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Post by King Richard on Dec 1, 2009 22:58:04 GMT -6
I got a couple ideas while I was reading other suggestions. I don't know if they've already been suggested or not though since I haven't read the entire forum.  - The first is a possible reward for a quest. Since you're helping a town in need, instead of getting gold or an item, maybe you could get extra points in that town. For instance, say this town is having problems with trollocs in this specified area, kill 10 trollocs and get x2, (or more) town wins for your clan.
Naturally, you'd want to offer these less and maybe expire after a shorter amount of time, 4,8 or 12 hours.  Maybe you shouldn't even have a 'Hunt' button, but just go to the area and any trollocs you kill while exploring within, say 20 battles or something like that, gets you extra points for that town. Though I think it would have to be more than x2 for that to be worth it.
I've noticed that it's kinda hard to catch up or gain a lead in a town without complete cooperation from a clan, or if you're a smaller clan than those you're trying to take/defend from.
- My other idea is class based Talismans. For example, a Treesung talisman that only Ogier can use, that would enhance their natural abilities. (ie defense and health gain?) Different for every class.
Now that I've typed that and spent at least 20 minutes of my life thinking about it and trying to make it better, let me just say, it sounded a whole lot cooler before I did.  I guess I'll let you decide. I can give you the rest of my thoughts for this if you think it's worth it.
I still like the first idea, but you can decide if either has any merit. |
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Post by Tim on Dec 2, 2009 10:27:34 GMT -6
I don't know if they've already been suggested or not though since I haven't read the entire forum. That's ok. Neither have I.   Not necessarily sold on the x2 points as a reward, but I would like for quests to play a larger role in clan influence over towns. It only makes since that the clan that protects a city would have a good reputation among the townsfolk, especially the men & women who 'fought off the hordes of trollocs.' Would also make sense for those people to get some perks around the town. And the smaller/farther behind clans DO need a way to give them a chance to catch up in areas... Not sure how I feel about this one. I like the idea in general, but not sure how much it would add to things. I will say that there will be at least a few new Talismen in V5... All ideas are at least worth suggestion. Even if it doesn't necessarily 'fit' at first glance, discussing it here tends to lead to ideas that do work. The Quest system was actually the result of one person pushing for big, detailed quests with a story and another person suggesting a way to put a bounty on someone. Never know what suggestion will lead to. ;D |
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Post by devindrangdorak on Dec 2, 2009 13:56:05 GMT -6
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Post by almordre on Dec 2, 2009 16:56:12 GMT -6
class-specific talis would be nice on one front - for example, "Blademaster's Silver Bow" just never sounded right, ya know?
For a little spit-shine job on the "user experience" without going to extremes, here's a thought - cook up a set of class-specific tali names for each class. Set up talis with "internal" names (like Class1, Class2, etc) - those will never be seen by the user. Similar to the process that makes weaves show 'red' in inventory for anyone other than channelers, when a character possesses a "Class1" tali, it checks the class-specific list for the #1 name for that character's class and uses that name on the item in inventory. I know Tim mentioned something in another post about having the stats key off the name instead of database data - this would still work the same, but it would key off the hidden name, and there'd just be another layer of naming slapped on the top for display purposes...
This is just an "in-between" idea, again mainly to dress up the "feel" of the gear/character combinations, rather than going "all the way" and creating complementary talis that can only be used by specific classes. Just a thought...
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Post by Tim on Dec 2, 2009 17:06:48 GMT -6
Oh, making class specific talismen would definately be possible to do. It just seems like an unnecessary complication. Making it class specific wouldn't stop those who can use a Blademaster's talisman from putting it on a Silver Bow. Plus there'd be the issue of items dropped with that talisman on it (would they be unusable by classes that can't use the talisman?).
I think something more like a weapon type specific talisman would be more useful. Blademasters talismen can only be used on Swords, Aiel Talismen can only be used on Spears and Bows, things like that. (just examples based on names. If I do this, I'd likely change the stats of the talismen to be more appropriate).
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Post by alSeen on Dec 2, 2009 17:40:38 GMT -6
yeah i always found it funny that i almost always use an aiel sword |
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Maybe you shouldn't even have a 'Hunt' button, but just go to the area and any trollocs you kill while exploring within, say 20 battles or something like that, gets you extra points for that town. Though I think it would have to be more than x2 for that to be worth it. 
I guess I'll let you decide. I can give you the rest of my thoughts for this if you think it's worth it.
