Tell The DDO Community Team #21

[frederjoe1]

This week's question(s) are:

Question 1
What is a non-questing activity you would be interested in? For the purpose of this question, "non-questing activity" is defined as any fun activity you can do while you are waiting to form a group, between quests, not in the mood to run a quest, etc.

My favorite non-questing activities are the auction house, the pawn brokers, and any player run or Turbine run events.
Now that being said, I would love to see some type of actual gambling or card games in the taverns when things are slow.

Question 2
What do you feel is the most difficult level range to play to date?

The most difficult range for me is lvl 8-12 simply because there are few people willing to run stuff in this range, most want to power level to GH and the Vale. So I sit in these areas for awhile, I would love to see some soloable stuff in this area.

Question 3
What are 3 of your favorite things about DDO?

#1 Loot and the Green-steel crafting
#2 Quests where everyone is laid back and is just there ro have fun.
#3 Obviously the combat system and the ability to customize my characters to how I like to play.

Question 4
What are 3 things that are your favorite in gaming, but are not in DDO?

#1 Customizing appearances of loot and characters.
#2 Statistics (i.e. dmg dealt, healing dealt, efficiency {easily obtained, not reading through a combat log for an hour})
#3 Interacting with the environment, (i.e doors leading into houses, garden walls with private gardens, exploring the city common) also I would like to see some different environmental effects, lightning on an overcast day, puddles after a rain, snowfall in the winter, leaves in the fall)

[GoldyGopher]

Question 1
What is a non-questing activity you would be interested in? For the purpose of this question, "non-questing activity" is defined as any fun activity you can do while you are waiting to form a group, between quests, not in the mood to run a quest, etc.

Trade. Always had fun in other games doing trading.

Question 2
What do you feel is the most difficult level range to play to date?
7-11 Not enough Quests in this range to meet the XP requirements

Question 3
What are 3 of your favorite things about DDO?
The Combat system
My Guildies
Seeing some of the quests (they are just spectacular to look at)

Question 4
What are 3 things that are your favorite in gaming, but are not in DDO?
Guild Housing
Trade Channels
Trade. I want a character to be a shipping tycoon.

[Lyletuba]

Behold! The might feedback thread, in all its glory!

Is this a Fruedian slip?

[Rkik_Dnec]

Question 1
What is a non-questing activity you would be interested in? For the purpose of this question, "non-questing activity" is defined as any fun activity you can do while you are waiting to form a group, between quests, not in the mood to run a quest, etc.

Crafting is a big one.


Question 2
What do you feel is the most difficult level range to play to date?

9-11. I don't know if it's the most difficult really, but for me it's the hardest to get through because of the lack of groups doing interesting quests. I'm not as familiar with quests above level 10, as my highest level character is 10, but it just seems that most groups are looking for levels 1-8 and 12+ for quests. The ones that are in that 9-11 range are the VON series and Xorian's Cipher which aren't bad, but they tend to get old quick for me.

Question 3
What are 3 of your favorite things about DDO?

Combat.
Customization.
Community.


Question 4
What are 3 things that are your favorite in gaming, but are not in DDO?

Team based meaningful PVP, which I wouldn't really want in DDO.
Crafting.
More character customization (ie. height, weight, etc.)

[Wizzly_Bear]

This week's question(s) are:
Question 1
What is a non-questing activity you would be interested in? For the purpose of this question, "non-questing activity" is defined as any fun activity you can do while you are waiting to form a group, between quests, not in the mood to run a quest, etc.

crafting

Question 2
What do you feel is the most difficult level range to play to date?

8-12, depending on build and class.

Question 3
What are 3 of your favorite things about DDO?

fun, social interaction, and challenge
edit:almost forgot, the fun and challenge come directly from real time combat, so real time combat is in my list.

Question 4
What are 3 things that are your favorite in gaming, but are not in DDO?

equipment crafting, spell crafting, construction

[Yvonne_Blacksword]

This week's question(s) are:

Question 1
What is a non-questing activity you would be interested in? For the purpose of this question, "non-questing activity" is defined as any fun activity you can do while you are waiting to form a group, between quests, not in the mood to run a quest, etc.

Fishing...crafting...hunting crafting supplies...customizing the look of my gear...real estate...decorating the house...researching stuff on the forums..wait...I already do the last one.

Question 2
What do you feel is the most difficult level range to play to date?

8-12.

Question 3
What are 3 of your favorite things about DDO?

combat system, familiarity, lack of serious on foot travel...between cities. I mean, there is the orchard, TR, Coo6, meridia, 12, other than that...it ia minimal.(more travel...and we will need mounts.)

Question 4
What are 3 things that are your favorite in gaming, but are not in DDO?

...

1. um...exploring non directly quest related areas, ones that arent instanced. run from one area to the next. exploring vast areas in the hopes of finding interesting things not in chests/scenery few see
2. making things. non end game raid things...using
3. using non quest related skills, tracking, fishing, cooking, fabricating, building, hunting, skill contests, decorating, customizing, buying non quest related items....comfort stuff.

[Tyrande]

This week's question(s) are:

Question 1
What is a non-questing activity you would be interested in? For the purpose of this question, "non-questing activity" is defined as any fun activity you can do while you are waiting to form a group, between quests, not in the mood to run a quest, etc.

One of them would be roleplaying and gossiping in guilds. However, with the limited emotes, housing and clothing it would be harder to roleplay. I want to add crafting, gathering components and browing AH to this list, but that is not as fun due to limited crafting and AH functionality.

Question 2
What do you feel is the most difficult level range to play to date?

I would say 6-9, since you are not high enough for Giant Hold yet, and not enough middle level PUG parties in LFM list.

Question 3
What are 3 of your favorite things about DDO?

1) There is a 3D feel to dungeons in contrast to other games like Neverwinter Nights series or Baldur's Gate series. For example, like the Fire Caves.
2) I like the combat system in comparison to other MMOs like Everquest series, World of Warcraft.
3) The dungeons are instanced such that there is no grieving, kill stealing, loot stealing, etc. I like some of the quests.

Question 4
What are 3 things that are your favorite in gaming, but are not in DDO?

1) When I was playing the NWN series, it was always fun to create my own spells, dungeons, maps, NPCs.
It was fun to create my own special great general attached to a specific unit regarding upgrades. i.e. customization and randomization events in Civilization IV and expansions.
2) I thought it was convenient to be able to draw on party member's maps to direct them to locations as in Guild Wars.
It was also convenient for an international party who cannot speak English. Drawing is an universal language.
So it <ctrl>-<action> and then the game displayed the <action>, whether it be a spell casted or a special
attack and notify the other party members of your <actions> in their local native language.
3) It was fun to decorate my own house in UO, crafting and diplomacy in Vangard.

[wamjratl1]

Question 1
What is a non-questing activity you would be interested in? For the purpose of this question, "non-questing activity" is defined as any fun activity you can do while you are waiting to form a group, between quests, not in the mood to run a quest, etc.

Crafting. Tavern games where we could actually earn/win plat.

Question 2
What do you feel is the most difficult level range to play to date?

8-10. I think this is when the really good players either sail through or re-roll. The newer players may get frustrated here because the game reaches a level of difficulty they aren't used to, so they quit or roll a new character or don't play as often. After 10 if ur decent you can go to GH and getting to 12 is a breeze.

Question 3
What are 3 of your favorite things about DDO?

The jump in and quest aspect (no travel etc.)

Combat

The people you can meet

Question 4
What are 3 things that are your favorite in gaming, but are not in DDO?
I only play DDO

[Forceonature]

This week's question(s) are:

Question 1
What is a non-questing activity you would be interested in? For the purpose of this question, "non-questing activity" is defined as any fun activity you can do while you are waiting to form a group, between quests, not in the mood to run a quest, etc.

I would like a guild house set up to hang out in.

Question 2
What do you feel is the most difficult level range to play to date?

Level 8-10 is probably the most difficult to find/fill a group, and I also think that it might be the most difficult, since you can't carry the uber stuff yet.

Question 3
What are 3 of your favorite things about DDO?

The combat system.
The player base is more friendly and mature compared to other MMOs.
Player customization.

Question 4
What are 3 things that are your favorite in gaming, but are not in DDO?

Customizing appearance.
Adding more bard songs.
High level enhancements.

Thx

[Dark_Helmet]

This week's question(s) are:

Question 1
What is a non-questing activity you would be interested in? For the purpose of this question, "non-questing activity" is defined as any fun activity you can do while you are waiting to form a group, between quests, not in the mood to run a quest, etc.

Question 2
What do you feel is the most difficult level range to play to date?

Question 3
What are 3 of your favorite things about DDO?

Question 4
What are 3 things that are your favorite in gaming, but are not in DDO?

1) Trivia events, gambling.
2) None. It is fun to play all the levels. The problem for some is getting groups together for levels around 8-10.
3) No scheduled times (can just join and play), Teamwork (grouping with others), playing with people around the world.
4) Multiple outcome (having several options on how to tackle quests based on classes / skills), animal companions / hirelings (red shirts ), Core rules (no enhancements, inflated monsters just based on how some people play).

I have to leave out the obvious ones that will never work in an online game: human interaction with the DM, working outside the ruleset (finding a way to avoid the encounter so the DM has to make up something quick), interactive NPCs.

[Sillk]

Question 1
What is a non-questing activity you would be interested in? For the purpose of this question, "non-questing activity" is defined as any fun activity you can do while you are waiting to form a group, between quests, not in the mood to run a quest, etc.

I would be interested in ‘hobby’ type activities such as what you can do in LOTR. Not sure how they would fit into the game, but being able to play an instrument or work on a non-game skill that might help in crafting (ie fishing) would give us something to work on.


Question 2
What do you feel is the most difficult level range to play to date?

9-12 (1-8 seem pretty easy, 13’s and up can play with capped 16’s without loosing XP)


Question 3
What are 3 of your favorite things about DDO?

Differentiation in character builds, the combat mechanic, it’s D&D based.


Question 4
What are 3 things that are your favorite in gaming, but are not in DDO?

Having more to do while waiting for a group to form, changing the appearance of items (such as dying armor), large public questing areas (non-instanced).

[HumanJHawkins]

Question 1
What is a non-questing activity you would be interested in? For the purpose of this question, "non-questing activity" is defined as any fun activity you can do while you are waiting to form a group, between quests, not in the mood to run a quest, etc.

Question 2
What do you feel is the most difficult level range to play to date?

Question 3
What are 3 of your favorite things about DDO?

Question 4
What are 3 things that are your favorite in gaming, but are not in DDO?

1) Wilderness areas are great for this. But, they should be soloable by most classes at the level that nearby quests are set to... If I am trying to build a party for something, let me go out and kill stuff and loot a bit while I wait. (Even if I am on a tank)

2) The most difficult level range starts when you can't solo effectively (meaning it starts taking forever if you are solo), and ends when you are 5 levels away from Cap. In other words, currently level 8 through 11. This is because it is very hard to build parties unless you are within range of the very high population of capped players.

3) There's a lot to love. Recent quests have been rocking... The Shroud is great. I'm glad you abandoned the whole "everything undead" phase you were in. Also, I really love it that the difficulty of quests and areas is independant from the character... I like to be able to get in over my head... Or, to go kill easy stuff once in a while.

4) Having gear show up on your toon (as in Morrowind). Auto quest advancement (like if you forget to talk to someone, your quest advances anyway). Saving your game (or some portion of your progress) if you have to leave before a quest is fully complete.

[Missing_Minds]

1. An arena that I could select what my opponent is, their style of combat, and the landscape all so I could try out new weapons, attacks, spells, feats, etc. To see if I really liked them or not. Getting an arena like this setup would also help a LOT in debugging of stuff and proving if something is working as intended or not. Now I'll grant you, you have to be careful about what mobs you allow in there other wise you know players will go in there just to figure out their stats easier. Kudo's to you Cow for all that work you've done so far.

I'd also be interested in some actual animated bar games that could be played for coin and prizes. The whole text based games just scream back to high school and text based graphing calculator games used to pass the time in the middle of a teacher's lecture. You've done so much work to make the world wonderful and... bam. Text based game. ugh.

2. This answer is a slider. right now.. I'd say 5 and 11. Why? They are the current hump levels. Any level that has that "hump" mark is harder to play just because it is so much more difficult to level to get to "the good stuff."

3. How nice everything looks, fluidity of combat, voice chat

4. See the first one there in #3? I want the ability to change hair style and color of my character. Lip color, eye color, etc. Yes KATE I'm directly pointing this out at you. The "looks gamer" is the area that is keep getting neglected. I've got some great gear that is non raid but UGH.. its so freaking uggly, and my hairstyle IS SO DARN OLD!!! Change is good, we want to be able to change this stuff.
I would also like a dedicated trade channel. (I know you are pushing for one, hopefully this helps some, and we don't have one yet.)
and for the third one.... I would like a new quest in the game. The "Quest for Ham" and other tasty treats. As silly as it sounds, yes, I want to be able to have an easier method of farming for the ham and possibly cupcakes, candy canes, etc. than what we currently have. Put in a special vendor that only takes the festival coins and you run the quest to gain coin to turn them in at the end. This wouldn't overly effect festivus drop rates when it comes around again.
Actually.. it could make for a fun little event quest, much like demon invasion only a lot more light hearted. Reuse of an old quest say.. Guard Jung's badge quest would be appropriate of size as it were.

[Andora]

This week's question(s) are:

Question 1
What is a non-questing activity you would be interested in? For the purpose of this question, "non-questing activity" is defined as any fun activity you can do while you are waiting to form a group, between quests, not in the mood to run a quest, etc.

Tavern games would be good. I also have to second more Giant Caves type mini quests. No need to be uber complicated just down and dirty shorts that yield small xp and gold gains. Make them 10th level and up, and yes, about 20 per up date.

Question 2
What do you feel is the most difficult level range to play to date?

For me it is the 10th to 13th range. I seem to fly to 10th and then things slow down.

Question 3
What are 3 of your favorite things about DDO?

1. Combat

2. Multi-classing

3. My own private dungeon.

Question 4
What are 3 things that are your favorite in gaming, but are not in DDO?

I tend to play sandbox and strategy games. DDO has aspects of that. Off the top of my head I just can not come up with three.

[Alcides]

Question 1
What is a non-questing activity you would be interested in? For the purpose of this question, "non-questing activity" is defined as any fun activity you can do while you are waiting to form a group, between quests, not in the mood to run a quest, etc.

Question 2
What do you feel is the most difficult level range to play to date?
9-12, it's hard to get to 12 without using up precious XP from Gianthold.

Question 3
What are 3 of your favorite things about DDO?
Quests
Grouping
Variety

Question 4
What are 3 things that are your favorite in gaming, but are not in DDO?
Item Creation Feats
Divine Feats - Feats that use Turn Undead Attempts for some sort of bonus.
Paladin Spells from Spell Compendium

[barabel]

• Question 1: Crafting would be a nice diversion. Also, if you could build either an offline or seperate tool to help with character maintenance that would be great. I find I spend a lot of wasted time switching between characters figuring out who's got what. Time I could spend questing.
• Question 2: 8 - 11. There are usually a lot of options for level 7 and below. Once you hit 8 and until Gianthold, there isn't as much available.
• Question 3: Questing, Character planning, Active combat system.
• Question 4: Alignments that mean something to characters, non-linear solutions to quests, variety of locations to be explored.

[kailus]

Question 1
Crafting, resource gathering, selling

Question 2
8-11

Question 3
Loot, combat, D&D feel

Question 4
Crafting, resource gathering, global chat

[JayDubya]

Question 1
What is a non-questing activity you would be interested in?

• A decent PvP model that doesn't perpetually give sorcerers a "gimme" - maybe include anti-magic shells, traps, disable tab/F1 targetting and generally make it harder to maintain a lock on someone.
  
• A "danger" room where you can summon a monster(s) from a list and fight them
• A place to practice Asteroids, the tile room and iceberg-hopping
• Scavenger hunts that require you to find a bunch of special collectibles in out-of-the-way places (wilderness or non-combat areas) and times you against previous records.
  
  • Examples: on the roof above Kobold's Ringleader, on top of the pillar near the spire in the marketplace, etc
    
• Composing your own music using the LoTRO system and playing it in special areas
  
• Competitive Mastermind/Lights out/Portal Smacking/Random Tile Puzzle - compete against others on the same pattern
• Kolbong:
  • two people stand across a wide arena from each other. A kobold appears in the middle, and randomly heads towards one of the two. If that person hits the kobold and does damage, it turns, and runs off in the other direction, w/some random angular adjustment. The other person hits the kobold, etc. Each time it is hit, it goes a little faster, and it slowly gains DR. Eventually, it gets past one of the players, and the other player scores a point. Best 2 out of 3.
    

Question 2
What do you feel is the most difficult level range to play to date?

8 - 10

Question 3
What are 3 of your favorite things about DDO?

The awesome combat system
Incredibly rich spell selection
Getting to fight dozens of monsters at once
Instanced quests to reduce griefing

Question 4
What are 3 things that are your favorite in gaming, but are not in DDO?

Guild Housing (CoV)
Personal Customization (CoV)
Mutable World (A Tale in the Desert)

2c

[DasLurch]

This week's question(s) are:

Question 1
What is a non-questing activity you would be interested in? For the purpose of this question, "non-questing activity" is defined as any fun activity you can do while you are waiting to form a group, between quests, not in the mood to run a quest, etc.

I love toying around with the emotes. More of them is always a good thing in my opinion. I wish that there was a way to add balloons for some things that your characters say in the public channel.

Question 2
What do you feel is the most difficult level range to play to date?

I've always thought that levels 7 and 8 are the slowwest to proggress though. Now I'd say levels 8-10, because it is difficult to find groups that WANT to run the level appropriate content for those levels. Raise your hand if you've seen more than 1 threanal group up in the past 3 days. See my point?

Question 3
What are 3 of your favorite things about DDO?

1) I'll add another vote for the combat system here.
2) I like that there can be many different versions for each class of character. I just wish that some of these were a little more useful in more situations. Because of the diversity, it can make for differently powered builds, but there is a large gap in the usefulness of those diverse skill sets. Many of the social skills are weak, stealth is a strange ability that seems to work poorly in alot of situations, and some skills & feats have no use at all right now. That's a different rant though...
3) I like the favor system. It is a neat way to expierience some of the variety of the content availible that a player may miss while leveling while still getting some benefit out of it.

Question 4
What are 3 things that are your favorite in gaming, but are not in DDO?

1) I really enjoyed the character creation system that City of Heroes/Villians used. The body scaling was fantastic, and I would dearly like to see it implemented here. This would be a wondeful style of a creation system to add if it is even possible.
2) I like to see different kinds of dice. It would be neat to have a few (and only a few) more options for the appearance of the ones we have here.
3) More variety in the look of certain items? How about the ability to respec? More spells? More skins for armours? The screen that says "The End"? I'm not sure about a 3rd answer to be honest. No game can have everything, but this game is actually pretty good at what it does have. That does not mean that I am not wanting more, so get crackin' already!

[Kisaragi]

Question 1
What is a non-questing activity you would be interested in? For the purpose of this question, "non-questing activity" is defined as any fun activity you can do while you are waiting to form a group, between quests, not in the mood to run a quest, etc.
A.) Crafting or socially interacting with Npcs.

Question 2
What do you feel is the most difficult level range to play to date?
A.) There are 2 actually and I think they're about the same. 8 to 10 and 14+. Both are for much the same reasons. There isn't really good equipment readily available to feel comfortable within quests. You might run quests fifty times, and until you do get better equipment to kill rather quickly, or defend against a decent amount of attacks, quests feel hurried.

Question 3
What are 3 of your favorite things about DDO?
A.) Finger of Death, 'Cult' Hangouts and Places to Socialize, Unshared instances for looting/quests.


Question 4
What are 3 things that are your favorite in gaming, but are not in DDO?
A.) Making characters look feel how I want them to feel(IE. Clothing, Accessories, Size, Weight, Build.),having characters with interesting looking equipment(player colors/styles for weapons/armor), and non-combat type 'pets' to interact with {emotes/following you around town}(familiars, horses, intelligent items, or even magical beings bound to the caster)