would vote on what the #1 issue is that PWE needs to get China to address. In that thread people could also suggest items that could be voted upon the next time.

After voting is over, you could start a new thread with new votes. While voting is going on in that thread, you could focus your efforts on getting China to work on one fix at a time, the "winner" in the previous thread, and you'd have facts to back up the point that this is the #1 problem that players are having in the game at this time.

This might help slowly whittle away at some long-outstanding issues that have not been fixed and that annoy many players.

Eccii - Raging Tide wrote: »

Am i the only one annoyed by MonkeyShatter's "*RESERVERD*" b:victory
Lol

Meh... It's just a placeholder for the patch notes that will go in there later. It's actually a good idea because then they're easier to find in the thread.

FruityMelons - Heavens Tear

I would change: No drops on PK death.

Marista - Lost City

Remove or rebalance stealth so as to allow some chance for people to react before they get two sparked from stealth and die with no damage in log at all. <_<; And either enable veno reflects in pvp or deactivate psy ones there.

Tricannon - Dreamweaver

TBH i would say fire the current dev team china gots now and get back the old one >.> srsly i think thats where this whole game started goin down the poo hole. New devs really didnt know how the originals built the game on so now they just throwing random **** in and hopes it works....atleast thats how Ive been seeing it for the past 2 years b:surrender

mcfreakie

LadyofReal - Heavens Tear wrote: »

I can't choose just one thing to effect gameplay, I'd do the following:

-Fix the glitches
-Add end game content
-Raise the level cap, but do so while keeping the experience needed at a reasonable amount
-Add more dungeons, or different difficulty levels for the ones we already have
-More in game events like what we had in 08/09, i.e. Chinese New Years, Christmas Event, Halloween event (the good ones before we got the cheap rip off events in '10/'11
-Nerf sins. They have their uses, but yea, still insane damage
-While I'm speaking of Harpy, I'd fix the the damned quest for the Harpy kill!
-Various terrain maps for TW instances. Tundra, desert, meadows, mountains, sea, forest, depending on territory bid on.
-Upgrade of old classes

(More pending thought train).

I would have to agree in not being able to choose just ONE:

-Return SP and end the harassment being blessed by PWI
-Adjust aggro levels of non tank classes
-FIX THE GLITCHES
-Nerf APS... if your only skill is speed you FAIL
-Grant the bored babies an actual arena type PVP area
-Improve the communication between GM and China
-Add more quests for levels above 80 other then repeating daily quests
-Eliminate game exploits
-Raise max level, raise the exp needed on those levels while cap the use of Hypers so the bored players who raced to the top now can actually have something to work for so they arent bored again in 2 weeks.
-add more history/story content
-Did anyone mention fix the glitches?
-create some bosses with some challenge which require different classes other then 5 APS sins/bms to take them down in seconds and which arent soloable by some uber geared player. (Obviously some bored players)
-More required quests/culti which are required at certain levels and wont allow players to advance to next level with out completing.
-There might even be some glitches that could be fixed
-Make event mobs immune to certain levels. lvl 60+ cant kill select mobs to give lower levels the chance to participate. lvl 90+ immune to other mobs so level 60-89 can participate with out being run over by uber geared lvl 100 who sit and farm entire areas.
-Find the person who came up with the change in SP and post their facebook profile for public flogging.
-Set character level requirements to enter on FC.
-Scrap the entire Mysterious Chip system. What a joke.

Aquireis - Lost City

Oh Oh I know the anwser to this one....it would be make the classes more balancedb:victory

aliciawarrior

mcfreakie wrote: »

I would have to agree in not being able to choose just ONE:

-Return SP and end the harassment being blessed by PWI
-Adjust aggro levels of non tank classes
-FIX THE GLITCHES
-Nerf APS... if your only skill is speed you FAIL
-Grant the bored babies an actual arena type PVP area
-Improve the communication between GM and China
-Add more quests for levels above 80 other then repeating daily quests
-Eliminate game exploits
-Raise max level, raise the exp needed on those levels while cap the use of Hypers so the bored players who raced to the top now can actually have something to work for so they arent bored again in 2 weeks.
-add more history/story content
-Did anyone mention fix the glitches?
-create some bosses with some challenge which require different classes other then 5 APS sins/bms to take them down in seconds and which arent soloable by some uber geared player. (Obviously some bored players)
-More required quests/culti which are required at certain levels and wont allow players to advance to next level with out completing.
-There might even be some glitches that could be fixed
-Make event mobs immune to certain levels. lvl 60+ cant kill select mobs to give lower levels the chance to participate. lvl 90+ immune to other mobs so level 60-89 can participate with out being run over by uber geared lvl 100 who sit and farm entire areas.
-Find the person who came up with the change in SP and post their facebook profile for public flogging.
-Set character level requirements to enter on FC.
-Scrap the entire Mysterious Chip system. What a joke.

there a lot of these things but always yea we need more thing to do at a high lvl add some changes in the game with classes , it get to become boring doing same thing over and over.
also i hear no more perma spark???? well soon with new recast of armor well i think that kinda dumb move. i say leave as is but give mages higher base chann.

dont bring in rank 10
reset map more often( top faction are learning ways for you guys not to set it by trapping other ones in that can beat them..
If you plan on lowing aps taken them down to 4 at least more ppl can have same aps sparked or not .
get rid of the lunar BH

Rubride - Lost City

I got another suggestion, give the Venos some new battle pets. We haven't got anymore since Genesis Expansion. b:victory

Purple_fury - Sanctuary

frankieraye wrote: »

And for the usual maintenance question:


If you could make just one gameplay change to PWI, what would it be?

remove 10mil big bank notes from being bought with PTOBL b:surrender

SugarPrinces - Sanctuary

frankieraye wrote: »

If you could make just one gameplay change to PWI, what would it be?

Fixing all known bugs would be my big to-do... pretty sure 99% of bugs have still gone unfixed.. can ppl still walk thru the wall in the one BH?? 39 i think it is.. stumbled across that one by accident myself once.. hadda port out cuz i couldnt figure out how to get back..

however if fixing bugs is out of the question, how about updating the graphics engine?? it cant be all that hard to find&replace the old directx8 (i assume judging by the age) function calls and upgrading and build in some multi-processor support and a better handler for the common issue of frame drop when high-res terrain and high-res water are both on even on high-end hardware.

OH OH WAIT! better idea!!.. TURN ON THE PVP ARENA!! instead of converting existing zones into free pvp like you did with SP..