Dev's please help the game we/you love!

[AsylumZA]

Morning all and I hope this finds you in good stead!

After starting a post which was meant to be objectively non biased and try to lead to a healthy discussion, I noted it only created contention and discomfort to those that had invested a TON of time into the game we all loved from a long time ago and I understand and resonate with everyone's responses. Change is hard and uncomfortable, yet it is in the long term it is beneficial for everyone!

This follow-up is for the Dev's.

Please take note of what your player base is saying, even perhaps try and add your own voice to the forums so that your player base can see that you care. Even if its a negative stance or comment, something is better than nothing!

Don't you want your server to have tens of thousands of players instead of just having a couple hundred?

Suggestions I'd like to make for a positive growth of your game, taken from earlier discussions :

1. Create a Project, of which you outline a timeline for your player base. This will lead to us having a clear cut direction where we can add our value input.

2. Revamp archaic systems. If you cant do somethings, there's no shame in saying you can't so that your player base knows where moot topics of discussion are at.

3. Start things like yearly competitions or long term storyline events, driven by players!

4. Connect with your player(s) that are trying to create positive long term growth of your game. Have a roundtable with them and see how you two can partner up and create good for your own server.

I hope that the start of this will allow the creation of a project list/scope for you guys, where everyone (Including you as Dev's) can have a voice for ideas of positive growth and suggestions.

God bless and I wish you all a blessed day!

[anstalt]

As far as I'm aware, the devs have always been pretty open to suggestions for new content or balance.

But, its still a volunteer emulator project, so ultimately it comes down to what the devs themselves want to work on. They're working for free, so they're not gonna devote months / years to projects they don't wanna do.


As far as im aware, there are two major projects underway.

The first is the class-balance project. They've "completed" tanks and healers, next up is DPS class, then after that they intend to focus on something alone the lines of iconic builds. These balance patches aren't just tweaking numbers, they have included pretty major reworks of some of the classes.

The second is the PvE dungeons project. Right now, they are working on the Lost Vale dungeon, which will be the highest level dungeon and offer the dark promise gearset. It's scheduled to be released sometime over the summer (so soon!!). This follows a revamp of HV earlier in the year.


That's on top of the usual bug fixes, new events, and smaller bits of content like new quests or updating PQs.

[Rubius]

You can find a roadmap and general schedule for the PvE and Dungeons side of things here: viewtopic.php?t=55452

The current team structure has different people leading and working on different sections of the game, so not all teams may publish similar roadmaps or share schedules; it just depends on their workload and who is leading. But pretty much all the teams are working on things, from PvE to Class Balance to RvR to Scenarios to new Cosmetics to new Voice Acting... the list goes on!