What would we like to see in (15.1.0)?

[Selavi]

Shadowlands world polishing (15.1.0)
This update mainly contains a lot of world design corrections and changes.
Trying to list them all is futile, and would contain numerous entries with
"moved a rock to where it was supposed to be" and "you will no longer get
stuck at coordinates x y". Thus, even while this list of changes might seem
small, the actual changes are numerous and significant for overall
game-play.

Shadowlands world design

Some quest NPCs were being killed off, thus requiring players to wait for
them to respawn. The quest NPCs have all been greatly increased in level and
their respawn rate has been improved. Also, attacking them will anger all
nearby inhabitants.

Technical advances in matter transportation have improved, allowing them to
be adapted to use in the Shadowlands. Beacon Warp and Grid nanos will now
work just like they work on Rubi-Ka. Note that yalms, kodiaks, and hydro
vehicles still do not function in Shadowlands.

Since many players have found even grey monsters a challenge to beat, each
monster has had its quality level (and corresponding color) increased. Now,
if a monster is a challenge to you, you will get experience from it.

Jobe scientists have improved upon coils, making it so they will continue to
recharge you even if you stand up.

The aggro caused by casting Complete Heal has been greatly toned down and it
will no longer anger monsters that aren't currently fighting.

Creatures found in dungeons will now respawn more quickly when killed.

All quests in Shadowlands will be changed to optional. Those who chose to
participate will be rewarded. This was done to speed up game play and reduce
time-sinks.

The requirements to cast most Shadowlands nanos have been reduced.



Game Mechanics

Your inventory, backpack inventory, and bank are all resizeable now.

If a character attacks a rooted or calmed monster, a message saying
"(player's name) has attacked (monster's name)." will appear.

The chat window in the new GUI will be split in to two windows, with battle
messages, game notifications, and other non-chat messages appearing in one
and vicinity, team, org, etc chat appearing in the other.

There is a new keyboard shortcut for reloading of weapons. If you have two
weapons equipped, pressing the reload button once will reload the weapon
with less ammo. Pressing it again will reload the other.

You can save up to five different mission settings. These will be displayed
as five seperate buttons on the side of the mission terminal menu.

Your current location can be given to others by typing "%L" in a /tell to
them. "%L" will be replaced with "location" in the message and will be
clickable. When clicked on, it creates a flag on the world map and a
direction arrow in the person's compass. This works very similar to
uploading a mission.

Your character's name will turn blue whenever you are /afk. When you come
back from /afk, it will return to its normal color.

Walls and doors will remain on your map when in a mission, regardless of how
far away you are. The exit door and the lifts will be shown on the map. You
still have to explore a room before it shows up on your map.

Due to popular demand, Omni-Tek is reintroducing sharks and pirana to the
waterways of Rubi-Ka. Be careful where you go swimming.

You can now choose what you want your pets to say when you issue them
commands. You can write as many responses as you want for each
acknowledgement and your pet will say one responce, chosen at random.

Commas will now be automatically added to the trade window for every ammount
of credits over 1,000. This will help to ensure that you don't trade
10,000,000 instead of 1,000,000 without counting zeros.



Edit: apparantly some people get their kicks from fooling others in the cruelest way. This turns out to be just a joke. But lets see how many of us agree this would be a cool change.

[LilBurst]

Now THIS is what i like to hear!

[jabbez]

AAAARGH!"!!!

I was all "LOOOVE FC!!"
and that last thing you put in boke my hart (((((((((((((

[Selavi]

Aye Jabbes. I was in the skyes for about 10 minutes, then I heard it was just a BAD joke Ill change the heading so it wont break any more hearts.

[Stillhaa]

omg, now this would be a patch to remember
to bad its not true .... *grrrrr*

[rabina]

Thougth i was reading about a little AO revolution there!!!!!!!!!!

AO2 as someone called it on the forums

or

"Just posted them on guild chat to much wooting and applause, and I might get killed when I log back on tonight "
"die."

"omfg i want to kill you, heal you and kill you again..."

"I feel so stupid for pasting the first half of your patch notes on guild chat before reading the entire post "

"I posted this bit by bit on GC. Screams of "OMG" and "AO2" were heard. Then i got to the bit and the bottom and got **** for falling for it "

"Why doesnt this guy work at FC!! CZ send him an application pls."

"My first thought was: Wow, I chose the right game, they are really listening to the player community and improve the things they were listening to!
After reading half the list, I skipped to the bottom and I won't tell you my second thought."

"Arggghh!!!
*Sigh*
Hate Hate Hate you."


hehehe seems many people fell for this and me too in the beginning realy like the resizable bp's/bank...

[rahmorak]

Excellent list Sel.

But can I add:

Nano Vendors in the various gardens have responded to customer concerns and have now upgraded their stock by making a deal with the guy in the next zone. This means that Adonis now sells up to ql155 and Penumbra up to ql200.

Spec 3 and 4 quest items will now drop much more often in Adonis and Penumbra.

Armour upgrades now only require you to create one glyph, this glyph can be re-used.

It is now possible to raise faction as follows:
Nascence: 7k
Elysium: 14k
Scheol: 21k
Adonis: 28k
Penumbra: 35k
Inferno: 40k

The Golems now have a 100% drop rate on quest-items and spawn regularly at various places. The dungeon also now spawns multiple instances.

[jabbez]

interesting answer:

And as always, can't promise you anything, but I will look into some of these issues.

-Znore

ps.. nope, no ETA on the things in the works or what they might be....

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[Fao]

Great list Sel!

One edit/idea? For agents the %L would only show if they want it to.

- Artilliary, Support and other Breed/Profession specific armor will drop more frequently and soon due to many finds will show up in shops.

Fao

[Flameforge]

Great Notum! That would be the patch of the century!

Oh how I was nodding and "yes yes" at every point, heh.