It's going to take a lot to make this server not die within 2 weeks again..
What has really changed? Is it the same exact spells we see over and over? the same exact PvP? The same starting city, with the same hidden quests? the same loot? The same addon requirements? The same progression as before? No new classes, revamped spells, changed things?
What is going to bring back a player who reached end-game last time? What is new and exciting to make those who grinded weeks for outfits want to re-do the same exact grind? or has it changed?
My issues with last launch - East and southern city don't offer near as much as the first city, in pretty much every aspect. The first city you learn the server, you're doing addon quests, learning about gems and what-not. Many places to check out, then 2nd city comes. really, can't say anything new here. And the 3rd city is the worst in terms of it's size and huntable spawns/exploration. I'm not saying the content within the continents are bad. Me and my team LOVED the undead quest and what-not.. I'm just saying there is too little content. Doing quests to learn spells is awesome, why not add more of those in. Doesn't need to be some crazy insane spell. Also, i can't exactly remember what level I was.. I had done every quest except for the slimes. (yes even sands of time) Why isn't there quests like that all throughout? I really felt like it was starting to get old during city 2 and 3. There was never any PvP either, because what was the point? you gained literally nothing and lost nothing. At some point i heard about 400+ content. But i wasn't about to grind for 3 weeks, 10 hours a day, just to get level 400, only to do quests. And find nothing unique there. I ran out of things to do quickly, with no PvP interaction to slow down my leveling the server became dead and easy within a week or two.
My issues with coming back - Here is my biggest concerns with coming back, as well as my teams. We know everything. We know what quests do what, we know the vocs, we know the spells we get, we know which gems to use, how to kill each boss, you get the point. So what is waiting for us? level 500 content? So we have to grind weeks of the same content we've done countless times just to experience a new zone? The same tier system for gear? What is new and fresh, what is there to discover for the people who play each season.
Suggestions - i'll keep it short. Do something new to the spells. Change/add vocs. Change/add quests. Change/add gems. Change/add to the armor system, Change/add to the recipes. Change/add the hidden quests and rewards. Change/add the amt of addon items and how you get them. Change/add to each mapped area, perhaps making each city bigger. Also you can try scaling the Exp down a bit if needed, So for instance. There is quests for level 440, 450, 460, and 470.. Where 440-450 would be equivalent to 440-460 in previous era, this is just an example, so there isn't level 700's running around but you can still keep people leveling and keep it meaningful
Obviously you can't change all of those things, it would take an immense amount of time. But there has to be something new besides level 500 content and what-not if anyone i know is going to be playing ascalon again. Especially since it is usually very boring PvP wise, and dies down quickly (nothing to do). Just need to find things for people to do. Create an entire casino, add more events, add more types of skills for people to work on and show off.. just need something to keep people entertained as the content dies quickly.
Hopefully you read it all, and goodluck
Thank you for the interesting reply
You are right about the problem that alot of people know the game already.
Because of that I changed ways to get to places and rewards on most of the quests.
The monsters level range is now 0-580.
I have monsters up to 800 but they will be added and edited after players will reach the 500 land.
The gems and stone dont have 100% success rate anymore.
Bosses got an edit as well + more bosses.
There are exactly 50 recipes atm. Somey are obtainable from
few monsters and the rest from quests.
"Alchemy Coin". A new coin used to
buy access to some places or items.
The coins are obtainable from some monsters, quests and chests.
The herbs are an idea to improve the PvP and PvE.
Right now we have 6 active herbs the rest are still being worked on.
More herbs will be added after the server starts.
Herbs(each herb has diffrent cooldown) -
long speed boost, magic level raise, health/mana over time
skill raise, invisibility and many more...
About the city being divided to 3 areas,
Now there are 3 known friendly cities on the game - City of Ascalon, City of Torvora and Ridgefire Camp.
The hunting areas are still level restricted.
There are alot of new areas that you can get to from the main,east and west areas.
Some of the things you mentioned
wont happen, for now, you have a point there though.
(MANY points)
Ok, so this isn't something I've put a lot of thought into, just a bit of an idea.
How about adding areas or dungeons for certain vocations only. I think this would give people a reason to play other vocations, maybe even ones which they don't usually like. E.g. I hardly ever play a sorcerer, so if I wanted to see whats in the sorcerer area/dungeon then I'd have to play one.
Or maybe make dungeons which can only be entered when a party has an exact combination of vocations, e.g. two paladins and a sorcerer, or a knight and a paladin.
I think I'm just thinking of things which may keep people interested for a little while longer.
Guys, feel free to criticise, maybe we can find a great idea between us.
I'm working on making more teamplay areas and quests.
Made a few places and quests already but it takes long time
No doubt I'm aiming on better team play as well as solo play.
Damiool
I agree that most of the addon quests are bad, so I rewritten them xD
Most of them. But I promise to fix the rest
