[PSA] Important - Possible Changes And Updates Coming to PWI

Okay, I've read each comment here (I didn't have much to do this afternoon. XD). These are my thoughts in no real order, prepare for text wall.

1. JOJ: I do not necessarily think it needs removing, the main problem is bots. A solve for that without hurting actual players who use it is this;
Remove the click rewards and x7 rewards and replace it with level ranged instance quests for coin. Kind of like this;
This could even be carried through to 100+ to solve the repair bill problem, and this is just an example too, instances, level ranges could be changed, and by having them run at level, it becomes much less appealing for botters to run, but real players still have the benefits. It also can make use of instances that hardly get any use, giving them more reason to be run.

2. AH: I have honestly not checked this in forever, but after reading everyone's comments I think foils should just be removed. It might not be a bad idea to place a cap on how much gold can be bought and sold at a time. Like max you can buy is 25-50, same with most you can sell. It might not stop any monopoly, but with out knowing much about economy, this is my best idea at the moment.

3. Give new players better access to coin/gear: If a bot free/reduced JOJ is implemented, the coin part might not be an issue, if it isn't, then there needs to be a way to help new players. I have played from both the high and low level ends at once in the past, and it is not easy past 70-80+ to get decent gear and get repairs, especially if your a Barb/solo Cleric. I hate the bots, and I believe they need to be removed best as possible. Having said that, it's not fair to punish new players ether by nerfing drops, I feel they should be returned to their original prices (Maybe not DQ), and I think (People might hate me for this), auto cultivation removed, not so much because I hate the auto culti, but because players can use it to take over an area if they so choose, making it hard to quest at times, and if drops were returned to normal, I'm sure people would auto culti more. I remember when it was first introduced trying to quest, and having auto culti player take mobs. I also think players new and old alike should just be playing the game, and not auto it. For the gear, I feel like something should be done to help players in instance where they need low level mats, like TT especially. I have entertained many ideas, raising the drop rate in solo mode gain, giving rewards to higher leveled/geared players for helping lower level players in those instances. Even creating or using an old instance that would be aimed at helping lower levels get those mats easier. Giving it away for free, doesn't seem like a great idea though, as the idea is to get people playing, but in a way they can manage at their level/gear set.

4. Warsong: This is something I'm going to take a lot of flack for, but I think something needs to be done to keep players from running mobless Warsong, right now players run it like this, and it becomes all about having the best gear to get in, meanwhile, those who actually need the molds to upgrade their gear, can't get in to a squad. This is very discouraging to those who end up getting stuck in their current gear. I myself have experienced this, and my gear has been in limbo because of this, even as a Cleric which use to get a party almost automatically I have trouble finding squads, because no one wants a a lower geared avatar in a squad, so I stand at only 3 pieces upgraded so far, it's taken me over two years to get that far. It probably doesn't effect those in large factions, nor those who have a ton of friends to run with, but if your faction is small, or you don't have anyone to run with, this is very hard, and shouldn't happen.

5. Event boutique: It would be nice to see this updated!

6. Homestead: I like the idea of adding in seasonal decor, adding in free decor in the edit menu to all players so they could decorate for Holidays, it would be there for a set amount of time, then vanish from the menu/homestead after the Holiday. I also think for contrast their could be perm decor in the boutique.

Someone's idea of weather and sky changes is a great idea! You could make rain, snow, ect, cloudy skies, night, rainbows. I love the idea of adding animals as decor, and NPCs, maybe make still ones to craft and some with function/movement to boutique.

The ideas I saw of having mobs you can add to fight, and your own PK area sectioned off are nice ideas too.

7. Space: Bank needs badly to be expanded, my Cleric's bank is totally full right now, and I'm maxed out on the spaces allowed. I also think that the duplicate mats are a huge issue, they need to be condensed to one single group. Like just yesterday I had been on my Cleric, and had 3 different stacks of transportation stones, all the same item, but unstackable because of different descriptions.

8. Unused items/places: I feel like old items and instances that aren't usable need a new purpose. Some ideas are; old instances can be used for lower level content to assist new players, exchange instance for unused items that still drop, like DQ, quiz room that could become a new daily.

9. Shop items: I think the ideas of adding some boutique items to an NPC as a coin sink is a great idea.

That's all I have thought of for now, I won't address transmutation, as I've not used it yet (To be honest, didn't even know it existed till reading this thread.), or Veno pets in PvP, as I haven't done PvP in forever, and when I did it was only NW/TW.

Oh yes! I like the idea of having the ability to change the look of the animal Barbs/Venos change into in beast form. I also would love to be able to change the color of fur/tail/ears in our human forms too. Maybe the form changes could be a skin of sorts.

I want more bank space too :',(

Also, is there any update on how things are going Kalyst?

It seems many people are pulling greatly exaggerated statistics out of thin air in an effort to remove JoJ.
These are the same self centered and selfish individuals that abuse others in game. People who care about others would come up with good ways to fix it, not scream for its removal. Problem is there are very few friendly and unselfish people in this game anymore.
The power balance is so out of canter that new players leave within a few months. Look at Tera, they have a fantastic way of keeping gear moving and rebalancing, so everyone has the opportunity for fun PvP. Its also a F2P game, which also has a fantastic story line, something PWI trashed in the endeavor for more money.

JoJ is needed, with all items nurfed, there is no money for repair cost, teleport for WQ, Crazy Stones, the list goes on. PWI gives very little away anymore and that is the last life saver. Removing it will be the death of the game.
Doing things like ....
* putting a log in timer on it of an hour. Can always find something else to do for an hour.
* place passive bosses in areas of JoJ mobs.
* remove the initial click for coin and distribute it across the other JoJ quests.
* and the best I have seen come from other people, is the use of a capture type system.

PWI doesn't have much longer anyway, with more and more people leaving the hamster wheel and server after server merging, it wont be long before it shuts. Has anyone read the stock reviews of PWE lately. It can only be fixed with a complete rebalance of the gear system. Make TW and NW fair again.
Other F2P games are doing amazing things and you can not buy gear upgrades. eg. ESO and Tera.

Why do you want to get rid of JoJ! Boohoo, someone is making money and it is not me. How unfair.
NEWS FLASH : THIS ENTIRE GAME IS UNFAIR AND UNBALANCED.
Grow up and get over your selfishness. Removing JoJ would be no more fair than nerfing R9 gears to make the game more fair on PvP'ers without the funds or ability to get higher equipment.
Like I said, this game is full of self centered and selfish people. Over the past several years it has become less and less enjoyable and harder to find good friends.
It used to be one of the greatest MMO available, but now it isn't even B class.
It is a sad end to what was once a great MMO.

n3w3r1ds wrote: »

Why do you want to get rid of JoJ! Boohoo, someone is making money and it is not me. How unfair.
NEWS FLASH : THIS ENTIRE GAME IS UNFAIR AND UNBALANCED.
Grow up and get over your selfishness. Removing JoJ would be no more fair than nerfing R9 gears to make the game more fair on PvP'ers without the funds or ability to get higher equipment.
Like I said, this game is full of self centered and selfish people. Over the past several years it has become less and less enjoyable and harder to find good friends.
It used to be one of the greatest MMO available, but now it isn't even B class.
It is a sad end to what was once a great MMO.

Why are you such a troll? Every post you've made is negative, like of your entire 11 post history (yes I checked). If you hate the game so much, no one is forcing you to stay. JOJ needs to be removed, or have a rework, there are too many bots taking advantage of it. Personally, I prefer a rework, because we still need a way to make coin, but let's do it in a way the bots can't easily take advantage of. That would help the economy a lot, just by cutting off botted coin.

Or maybe let All do a JOJ quest, stop the need to feed more needfull chars. same time find a way to bound some coins, Yes a Bound coin slot...Or create a earned credit reward system where You earn credits that in turn can be used to purchase Teleacoustics, HpMp charms ect.. finish a quest get bound credit's for npc's. Lastly if your not going to attempt a change, then please get a volunteer to traverse the servers and take down some obvious botters*Exploiters*.

wettstyle wrote: »

Or maybe let All do a JOJ quest, stop the need to feed more needfull chars. same time find a way to bound some coins, Yes a Bound coin slot...Or create a earned credit reward system where You earn credits that in turn can be used to purchase Teleacoustics, HpMp charms ect.. finish a quest get bound credit's for npc's. Lastly if your not going to attempt a change, then please get a volunteer to traverse the servers and take down some obvious botters*Exploiters*.

That actually sounds like a pretty cool idea . IIRC, Forsaken World has two types of currency, and it is just like you explained. It could work here on PWI too. Although I don't know if they will say it would mean messing with the code, but I think it shouldn't be that hard, since they made a lot of items untradeable and unstashable, and the latest change the made was to Keys for the Treasure Hunting system, which are now required to be converted to a bound version in order to use them.

yueds#9553 wrote: »

come on,
come with something new, beside qq about JJ or other things in PWI

There have been many suggestions besides JOJ, and part of the reason it is being brought up, is because the economy is a major issue that needs to be addressed.

not JJ is the main problem
pwi politics with their sale
people will always find a way to exploit
with no coins i'm curious to see with , what ppl will buy items in game.

Continue'ed from before

Eigth, The basis for PWI checking for computers using illegal software and such via arc and its system scans with games on the server should be done like if you are going into a dungeon the game scans to see if you are running illegal software at that time or during the run to make sure you are not running a script of some sort to make your characters follow themselves and auto kill for you. If this is found to take place the game will close disconnect you. PERIOD. This is also something that should be done during the time somebody is doing JoJ if they are found to be using a script mid JoJ then they get disconnected.

Ninth, This next idea is a bit like what another person said. Add more of the "rare" pack items to a NPC ingame such as SoT or CoM or Matchless Wings and Reawakened Fingerbead etc. HOWEVER make it ONCE OR TWICE per account and only once per character AND INSTANTLY bound and not tradable or accountstashable. This will give players a way to get them at the very least ingame and bring the market value to a REASONABLE level. Even then people will still want more for ALL their toons so CoM's and SoT's will forever be a GREAT pack selling item. However if people were able to get ONE even via a pick up quest per account with the warning telling them it was their ONE time quest which would take lets say 3 or 4 billion from their inventory in 10Million Big Notes, this would help a lot of players and also DRAIN a MASSIVE amount of coin from the game itself. With the JoJ problem pretty much solved this would solve that problem of a major coin sink over time to an extent.

Tenth, DO NOT THINK ME CRAZY before finishing the 10th part. Add a npc like the Auctioneer who sells gold but make it BOUND gold and only usable in the event boutique and add some things from the regular boutique back to the event boutique such as auto recovery stones and some other things such as older fashion weapons to the event boutique for fashion and make them permanent so they are there and bound like all event fashion and of course expensive. Just add some of the older ones to the event boutique you no longer sell anymore. Along with older fliers or fliers that were released so long ago they are no longer able to be acquired. This gives the event gold a way to be used as well up and another coin sink for players who want things.

Eleventh, add BACK the npc in archo near Chang Wuchi at 531 , 641 west archosaur who use to allow you to destroy items to recover various gems and stones from gear using chienkun stons from the boutique. This would give purpose to some peoples older gear and increase items on the market possibly for sale helping players get the items they need as well.

Finally I think that the bank and inventory and cup board and fashion banks need to be increased in size. This can be done by inserting a quest that will give the option to use a super inventory stone and the quest will then add a half page of inventory or bank to your bank with a < or > to go through the various pages as for cupboard you would need a cupboard increase stone from the boutique to increase the size beyond the current max. Once opened to a new page you can then use normal cupboard stones for it. As for the Super Safe and Inventory Stones that would only open up a half page you would still need a second to max the second page just as you did with your current safe and inventory. This could be potentially done up to 2 or 3 pages with a little <1,2,3> and it highlights which you are on currently and such.

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Thursday Night Fight bronze is 10 bloods. Combine that with neverfall badges, UCH, dailies and your weekly gain of bloods isnt that bad. The defense level passives took me a total of 25 days to max.

nunuator wrote: »

Enough with all these QQ about gold prices etc the main cause of anything being so dang high is merely the new players coming in with potential to charge gold and therefore keep gold prices down are non existent.

The main issue at least in my opinion is the blood grind if I were to make a new toon, like I am currently in the process of making, are nearly impossible to finish in as little as say a month. Bloods for passives if staying at mirage sky X and doing UCH daily would take 6 months or so to fully max out...

This is assuming a player keeps at mirage sky X to get the max number of red bloods a day.

This is what is the main issue even in PWCN they recognized this was an issue and allowed players to sell accounts through an NPC. Which therefore pulled new players into the game and allowed them to compete in PvP which is the main reason people join a game in the first place.

I have honestly quit doing dailes and things on all my toons just cause everything is soo dang boring. I’ve been playing this game since official release and honestly in the current state of the game I don’t see it lasting much longer. But, hey what do I know I’m not one of these players spending $1200+ for a Nuema portal card to finish a set.

It's not QQing, it's giving input, which last I checked, we don't need your permission for, and it is a huge problem. I can't speak for getting blood, or anything related to UCH, since I've not done it yet.

As for dailies, it's your loss if you don't do them, ijs.

I've been playing a long time myself, and everyone has been saying for years it'll be gone in a year, but years later it's still here, and I know of games that are way worse off then PWI and still here. Saying stuff like adds absolutely nothing to the discussion, who's QQing now?

"Transmutation (PWI specific exchanges) - Can be done, but they would like to have data on the amount of items that exist in the game for whatever is being suggested to be transmutted. Some of the items I have already pulled information on (DQ)"
This. I see that the fairy boxes were implemented in this expansion. How about the DQ's? any info in that?

I've got one MAJOR new suggestion about something that just became a major problem, and the Devs need to know.

The new Faction system is a great idea, it's a mess as it stands now though!

1. No way for those under 100 RB1 to help in faction stuff. Lower levels are ones who needs factions the most to help them learn the game. Especially those new to the game, which we want to attract, right?

2. Locking down old bases, while allowing new ones in right away. This one is just plan unfair especially to smaller factions, that are going to struggle just to meet the point requirement anyway.

It might be a better idea to not lock down bases at all, just make the perks point dependent, without locking them down. It could reset with locking out the whole base.

My ideas for fixes on it. Include some other instances, you wanted a way to utilize unused instances, here's a chance. There's Nirvana, TT, any of the original FB 19's.

Maybe adjust the requirements according to level and number of member in a Faction?

Those are my thoughts for now, with this being so new. Especially want to emphasize, please allow players under RB1 100 a way to help!