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>Add a new ring

Done to death >> I'd much rather see threads on how to fix current rings. 3nodding

>Let us start over quests we haven't completed

You mean quest chains? Such as in Otami where you could have the option to start right back at finding the blood tree? I can see some problems arising out of this.

>Let us see pre-quest dialog in the on-going quest list

We should have this. smile

>Fix the rage glitch when re-applying some of the RR1 buffs ninja

Also, a visual indicator of the current rage of your buffs. Someone suggested color coded borders for each buff in the crew panel

>Increase chance of seeing rare spawns

Hmm.. 3nodding

>Make rare spawns that drop rare loot

Okay, now me want. emotion_dowant

>Give ?X? ability to ?Y? animated

Yeah, more debuffs and cc please. DMS should've had them tbh

>Fix the Shadow Orb counter

I'm gonna assume they're working on this. emotion_facepalm

>Fix the Heavy Breathing sound mute

Lol! It's far too lol-worthy for me to want to consider fixing it xd

>Allow us to see gold collected during game session

Why did they change this? sad

>Allow us to block Buddies on our screen

If passive buffs are brought in which will end up in a huge amount of buddy spamming, then yes. This will be essential.

>Fix the clan chat
>Allow "World" chat for 1 GC each 5 messages

I'm hoping this will be fixed soon. It's been working on and off as of late which I see as a sign that the devs are tinkering with it at the very least

>Give back/Use mini-event loot on recipes

Yes please! emotion_c8

>Use Gramster Goo on a recipe

Gramster goo? *rushes back to the sewers*

>Make recipes to "upgrade" (use as loot) current crafted items

Oooh! emotion_kirakira We should have a separate thread about this.

>Make recipes that use game items from other gaia classic games

I think someone mentioned this just recently. 3nodding But me likey.

>Make Coliseum Quests

I said the very thing to Gataka in the JK meat thread a few days ago so yes!!!

>Make Coliseum Loot/Recipes
>Recycle the christmas event

Again, yes! Although I have no clue about the christmas event sad

>Allow players to challenge to 'duel' each other ninja

PVP? You Serious? confused

>Allow players to see 'highest CL' of others in-game
>Update the developer avatars on the barton bar ninja
>More devs

What if they have a cl12 turtle? lol

And I've seen Mav's avy constantly updated as he updates his. Not really sure how that happens xd

>Make the NPC's hint at DMS after beating Sealab X

Ffff.....I brought this up twice during JK meets only to be ignored by JK and shot down by the others. rolleyes People just don't think long term enough, DMS is big news now and the reason why everyone is playing it, but I can see a year from now, people not even knowing it exists unless they point out to it.

>Make a Crew Billboard so we can stop shouting/complaining about randoms so much
>Add aquarium fish as in-game enemies. Hey! They owe us this!
>All ninja

emotion_jawdrop

You guys just continue to astound me with each idea you guys bring up. emotion_kirakira

It is just so damn complete in every way and definitely needs mentioning again. 3nodding But as someone already pointed out, it's also a little overwhelming so a tutorial would be a must.

One of my crewmates once mentioned we should be able to grab fish from SS for our aquariums. xd

I might as well give input to both... And well, I've been with these (and others) on my mind so long, I think I should spill it out already. I don't think I have anywhere yet.

This will be long. No need to respond to all of it. In fact, this whole list (and the far large version) is better discussed with a form of voice chat or instant messaging.

>Add a new ring
Thirded. I even took it out when I made the thread. I just know people wouldn't be specific about this, on mechanics I mean, so I thought I shouldn't even put the option up. The other options, for ring rebalance, are though.

>Starting over quests

And I'm not actually happy with the option of abandoning a quest myself. Likely rare, but there's also a chance that main quests would end up messed up upon a restart, due to their sequential nature, or worse, an abandoned quest leading to a silent NPC.

Still, the option would be nice. Not just for the silent glitch, but also for players who forgot what were they doing.

>Quest dialog history on the PDA

This is here for the issue above. People who aren't sure why they were doing what they were, and who will likely skip dialog. Or even the very rare, but "apparently" just uncommon cases of people who read the current quests and still have no idea of what to do.

The cut-scenes idea is still a favorite of mine. We already have ways of making in-game picture pop-ups at the very least, so it can be said that there's no reason to say small events can't be conveyed to players, even if it's just a more detailed picture of a character as you approach them.

>Rage grant/Rage Indicator

I had to do something in a hurry for this one in the thread. People were giving it votes that I likely think wasn't intended for it to have. When I mentioned a glitch, I didn't mean the visual indication saying the buff was RR1 when it was RR4, I meant the glitch that makes some buffs give you rage when used while already being buffed. The fix would be to make all work like that, or none.
I even put it alongside the trick with ring swapping, because those two are the glitches people use to build up rage "unfairly" when nothing is happening.
Regardless, there is support for crew panel changes, so I guess I'll assume the former bug.

I love the borders idea for borders btw. If only one could be done, I'd still prefer a better indication of a buff timer running out though.

>Rare Spawns

Before considering the loot, I must do a question: Why? Why not increase it anyways?
For something that gives the game a little extra flavor, with no actual reward, these things seem to have a major cause of 2k10.11 Markpersonus Vacationitis. Even the Ring Box, the one that does give a reward and should be kept rare, seems to spawn once for every time a player takes to train 5 mules past Bassken level - or when the server is cycled ninja .
But I digress. I'm not on a crusade to increase their rate. Pretty low priority.

Anyways, giving them a purpose. I made a thread, starting off with a display of different kinds of rare spawns.
Latter on I respond with my preference: We need predictable rare spawns the most, ones that can't be beaten alone trough finding them out of sheer luck, but not too strong that would give time for people to come flocking to get them. This would incentive hunting crews for these spawns.
But overall, the point is making people play the non-instanced areas more often, even if it's just taking a stroll over areas they normally don't. The non-instance repeatable value is abysmal, and areas that feature no worthwhile instances have equivalent abysmal population.

Also, a lot of people mention mini-events, which I expected, being so similar. One thing I have to say is that I'm actually disappointed with how Landshark is handled. Rare Spawns that are too strong for even a crew are meant to draw a lot of people, so they should be announced properly and should reward people anywhere in the area that participate, outside of the common luck dependencies. I remember people not getting any drops back when they were relevant because someone was moving landy across screens.

All in all, I would love to have a few of these, but yes. Specially the Pink Link, it's just such a FUN idea to chase a giftbox all over the map. Red is right, not to go overboard with them. Last thing we'd need would be having to wait 6 hours for a single gilroy to spawn, have someone else kill it on the adjacent screen and it didn't even drop anything, with that being a piece of loot 10 of are needed.

>Buffing monsters

DMS does have CC. Not debuffs though. I wonder if the devs considered it and didn't like it or not.

Slow experiments does seem the best way to balance the game.

What bothered me the most about some of the changes to gameplay was how DRASTIC the change was. The wort offender wasn't even gameplay, it was GOLD. We went, in a week, from a payout of 1k at best, with gold drops once every 3 monsters to a payout of over 20k with drops every single time. Even orbs weren't so staggering at first (until everyone noticed a pattern with swarming mobs and that's how AoE was born)
Not saying I'm not content with the current rings or monsters. They actually did a nice job back when they did some major overhaul of uses and ringsets. Or when they made monsters heal each other. There are still lingering issues of course.

>Shadow Orb

Oh, they'll fix that one. They fixed the gold counter and the 99999999 glitch. Ought to be similar. Took their time.

I wouldn't consider it much of a despair. As a start, I'm sure they were aware of it, but had other much worse bugs to deal with. I'm actually certain of that possibility. But still, in case of doubt: The bug doesn't happen every-time, and when it does, the biggest factor is salvaging a ring that doesn't grant shadow orbs. If you don't mess with regular orbs, the chance of it happening is considerably lower. And even when it does happen, there's about 50% chance that you can level up just fine with the counter messed up. There's the possibility of swarf testing DMS with "dev-tool-inflated" rings and just normally not doing ring salvage after a run meant for tests, so he never got to see it happen on him.

>Panting
>More options
>Female panting

Nuff said. Don't look at me like that!
heck, we even had a user submission of that once. it wasn't too "sexual" either. not even google finds it, of course. Lots of /b/-made vocaroos on the search results though.

>Gold Count

Yeah, the thing with the gold counter was that it happened exactly when we needed it the most. If there's such a thing as an opportunist parasite in code, this bug takes the cake.
I too hope to see it come back.

>Block Buddies

I'm actually not fully supportive of this. One of the most important traits of vanity items is the inherent "show off" status they allow. Making us able to block them is something in detriment of the very point they have.
BUT, the gameplay takes priority, and the animations are themselves getting in the way of gameplay. Not everyone is adblock savvy, so there you have it. One more to the options box.

>Clan Chat

Actually Red, even if clans had a lot of other options available to them, this would still stand out to be THE most important feature available to clans, and you ought to know it if you play any MMO ever.
Clan chat allows for one simple thing: Communication. It allows people to quickly find other players willing to play with them, in a much more capable way than the very limited Shout channel. And unlike with shout, clans can do their own moderation of their chat features. If someone is much of a pest, they're thrown out.
Since the game is so geared toward socialization, and since the people answering this channel are the same that will have exclusive posting rights in you exclusive guild, and thus the ones it'll be best to have easy forms of grouping up with, I can understand why the feature was there on game start. It's the best tool a clan could get, next to a in-game, clan specific "meeting space", be it a new area, or just a fully shared null chamber with clan members.
Also, this is an incredible popular option in the thread.

World chat is coupled together with this one for the exact same reason, only, with the broader audience, obviously. Also, it was suggested by swarf at one point. Response was negative to mixed, but most was noticeably because people didn't have a simple fact cross their mind: You can block any chat channel in-game at any time, and make this one off by default. Also, swarf didn't mention making it a cheap cash shop feature to prevent people from overspamming it constantly.

>Forgotten Loot


I don't just think these ned to be back, I think they should prioritize reusing them when some new item is intended for introduction. Like, literally putting a memo on the the "item making program" stating, "If this is not going to use gramster goo, go back and make something that does".
(Not to mention that I'd love an item that gives our avatar a green goo aura, and gramster goo seems the loot of choice)

We need those. I love the idea sooooo much. The power up crafts. I picture them the same way, as being empty flasks, and we go out to get ingredients. And syko nailed down the specifics I felt appropriate for them, such as the base being a cheap CS item, common potions still being weaker than the powerup equivalents, and the most powerful being boss killers you have to take a leap and, regardless of the work, spend some noticeable gold on. His requirements still seem a tad bit high for the latter though.

>Older Crafts as Loot
>Site integration

Yeah, the problems here are, correspondant, flushing out the Daily chance grants and make some lovely Site Integration the way Alchemy promised and failed to. From other games into zOMG! this time.
that's why I'm not fully bothered by the Epics we have. I want the future ones to address this, of course, but the current ones were designed to be annexed rewards specific to DMS. Sure they could have [sarcasm]added some loot from other ares, to start doing some preemptive flushing from those, but the idea was too un-DMS-like apparentelly,[/sarcasm] but in the end, the Epics did the job they were designed to.

Hope indeed. It's not a broken system. People are happy with the Epics, me included, with criticisms.

>Coliseum Content

Coliseum was old 3 days into its introduction. Several people didn't even bother fully doing timed or protection trials, which were the only two innovations to the game. One required field awareness and the other altered ringsets. Survival is more like the rest of the game, so yeah, it was popular. It's a shame that it ended how it did. But it was obvious it was coming. The place wasn't rewarding players and thus, not being advertised to new players.
Adding a reward to being there is a most for its continued longevity. If there's always someone shouting there for coliseum runs, then there will be new players deciding to play it. And maybe some crew finally getting past the three big dog wave.
So... I didn't list it, but the place ought to have a better gold reward as well. Gold is the ultimate inhibitor of "Been there, done that".

>X-mas

Oh my. How does it move?
What about Gnome Santa and his flamindeers?

I still stand that we need a recycle at the very least. I still don't have my coal spirit, and didn't even try buying loot all throughout last year because I had been sure events would be recycled. I'm two years late, dang it!

>PVP

I know how big of a step this is.
That's what the ninja is for. I started getting out of ideas about this point.

>Unsuppressed CL

I should have stated it this way. Unsuppressed CL feels more to reason than highest possible, and is far easier to implement. Although, among "smart" players, the highest possible is more useful, as those are players that approach instance entrances with rings unequipped.
The badge idea has been discussed a few times recently, and yeah, I would feel the same as well.

In the end, this isn't an important feature.

>Plot integration of DMS

JK said what?
OH COME ON! We figure out that Ghi does this and that. And then Kin, who is some magical medium capable of seeing ghi flows, besides being a ninja, happens to be in the closest region to the Dead Man's Pass! There's more than enough room to say "there's a disturbance in the force we should investigate sometime" here.
Even if it's not for everyone yet, it still is a quest about something trying to freaking STAB the whole world because explosions are getting old! It's a major event, as well as being the next step in our character progression. There's room for adding this in many ways and it seems relevant plot-wise.

I'm getting swarf on the line. I think he's the fiction loving one and the writer of most extensive dialog.

>Easy Crewing
>Lol fish

This is also a major update. The billboard. I think you meant an advancement of the "Recrewt" Pane there. But anyways, yeah, being able to post that you're looking to make/join a crew would help the game in many levels, it is something that should be at least considered.
The safe areas actually seem like a step back. it'd reduce shouting, but the drawback would be actually getting HARDER recrewting, as several people join instances from hearing those shout advertisements.

I think that the fishing community is far more deserving of getting aquarium fishes off the exchange before we are. But are you really picturing me denying a way to craft mini-monsters? Of course not. I even wondered if we could make Gaia Housing items on this whole Site Integration deal.
Do note that a lot of the monsters are avaiable in the gold shop now. Just making sure you were aware.

I was thinking more about this and that's when I was inspired by a system in Backyard Monsters where flinging goo on your monsters buffs them up with inverse proportions of speed and armor depending on the amount of goo chosen to fling. (Duration increases with amount of goo flung). So I thought the same could be applied to zOMG! For example, the Divinity ring.



As you can see, I wanted to have rr1 of all buffs geared towards gold farmers while rr4 suited towards tougher situations. This system would make rr2 and rr3 useful since they provide both benefits to a reasonable level which would be ideal for general playing. Would also help provide balance by giving gold farmers a tougher time in earning that gold. 3nodding

The drawbacks of course are each ring would become nerfed as you can never have the best of both effects, it would require proper defining of both effects for each ring(perhaps even adding effects in some cases), and finally the complexity of explaining such a new system. :XP