Guild Owned Dungeons

[Joseph_Korczakowski]

The way I see this game is that one of its major shortcomings is that there's no competitive gameplay. I'm not suggesting PVP because I've come to the determination that this game's class system doesn't support a balanced PVP environment. However I think a realistic idea would be for a guild to make its own sort of dungeon filled with all sorts of hired AI henchmen and traps so that parties of other guilds can attempt to smash through it. The higher the level of the enemy guild, the greater XP rewards will be in store for either the winning players or their own guild's level. This idea would allow a sort of indirect PVP competitive arena.

Another point to add is that the dungeons available to man should simply be based on the existing dungeons in the game. For example your guild dungeon may simply be the Nash's Farm layout, but instead of hobgoblins it can be filled with monsters like say undead or trolls and may have exploding traps placed in unsuspecting areas and the boss could be replaced with something more menacing like a Giant or a Dragon.

I'm not saying anything is wrong with this game, but I've just seen compelling evidence to support the fact that a game with PVP or other competitive means keeps players busy almost indefinitely while a game with only quests allows someone to simply say "well I beat em all so there's nothing left to do". And having a sort of competitive arena takes stress off a company who is constantly being asked to make more and more new quests due to the fact people will start leaving because there's nothing else to do.

That's just me two cents though. I'm happy to hear whatever constructive criticism you can offer to my theory.

[Trillea]

The way I see this game is that one of its major shortcomings is that there's no competitive gameplay. I'm not suggesting PVP because I've come to the determination that this game's class system doesn't support a balanced PVP environment. However I think a realistic idea would be for a guild to make its own sort of dungeon filled with all sorts of hired AI henchmen and traps so that parties of other guilds can attempt to smash through it. The higher the level of the enemy guild, the greater XP rewards will be in store for either the winning players or their own guild's level. This idea would allow a sort of indirect PVP competitive arena.

Another point to add is that the dungeons available to man should simply be based on the existing dungeons in the game. For example your guild dungeon may simply be the Nash's Farm layout, but instead of hobgoblins it can be filled with monsters like say undead or trolls and may have exploding traps placed in unsuspecting areas and the boss could be replaced with something more menacing like a Giant or a Dragon.

I'm not saying anything is wrong with this game, but I've just seen compelling evidence to support the fact that a game with PVP or other competitive means keeps players busy almost indefinitely while a game with only quests allows someone to simply say "well I beat em all so there's nothing left to do". And having a sort of competitive arena takes stress off a company who is constantly being asked to make more and more new quests due to the fact people will start leaving because there's nothing else to do.

That's just me two cents though. I'm happy to hear whatever constructive criticism you can offer to my theory.

No thank you. DDO should not have this kind of competitive gameplay, there are plenty of other games that do and I do not want DDO infested with it.

[Joseph_Korczakowski]

No thank you. DDO should not have this kind of competitive gameplay, there are plenty of other games that do and I do not want DDO infested with it.

That's a pretty vague argument, but I respect your opinion.

[Uska]

The way I see this game is that one of its major shortcomings is that there's no competitive gameplay. I'm not suggesting PVP because I've come to the determination that this game's class system doesn't support a balanced PVP environment. However I think a realistic idea would be for a guild to make its own sort of dungeon filled with all sorts of hired AI henchmen and traps so that parties of other guilds can attempt to smash through it. The higher the level of the enemy guild, the greater XP rewards will be in store for either the winning players or their own guild's level. This idea would allow a sort of indirect PVP competitive arena.

Another point to add is that the dungeons available to man should simply be based on the existing dungeons in the game. For example your guild dungeon may simply be the Nash's Farm layout, but instead of hobgoblins it can be filled with monsters like say undead or trolls and may have exploding traps placed in unsuspecting areas and the boss could be replaced with something more menacing like a Giant or a Dragon.

I'm not saying anything is wrong with this game, but I've just seen compelling evidence to support the fact that a game with PVP or other competitive means keeps players busy almost indefinitely while a game with only quests allows someone to simply say "well I beat em all so there's nothing left to do". And having a sort of competitive arena takes stress off a company who is constantly being asked to make more and more new quests due to the fact people will start leaving because there's nothing else to do.

That's just me two cents though. I'm happy to hear whatever constructive criticism you can offer to my theory.

Some interesting ideas but I can't see how any of it would be feasible with Turbine's current staffing, on the pvp issue though some of us came to this game because it didn''t have pvp and weren't happy when they added what pvp there is now. I have been here over 8 years now and I can count the times I have pvp'd on one hand. Now in other games I have pvp'd quite a bit but I only really like pvp in games designed for it from the start it just doesn't work well here. Some kind of dungeon completion might have been good to add but I think it would take to much work and be of to little benefit to do now.