Suggested new VIP benefits

[fatherpirate]

As said this is where anyone can suggest possible
additional VIP benefits.

Realistic or insane ... sure go for it.


My suggestion for a VIP benefit.
Have a new Universal Enhancement Tree added that only VIPS
can use ... if you drop VIP you still benefit from any items/skills you
invested in that tree, you just can no longer spend more points in
it until you activate VIP again. You can also clear the tree to get
your points back for a small fee (like any of the other ones).

What is in the tree? no idea ... but am sure SSG could come up with something.

another possible VIP benefit could be to allow VIPS to use up to
2 regular hirelings at any one time instead of just one.
(assuming you have the room)

I in no way consider those 2 suggestions linked or anything,
just a couple of ideas.

OK, your turn folks. What would you consider a possible
good added benefit to a VIP subscription.

[Wahnsinnig]

Bank and mail anywhere.

[BlueLiger]

Not that I am a VIP.

+1 to racial, enhancement and epic destiny tree points, but if you expire VIP status you lose the point for each tree/reset the trees so you have to re spend your points.

1 Free Gold Rolls every day (permanently not just till the end of the year)

Continual 10% discount on DDO store and website store that stacks with sales.

Ability to start character in whatever public zone/safe load spot they choose from character select screen (e.g. can choose to load into Blood on the Vine Inn, or Feywild Castle or Saltmarsh Inn etc..

Yearly +20 heart of wood BTA

[J1NG]

Weekly Augment Toolkit vendor (x7)
Weekly Sentient Toolkit vendor (x3)

Toolkits last for 1 hour upon being claimed before expiring.

This should allow (VIP) players to more readily swap augments and sentient gear around more easily without needing to invest them into one gear and just leave it there.

J1NG

[Baahb3]

Weekly Augment Toolkit vendor (x7)
Weekly Sentient Toolkit vendor (x3)

Toolkits last for 1 hour upon being claimed before expiring.

This should allow (VIP) players to more readily swap augments and sentient gear around more easily without needing to invest them into one gear and just leave it there.

J1NG

This is an awesome idea.

Besides this and thinking big, what about free Lesser Reincarnations for VIPs. No +'s just regular Lesser Reincarnates.

[Enoach]

Cosmetic Storage Closet - Bonus points if it looks like Costumous from Fashion Madness

[Wizard1406]

I'd like to see some quality of life:

- VIP area. With bank, auctioneer, mailbox, stone of change, epic crafting altar, tavern, vendor, scroll & potion vendors, broker, airship portal all in close distance. Reachable by SLA feat to save an item spot

- More than 20 slots on the ASAH. I found those not nearly enough, I have >50 auctions constantly.

- Quest acquistion and maybe even teleport to entrance from Quest Journal

[Dalnarac]

Cordovan recently streamed and flaunted god mode. In the process, he went from being very tall to very tiny. This tells me it is possible to adjust character height.

How about VIPs get to adjust character height on character creation and reincarnates? Nothing crazy but maybe a foot in either direction. This would add VIP content and flavor but not give an advantage over other players.

Or, change from 600 ddo points per month to 1000 ddo points per month. Making VIP more financially worth it, meanwhile DDO gets the reliable monthly fee.

[FixBows]

What Dalnarac said (we have been discussing). How about the ability to change your character size (height) when creating / reincarnating? This would enable people to play other races besides the shorter ones when using ranged due to the issue with taller characters and IPS. Obviously, within reason, but maybe a shorter elf or Aasimar would enable more choices for folks. More choices make the game better for everyone.

[archest]

VIP should have access to all content . including expansions.

[cdbd3rd]

Bank and mail anywhere.

Expanding on this (again) to mirror what VIP gets on Hobbit-side.

Remote access to a general shop, the AH's, mailbox, and bank. If we ever get a wardrobe system for cosmetics, remote access to that too.

[LightBear]

A teleport into a quest by double clicking the quest in the adventure compendium, it just shows the quest entrance window.
Even works inside a quest.

[Oxarhamar]

VIP should have access to all content . including expansions.

That would be nice but it would also defeat the purpose of expansions

A discount for VIP is enough

[Wizard1406]

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[gravisrs]

VIP bonuses shouldn't be significal mechanical advantage at any point. Otherwise you may discourage non-VIP players outta game.

QOL - yes. Access to content/races/classes - as long as they're not OP - yes.

Pay2win - hell no!

[FixBows]

Here is something aggressive: Allow VIPs to run quests with first time bonus all the time or maybe less of a penalty. Or, have the ability to reset that once a month or something without having to do a reincarnation.

[dunklezhan]

Continual 10% discount on DDO store and website store that stacks with sales.

Can argue about the % but this is a really good idea. Yes VIPs get free DDO points also, but a standing discount makes sense given that they can't use those points to buy adventure packs until they stop subbing, so they're more likely to be in the store looking for consumables/cakes and such.

[fatherpirate]

A discount for VIP would be great but do keep in mind, new expansions would be exempt.

[dunklezhan]

A discount for VIP would be great but do keep in mind, new expansions would be exempt.

They wouldn't have to - we're fantasising and suggesting here, right? Well then they wouldn't have to. SSG could offer a discount for those too.

They won't though, because expansions are clearly a way to squeeze us for more cash, there's no actual rhyme or reason they've ever given us as to when something crosses the line to expansion rather than one or two adventure packs (looking at you, Saltmarsh, Feywild), which means they can claim they are whatever they like. Only the first FR expansion (which added enough content to take you four or five whole levels), Ravenloft (which only qualifies in my view due to the enormous explorer area, the fact it covers a good chunk of 2 levels, and the sheer prestige of it being Ravenloft amongst the DnD community) and *maybe* Sharn (and Sharn is pushing it: its only 2 adventure packs and a wilderness area, no matter how good that adventure area is) feel like expansions to me. And really... only the demonweb expansion is truly something I would consider an expansion. An expansion should have far more than 1 levels' worth of content, otherwise the best it can possibly be is a big adventure pack with all the stops pulled out on the voice acting and music. Which, to be clear, is not enough. Feywild and Saltmarsh are truly excellent adventure packs. But they're awful expansions.

Wheloon is only saved because it comes with Stormhorns, but even then it's quite obvious those are just 2 adventure packs that could and should have been released sequentially once the FR world was established as now being part of DDO.

I'm never going to agree with them starting to do "expansions", is the long and the short of it. I continue to play in spite of that kind of underhanded business practice, not because of it.

I'll keep buying them most likely, because what choice do you really have except change games - but it was getting to that point, if only in solidarity for newer players (thankfully they've seen the light and made older expansions massively discounted now. Five years too late, but better late than never). Still. if Isle of Dread is 8 quests and one explorer area covering 2 base ML ranges without actually filling those 2 base ML ranges... then they can call it a 'mini expansion' if they like, but we'll all know that the entire marketing team are indeed all committed to going to hell.

Rant rant ranty rant.

Frankly a discount for VIPs on everything else seems like the least they could do if they're going to persist with this 'expansion' obfuscation silliness.

I don't particularly feel badly served by being a VIP except for the existence of expansions. But I didn't come here looking for a fight. I'm very much enjoying this new daily gold roll business, but mostly cos it's new, not cos it's necessary. If further incentives are required, then I would want it to be more financial rather than 'power' and I don't see why it couldn't be some combination of:
- General in store discount
- Marketplace discount
- Double the points given by favour rewards for VIPs.

That's the kind of thing that a 'membership' of an exclusive club - e.g. Costco - gives you. It might be a scam much of the time e.g. 'oh if you're a member our prices are lower' can very easily mean 'what our members pay is a reasonable standard amount and everyone else pays a massively inflated price', but it doesn't *have* to be, especially not when the goods are all digital.

[Artos_Fabril]

As said this is where anyone can suggest possible
additional VIP benefits.

There's only one VIP benefit I'm interested in: Access to all content for my monthly subscription price. Nothing less.