Suggestions to make PWI competative

fuzzles wrote: »

Anywho, the bottom line is that no suggestions posted here are ever going to be implemented.

For example, I made a suggestion not too long ago: http://pwi-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=134422

And they did not implement my suggestion, but this week we did get auto-path which has some elements that help me deal with an important part of that problem that I was trying to address with my suggestion.

I still have problems (and I wish that alt would work with movement keys so I could avoid some problems when I need to maneuver up or down, for example when I happen to have be typing coordinates into my location assistant), but I do not feel like I have been ignored.

But hopefully no one wanted our game developers to turn into mindless robots?

I don't know whether or not they pass on the suggestions to the developers in China, but I feel reasonably certain that the main purpose of the suggestions section is so all the smelly hippies don't complain about being ignored.

I am just another mid-level player, but I read your write-up today and I have some opinions about them that might be interesting to you?

1) About NPCs: I loved your suggestions for NPCs. Your suggestions here seem like they should be easy to implement, low risk and nice.

2) Characters: I also loved your suggestions for our characters. And, I have been wishing my hands looked like hands. But I worry about West Archosaur in combination with this kind of thing. They might need to invest a lot of money into dealing with character related performance issues?

3) Classes and PVP: I am dubious about your suggestions for our classes. I have not played all classes, so can not comment in any depth about class balance issues, but I do not think that "each class has a unique role" would be a good thing to fix. And anyone can create characters in multiple classes (and transfer gold between them, if you like that idea). They already have a mechanism where you can select characters hiding behind NPCs. If this does not work with pets that must be a deliberate design decision.

4) New Features:

Guild Storage: I think I would like some variation on this idea.
New accessories: I think that this could be exploited rather easily, since accounts can be made for free.
Unions: people can already make alliances. For example, TW guilds could contract out to other guilds for supplies. Also I am very dubious about bigger squads, and your rationale, since this would require bigger challenges.
GVGs: I think we already have TW.
Reputation: TW gives people access to lots of coins and you can buy reputation giving items.
Mount battle and Ships: I think that this sounds like a huge expansion, and I love expansions.
Paladins: I do not know if china's mythology has paladins, but you already have some potential great benefits for killing red named characters. Maybe you will not get something from every red named kill, but that seems characteristic of all battles here.
Helmets and shields and Capes: I like my character already but this might be nice for some people.
Design: You seem to have posed a question here, and I can think of several answers (starting with game performance in West Archosaur and other crowded areas, and moving on to a variety of other issues which you can probably figure out).
Symbols for guilds: I believe we already have this, and that I can disable this feature if I want.

Monoftalmus - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Hi,

@fuzzles,

Bark in your dog house kid, and bite me.

Mono

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the reason most suggestions around here won't be implemnted is because it tend to invlove alteration of the core programming. PW was not made to be customizeble, it has its presets, but thats about it.

compared to WoW, which programming was created to be easy to change around, PW its too intricate in its original design, which was built around very strict character presests. Not alot of room for change and add on's, no one can really be epic in their own way. and this character designe system? it too wraped around trying to make your character look a certant way, but in game, no one really notices what you make the character look like. its fine for a sims game not an MMO, what they really need more of is armors, items, and quests that makes everyones adventure more unique.
like a suggestion I had, haveing a magic path option.
Like a skill, but to select a magic type path you would like, making game play a bit more on even ground for the players.

somthing like this should be easy to implement.
just throw in a few more magik cast poses for each character type and its good.

Hi

I'm new to this game, but i have tons of hours in MMORPG's.


There are some suggestions that can be postponed, more from the visual side, like what you said about NPC's, characters and expressions, armors, helmets, capes and those things.
The mount battle and ships thing sounds like something that most likely will never happen, cause they are directly related to the game engine.

Now, if there is something that annoys almost every one is the class (dis)advantages. It doesn't matter if the game is more skill/practice based or more equipment/skills/stats based. It is something that should NEVER get to that level.

The very other things, like Guild ranking, Unions, Guild Storage, GvG, bigger Squads, and Reputation System+Player Titles/Medals should REALLY be considered. These are minor things that make game more attractive.


Now some of the "why"...Like i said, i'm new to the game, but i've been in many F2P before and i know how things work. In most of them, it starts on GM's. Or because they just don't care, or because they are not enough or because they have "no power".
Then the vicious cycle starts...Players complaint, GM's report (if what i said before doesn't applies) to Producers, Producers either don't care, say "we don't have resources for that right now", or dispatch to Developers. Developers (and i guess that is very rare when problems get to them) then either don't care (again...and its sad), or say "we can not do that because (insert_some_excuse_here)".
And then it goes all the way back, and reaches the players, and players start to get frustrated and leave, and GM's start to see all the work being flushed away, Producers start with financial problems because of the item mail, and then take Developers right with them.
(It doesn't have to be right in this order or with these examples, but i believe that the truth isn't that far)

Now, if everyone gives his/hers little best to the game, it will be better for everyone also, and all of you can be sure that are topics like this that can change things. We should thank you Mono for that


Best Regards,
Jonybat - Portugal

Mono:
1.) I would love to see some different color variations of the same NPCs. Different race NPCs would also be nice, but it may take a lot of work, more than its worth.

2.) More detail in our characters (hands, smiling faces, etc.) would be very nice, but again it may be a lot of work and it may put more stress on the servers.

3.) For income, some of what you've said is vastly exagerated (probably by other people you heard it from). For example, for a veno to make 'millions' in TT in a day would require exceptional luck. My standard TT run barely nets me more money than I spent on the substance to get in. Solo runs give much worse drops than squad runs. At later levels I may make a little more money, but not much. At MUCH later levels, and if I'm REALLY lucky, I MAY get a single gold mat from a TT run. Yes, those sell for 1M plus, but they're also increadibly rare. I do it because it's fun, not profitable.

On top of that, anything a Veno can solo, you and a cleric (or Archer/Wiz if you have a charm) could probably duo, in half the time, and likely at lower levels. Venos are designed to solo, so it's no surprise that they can, but we do so by basically being a mini-party. That means a mini-tank (i.e. a bad one with terrible dmg) and a mini-cleric (low heal, instant heal only, no buffs, mediocre dmg). If you want to make money like we do, just team up and you can do it faster, easier, and probably earlier. Plus, you can do Drummer Squad and other AoE bosses which I'll probably never solo.

tl;dr...

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Granrey - Sanctuary wrote: »

I have read your suggestions and I agree with all of them. However, regarding making NPC to look different in every town is a nice to have but I don