Why not have a "Free Loot / XP" button?

[HumanJHawkins]

Instead of spending all of this time trying to prevent people from doing quests in easy ways to just get loot or XP, why not just put a button on the screen that would drop free high end/raid loot with 10000 XP and 100K Plat.

Clearly this would have some negative effects, but I am half serious... It would also have some good effects:

• Plat farmers (and their spam) would immediately disappear...
• Exploits for loot would immediately become a non-issue and you would never have to spend another second of dev time fighting them...
• Dozens of "fixes" for exploits that had the unintended consequence of hurting the game for the rest of us could be rolled back.

And, I am pretty sure that most of the people I play with would never hit that button, so it wouldn't hurt my groups. Dunno about the rest of you.

[Amabel]

Have you been talking to Dingo again?

[Magnus_Arcanis]

Step 1: Implement Crafting.

Step 2: Add a premium service that auto gains you a level(s).

Results:
- Plat sellers business reduced, and quite possibly to extinction.
- Players that are far to sick of grinding through low level content won't have to anymore.
- More money will start comin in. (I being one of those players that have ran WW more times than... I've considered playing blindfolded on several occasions)
- Help allievate 'hard to find groups' level range problems.
- New players that joined the game due to a friend's or family member's reference have (an albiet and expensive way) a way to join they're friends/family members much more quickly thus generating a happier experience for most (tough to say all as I would imagine quite a few people might be opposed to step 2)

Premium servive to auto gain levels!?!?!?!?!1?!?one?!?!?!four?!?~? What am I thinking!? We'll have new/rich people in high level adventures that don't know how to even play the game!!!!

Now obviously there would have to be some regulations and what not along with certain changes to the game. Such as expanding the 'beginner's island' to force new players to learn the basics of how to play their character. Also probably have a set level range where you can use this service such as only being able to advance your character from level 4 up to level 11 (one at time, and to whatever the current level cap is minus 3 levels). This way players will have to reach at least level 4 before they can use the service which insures that players have at least fundemental knowledge of the game. Limiting the max to Level cap -3 (currently 11) allows new players to join groups with already high level friends/family members/guildmates, but wouldn't be immediately considered for the highest level of quests such as the new raids and other quests on elite.

Of course those numbers aren't set in stone and are subject to change based on feedback and turbine's opinion but honestly I think its a worthwhile implementation even if you only limit it to vetran players.

I dunno, I'm sure I'll be mocked and flame for suggesting such a thing but... One of the things I enjoy most about playing DDO is planning out a character and then seeing it come into its own once I get to play the character in high level quests. One of the things I don't enjoy is doing the same quests over and over, and going through all of those horrible pugs (not that there aren't any good ones).

Really, I do believe that everyone should experience every quest (eventually) and I've believe that long before the favor system was even in development (now, I'm talking about the player not individual characters). While I don't think an 'easy button' is the way to go, but I certainly wouldn't mind a more speedy path even if it means sacraficing something other than my time.

[Oreg]

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