Tell Tolero #9

[Sertrynus]

Question 1
If you could thank a Turbine representative for something, what would that something be? Combat System

Question 2
You are captured by an evil NPC. He informs you that he has discovered the ultimate torment for his prisoners. What is the worst thing he could do to you? (Keep answers within forum guidelines please) Make all items have a durability and hardness of 1, Enervate me to level 1 and then throw me into a room of pit fiends / orthons / beared devils / fiendish creatures and a number of purple named foes.

Question 3
Which forum sections do you find you visit the most? Which forum sections do you find you visit the least? (Visit does not necessarily mean that you post in them, it can be simply reading them) I mainly visit the DDO Development / General / Paladin / Human discussion forums, i generally don't visit the server marketplace forums.

Question 4
What are your aspirations for DDO for 2008? Improvments to all classes, especially Paladins / Rogues / Clerics, more content and some feedback from the Tell Tolero threads (ie. what is happening as a result of the comments)

[DeadlyGazebo]

If you missed last week's questions, you're welcome to answer them now in addition to this week's:[/center]
Question 1
Which in-game interface/UI do you find to be the least user friendly? (e.g. Bank window, Auction House, the Social Panel, etc.)

No comment, because I don't want angry UI people hunting me down.

Question 2
What is your favorite feature of any online game you've ever played, DDO or otherwise?

The people. If I want the best graphics, gameplay, or whatever, I can find those things in single player games. The reason I'm attracted to online games is the feeling of working with or against real life people.

Question 3
Will you be attending any gaming conventions this year?

I'd love to, but scheduling looks doubtful.

Question 4
You're stranded on a desert island. You find a bottle with the Turbine logo on it, a pen, and some paper. What do you write?

A note to IT requesting a better computer and faster internet. If I'm going to properly enjoy my long island vacation, I'd like to have a computer to enjoy along the way.

Question 5
What is one thing you feel would help new players in-game the most?

More in game explanations of some of the subtleties of the system. I see threads here frequently from people confused about how DR works, what defense works against certain spells, things like that. These things aren't simple, so they need to be well communicated.

Question 6
If given a choice between the following thread titles for our weekly activity here, which would you select:

• "Tell Town Hall"
• "Tell Turbine"
• "Tell The Twelve"
• "Tell Tolero" (EU: "Tell Tolero & Deum")
• "Turbine's Stormreach Survey"
• "Let's Talk About..."
• "Time To Talk"

Enh, I don't care much. Tell Tolero works fine.

This week's question(s) are:

Question 1
If you could thank a Turbine representative for something, what would that something be?

Getting a job here

Question 2
You are captured by an evil NPC. He informs you that he has discovered the ultimate torment for his prisoners. What is the worst thing he could do to you? (Keep answers within forum guidelines please)

Force me to play some of our competitors games. Some MMOs are painful.

Question 3
Which forum sections do you find you visit the most? Which forum sections do you find you visit the least? (Visit does not necessarily mean that you post in them, it can be simply reading them)

Dev discussion and general discussion. Especially codog's thread and the WDAs.

Question 4
What are your aspirations for DDO for 2008?

Make this a more polished game.

[Beherit_Baphomar]

Deadly Gazza FTW!!

Lets see everyone else's answers to "Tell Tolero"

[arminius]

Force me to play some of our competitors games. Some MMOs are painful.

Oh that is hysterical. That would make for a very painful dungeon: You are afflicted with the Curse of the WoW. Until you defeat Boss X, your gameplay will be exactly like WoW's.

Defeating Boss X requires: 10 Kobold Nostril Hairs, 10 Kobold Eyeballs, 10 Kobold Eyelashes, 10 Kobold Cuticles, 10 Kobold Toejams, 10 Kobold Foreskins, etc.

Until you defeat Boss X, Auto Attack is permanently on, and cannot be taken off. You cannot attack while moving.

Oh it would be such exquisite torture.

_

[Tanka]

Question 1
If you could thank a Turbine representative for something, what would that something be?

You, for stepping into this role and assisting Turbine with our desires and the things that irk us.

Question 2
You are captured by an evil NPC. He informs you that he has discovered the ultimate torment for his prisoners. What is the worst thing he could do to you? (Keep answers within forum guidelines please)

Torment my friends and loved ones.

Question 3
Which forum sections do you find you visit the most? Which forum sections do you find you visit the least? (Visit does not necessarily mean that you post in them, it can be simply reading them)

General, Dev Discussion, Sarlona, Sarlona Market, Fighters. Generally in that order.

Question 4
What are your aspirations for DDO for 2008?

Try to cap out more than just two characters. Heh.

[geoffhanna]

Question 1
If you could thank a Turbine representative for something, what would that something be?
Question 2
You are captured by an evil NPC. He informs you that he has discovered the ultimate torment for his prisoners. What is the worst thing he could do to you? (Keep answers within forum guidelines please)
Question 3
Which forum sections do you find you visit the most? Which forum sections do you find you visit the least? (Visit does not necessarily mean that you post in them, it can be simply reading them)
Question 4
What are your aspirations for DDO for 2008?

1. Protection from griefing: instancing, player-dedicated loot in the chests, etc. Thank you.
2. Blind me? Ban me? I'm not sure what the context of this answer ought to be. If you are looking at a Jon Irenicus kind of scenario, anything other than the temporary loss of (items/XP/plat/etc) would be very very difficult to do without losing people.
3. In order: Sarlona Marketplace, Dev Tracker, New Posts, followed by a variety of specifically useful threads like this and this, followed by the various class forums as I have building questions.
4. Hopefully build up a guild hall and related accoutrements

[Garth_of_Sarlona]

Most: The dev tracker
Least: The support area (gladly)

Are you addicted to the devtracker too? Do you continually push 'refresh' on your browser to see if there have been any new posts since you last pushed 'refresh' (3 seconds ago).

If you answered 'yes' to these questions - you might be interested in my devtracker RSS feed, which you can access from your favorite browser (exercise for the reader), or add to your iGoogle homepage by clicking here.

Garth

p.s. yes, I created this because I too am addicted to the devtracker (pushes refresh).

[macros123]

Question 1
Thank you for this forum of comunication. If you ask the right questions here you will find out exactly what will keep people online for a long, long time! I also like the idea of the town meeting on Risia, and would like to see that again, only on all of the servers at one point or another.

Question 2
He would tell me that to escape his prison I will need to collect 20 fish scales, 20 ivy sprigs, 20 smooth pebbles, and 20 beast bones. Of course he would give me little bags to carry each of these item types in.

Question 3
General and Dev discussion primarily.

Question 4
The good one. This game would entertain me far longer into the future if I could play a larger variety of races and classes. This would also create more 6 character group dynamic. I also think you should spend more time on low level quests. People would be more likely to roll up some new characters if they knew they did't HAVE to run goodblades for the 76th time. We all love to see character growth, and It would be good to see more directions to do that.
Also, perhaps a way to respec skill points, for those people who didn't know what they were doing when they made their first character, and regret the points put into Listen. (what was I thinking *sigh*)

[Fleet]

If you missed last week's questions, you're welcome to answer them now in addition to this week's...

I answered these questions late on Saturday. I hope they made it under the wire. My responses were quite long and took a while to write .

This week's question(s) are:

Question 1
If you could thank a Turbine representative for something, what would that something be?

Question 2
You are captured by an evil NPC. He informs you that he has discovered the ultimate torment for his prisoners. What is the worst thing he could do to you? (Keep answers within forum guidelines please)

Question 3
Which forum sections do you find you visit the most? Which forum sections do you find you visit the least? (Visit does not necessarily mean that you post in them, it can be simply reading them)

Question 4
What are your aspirations for DDO for 2008?

Question 1: I would be sure to thank them for creating a game that me and my brother used for a while to keep in touch with each other. We have moved on to other games more recently but I am enjoying my time back in Stormreach so far since I re-subscribed.


Question 2: Take all of the character and adventure out of the quests and force me to grind for experience (assuming he hasn't crossed over into the real world and intends to do something much more gruesome to me ). I have nightmares about grinding - alright, not really, but if I ever felt compelled to grind my way through a game instead of just leaving it behind when the need arises I probably would.


Question 3: I have only been visiting the forums again for about a week. I must admit that I don't know exactly what sections I am spending my time in as I usually read topics that sound interesting when I see them on the main forum page. I have spent a little time in the development section after I discovered Tell Tolero. I also have spent some time in the section that has patch notes in order to catch up a little on what has changed since I last played over a year ago. The only area I am not really that interested in visiting is the off-topic section. I find it much more interesting to see what comes out naturally in topics that are mostly related to the game then going to a separate section for stuff like that.


Qustion 4: It would be nice to see the game expand of course as new content is always needed to keep players interested and to keep the sense of adventure alive. This is one thing I think Turbine has generally been quite good at: providing new content in their games, even if it doesn't always come as fast as some would like. I don't have any reason to believe that this year will be any different and it seems this may be one of the best years yet for DDO.

I would also like to see more players discover the adventures that await in Stormreach. I think the game has a lot to offer and it would be exciting to see more players join our ranks and help keep the game world healthy and varied. As discussed in last week's questions, I do think their are things that need to be done to make the experience better for new players. Right now it doesn't feel like there are a lot of new players that have never been exposed to the game and I think part of the reason is that the game is a little difficult to figure out, especially if you don't have a lot of experience with the pen and paper D&D.

A lot of people also seem to be awaiting for new classes that are missing from the game to make their way from the pen and paper game. I would really like to see those in DDO this year because I think they would add a lot of value to the game for both new and old players. I think it would also help attract some of the D&Dh fans that have been holding out, and keep fans of the game who are wavering from jumping ship. I think the future is bright for DDO. I get the impression that you (Turbine) have a lot in store for us this year and I hope that people take notice and come to check out what is happening.

[VonBek]

Question 1
If you could thank a Turbine representative for something, what would that something be?
Communicating. GJ, as far as I'm concerned.

Question 2
You are captured by an evil NPC. He informs you that he has discovered the ultimate torment for his prisoners. What is the worst thing he could do to you? (Keep answers within forum guidelines please)
Flood my mailbox and chat windows with plat spam? Seriously: XP debt/level loss.

Question 3
Which forum sections do you find you visit the most? Which forum sections do you find you visit the least? (Visit does not necessarily mean that you post in them, it can be simply reading them)
Mostly I use Dev Tracker, followed by New Posts, rather than traditional sections.

[MysticTheurge]

This week's question(s) are:

Question 1
If you could thank a Turbine representative for something, what would that something be?

Question 2
You are captured by an evil NPC. He informs you that he has discovered the ultimate torment for his prisoners. What is the worst thing he could do to you? (Keep answers within forum guidelines please)

Question 3
Which forum sections do you find you visit the most? Which forum sections do you find you visit the least? (Visit does not necessarily mean that you post in them, it can be simply reading them)

Question 4
What are your aspirations for DDO for 2008?

1) Heather Sinclair for the new enhancement system.

2) I have to play in groups with nothing but obnoxious jerks.

3) Dev Discussions, General Discussions and occasionally User Written Game Guides. I don't really read any of the other forums.

4) Monks, Half-orcs, Half-elves and level 20.

[Pellegro]

Thanks Bradik - stole your formatting ...

Question 1
If you could thank a Turbine representative for something, what would that something be?

Active combat. Make it more so !!

Question 2
You are captured by an evil NPC. He informs you that he has discovered the ultimate torment for his prisoners. What is the worst thing he could do to you? (Keep answers within forum guidelines please)

Fill my PUGs with whiners and no-funners. And yes, I made that word up.

Question 3
Which forum sections do you find you visit the most? Which forum sections do you find you visit the least? (Visit does not necessarily mean that you post in them, it can be simply reading them)

DEV tracker and whereever it takes me.

Question 4
What are your aspirations for DDO for 2008?

At this point, my personal aspiration would be to beat the Abbott and the Pit Fiend. Then on Elite.

[Tyrande]

Good Afternoon Players, it's that time again...

-------------------------- Let's Get Started! --------------------------

If you missed last week's questions, you're welcome to answer them now in addition to this week's:

Question 1
Which in-game interface/UI do you find to be the least user friendly? (e.g. Bank window, Auction House, the Social Panel, etc.)

The auction house. A search function that can search all holy silver or flamtouched silver finessible weapons between levels 8 and 16 would be nice. Or, another search feature to search all major mnemonic potions priced below 50,000 gold each.
Or, search all big 5 capable weapons priced below 100k each.

Question 2
What is your favorite feature of any online game you've ever played, DDO or otherwise?

The ability to easily script your own spells in Neverwinter Nights 2.
If you consider Civilization IV an online game, then the ability of writing Python scripts is very nice.
Python (or any OO language) can be used to customize your own units and unit capabilities (spells) and unit upgrades is nice.

Question 3
Will you be attending any gaming conventions this year?

No, work got too busy.

Question 4
You're stranded on a desert island. You find a bottle with the Turbine logo on it, a pen, and some paper. What do you write?

Please set me up:

1) At least a T1 connection to the internet with island wide wireless networking and networking gears.
2) Please send some ice cold water!
3) For long term support, please send a de-salination machine to convert sea water to purified water.
4) Please send some solar energy panels to power the machine in #3.
5) Oh yeah, and don't forgeet to send me a laptop with the following minimum specs:

Core 2 Duo 2.4Ghz or better
2GB RAM
200GB 7200rpm HD
15.4" 1650x1080 color LCD screen with an external 30" monitor.

6) Satellite Dish
7) Enough solar panels to power #5 & #6.

Question 5
What is one thing you feel would help new players in-game the most?

Friendly veteran DDO players that make new players feel welcomed.

Question 6
If given a choice between the following thread titles for our weekly activity here, which would you select:

• "Tell Town Hall"
• "Tell Turbine"
• "Tell The Twelve"
• "Tell Tolero" (EU: "Tell Tolero & Deum")
• "Turbine's Stormreach Survey"
• "Let's Talk About..."
• "Time To Talk"

Tell Town Hall may be okay, if there is actually a mayor or selected group of city hall bureaucrats that actually read these things.
Tell Turbine? Hmm... I don't know, but Turbine handles more than 1 game.
Tell The Twelve? I don't like this because most of the Twelve are actually dead and one of them is a traitor.
Tell Telero? I guess this is fine, but are you going to be here the whole time?
Turbine's Stormreach Survey? Not sure Turbine and Stormreach can be mixed in a RPG sense.
Let's Talk about...? Too generic.
Time To Talk? too generic too and some guys just don't feel like talking.

This week's question(s) are:

Question 1
If you could thank a Turbine representative for something, what would that something be?

I would thank Codog for putting up a dialog forum last year.

Question 2
You are captured by an evil NPC. He informs you that he has discovered the ultimate torment for his prisoners. What is the worst thing he could do to you? (Keep answers within forum guidelines please)

The worst thing? The evil NPC would put you into stasis. Then, it would create a time loop making you try to find the best ways
to die to get out of the loop but in vain. If you have seen the movie "Ground Hog Day" or some of Star Trek's or Star Gate SG1s, you know what I am talking about. Basically, you felt like you are wasting time and everything you did was in vain until...

This makes dying felt like nothing.

Question 3
Which forum sections do you find you visit the most? Which forum sections do you find you visit the least? (Visit does not necessarily mean that you post in them, it can be simply reading them)

DDO Development Discussion and Sarlona marketplace.

Question 4
What are your aspirations for DDO for 2008?

I think it would be great with the introduction of the monk class in module 7
and may be level 20 support, other races, druid support beyond module 7 but still in 2008?

[Affront]

Answer 1: I haven't interacted directly with Turbine staff much at all so I will just say a generalized thank you to everyone involved in making this game tick.

Answer 2: deduct 0.5*character levels to any rolls made.

Question 3: Dev Tracker, General, Development, User-written ... guides, general class discussions, Wizard, Bard, Rogue. Other forums like Sarlona marketplace from time to time. I don't think I've ever been to the calendar forums or any of the community forums (e.g., Off-topic chat).

Question 4: Generally, that it continues to engage and interest me. More specifically, that we are able to personalize characters more - perhaps this could be at level-up time - add a scar here, grow hair length or make it shorter - and change the look and color of our visible equipment.

[Jaywade]

Question 1
If you could thank a Turbine representative for something, what would that something be?
real time combat

Question 2
You are captured by an evil NPC. He informs you that he has discovered the ultimate torment for his prisoners. What is the worst thing he could do to you? (Keep answers within forum guidelines please)
first of all I really don't like this question , it makes me think of the movie ghostbusters when the end boss ask's the ghostbusters to pick thier destroyer.... ao I hope there is no marshmellow man's in the months to come.....but the worse thing you could do to one of my toons is to take thier gear

Question 3
Which forum sections do you find you visit the most? Which forum sections do you find you visit the least? (Visit does not necessarily mean that you post in them, it can be simply reading them)
Dev tracker, my server and any thread about crafting

Question 4
What are your aspirations for DDO for 2008?
would like more slots I'd love to make a half orc and I might take a stab at monks

[Spectralist]

Question 1
If you could thank a Turbine representative for something, what would that something be?

The good movement & combat engine.

Question 2
You are captured by an evil NPC. He informs you that he has discovered the ultimate torment for his prisoners. What is the worst thing he could do to you? (Keep answers within forum guidelines please)

Destroy my gear

Question 3
Which forum sections do you find you visit the most? Which forum sections do you find you visit the least? (Visit does not necessarily mean that you post in them, it can be simply reading them)

Most:
Development and General
Least:
Well i never visit the:
event calenders
server forums for servers i dont play on
achievements forum
newbie q&a
Guild matchup
player quest coordination
the ui forums
the 'DDO Community Forums' subforums
the 'Guest and Trial' forums
and the ones i havent mentioned i only go to occasionally

Question 4
What are your aspirations for DDO for 2008?

More classes, races, low level quests. Less level cap increases. Hopefully another raid or two in the style of tempest spine ie none of that flagging garbage or redo timers.

[sirgog]

Question 1
If you could thank a Turbine representative for something, what would that something be?

Improved communication lately, and making the difference between normal and elite more pronounced. (Not that the un-disable-able traps should have been changed in the way they were)

Question 2
You are captured by an evil NPC. He informs you that he has discovered the ultimate torment for his prisoners. What is the worst thing he could do to you? (Keep answers within forum guidelines please)
Make me grind Litany of the Dead until I had a full Tome of Legends set (am sick to death of that quest).
There'd be worse things, except for that 'keep it civil' requirement.

Question 3
Which forum sections do you find you visit the most? Which forum sections do you find you visit the least? (Visit does not necessarily mean that you post in them, it can be simply reading them)
Most common - the 'View New Posts' option - which kinda means everything

Question 4
What are your aspirations for DDO for 2008?
This question can be interpreted 2 ways - what are my in-game goals, or what direction do I want to see the game go. Answering both:
1. To keep up with the favor cap on Myrmidral (only missing Elite Abbot and Elite Shroud at the moment).
2. I want to see more quests with standard objectives and quest mechanics made into raids. In particular, I think Running with the Devils would have made a good raid - make the current Elite into the Normal setting for a raid party, and scale it up from there.

[Hakushi]

Question 1
If you could thank a Turbine representative for something, what would that something be?

The increase of communications we have lately and the serious work to get rid of plat farmers.

Question 2
You are captured by an evil NPC. He informs you that he has discovered the ultimate torment for his prisoners. What is the worst thing he could do to you? (Keep answers within forum guidelines please)

Permanently ban me from DDO.

Question 3
Which forum sections do you find you visit the most? Which forum sections do you find you visit the least? (Visit does not necessarily mean that you post in them, it can be simply reading them)

My server forum, Khyber.

Question 4
What are your aspirations for DDO for 2008?

Maybe, finally, after one year and half, get that titan belt before my 80th reward list. On a different note, I expect mod8 to give us lvl 18, and then at the end of the year, lvl 20 and lots of nice improvements to the game, and I hope lots of new players.

[SteeleTrueheart]

Question 1
Which in-game interface/UI do you find to be the least user friendly? (e.g. Bank window, Auction House, the Social Panel, etc.)

The way hotbars unlock when you log off / log back in. Or the fact that I have to move the composed mail panel every time I compose a new message because it always defaults to the center and is covered by my backpack.

Question 2
What is your favorite feature of any online game you've ever played, DDO or otherwise?

DDO's character creation choices. (More classes wouldn't go astray though)

Question 3
Will you be attending any gaming conventions this year?

My wife is going to give birth around the weekend of GenCon Oz so what I had been waiting years for is now out of reach.

Question 4
You're stranded on a desert island. You find a bottle with the Turbine logo on it, a pen, and some paper. What do you write?

If the pen is Red DOOOOOOOOOMMMMM!!!!!

Question 5
What is one thing you feel would help new players in-game the most?

Reading the manual out of game.

Question 6
If given a choice between the following thread titles for our weekly activity here, which would you select:
"Tell Town Hall"
"Tell Turbine"
"Tell The Twelve"
"Tell Tolero" (EU: "Tell Tolero & Deum")
"Turbine's Stormreach Survey"
"Let's Talk About..."
"Time To Talk"

Turbine's Stormreach Survey





This week's question(s) are:

Question 1
If you could thank a Turbine representative for something, what would that something be?

Codog for leading the way in Forum communication from the Devs. Showing that it really can be done at a mature level.

Question 2
You are captured by an evil NPC. He informs you that he has discovered the ultimate torment for his prisoners. What is the worst thing he could do to you? (Keep answers within forum guidelines please)

Have Gary Gygax read the Harry Potter books out loud to me forever. :shudder:

Question 3
Which forum sections do you find you visit the most? Which forum sections do you find you visit the least? (Visit does not necessarily mean that you post in them, it can be simply reading them)

Most = Newbie sections, Development Discussion, Paladin section.
Least = any server that is not Khyber, Achievement thread

Question 4
What are your aspirations for DDO for 2008?

More Races, More Classes/Prestige Classes, Seeing what from DnD4.0 can be slotted into DDO. Crafting (I want to paint my armor) Character model respec (I need a shave, goatees were so '96... OK it looked cr*p then too)
PALADIN LOVE

[JayDubya]

Question 1
If you could thank a Turbine representative for something, what would that something be?

Question 2
You are captured by an evil NPC. He informs you that he has discovered the ultimate torment for his prisoners. What is the worst thing he could do to you? (Keep answers within forum guidelines please)

Question 3
Which forum sections do you find you visit the most? Which forum sections do you find you visit the least? (Visit does not necessarily mean that you post in them, it can be simply reading them)

Question 4
What are your aspirations for DDO for 2008?

Q1: I would thank them for putting up with the impatient and annoying forum people. And I would also thank them for the new lower price on the subscriptions.

Q2: Force me to run only wilderness areas for XP

Q3: Most: Dev and General forums. Least: Newbie harbor.

Q4: I would like to see DDO hit the milestones they have discussed - Monks in the spring, Level 20, Half Orcs, etc in the fall. I would also like to see the population continue to rise - lately it seems more and more crowded at night, which is a very good thing!