Make the game more fun

[lhidda]

You might ask how can the game even get more fun?

Remove the annoying stuff. e.g:

*ship buffs: We all waited half an hour or even longer for the raid to start. After steppin in you notice that also your ship buffs are gone for the same amount. Activate timer in the quest, not in town/on ship. Or better, make them persistent until you die. Its a motivition for people not to die, will improve the gameplay of some people i guess.

*ship buffs 2: Make your ship available to other persons even if NOBODY is on the ship. I dont care how its implemented, and if it is possible. It is just annoying if you need to get on your ship for each invite, especially if you are in a small guild. The chance that someone is on the ship is too low.

Update 1:
*switching between toons: multiple switching between toons decreases the performance of the game. after lets say 5-8 character switches, you need to restart the client. this is often refered to be a memory leak effect. many people suffer from this issue. it is annoying, remove/fix it. Its especially annoying if you got several maxed toons, and you switch often to get the right character for a raid. Each switch decreases performance, restarting client often takes too much time to get into the raid.

Thanks for listening

[Vormaerin]

Funny.. if you asked me how to make that situation more fun, I'd've said "get rid of the stupid shipbuffs and make players actually use their characters' gear and abilities for all that stuff."

Its not like folks lack in power...

[ZeebaNeighba]

Yeah...make ship buffs last 6 hours like guild augments, and be able to do them at least somewhat quickly (hopefully at some point I can get them all in one click) and unlike current guild augments, and like current ship buffs, you obviously don't have to wait for the time to expire to refresh them (and change guild augments to work this way too, it's annoying having 15 minutes left on them so I can't really wait for them to run out, but they'll definitely run out in the middle of the quest). Also making them start in quests only won't help everything, like the runs to MA, LOB, HOX, and maybe VOD a little, they're kinda long and can take 20+ minutes. HOX it obviously doesn't matter much since the raid itself should take only about 10 minutes or less, but the others drag on forever.

[Memnir]

I love/hate the Guild Buff-Barge mechanism in DDO. While it's great for a guild to have their own little slice of the game that they can call their own and do some limited customization to their desires - I just wish that there were a more compelling reason to have a shared guild space in this game then bouncing from shrine-to-NPC-to-shrine as fast as possible between quests.

I'm not sure how much changing or enhancing the buff boats would make the game more fun or not, however.

[briannaberry]

I would like to have a gambling table on my high lvl ship. I would invite other people onto my ship to have gambling parties, and the money would go to the winner! House takes a cut of course.

[Urist]

Ship buffs for everyone!
Wait, scratch that. Ship buffs for no-one.
That can be just as much of a fun time, if you don't need ship buffs, true?

[susiedupfer]

Give them longer duration. Make the ship accessible when no one is on board.

Also-could we please get some kind of buff from the hot tub? Good Hope or something new like Relaxed Muscles- +2 to reflex saves, perhaps?

[slugstone]

where is the easy button

[Ausdoerrt]

As an alternative, you could also make guild buffs persistent, but cut their power (at least) in half. Much better in terms of utility, and not too unbalanced. Saw this system in another MMO I've played recently.

I guess you couldn't really invite other people that way, though. Not sure how to make that work.

[carll78]

switching between toons: multiple switching between toons decreases the performance of the game. [...] Its especially annoying if you got several maxed toons, and you switch often to get the right character for a raid. Each switch decreases performance, restarting client often takes too much time to get into the raid.

I never have to log on a toon to see if a certain raid timer is over anymore:
http://myddo.laferteconsulting.com/check_timer.php

[Narmolanya]

Why not have the duration of the ship buffs dependent on the guild level. The higher the guild the longer the buffs last. It would give a reason to grind out levels over 70 other than epeen.

Agreed with the get rid of invite only when someone is on the ship mechanic.

[FranOhmsford]

You might ask how can the game even get more fun?

Remove the annoying stuff. e.g:

*ship buffs: We all waited half an hour or even longer for the raid to start. After steppin in you notice that also your ship buffs are gone for the same amount. Activate timer in the quest, not in town/on ship. Or better, make them persistent until you die. Its a motivition for people not to die, will improve the gameplay of some people i guess.

As others have said - A 6 hr timer would be a better choice - Allow people to buff up then go do quests without worrying {So long as they don't die that is} and pls no-one complain if after Shroud people ask if they can reget buffs.

*ship buffs 2: Make your ship available to other persons even if NOBODY is on the ship. I dont care how its implemented, and if it is possible. It is just annoying if you need to get on your ship for each invite, especially if you are in a small guild. The chance that someone is on the ship is too low.

If point 1 was implemented this wouldn't be needed at all - I agree though - It's disappointing to be unable to offer ship buffs because I'm standing in Meridia when people ask. Not that they'd want my buffs anyway - Only Lvl 43 atm.

Update 1:
*switching between toons: multiple switching between toons decreases the performance of the game. after lets say 5-8 character switches, you need to restart the client. this is often refered to be a memory leak effect. many people suffer from this issue. it is annoying, remove/fix it. Its especially annoying if you got several maxed toons, and you switch often to get the right character for a raid. Each switch decreases performance, restarting client often takes too much time to get into the raid.

Lucky you - I'm now rebooting DDO after just 2 alts max unless I'm just checking mail - Even then I reboot after 4 otherwise My loading screens just get ridiculously long - Oh and still DCing upon entering Sands 50% of the time.

Thanks for listening

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[Cendaer]

Just remove the airship buffs altogether.

They're a source of contention between players, and the game played just fine without them.

Getting tired of people behaving as if the game is unplayable without airship buffs.

Bunchapansies.

[Jay203]

Funny.. if you asked me how to make that situation more fun, I'd've said "get rid of the stupid shipbuffs and make players actually use their characters' gear and abilities for all that stuff."

Its not like folks lack in power...

this...

[Galeria]

I would like to have a gambling table on my high lvl ship. I would invite other people onto my ship to have gambling parties, and the money would go to the winner! House takes a cut of course.

I really like this idea.