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Chalmo · 08-23-2008, 07:45 AM

Hi (first post here on off forums SMILEY

,1) I think the initial figures for guild halls + amenities look very good as they are now. This is coming from a leader of a small level 64 guild that has players from all tiers. I'm not expecting we could and we should be able to buy tier 3 with 30 of the most expensive amenities right away. That's what goals are for, right? SMILEY

2) While I understand that there are common sentiments towards the end-line hall and amenities being expensive to keep up, I'm actually hoping that there will be space for even more expensive extensions later.I think it's important to be able to have further, tougher goals for achievement and advancement as you progress - and what I've so far liked about EQII is that there are different ways for that than just grinding for better gear, even when you're maxed out. Just something to keep in mind for future updates, maybe?3) Is there a cap to status points and plat a single individual or the whole guild can deposit on the escrow? I'm thinking of scenarios where an active player needs to take a longer break - getting a child, going on a long vacation, moving houses, just having different kinds of RL fun, whatever - for a few months, and wants to chime in whatever he has.Our guild has had people who've left for a few months, or even longer, and put all their plat on shared bank (and still returned later).4) I think the status point requirements, by themselves, are not bad. What I'm worried about is that the quickest way to gain status points, for a small (non-raiding) guild at least, is to do rush orders (and maybe adventuring writs as a sideline while harvesting). That's pretty much solo content. Being able to craft together in your guild hall, and do crafting missions (will those include SP rewards?), is nice, but not everyone likes to craft.The heroic instance status point boost is very nice, but it doesn't scale too much. Neither do the heritage quests, really, when you have a bunch of level 80/80 adventurers/artisans. Is it possible to implement some kind of "group writs" in the future? Stuff where you don't get necessarily get massive amounts of loot and XP and AA - the stuff that people primarily go to instances for - but that's rewarding AA-wise?5) I think it's great that guild halls are getting the size-scaling feature for furniture. Is this going to be implemented for regular player houses too?I don't think it necessarily should be. After all, lots of people have spent a lot of time doing all sorts of clever stuff with the current material at hand - that is, building new stuff out of the current constant-sized decoration. I think that if, say, instead of building a massive throne out of other furniture, you could just scale your standard throne to whatever size you like, it would cause "inflation".

08-23-2008, 07:45 AM	#659
Chalmo Loremaster Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 20	Hi (first post here on off forums ,1) I think the initial figures for guild halls + amenities look very good as they are now. This is coming from a leader of a small level 64 guild that has players from all tiers. I'm not expecting we could and we should be able to buy tier 3 with 30 of the most expensive amenities right away. That's what goals are for, right? 2) While I understand that there are common sentiments towards the end-line hall and amenities being expensive to keep up, I'm actually hoping that there will be space for even more expensive extensions later.I think it's important to be able to have further, tougher goals for achievement and advancement as you progress - and what I've so far liked about EQII is that there are different ways for that than just grinding for better gear, even when you're maxed out. Just something to keep in mind for future updates, maybe?3) Is there a cap to status points and plat a single individual or the whole guild can deposit on the escrow? I'm thinking of scenarios where an active player needs to take a longer break - getting a child, going on a long vacation, moving houses, just having different kinds of RL fun, whatever - for a few months, and wants to chime in whatever he has.Our guild has had people who've left for a few months, or even longer, and put all their plat on shared bank (and still returned later).4) I think the status point requirements, by themselves, are not bad. What I'm worried about is that the quickest way to gain status points, for a small (non-raiding) guild at least, is to do rush orders (and maybe adventuring writs as a sideline while harvesting). That's pretty much solo content. Being able to craft together in your guild hall, and do crafting missions (will those include SP rewards?), is nice, but not everyone likes to craft.The heroic instance status point boost is very nice, but it doesn't scale too much. Neither do the heritage quests, really, when you have a bunch of level 80/80 adventurers/artisans. Is it possible to implement some kind of "group writs" in the future? Stuff where you don't get necessarily get massive amounts of loot and XP and AA - the stuff that people primarily go to instances for - but that's rewarding AA-wise?5) I think it's great that guild halls are getting the size-scaling feature for furniture. Is this going to be implemented for regular player houses too?I don't think it necessarily should be. After all, lots of people have spent a lot of time doing all sorts of clever stuff with the current material at hand - that is, building new stuff out of the current constant-sized decoration. I think that if, say, instead of building a massive throne out of other furniture, you could just scale your standard throne to whatever size you like, it would cause "inflation".