NCsoft's CaptSturm threw some interesting ingredients into the US Lineage cooking pot this week, as he posted the following on the official NCsoft Lineage message boards:
CaptSturm Wrote:
Here's some ideas I'm brainstorming:
- Additional weapon for the Royals. The current game is designed to preserve a certain ratio between royals and other classes. Hence, it's a bit difficult to start as a royal and you have to earn your way to the top. Al well and good, but after a certain point you've demonstrated your commitment. So, I'm thinking (surprise) of a high level royal item that'll allow you to finally fight with some power. Any thoughts on any aspect of this?
- Knights being able to tank. Where should the tweaks be here? I'm thinking of making a "skill" that'll allow a knight to craft bandages once every 24 hours. Maybe at level 30 you can craft low quality bandages and at 50 higher level? I'd think they'd be sort of lightweight but not designed to replace the potions. Anyhow, thoughts on this?
- Bots. I'm keeping my plans on this secret til they are in place--but this is a big issue on my radar.
- DEs. I want to make them more lethal and more fragil. I want to incorporate more "evil" magic into their weapons or gear. I want to encourage lightning fast attacks, but end the slugfest fights. I'm thinking about a DE only COI that devours HP while worn.
- More items. What do you guys want? I'm thinking a few different rare poly rings or ammys. I'm thinking more variety of rings like the ring of shark, bear, fox, and such (+ to one attrib and - to another.)
- Castles...just thinking...
- Lindy. I like that dragon, that's all.
The original thread is available: here
I think that there is a part
I think that there is a part of every update that is missing and if filled can make the gaming experience a huge draw again. my idea is this to have a server quest or many serverquests over time. example: the darkelves invade: after a long retreat the de's have relaunched an attack on aden where the server as a whole needs to kill xx,xxxx de's per week or we lose a town to them like gludio. however the diff would be that all stores and houses are lost as well as teleporting wizzards ect .within the captured destroyed towns mops appear. also if we do suceed in killing that many de's then after the secone success we are able to rebuild the town/city. in this way on a level we get the server to work together on a goal that affects everyone
other server quests should include mop invasions, not just as an event but continuously changing spawns every month on a random day. bringing a new level of excitement to the game will draw more people in and back from other games.
One I have been thinking on is this... Have a player from another server be made a deathknight account that is a mop, and is a hunter of players, can enter towns, use pots ,escapes etc. Sometimes the game gets monotonous, and needs some spice, so a real person controlling the DK, maybe a DK prince so he can recruit, make a chao pledge to hunt player characters.
Think should be able to buy stuff, tele away, use a coi, braves, following me ? But, that person would not be able to use that char on same server as there main char, so they can hunt everyone equally. No Special treatment, but also be able to global to scare the children, and get the juices flowing.
there are other ideas as well =))
Dang MOL! Allot of inform,
Dang MOL!
Allot of inform, but mostly agreed! Now the UBER PKer...hummmm! That might hurt a bit to have BP size player hunters! What do you think? I agree that some areas beside FV Beach should be PK available because I have seen those botters come and go in the same places which make he game no glory! I have been PKed before and the fight was fun, heck, I remember when we had Heine and XshadeX what PKing everyone at the gate during our siege. I came to Kah1an, FP, and Feeny's aid with Tendal and took him down. Ya! He keep saying why not you don't loose EXP, but someone states back off and leave us alone - then so be it! I was most probably wrong, but got tired of the WIS while hunting - so i did what was needed!
Sorry about going on and on!!
Cage