the golden land...

[Snake]

i think the lack of end game is killing it. there's just not much to do. there's not really any good pve spots because air elementals are the easiest/quickest thing to farm for the majority of the pop. there's ocb which is fun for some people but not everyone is into that. the remaining blue vs red pvp is interrupted by paladins.

people still farm things other than airs but for the casual player thats the place to be. people still pk and paladins aren't the worst thing to ever happen but they do insure that most reds are just going to log out when they start showing up and the paladins actually belong to most reds to begin with. so people farm out their gold for their houses or whatever, get all stocked up and go out to find there's really not a lot left to do.

i'd start by adding in something like champ spawns, re-arranging dungeon gates (especially the one by air eles), and doing a tweak to the paladin system (temporary stat would be better imo). champ spawns could drop a load of skill scrolls or something and have a chance at those new super slayers or whatever. people just need reasons to really pve, which will lead to more pking, which leads to more pvp and more activity for everyone.

[Degamra]

re-arranging dungeon gates

Not only should we cut down on the number of dungeon exits but, frankly, I think they would work MUCH better as recall/gate OUT points requiring casting.

[GunSixShot]

yeah i never have liked the whole dungeon gates out to safe zone bit. i think u should be able to recall out of dungeons, except maybe deceit, hyth, hell even then, throw them in there too.

[Snake]

i liked siege perilous's approach to the whole recall/gating thing in general, of having no recall and only being able to gate. it made it so the cast time was longer, took more mana, and people could follow you. i can see how it would be unpopular with all the dexers who recall off scrolls and such though, but come on i think everyone pretty much has some sort of mage with 3 accounts and 5 slots each. siege you basically had 1 acc and 1 char unless you paid extra subscriptions.

any ways yeah dungeon gates need some work haha. i like that suggestion of just making them recall/gate zones instead of gates.

[Degamra]

i liked siege perilous's approach to the whole recall/gating thing in general, of having no recall and only being able to gate. it made it so the cast time was longer, took more mana, and people could follow you. i can see how it would be unpopular with all the dexers who recall off scrolls and such though, but come on i think everyone pretty much has some sort of mage with 3 accounts and 5 slots each. siege you basically had 1 acc and 1 char unless you paid extra subscriptions.

any ways yeah dungeon gates need some work haha. i like that suggestion of just making them recall/gate zones instead of gates.

I don't think I'm the first to come up with it by a longshot but, hell, I'm even cool with gate only on IPY2.

[Eldgrim]

When I started getting into the server a few months ago I though damn no recall/gating into or from a dungeon thats kinda hardcore and fun only to find out it was more for the blues then anything b/c of the gates all over dungeons. Most of the time when I get pk'd I can get away easier with the gates in the dungeons then I used to be able to get away with recalling(then again I didnt use a recall macro back then).

I like the idea with the gate only it would reward those with a higher magery(thou most think they get rewarded enough) this reminds me of one of my first pk encounters on this server.....

Me, my dad, and my uncle were down in the Yew Crypts playing with the daemons we were around 1-2 weeks old after killing a daemon we decided to check the rest of the crypts out underground and when we went back to the daemons we saw about 5 red names and that old thrill came back of "Oh ****" you know the feeling. I was all balls to the walls lets get in there and f em up(and die of course) but my dad and uncle didnt feel up for it but we didnt have any way out as it was block and we knew we were being chased as we were running farther into the crypts. Lucky for us I had been getting my magery up and just hit 65 Magery on my 3rd try I got the gate up to WBB and off we went just as the first corp por's were coming in at us....."oh ****".

So yea I like the idea with the gates =)

[GunSixShot]

no grey areas, either make dungeons recall areas, or not.

[Eldgrim]

Black and white is so boring

[GunSixShot]

[e sigh. No grey areas, need i say it again.... Yes?! NO GREY AREAS!!!

[Snake]

but what about buc's den?