DDO Producer's Letter - September 2016

[Devidar]

I've wanted to play a Kobold sooo bad ever since I found Deekin! They're so cool!

[koluka]

Wow that's a lot!!!

Most sounds really great. Keen to see monk changes go in. Someone I know is eagerly waiting... anticipating...

Echoing others re bank changes... not so keen to seen character bank changes. I like having a bank I can sort as I wish.

[Micki]

My understanding is the transfer system itself doesn't have a check on it, but you could log into the world and attempt to create a character with the name if it's a concern. Of course you'll then want to delete the character prior to transferring.

Yet easier and faster would be to enter the world and attempt to add that name to your friends list? If the character doesn't exist, the game will tell you the character can't be added?

Your suggestion is of course more sure, but takes more time.

[LrdSlvrhnd]

~Character Bank Storage: We’re working to take the user interface used for your Shared Account Bank and Crafting Storage and bring it to your personal character bank. Besides an improved look and functionality, this change will allow us to offer additional character bank storage space in the future.

I was doing a lot of YAYing reading this letter. But this really had me jumping for joy. And then I thought about it, and thought about it some more, and now I'm of two minds.

I like being able to arrange things by tab (makes it easier to see what I've grabbed for, say, weapons when I level up)... but being able to search and eventually get MOAR BANK will be awesome. And I hate the pagination of the shared bank (and *really* hate it in the crafting bank)... and there's nothing to offset that.

What I'd *really* love is to have it more like the Inventory, with tabs for different types of items and sorting. Can we have it more like that, please? I don't even mind losing the "paper doll" page with all the different inventory tabs, I'd be extremely happy with the "scroll" page where you can search and sort and just look for weapons or clothing or whatnot. (And speaking of sorting, Sort by ML would be a nice option...)

For the crafting storage, I'd love tabs down the side - Augments, Collectibles Used in Cannith Crafting, Crystal Cove (or just Festivals in general), Cannith Challenges, Eveningstar Challenges (or maybe just Challenges), etc. So when I'm looking for, say, ToD boot ings and I'm totally blanking on the fourth one, I can narrow it down a bit. (Actually, it'd be good just to have it be more like how the Collectibles bags do it, I'd be very happy with that...)

The other thing I'd really, really, really, REALLY like is to have the TR cache "divorced" from the bank. Now, I'm not asking you to actually make any changes (although lots of changes there would be really nice), just... not have it auto-open every time you open the bank. I lock up for several seconds every time I do that. And then I realized I forgot to put something in the shared bank and have to do it again. And then I remember the Item of Awesomeness that I'd looted on another character for this one and have to open it up *again* to take it out. I don't need to check out the cache EVERY time I open the bank. I would just like the banker to have three options. Open the bank, open then TR cache, and close window.

[JeisonBlade]

looking forward to a nice clean banking system, been wanting that a looonnggg time, my OCD hates three different style inventory panels lol. having access to sorting funtions will make my life easier

[LrdSlvrhnd]

For world transfers, to be honest I've never really understood the thinking behind the service. Who in their right mind would transfer one character?! I could see maybe 2000 TP to transfer your entire account, but just one character? Makes zero sense to me. (And to clarify: Only having one character also makes zero sense to me.)

Oh, I dunno about this. I have one character on a server I no longer play on, who I'd cheerfully transfer to my main server... but I don't really have anybody else on that server I care enough about to bother. I just played in a static group over there for a while, one night a week, so I really only had the one character. I really liked this one character (who had some randgen loot with affixes that no longer drop... although it's mainly his weapon of pure awesomeness which... would likely be woefully obsolete now...) and would love to play him again, and if this was a reasonable price I'd totally transfer just him and nobody else.

[Gremmlynn]

Uh....Isn't Mystra dead in the DDO timeline?

Isn't that why Anna is the Thread of the Weave?

I got the impression that Anna is Mystra reborn.

[EllisDee37]

Oh, I dunno about this. I have one character on a server I no longer play on, who I'd cheerfully transfer to my main server... but I don't really have anybody else on that server I care enough about to bother. I just played in a static group over there for a while, one night a week, so I really only had the one character. I really liked this one character (who had some randgen loot with affixes that no longer drop... although it's mainly his weapon of pure awesomeness which... would likely be woefully obsolete now...) and would love to play him again, and if this was a reasonable price I'd totally transfer just him and nobody else.

Oh I totally get that; I have lots of disposable characters littering every server.

I was envisioning something like: For 2000 TP, you can freely transfer whatever characters you choose to any other server for the next [period of time]. An hour? A day? Whatever; some reasonable amount of time that would ensure you could make all the transfers you wanted.

As an example, let's say I log on to Argo (my home server), then buy a server transfer in the store. Now I decide to send all my main alts to Sarlona, and my challenge farmers to Thelanis. Done and done. (Not that I would actually ever do this; I'd send everyone to the same server. Just an illustration.)

[databass]

Tabs in character bank nameable for better organization.
Increase (double) maximum amount of character bank space (TP purchasable is fine).
Ability to move items around within the TR cache itself, to allow for organization by item type, min. level, etc. and/or a search field by item type, level, etc. for TR cache.
Have items return to their original spot in inventory when used (a position lock down feature).

[Jelstorkan]

~Character Bank Storage: We’re working to take the user interface used for your Shared Account Bank and Crafting Storage and bring it to your personal character bank. Besides an improved look and functionality, this change will allow us to offer additional character bank storage space in the future.

I would rather see character storage reduced and Shared bank space increased and all characters being able to access it wherever, also categorisation to be able to list types of weapons, gear or level etc. The current system is a nightmare, I seem to spend lots of time searching for gear. with 25 toons not surprising but revamp long overdue.

[Gralhota]

Another useless year for Wizards, maybe in 2018.

Going to three years of waiting.

[SpritesDaddyo]

+1 on the Questing Hub feature...this speaks directly to me as I leave the game for a year or two then come back to (what appears to me) major changes...and all I wanna do is find the new dungeons!

Funny...way back then, when we only had a handful of slots in our Inv I couldn't wait for more space....now I see a dozen tabs with tons of 'stuff'!:
--As earlier posts noted: more space WITH a solid way to manage/sort/search your slots will be key.

...DDO has been around for over 10 years (??!!).

[Sam-u-r-eye]

So there are no new LE raids or quest series on the docket for this year? This is very saddening.

ya apparently they want a subsection of the population to take a break or find another game?
not even a mention? Sev you there mate?

[Redgob]

While it would be nice to have more character bank storage, I'd rather keep what we have than have it replaced with the current shared bank interface. I use the tabs to sort my stuff. Yes, I can search for items in the shared bank interface, but I can only search by name. That doesn't help me when I pull things out of my TR cache and store them in my character bank by ML so that they're easier to find when I level up. It also doesn't help if I'm working through a few epic past lives and store my level 26 gear set in one tab so that it's really easy to swap gear when I hit level 26. It also doesn't allow me to put certain "important" items in the first tab so that I always see them when I open the bank. It also doesn't allow me to put items that I'll no longer use this life on a separate tab so that I don't have to bother looking through them when I'm searching for something.

+1000

This is not going to end well if you remove the only way of sorting the items except main inventory (manually, by level etc.). Personally I have only about 60 free slots in my shared bank and not planning to ever get more because the interface is painfully slow (next page... sleep... next page... sleep...) and useless (no way to change order in any sane way).

[Sam-u-r-eye]

Since this procedure won't involve a human resource anymore - will it be cheaper ?

If they made it free, it would solve server population issues. People could just organize on server by level. 1-9 Cannith. 10-14 Khyber. 15-19 Thelanis. 20-27 Ghallanda. 28-30 Sarlona. Lvl30 farming server Wayfinder.

As someone else mentioned the only issues are with Guild, Store, and Ships; however, if you transfer around for a TR and then transfer back when you're done it wouldn't be a big deal. As long as they keep the price down I will probably do this just to check out the other servers.

$25 is too much, and the way in which it occurs is often a burden.

[thanytos]

[QUOTE=Severlin;5874491]I hope you've been enjoying Against the Slave Lords, checking out our new Cannith Crafting update, and helping us celebrate a decade of DDO! I'm writing today to talk about our plans for the rest of the year and beyond.


~ Deity feats: We’ll be adding new Deities that players can follow, and new feats that can be unlocked by players who find favor with their deity of choice.

~ I think someone is secretly listening or grouping with players...I swear I was just talking about this last week with someone

[Rys]

If they made it free, it would solve server population issues. People could just organize on server by level. 1-9 Cannith. 10-14 Khyber. 15-19 Thelanis. 20-27 Ghallanda. 28-30 Sarlona. Lvl30 farming server Wayfinder.

And the rebels will stay on Argo and Orien...

[Sam-u-r-eye]

And the rebels will stay on Argo and Orien...

lol

[maddong]

So excluding special event restrings that in my mind don't count as quests we will have only had 7 quests this year in all updates? We used to get 7 quests in a single update....

I think you need to focus more on giving us something to do....

More quests, all level 32+.

Change all raids to level 31-34 with legendary versions of the eq.

Dragonborn doesn't excite me when we have human/PDK (extra feat and damage boost), elf (arcane archer), and bladeforged (reconstruct).

[Hafeal]