King for a Day

[flynnjsw]

anything can be done with enough coordinated effort


Only with unlimited resources and people, of which you have neither.

I agree that the population would drop considerably, but there would be the core base of people who would accept the chalenge. Furthermore, I think it would create a lot of players with alts.

Furthermore, I think there enough benefit (imagine a party wipe as you enter a dungeon... it's like twice the treasure) and if you enter with your guild members that you trust, you can equip a character quite nicely.

And also remember: this eliminates any form of grind that you might encounter. If you have a group of 12 players that you know rock and you've grouped with them many many times, you can do a raid and everyone gets what they want. Hate grinding out ToD or HoX for gear? No more because you can do it once or twice, then you'd never have to do it again if you didn't want to. Hey, it'd also elliminate bad PUGgers too.

This idea rocks more and more as the lines go on

Ok, so what would be the replay value if you could do a quest once or twice and get all the gear you want? How long until the min-maxers figure out a formula to get "everything" in game within days? Where is the value then?

On top of that you want it all for free? just Wow

[Khanyth]

Ok, so what would be the replay value if you could do a quest once or twice and get all the gear you want? How long until the min-maxers figure out a formula to get "everything" in game within days? Where is the value then?

On top of that you want it all for free? just Wow

All it takes is 1 death to make you start over again... from scratch. One missed heal spell. One failed save. One moment of server lag or computer freeze up.

Maximum risk = maximum reward.

[flynnjsw]

All it takes is 1 death to make you start over again... from scratch. One missed heal spell. One failed save. One moment of server lag or computer freeze up.

Maximum risk = maximum reward.

Again, where is the replay value? Making people start over from scratch is not enough to make a large enough player base to keep the game alive.

[Khanyth]

More content. Much more content.

[kyleann]

If you were the owner of the DDO Universe for one day, you would tell the developers that they need to fix the game by (your answer here).

Remember, you only have one day. So, you'll need to put some thought to the process.

If I was the owner of the DDO Universe for a day, I would tell the developers that their paychecks are Coming Soon (tm) and all vacation time has been exploited and thusly has been banned. I would also let them know that their benefits are now directly tied to the immediate happiness of the players on the forums. If they ever want to retire, customer satisfaction must remain at a static 99.8%.

All DDO Store prices would be decreased by 10%, but the cost to purchase TP would go up 10%, thus negating what at first seemed like a good idea.

I would then have the forum devs tweet about Charlie Sheen's dilemmas because if they are going to respond to anyone it certainly shouldn't be the players when there is someone else so much more important. Winning.

Since this has all been carried out in about 2 hours of hectic mass-craziness, I would take a break while sitting on a throne created from as many interns as I can find.

I would then decree Turbine Tuesdays to be an International holiday where every subscriber gets out of work, however no one can log in to any server because there are too many people logging on at once. I would then giggle (in a creepy monotone) whilst pandemonium ensues.

I would bring back the cove without fixing a thing except I would move the tavern from the spot next to the boat to the furthest corner of smugglers rest (underwater) and only characters with a Underwater Action of Haggle item are allowed to barter with the barkeep. Dowsing rods would be made unsellable to any other vendor EXCEPT that bartender, who is replaced with the kobold foreman and so can only be spoken to by one person at a time in any given instance. Farm THAT beaches!

Assuming my newly-hired dominatrix Time Efficiency Coordinators are properly handling their cat-o-nines I should still have roughly 3 hours of my 24 left (its not easy to declare International MMO Holidays...). The next three hours would be spent recording new voice-overs for every NPC in the game. All NPC's heads would be changed to Kobold heads due to time constraints. ****-Deck Paolo now screams "Not in the Faaace!" on a loop as he runs frantically around the docks. Garrison now follows you through the New Ringleader looping through "I know I left it here somewheres", "I seem to remember 3 doors, 2 lefts, and a partridge in a pear tree", and "Dude, where's my pack".

For the final 15 minutes as God of DDO, I will likely be screaming in anguish as the staff revolts, ties me to a large stick and slowly roasts me over a spit. They then award all characters in game Overcooked Hide Armor to celebrate my demise.
The stats are as follows:
+7 Enhancement Bonus (because I'm just that tough)
-10 to Listen
True Seeing (but the ability takes the form of Xoriat Madness in the Delirium)
13 Recharging Charges of Level 25 Touch of Idiocy

The armor also has the hidden effect that upon wearing it you are now viewable to other players as a person with a mini beholder head.

All in a days work.

[Stormanne]

*Looks at thread from top to bottom*


hmmm, really? It hasn't happened yet?


I get to do it...FINALLY!!!

[Tom318]

1) Make everything quest ftp, no level restrictions, only difficulty levels are easy (hard currently) medium (elite currently) and hard (epic +2 levels currently) and no quest chains where you have to do things in order

2) Make all chests drop all options of named loot and tomes that there is, for that quest to reduce the grind of farming

3) If your character dies, they permadeath and lose everything. Including TR's, past lives, etc etc etc. But make XP really really really easy to come by a lot of. IE: one quest should boost you up 1 level and more if it's a harder quest to do (complete a gianthold quest on elite at say, level 9... will bump you up 3 levels) Dying to advance a quest (Shroud for example) does not count.

4) No raise dead spell.

5) Subsequent players into that dungeon can loot your corpse and take your stuff and $$$$, like looting a chest. But it's a free for all

6) No recalling out.... once you're in, you're in.

7) No soloing.... you need at least 4 players to do a quest and 10 to do a raid.


That's all I can think of right now

This would make them lose a ton of money. Also it would make some people seriously warp their priorities :P

[Memnir]

What would you do if we started seeing tons of lag in the game afterwards?

We wouldn't.
Lag didn't change one iota since DA went in. Any claims otherwise is only a justification for it's existence in the first place.

[blackdoguk]

I would then have the forum devs tweet about Charlie Sheen's dilemmas because if they are going to respond to anyone it certainly shouldn't be the players when there is someone else so much more important. Winning.

"They're trying to destroy my family. Defeat is not an option, they (CBS) picked a fight with a warlock"

Charlie Sheen on the new sorc prestige line.

To the OP - id take a magical scroll yielding rotating knob and turn it through about 45 degrees

[Ganolyn]

If you were the owner of the DDO Universe for one day, you would tell the developers that they need to fix the game by...

Kicking all you bums off of my servers and leaving all your lootz lying in nice neat piles where you were standing. A day would be just about enough to collect it all.

[Chai]

I would be Pie King.

But I can do that regardless of hypothetical case scenarios.

[Memnir]

I would be Pie King.

But I can do that regardless of hypothetical case scenarios.

Hail, your Majesty!
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[~jradnut]

I have have lawyer NPC's added that greet you at the end of each quest/raid to serve notice of lawsuits on the behalf of dungeon dwellers over CR (creature rights) violations.

Damages in the amount of 125% of calculated loot taken in addition to punitive damages to be determined by a jury of 5 Elder Beholders.

Should get the economy back on track in no time, :P

[~jradnut]

"They're trying to destroy my family. Defeat is not an option, they (CBS) picked a fight with a warlock"

Charlie Sheen on the new sorc prestige line.

Dont forget the tiger blood and adonis DNA, :P.

[donfilibuster]

What would you do if we started seeing tons of lag in the game afterwards?

Maybe code a proper AI response to the zerging, like not just making each monster chase you on the first place.
Plenty of ideas in-code that aren't mechanic changing or mere tweaks.

Same goes for the doublestrike, where the fix was good but the implentation could have been done better.
(e.g. the fix was to skip calculations, but could have been done over the existing order of attacks)

Both are things where a tweak that changed game mechanics was easier/cheaper/faster than actual work involving improving how the combat is handled internally.
That we now live with it doesn't make it less of a frown. Kobold remember waterworks!

[Phidius]

I'd tell them to add a DM feature, whereby they could take control of any NPC character in the game and control its behavior personally.

And then log on and spice all of your Shrouds/VoDs/ToDs/Hounds up

General: Arraetrikos: I see you only brought one healer this time... interesting!
General: Arraetrikos: Oh, and Tolero says hi...
Party: OMFG!!!11one!

[Chai]

I'd tell them to add a DM feature, whereby they could take control of any NPC character in the game and control its behavior personally.

And then log on and spice all of your Shrouds/VoDs/ToDs/Hounds up

General: Arraetrikos: I see you only brought one healer this time... interesting!
General: Arraetrikos: Oh, and Tolero says hi...
Party: OMFG!!!11one!

Give Harry an eSOS, make his attack rate the same as the players, with a str of about 80, then have him start using it about 10 seconds into round 1.

[Phidius]

Give Harry an eSOS, make his attack rate the same as the players, with a str of about 80, then have him start using it about 10 seconds into round 1.

And add some comments about making deals with Velah

[Robai]

Make a F2p quest with a thousand beholders (not too high CR, but rapidly respawning, especially in the heavily trapped room with 3 big chests, having some good loot, like dropping Ioun stones with 1% probability in each chest).

[newroticslob]

If I was the owner of the DDO Universe for a day, I would tell the developers that their paychecks are Coming Soon (tm) and all vacation time has been exploited and thusly has been banned. I would also let them know that their benefits are now directly tied to the immediate happiness of the players on the forums. If they ever want to retire, customer satisfaction must remain at a static 99.8%.

All DDO Store prices would be decreased by 10%, but the cost to purchase TP would go up 10%, thus negating what at first seemed like a good idea.

I would then have the forum devs tweet about Charlie Sheen's dilemmas because if they are going to respond to anyone it certainly shouldn't be the players when there is someone else so much more important. Winning.

Since this has all been carried out in about 2 hours of hectic mass-craziness, I would take a break while sitting on a throne created from as many interns as I can find.

I would then decree Turbine Tuesdays to be an International holiday where every subscriber gets out of work, however no one can log in to any server because there are too many people logging on at once. I would then giggle (in a creepy monotone) whilst pandemonium ensues.

I would bring back the cove without fixing a thing except I would move the tavern from the spot next to the boat to the furthest corner of smugglers rest (underwater) and only characters with a Underwater Action of Haggle item are allowed to barter with the barkeep. Dowsing rods would be made unsellable to any other vendor EXCEPT that bartender, who is replaced with the kobold foreman and so can only be spoken to by one person at a time in any given instance. Farm THAT beaches!

Assuming my newly-hired dominatrix Time Efficiency Coordinators are properly handling their cat-o-nines I should still have roughly 3 hours of my 24 left (its not easy to declare International MMO Holidays...). The next three hours would be spent recording new voice-overs for every NPC in the game. All NPC's heads would be changed to Kobold heads due to time constraints. ****-Deck Paolo now screams "Not in the Faaace!" on a loop as he runs frantically around the docks. Garrison now follows you through the New Ringleader looping through "I know I left it here somewheres", "I seem to remember 3 doors, 2 lefts, and a partridge in a pear tree", and "Dude, where's my pack".

For the final 15 minutes as God of DDO, I will likely be screaming in anguish as the staff revolts, ties me to a large stick and slowly roasts me over a spit. They then award all characters in game Overcooked Hide Armor to celebrate my demise.
The stats are as follows:
+7 Enhancement Bonus (because I'm just that tough)
-10 to Listen
True Seeing (but the ability takes the form of Xoriat Madness in the Delirium)
13 Recharging Charges of Level 25 Touch of Idiocy

The armor also has the hidden effect that upon wearing it you are now viewable to other players as a person with a mini beholder head.

All in a days work.

But what's on the menu? You've gotta eat! And are you willing to help Arlos?

And I think they'll need some eTP absorption +10 to wipe the tears and noses for the loss of their King.