Targeted XP bonus days

[stoerm]

Premise:
The game is getting new quests, but the player population is not growing proportionally. This results in trouble finding groups for particular quests or level ranges as the playerbase is stretched out thinner over an ever growing selection of quests.

Solution:
Recruiting new players out of thin air and removing or disabling old quest packs are out of the question. A better solution is to offer a carrot to focus the players on a narrower range of quests. This can be done by offering an XP bonus to specific quests, for example by adventure pack, level range or favor. We don't want to distract players when a new pack is out, so the bonus would be offered towards the end of each update cycle.

Example:
In the weeks leading up to the release of u17, there would be one week of 20% XP bonus on Silver Flame quests, another bonus week for House Kundarak quests, and a third bonus week for Restless Isles quests. Bonuses could be mixed together ofcourse, or tied in with calendar events (Silver Flame bonus during Halloween) or game events (bonus to u16 quests just before releasing u17).

[shadereaper33]

Or they could just go through and re-evaluate the xp rewards on older content that isn't run as often. There is a lot of content, especially in the 16-20 range, that really deserves to have an xp boost.

[psykopeta]

Or they could just go through and re-evaluate the xp rewards on older content that isn't run as often. There is a lot of content, especially in the 16-20 range, that really deserves to have an xp boost.

i get my last 700k xp w/o stepping in amrath, reaver, cannith, new packs, etc

i prefer squeezing vale quests and iq 1/2, cause they're more pug friendly and... well, most quests in vale give u more xp in their 3rd run than cannith's on the first one

but the % of most skipped quests i have are for... restless, 3bc and sharn

only did 1 time 3bc and sharn, and wasn't for the xp lol

[Bacab]

3BC is good xp for a couple quests...
But its at a level where XP is not really that needed.

I am all for increasing XP for certain quests/chains.

[EbbOnFire]

Had a discussion a bit along these lines a few months ago:

http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=387942

Although I also like the idea of putting the bonus up for all quests for a particular Patron, since that lets a broader level range of characters jump on the bandwagon.



Although I'm in favor of bumping up the XP on those quests which are woefully undercompensated, that wouldn't help the problem the OP is trying to solve here; it would only spread the pool of players around an even broader range of quests. If you want to concentrate players in order to make PUGging easier, then you need some way to focus their attention, not to spread it around more widely.

[CaptainSpacePony]

As EoF said, this was brought up not too long ago. I enthusiastically supported then and still do.

Make it so!

[countfitz]

While this was suggested less than a month ago...

/signed again

It was a good idea then and a good idea now!