DM Tools in the future of DDO!?

[Kreedo]

What if for user created dungeons, we allow the character who made the dungeon to supply his own loot from his character's inventory (or chest inventory).

And have a rumors (partially factual list) of potential loots available in created dungeon to entice exploring the dungeon.

This could keep the loot system from being abused by only having standard(player-found and looted) treasures in user-created dungeons.

The incentive to make dungeons could be called DM favor and give whatever good bonuses the devs see fit. Just an idea.

Building on that idea if there is a super popular user created dungeon: have the DM hire WF artificers to create loot for his dungeons(like Santa's elves) by using a essence stockpile and mat stockpile supplied by the aspiring DM. I know it sounds a bit goofy, but by doing a user crafted loot supply, then the DDO economy perhaps could be saved in the event of user created dungeons.

[Uska]

I think it be a huge can of worms and create more problems than useable content to many issues in verifying content and take dev time from making content we could actuallly use a nice idea in theory but in reality no

[DawnofEntropy]

Holy Necro for third time Batman!

[spyyder976]

I suggested making the tool have no limits but you don't get XP for custom dungeons and your inventory and gold is changed back after the dungeon (the toon comes out exactly how the toon went in, no changes are kept). However, players can show off customized named gear they created in the custom dungeon hub (still "drops on leaving area"). Having no limit to dungeon creation but not making any changes to the character afterwards keeps the game fair.

That is absolutely ridiculous; nobody would play any dungeons if they got absolutely no rewards for them. I think the best idea has already been stated, just general loot and general xp. But further still, you could add a token system like is in COH/COV, or just call it DM XP, and use this currency to buy extra stuff to add to your dungeons, such as different sized/shaped rooms, new monsters, new features, new decorations, whatever. Let players grind player made dungeons to earn the right to make their own dungeons better and better by collecting this DM XP or DM tokens; of course you should also earn some of this when players play your dungeons also. Also you could have a shop of stuff available to players for character rewards of some kind, bought with tokens or whatever currency is used, earned only from user-created dungeons. Even better still, make some of these extra dungeon features premium, and only available from the DDO Store to generate more revenue!

So far Cryptic has put a similar system in alot of their games (COH, STO, the new Neverwinter Online), and while everyone loves to hate Cryptic, I actually like their implementation of user-created content, as do the tons of players who love making their own quests and storylines and playing so many different quests made by others. I think that we will eventually get it here too, since that's not the first time it's been mentioned or suggested; we've been begging for it for years. Maybe this time getting something last may be a good thing since Turbine can see how other people do it and what works and what doesn't and build their own system to be better than all the rest, as long as they don't wait too long!

[spyyder976]

For the few that didn't notice,

It's a Thread Raised from the Dead :
07-30-2010 11:21 PM Symar-FangofLloth
08-21-2011 05:16 AM dandykong

ibtl and all, as that's how it's going to end anyway.
( and really you think we are going to be able to create our own dungeons when we have been waiting for the promised Druids for 5 years )

yes, we will one day; this game isn't going anywhere, and we'll get our druids Soon too!

and FYI, this has been discussed MANY times LONG before those two threads you mentioned above! Those threads were actually resurrecting our original discussions on the subject!