On player consolidation

[the_one_dwarfforged]

grouping should be incentivized by giving people what they want: xp.

xp bonus for party members other than yourself already exists in game, just needs to be permanent and magnitude increased to make it worthwhile to sometimes wait for a group to fill or to have 5 randoms who die constantly and dont actually help complete the quest.

15-20% xp bonus per person seem like itd encourage grouping pretty handily.

[mikarddo]

grouping should be incentivized by giving people what they want: xp.

xp bonus for party members other than yourself already exists in game, just needs to be permanent and magnitude increased to make it worthwhile to sometimes wait for a group to fill or to have 5 randoms who die constantly and dont actually help complete the quest.

15-20% xp bonus per person seem like itd encourage grouping pretty handily.

Assuming the bonus is to the base and not multiplicative that would be fine. Nothing too overpowered on the TR train thats already at 400% but very useful for repeated runs without the benifit of first time bonussed.

It should be noted though that this does not offer the flexibility that supporting having alts would so it only solves part of the issue - but its still a reasonable measure to consider.

[Thrudh]

I have 28 alts and feel very efficient.

You're not efficient. You might have convinced me with 5 alts, maybe even 10 alts, but 28 alts? 1 day a month per character.

[Ralmeth]

I think there are multiple issues in DDO that prevent people from grouping, when they feel inclined to group up. The issue is that there are too many systems in place that limit what quests you might want to run.

• Bravery Bonus
• Favor
• XP penalties from not being at the optimal level of the quest
• Etc.

As the developers think about their plans for the upcoming year, I hope one of the things they decide to work on is a serious review of all of these systems, to see what would make sense to update in order tear down the walls of limiting what quests people want to run. I won't rehash these yet again, because that's already been done, but in an ideal world we should be able to look at the LFM panel and want to run in any quest on the LFM panel within a particular level range.