And what we agreed on was that there's soo much code in the game allready, its not really necessary to bring lots of new code in, but rather update some of the existing "ancient" code to todays standards.
Take areas for people to grind in for example, currently there's like 10 spots where everyone favours and the competion for these areas are rough.
While at the same time, we have plenty of areas in domains spread out all over, thats never visited anymore due to changes to xp they give or just cause the game has forgotten about it.
While I can understand no wizard really enjoys working on other people's code, they prefer to create their own vision of what they think the game could use, I think updating a few old areas to todays standards could bring in more old players to the game.
Also with more places for people to kill for a decent reward, I think people who rarely play cause they think "No point in playing X Y and B are on, all good xp grounds will be cleaned out" I'll just idle in guildhalls or logoff.
Well what if some old areas that have been forgotten could be retuned to appeal to the players of today?
Areas such as
Ribos, Goblin caves, LoD in Terel, all these areas are empty these days, nobody goes there.
Trollshaws, Fangorn, Goblin caves in Middle Earth.
Entire Kabal is a wasteland these days, people go there occasionally for questing or to fetch a
piece of equipment or two then leave.
I'm sure there's plenty of other area in the game that with a little fine tuning could be made into a popular flourishing area once more.
And yes I know I am generalising and assuming more killing grounds will fix everything (which I know it wont, but I do think it could get more people back to playing if they found it that they dont have to compete with others for xp all the time).
I still think Lilith's experiment with scaling npcs in Terel was an intresting one(and yes it was a wee bit unbalanced)but I do think that scaling npcs who cater to the entire game rather than just small groups is the future of the game. Of course some caps needs to be in place as to not repeat the issues Terel had while they did this, but I do think with the right control it could be a hit.
Oh well enough blabbering from me, just thought I'd bring it up and see what people think
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