i wont lie. i believe this game will have grinding.
odds are you'll need some basic gear. being given that aside, you'll need to do some basic gathering and crafting. you'll need to do that enough times to have a few sets of gear available.
you'll need to kill enough of a mob to learn their spells. we may need to explore or whatever else to learn other skills.
I'd prefer a system where stats are dynamic instead of static. Meaning a species (sub-race) has a minimum attribute value then based on your skills being used will adjust the appropriate attribute.
Meaning a player that picks a high strength sub-race can still use magic because the Intel attribute will increase as they cast spells.
Vise versa also happens if a player picks a high Intel sub-race but uses more melee (either strength or dex based).
This prevents the issues of "my character is bad I need to reroll". It also allows skills to be adjusted and players to swap. A length of time for the stats to adjust could be a bell curve so that it's quick to a number then slows to grow beyond that. IE from 10 to 15 could be quick but 15 to 20 would be much slower.
This allows a player to pick a sub-race based on visuals instead of attribute stats.
@d3Sync said in Guerrilla Marketing Suggestion:
@Jetah said in Guerrilla Marketing Suggestion:
this only works temporarily. many streamers have their preferred games and eventually go back to them and the influence drops.
I like the idea of keys given to streamers but really any sized streamer should have access. however what really happens is the winners just sell the key and pocket the cash.
they could offer a key via the Twitch Prime, and as the game gets closer to release or whatever last wipe is, free items via the Prime game rewards.
there's also drops that can happen while watching drop enabled twitch streamers.There is really not much of a downside to this. I think you miss the point. It's not about getting the streamers to play the game. It's about making their audience aware of it. And if someone sells the key, then the person who bought it will be playing it. I'm willing to bet that there are a lot of people interested in a game like this, but they just don't know about it. Anything to get this game out there should be welcome.
When it comes to twitch drops, they would need to be careful to keep the items or currency given relegated to cosmetic only.
i'm 40 years old. i've seen enough game launches to know that you dont push heavy when in alpha. during beta when all of the systems are in place, the art is finished, and the game is nearing release then you push in marketing. yes it's cheaper to have streamers do their thing but i bet most of the viewers dont even play the game.
@therippyone said in Just a(some) quick question(s).:
@jetah Sure, but whose going to hand them out? short of the 6 gods literally showing up and saying "Here's how to walk!" I don't currently see where we're getting the npcs to issue the quests. I mean, we could start out with just random text boxes offering to explain stuff, but it just feels weird?
As to limited abilities - we're all supposed to start with a combat ready selection of skills, in theory, since the dev's are assigning them by preset, last I heard. Given that, I sort of doubt that there'd be a "beginner's area" per say, unless it's on an instanced asteroid for that purpose.
If you are recognized by the gods then good for them stepping out to acknowledge you. I’d be perfectly OK for that to happen!
The spotlight covers this saying there are small starting areas that are free from PvP. Demons have Nest and I’m not sure what the others are.
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I'd love for fishing to be more than a fishing pole.
I want to see cast nets, troll lines. then eventually we get boats, where we can pole fish then cast fish then boat troll, then boat fishing nets.
@gothix
Should get some charisma points for having a beard too!
Just because it’s a streatch goal doesn’t mean it’ll happen at release. It could be a post release thing.
Overlord.. does that count?
+5 haste, when buff wears off -5% HP, and -5% haste.
@Prometheus
put some cosmetics in the store with previews! and start that. If you're selling dynamight gold then put that in there too (dynamight gold spent during testing to be refunded when the game launches). If these items are pre-launch exclusives then I know people would buy them if they aren't 50$ each!
@Solaris
i'm not sure 30 days is a good time frame though. unless the outfits were sub 10$.
to me, Path of Exile has the best that I've seen, prices aside. they have league packs, which last for 90 days. They have core packs which swap yearly or something like that. and they have individual cosmetics you can get outside of those packs. AND the packs grant, usually, enough cash shop currency based on the cost of the pack. IE a 30$ pack gives ~30$ in shop currency. the 480$ pack gives ~480$ worth of shop currency.
The rewards are enough reason to keep it. When the game releases the leaderboards are saved and those rewards given out.
A new Foundation is created, maybe new name but systematically the same, so that new people joining can feel welcomed, have rewards to obtain even if they can’t play everyday.
browsing Imgur and found this, which could look great for Tartaros mobs (or at a minimum non-combat pets):
@Pluto @Tuoni
being active on the forums, being rewarded for that activity with cosmetics is a good thing to do. Now if they can curb the trolling because of the foundation, IE reward good content with points while removing points with trolling/salt/toxicity then it might work.
Foundation is a great term for what it's designed to do. the greater a Foundation is the better the structure will be on top. One thing about games is the people are always shifting around from game to game, a game company would like a good Foundation of constant revenue and some pillars of users that are helpful.
The Foundation is never complete on a game. Look at WoW 14+ years later. Look at Eve Online and the few other online games being active for 10+ years. I'd imagine if Blizzard made a forum Foundation type system that rewarded positivity and discouraged negativity it would be a much better place.
This community is great and we're being rewarded for participating on the forums. Another EA game I've backed is pretty empty on the forums and the mods haven't logged in on Reddit in over a month some of which are the company employees. The active forums could make other communities, like Reddit, seem empty, however.
when can the discord be verified??
https://discordapp.com/verification
we'd get a neat channel icons, and a server banner area!
@Tuoni wish i could resize it.. fine line between convenience
you never want to hype a game 2 years before release. you start that 6 months before when 99% of the game is settled and wont change (baring some major redesigns).
we were suppose to get more content pills but that stopped for a while. we should be getting Kickstarter backer updates. until DS hires a community manager that can rally the developers to release content, we just have to wait.
I did love the full Dev show that Crowfall did. they had 1 dev from each aspect of the game display some samples or explain parts they were working on.
I'm with @Gothix on this one. I've never seen the free passes for friends be used for good. OK maybe never never but i'm sure people will just sell the free pass on ebay for a few bucks.
if it was a very limited pass, no public speaking, no trading, limited duration (ie 3 days) or something like that I could potentially agree with it.
I'd much prefer a demo planet where prople who're interested in the game can spend a week or less and let that progression pass through to the real game. it wouldn't be much progression, maybe it's more of a tutorial area. again though no trade, no global chat and limited local chat (to stop bots).
@Plume said in Pass for friends - the idea for the release:
@Jetah
Yeah, "streamsniping" is a bannable offense in a lot of games for a reason.
how do you enforce it?
