New Suggestion Thread

The post prior was not my own nor am I fighting for the word. However the fact remains that we have a dumb filter. They can't fix it or change it to only apply to certain chat channels without reworking the entire chat system. To the point where they've changed item/monster/etc names and speech rather than remove a censored word or try to get the devs to make such an overhaul.

And as I've stated, filters are easy to bypass. Nothing is stopping a person from using r@pe, raep, r.ape, rap3, or any of the other multitudes of ways around censoring the word... which is already visible ingame. I can't mention c.ockatrice, c.ocktail, c.ock (as in the chicken) soup, etc... yet anyone wanting to mention it in the manner it was censored for can and will do so with impunity and without consequence. Same would happen if the word was censored. As I said, what we need are staff monitoring chat. That way you could ask those around you to avoid the word... and the ones on WC you can't control would have to mind their language and avoid it to not get banned. Plus this would let those legitimately using it in a word such as grape to do so unhindered.

In short, I'm not saying you should have to have it thrown at you. Just that censoring it is a horribly ineffective way of dealing with it that wouldn't even stop the problem while making things worse.

Primarily, I'm more concerned with class-base issues regarding the game more than anything else. It's clear that they are being revamped and will progressively be revamped in the obscure future, but some things must be stressed.

Ever since the tideborn expansion seemingly, there has been an disruption in the balance of the classes in game. Barbs have, more or less, lost their tanking purposes in squads and exist for pulling and buffing. Even clerics are somewhat replaced with bp, a charm, crabs and genie. Skills for the old classes need to be edited and changed to match the needs of the current gear trends etc. It is impossible for a barb to keep aggro at all past 90+. These days an entire squad itself would be replaced by someone soloing or even a high level soloing low level instances within minutes.

Three years ago, if memory serves me correctly, I vaguely remember people would complain about casters having stacked channel equipment. A year and some months later someone figured out how to stack interval equipment, and soon enough "5 aps". Prior to aps, there was complaint of venos soloing TT, before the update to where hercs could not solo beyond 3-1. There had been somewhat of an uproar over it and there were some people who "rage-quit" as a result. It would be no surprise at all, if something similar were to happen if anything would be done about the current soloing (aps epidemic). In fact the rage-quitting would be on a much larger scale due to ridiculous amount of people who own an aps bm/sin/archer.

If there were a way to limit the amount of aps to two, which is fair enough, and restrict weapons to certain classes as they have with newer races the game would be revitalized. There would be more people playing their classes as they were designed to be played: i.e eliminating fist barbs, fist archers, etc. It would open more opportunities to find squads for instances, because soloing would be discouraged at this point. The life-span of the game itself would also be extended because there would be a reduction of people selling FCs - therefore massive hyper leveling would be reduced. From my experience of some servers, people would buy exp rooms even past level 90 just to get to 100. Then once at 100, they enjoy the new instances, new gear, TW, etc and suddenly become bored because there is nothing left to do end-game. Then they create alts, rinse and repeat, and complain of being bored. Of course, hyper leveling affects other things such as the ability to get BHs going under 90+ (Unless its soloed by a high level) and breeding hyper-babies who know nothing about their class. Once the hyper babies become high level enough to do FC with a squad their level they either try it out, fail in a squad and decide to never do it again, or continue to buy FCs till 90. Once at 90 they attempt a squad again, perhaps even fail at that level, and buy rooms till 100. Its incredulous, and I'm not saying everyone does it but there are a fair amount of people that do. Then after buying all these FCs some hyper babies wouldn't even have the funds to afford skills or gear - which effects the pve centre of the game overall.

Even pvp as a whole is rather bland regardless of what many say. Pvp for the melee kind: aps sins, barbs, bms, archers, etc is predictably aps. Some people would argue: "Oh, just use anti-stun apoc, genie, etc" but how much fun is it honestly to fight an aps player / be an aps player in pvp? The only vaguely entertaining part of aps in pvp would be the stacks of damage across your screen. Compare pvp these days to pvp 2 years ago.... In fact, why just limit it to pvp? Go ahead and compare pvp AND pve to how it is now and how it was 2 years ago.

Another issue I would like to bring up is the lack of instances for end-game and low level players especially. 1-80, there is practically nothing to do other than quest and bh (And buy FC). Instead of expanding the game geographically, there should be new instances implemented for lower levels - say starting around 40+ which is when BHs start. Make the instance level required and unable to be solo'd by a high level like PV, in a sense. It'll give more incentive for players to take their time with leveling instead of rushing to 100+ for more instances and challenges. With how boring quests are and how easy it is for BH to be solo'd by a high level there is practically nothing for low level players to do - which pushes people to buying FC in the first place. Understandably, there is probably the problem of memory which would hinder these additions - people can tell from the way bosses and mobs are all shrinking or have shrunk to a sad, miniature size - but pushing to install new instances for low levels (Level locked) would help the game overall.

Conclusively, I'll more than likely get tons of hate for the suggestion, but there will be people who would agree as well. I'm almost positive the issue has been mentioned in some prior posts but it does need attention, which is why I'm writing this one. People would be upset, and even quit, if such a thing as reducing aps were to be implemented. However, people have also quit over numerous things such as the tideborn expansion in the past. The crowd would adapt to the change over time and may even grow to like its benefits in the future. Aps is killing the game slowly but surely, and it would be a major change. It's clear that this game, however, is dying and needs a major change like this to be revived.

illusionyst wrote: »

Rly long post.

The only problem I would have with your post is that it's reeeaaaaaaaaaally long. I'm guilty of a wall o' text, here and there, myself.

Honestly, that is why most MMOs go down the shoot. One player figures out the game and everyone copies. I've seen an admin team get stuck in the cycle of "player figures out game, players complain, GMs try to fix, players complain, player figures out the game." Most of the time, it's unfixable. There has to be a middle ground, where the players don't lose their hard earned advantage, but can't use it everywhere. Getting rid of aps isn't the answer. It's way too late to throw that wrench into the works. If you remove aps now, you're likely to kill this game, from lack of income alone. (Not to mention that PWCN is coming out with new -int tomes and new armor/weapons with ungodly attack levels, iirc)

Don't forget that not everyone who may play aps is on these forums.

I think coming up with a new game mechanic(a mob defbuff or a complete instance with said debuff... an environment debuff)where aps is useless or nerfed, is more... Realistic. Like what they did for some of the new BH bosses. Have to revert to a more traditional way of pulling instead of using genies.

And before anyone says "u probly aps urself lolololol u wan keep aps cuz u use": I main a psychic. I do not have any aps characters over level 40.

TL;DR- I don't think aps should be removed, just subjected to an extreme debuff from the monsters, not the aps itself.

truekossy wrote: »

The post prior was not my own nor am I fighting for the word. However the fact remains that we have a dumb filter. They can't fix it or change it to only apply to certain chat channels without reworking the entire chat system. To the point where they've changed item/monster/etc names and speech rather than remove a censored word or try to get the devs to make such an overhaul.

And as I've stated, filters are easy to bypass. Nothing is stopping a person from using r@pe, raep, r.ape, rap3, or any of the other multitudes of ways around censoring the word... which is already visible ingame. I can't mention c.ockatrice, c.ocktail, c.ock (as in the chicken) soup, etc... yet anyone wanting to mention it in the manner it was censored for can and will do so with impunity and without consequence. Same would happen if the word was censored. As I said, what we need are staff monitoring chat. That way you could ask those around you to avoid the word... and the ones on WC you can't control would have to mind their language and avoid it to not get banned. Plus this would let those legitimately using it in a word such as grape to do so unhindered.

In short, I'm not saying you should have to have it thrown at you. Just that censoring it is a horribly ineffective way of dealing with it that wouldn't even stop the problem while making things worse.

O.K. That I understand and can respect, if they cannot fix it, then as suggested, they should get someone in game to mod the world chat...as I said before, if we act like children, we should be treated as such and this would sort that out immediately, and get the crude language to be again made private and respectful, or not in game...all I want is a place to enjoy myself, isn't that why we all started playing to begin with?...To relaxb:chuckleb:pleased

crazicuki wrote: »

O.K. That I understand and can respect, if they cannot fix it, then as suggested, they should get someone in game to mod the world chat...as I said before, if we act like children, we should be treated as such and this would sort that out immediately, and get the crude language to be again made private and respectful, or not in game...all I want is a place to enjoy myself, isn't that why we all started playing to begin with?...To relaxb:chuckleb:pleased

I agree that it's a terrible word, and must be traumatic for anyone to read if it happened to them in real life. However, like it or not, it has become everyday slang in the modern gaming culture, just as "pwned" or "ganked". And I'm sorry, but crude language is a part of the game, especially on pvp servers where one is apt to taunt an enemy. One of the main reasons my friends and I left another game for this one, was that it's chat was overly censored to where people could barely say anything, and this game was much less restricted. (I actually typed "grapejuice" my first 5 seconds in PW, because that word was censored in the other game.lol) Though I try to conduct myself politely and not use offensive language ingame, as an American, I believe in total freedom of speech, offensive or not. Today it's that word, tomorrow it's something that offends another person, and before you know it, PWI has become less mature than a Disney cartoon. b:surrender

I'd like to see the starter racial armor (the one you wear when you aren't wearing any armor what so ever) get turned into fashion. That way you can wear without being naked.

KissAndKill - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Without stats of course :P Since they'd have to re-work the fashion engine to have stats if they did. No one wants this to turn into Eden Eternal or the like with statted fashions.

Considering it's the no armor on look and even if it DID have stats somehow, fashion doesn't... :P

I thought you guys meant the elders' blessing armor that new characters (New name+race combination actually) get. My second iteration of KissAndKill never got them for some reason.

The need for Heroes' Blood to get into Unicorn Forest should be removed. It is not only useless, but frustrating when the chrono quest chain tells you to go back out and talk to the Sage in OHT, and he tells you to go back in... but guess what, you have to wait three hours to continue questing because it is 3:01. Either take the need for blood away, or put the blood there permanently with no special times.

Gotta disagree on the roar. A full aggro reset is as handy for helping save casters as others.

Let us sort skill books in AH by class.

truekossy wrote: »

Gotta disagree on the roar. A full aggro reset is as handy for helping save casters as others.

Can't they just use Alpha Male if they want their own aggro reset? Just thinking it would help barbs tank again.

@KissandKill

Pet roar isn't the same thing as barb roar.

Xainou - Sanctuary wrote: »

Let us sort skill books in AH by class.

YES!

Also let us sort fashion by item type. Like let me see all of the female wigs in the AH. Currently there are tabs for the appropriate breakdown, you just can't select them and have to pick each individual one.


Also let all tradeable items be sold in the AH.

truekossy wrote: »

Exactly why I prefer it as is where it resets all aggro. After all, I don't think the tank should have to expect others to be able to reset their own aggro.

Now if you'd asked for roar to reset aggro for everyone BUT the barb as well as boosting the barb's aggro... well that'd make roar a lot more useful for both helping others and building aggro.

That is what I was asking for. When I said "caster' i mean the caster of the skill (the barb) not the caster classes. Sorry that wasn't more clear. b:surrender So I figured they could change it so that roar resets all aggro except the barb's aggro.

First, The Giant Bunny as Veno pet. I know just about everyone has a giant bunny now, but I think because of it's size it would make a great veno pet. Something to replace the Herc. Personally I would love to see this big bunny beating the heck out of a boss. I can just picture the bunny whacking the boss with it's big ears or thumping it with it's hind legs. It would give veno's something cute to watch.

And second a timed trans-server account stash stone. You can barely go a week without seeing someone on the forum begging to switch server. So I think a great way to help with this is to have a account stash stone that allows you to switch your items to a different server, but it only lasts for say 72 hours (to avoid people abusing it) and like regular account stash it's a one time thing, once you use it you can not use it again. I don't think most people really care about losing their toons, now days you can level pretty fast; it's mostly losing their equipment. I think this would make everyone happy, players could keep their stuff and GM's would not longer have to listen to all the QQ (about this any way).

Eilexa - Heavens Tear wrote: »

b:thanks b:victory

Although I don't think they would use all of those b:chuckle

Well, here's another PVP One:

Sometimes, all at once! - Be dealt every type of elemental damage by another player.

(Refers to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlC6Z0iRoOA)