What Do You Want to See For The Site?Follow

While we have three people working on the EQ2 site right now, I will admit that I am not one of them, as I don't play the game. I think this is hurting the site, since on our other sites I played the game enough to be able to personally work out what was most needed and make sure the most important things got done first. So I figured I would post here and ask for feedback from you guys as to what you want us to concentrate on.

I want to really try to step up our efforts to build up this site. What do you want us to work on the most? Which areas do you think we need to improve on and in what ways? What type of information are we missing that you want us to try to get? What types of searches and features would you like to see?

Please give us your feedback and we will see what we can do to build up the site to its best capacity.

Thanks.


Edited, Tue Feb 22 14:32:02 2005 by Allakhazam

Edited, Thu Sep 1 14:08:10 2005 by Allakhazam

I would like to see a complete spell listing with summary information and statistics for the differences between app1 to master 1 spell levels. Also, would be very handy if you had city tasks as a sub group for quests. Lastly, accurate information of the beasts on whether they are soloable, or are kos would be cool.

- Maps: link to an other site is fine, just link the specific map.
- Potions List: name, effect, duration, linked recipe, vendor.
- Mage Spell List: update and fill in. Use the 1-50 list in your guide section provided by Toxicmoon.
- Recipes: sortable by name, level, book, class, skill, component, slot, category. http://eq2craft.computersims.com/ may already have the market cornered.
- Login > Your Characters: "Coming Soon" ...?
- Item Lookup: add Lookup by Skill.

All the viewers of Alakazam should keep in mind that the best way to update this site is to provide the admin guys with accurate, complete, and detailed information. 518,000+ users should find many things to report. :)

That'd be great, though I know it'll probably take a while to get that sort of info. Item stuff, of course, but that will also be a lengthy process. The delay on all the weapons needs to not say 1.0, and armor/weapons need to have skills on them (i.e. is this chest piece medium or light armor?).

I'm glad you're wanting to increase work on this site. I used EQ1 Allakhazam for a long time, and it had absolutely everything! So, I'm looking forward to the time when this branch is the same way. :)

Oh, I forgot. Why is there a big space at the top of every page? If there isn't a real reason, it wouldn't bother me to lose the space. :) But if there is, it's not a big deal.

Edited, Wed Feb 23 08:27:21 2005 by Lierta

The only thing that isnt on the site I would love to see is character profiles.

Only thing I would want is on the update section a link to items like the EQ1 page. I know I posted once asking when that would be implemented if it was going to be but never got a response back of any sort. Oh and maybe a color change. Between work and home I use several different monitors. And the majority of those the site comes up very dark and hard to read sometimes. Maybe just lighten up the shade a bit. Other then that I usually don't run into any problems finding stuff. Oh and pop up adds. I hate those. you can plaster your page with adds galor and I don't mind a bit(I know you need to make money somehow) and I actually will click on some of them, but I hate pop ups.

But you all are doing a fine job other then that I think.

I played EQ1 for a couple of years, and used Alla's regularly (almost daily). The listing of equipment and quests was so complete and easy to search I promptly payed for a premium account.

That was cancelled when I moved to EQ2, and you guys did not. Put the attention and devotion you did into EQ1 for EQ2, and you will get my premium subscription back.

Yea yea, it takes a long time, blah blah. Ogaming is kicking your butt when it comes to items/quests, so it doesn't take everyone a long time.

Number one on my wishlist: Be able to come here, search for equipment for my 37 guardian or 35 Inquis, and find out where/how to get it.

It should respond with appropriate level equipment (green to orange con), and be sortable by different statistics. Links to the appropriate quests or info on the mob that drops it would be needed as well.

Ideas for sortable filters:

1. Level range (number 1 imo)- aka skill required to use it
2. Skill check (Heavy armor.. Great Staff.. etc) - this is sort of linked to the first one.
3. Item attributes (Str/Agi/HP/Power, etc)

Again, to summarize, being able to come here, find out what armor/weapons I could use, and where I could get it would be ideal.

MOST DEFINATLEY MAPS!!!!!

Alla's has always been the top site when it comes to items and quests for EQ1. They never really did focus on maps or tradeskills, although they did have the info. There are already good sites out there for both maps and tradeskills, so what I would personally like to see is a more complete database for items and quests, like I already suggested.

The quest section needs major major work. It's actually pretty decent for the low level game but you begin to see major gaps and lots of missing stuff when you get into the mid game. I understand you guys take your information directly from players but you'd think that the people actually working on this portion of your network would be playing the game and therefor, would be able to contribute their own information in lieu of a submission. It's come to the point where Alla's isn't my first stop for information, and that's a travesty.

I always admired the kind of dedication Alla and Illa had. It was not easy back then (or now)I imagine to run this website.

I remember the first site I used to goto was Eqlizer in the late 90's when the dot com wars were in effect. Eventually Allkhazam edged out on the race in spoiler sites. For EQ1 they started having just as much info on items as EQLIZER and quest info as well as other neat features that are now standard in most sites but back then were novel ideas.

They had such an amount of player volume that they started their premier service. They branched out to other games and became megalithic in scale. No one could compete with their advanced item searches tailored to your specific characters.

Now I play EQII instead of EQ1. I need now what I always have. Quick access to items my character should be looking forward to upgrade with and quest information. However sadly I no longer perform these searches here at Allakhazam but at OGAMING.
Suggestion: Problems with players submitting quest info? I have noticed Ogaming blatently plagerizes a few quests from Allkhazam. Not all mind you because their selection is huge and information resources much more complete. Perhaps there is a way For Allakhazam to somehow work out a deal with other websites to share information. "If you can't beat em join em".

I like many others never cared for finding maps or tradeskill information here. I always went to eqtraders and eqatlas for those needs. The same tradition continues today.

What would I like to see in eqII from Alla? I'd like to see you offer:

All the same premium search features for eqI made available for eqII.

Ability to have eqII characters placed in the database to facilitate custom searches like in eq1

HUGE IMPROVEMENTS in the quests section. Some people are understating the problem in this thread. Simply put all my quest searches take place over at Ogaming. Alla's quests database is roughly half the size of ogaming.

The items database also needs serious help obviously.

In conclusion Allkhazam, no database to date has the comprehensive and easy to use facilities I have seen for your eq1 section. No fansite holds a candle to your groundbreaking work.

However fantastic support that was groundbraeking for eq1 and carried over to say Final fantasy does me no good since I don't play either games. This year will be the last year I will be a premium subscriber unless some changes are made. Innovative stratagies should be used. Don't depend on the old player submission system to see you through. New games call for new and innovative techniques to get the information players need for their gaming. I hope you all can muster the strength to meet the challenge. You have shown that you have in the past, time will tell if you can in the future.

I would like to see a data submission process not involving email. I would prefer to see a submission form, even if it means that it just gets emailed behind the scenes.

A nice interface would go a long way in getting more data posted to the site IMO. I don't personally mind sending an email, but usually when I think of something, or actually have time to send in something I am at work, and the organization I work for is not one I use an email address of to send in submissions to a gaming site. My option then is to fire up my webmail which honestly I'de rather not have to bother with.

It just comes down to a matter of convenience I guess.

Perhaps I'm alone in this, but after what everybody else has said i can't think of anything but perhaps an on-site chat room?Perhaps the logistics are wrong, but it might be kinda neat. Having said that, it might turn nasty (at least in forums you have a delay between flames!) but if you open it to only premier members i doubt it would get too out of control.

just my 2cp