What kind of content do you want to see more of?Follow

Edited, Apr 19th 2009 8:19am by Plough

Edited, Apr 20th 2009 7:53am by Plough

An expansion that revamps all starting cities and makes them part of the game again.

LOL. I actually thought the opposite. An expansion that destroys all starting cities and makes one or two cities as central hubs (maybe they were destroyed long before the shattering.)

I do think we'll see another raid centric expansion (e.g., PoP or GoD) this time around. They both had good group content as well.

revamped quest system that goes back and digs up all quests that ahve ever existed (and those that start but never finished) and complets them and updates them to todays quest journal. I would love to see an expansion completly dedicated to this,..... no increase in levels.... no more aa's....no new zones (except maby adding Instance zones).....just an entire expansion dedicated to furthering the storie of the game.. Also maby a revamp of merchants so that they scale the items in game for purcahse to be more relistic.. (based on fine steel, some magic items that drop off high end mobs or in high level zones are worth less.... merchants should have a system to caculate the level of mob that drops these items and the zones thyat item drops in for the cost they pay for them.. this would greatly help the economy of the game and gie old level zones/quests reason to be used or gone too... why go to old world zone or dungeon if nothing in there is worth going after... however if the items that drop are easy to get now but the merchants caculations make it profitable to sell them to a merchant it opens up many areas for players to go and dungeon delve again..... (ex: Befallen is a worhtless zone to almost everyone nowadays when it comes to loot.....nothing that drops in zone is used with todays global drops and the expansions that have followed have deemed all there items in that zone outdated.. and if you get them you get if at most 1 or 2 plat for any item in zone... even the lowest level magic items dont sell for as much as fine steel.. but if the merchants calcuated the levels of mobs and zone to reasonable amount (just ex...but lets say 200plat).. then you could justify running in and making quick 1 or 2 k for few minutes work and feel that you have accomplished something)... Wish the merchant system and quest system would be looked at seriously... it would greatly increase this games fun....

With some 500 zones in the game, people are asking for more spots to go kill stuff? /em boggles

i think we need graphical updates to player models the most. i'd be happy if Sony gave us minimal new play content, but upgraded the player models to something more like WoW's - not with big goofy shoulder pads but at least spikes coming off our armor, or straps hanging down or ridges and grooves that are visible and not clearly 2D lines drawn onto our platemail. i'd really like to see a way for user-submitted designs to make its way into the game, or have a choice of armor designs when purchasing gear from a vendor. they could have the same three designs drop randomly from current mobs. i suppose it would be difficult toying with the engine to allow for a more intricate look of the players, but after that, it would be easy putting the new armor design content into the database.

right now, my characters look as fearsome as a level 20's; only my weapons, and the red colour of the target box, convey my strength. i almost feel neutered. add to it that a level 10 character can have two auras going at once and have a familiar following him around...

The vast majority of those 500 zones are garbage by current standards. So when asked if you want new food, you should just say "No thanks. I'll stick to eating this garbage"? Maybe if you're a goat, but surely not humans.

I think instanced zones/expeditions would be the way to go since they never "go out of style". Sure, better loot drops elsewhere, but for pure xp grinding with no muss and no fuss, instanced zones (like Dranik's Hollows, RCoD sewers, DoDh missions, etc) offer the best bang for the buck with a far slower obsolescence crawl. Dagnor's Cauldron sucks compared to Paludal Caverns and Paludal is less than ideal compared to Blightfire Moors (can't go straight to 35 solely in Paludal. Can in Blightfire). That's just one example. There are dozens of similar ones, which is why half the hotzones go largely ignored (because the zones suck and no one's going to go there for a little extra xp).

Content on demand works and it's cheap to boot!

Instead of creating more, let's fix what we have. For example, the now trivial 1.0's, let's fix the insane quests that are more difficult than the the 1.5 and 2.0's combined - as in time to complete. Drop rates and increased spawn rates for starters.

More exp-grind spots seem to be the winners in the poll this far, so instead of adding more zones and loot, increase grind spots in old forgotten zones with revamps like CT recently... Bravo on this as more of this type of minor revamp is needed thoughout the game. Alot or people love going to older zones and what better reward than to offer advancement in these forgotten places. Use what you have, instead of creating more of the same which causes more and more zones to become dead.

Just my 2 cents...

Edited, May 10th 2009 4:06pm by Olrec

CT was just an Anniversary event and changed back as of last night.
But I agree with you. There are plenty of Dead Ends in old zones that a “sudden, in game earthquake” opens a new passage. Just add a zone once every two to three months. We have to wait a year for a new expansion (SoE policy). But don’t tell anyone just implement the new zone in a patch and let people discover it. Even if someone stumbles on to it and doesn’t tell anyone, word will get out, trust me. But one of the great aspects to the old game was that of discovery & adventure. I remember Warrens was introduced this way and it was a lot of fun. On Zek, the poor step child of SoE, we don’t see GM events. I think this would help moral and enthusiasm with players. I am ignorant when it comes to other servers. Are there a lot of GM events on the other servers? If so I bet the News spreads fast on general chat and I believe there would to be an urgency to participate. If not I believe this would help spread, by word of mouth, the game of EQ and how exciting it is. Again it comes down to SoE’s commitment to the game. Is it worth marketing? Is it profitable to invest hours into the game, their customers’ sure do? See Dwindling Population https://everquest.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=1;mid=1228771497304713574;page=1
With the economy in a down turn I feel that we will see more & more people looking to entertain themselves with minimal cost. EQ is $15 a month, 50cents a day; this is pretty inexpensive entertainment, at least for me. I just want to see more people participate. And whatever SoE needs to do, please do it. To praise them a bit, I have seen an up turn in population on Zek. Not as much as it could be. I do not think SoE used their 10th Anniversary to its full potential. But any positive in population is well appreciated.
Safe Travels,

You are fully able to do this on test server. Not suggesting you up and /testcopy to test server, but you can reset it at will there.

I dont see this as likely for live servers though. Heh, seeing how theyre trying to change the busness model with microtransactions, "If" they would ever offer on a live server this it would probably be on a pay basis.

sorry but I still think making the 1.0 more harder to get than 1.5 or 2.0 is still a better idea. there is a reason why they call it an epic fight... and making it easy for anyone just to camp it in 1 day is not epic.