QoL Suggestions for the game

Ok, so over time as playing I've been keeping a little text file with suggestions I've come up with as I've played the game (only for the last couple weeks or so...it's not a LONG list).

So anyway, here they are in no particular order except the first:

1. Offline SG invites. I know this has been discussed to death, but it's still at the top of the list.

2. The ability to better control access to base storage. Such as: The ability to type in a toon name or global name to have access to said storage regardless of if they're in the SG. (I.E. Having a toon run a "bank sg" while the rest of your toons are in your main sg, but can still access via coalition) The alternative here is that many people have taken to running "single player sg's" which I feel hurts the game, as it is not a single player game, and I don't think it was the devs goal for that to happen either.

3. An in-game build editor similar to Mid's. Create your builds, modify, tweak, etc...then load up the respec screen and simply hit "apply build"

4. More slots! WE don't even get HALF of the total amount of possible slots we could potentially use. If it were changed to simply getting 3 slots at ALL slot levels, that would be a very welcome increase, and not game breaking either. (I believe this would only result in 15 extra slots) Or maybe give us a way to EARN more slots? That would help the game in more ways than one. (It would get people out of AE, which would also result in more drops/more items on the market)

5. For the love of god, can you PLEASE rework all the level 1-40 Hero side contacts? (except hollows, fault, striga, croatoa, rwz, and PI) Bring them up to par with at least CoV contacts, if not even Praetorian contacts? I would love to play the games content, but as it is right now, the hazard zones and tf's hero side are pretty much the best story arcs and leveling. As a matter of fact, I don't think a lot of people would complain if you devoted an entire issue to reworking some of the old stuff in the game and making it into new content. Or maybe, for the next few issues going forward, one hero zone per issue could get a contacts revamp? That wouldn't be so hard, right?

6. Increase Titan-O's to dropping at the characters level range. As it stands right now, limiting them to level 40 has made them worthless. Or make them like IO's, so that they can't be outleveled. And on that note, maybe also make it so you don't have to be between levels 39-41 to start the Eden Trial?

7. Deleted due to valid reason of why it shouldn't be in the game (Wings with Trenchcoats - bandwidth/cpu reason)

8. Global storage! (And more than 30 pieces of storage in SG salvage racks!)

9. The ability to log in and STAY logged in while browsing the forums with Firefox.

10. NO MORE EMOTE ONLY BOOSTERS!

11. Give us a reason to go to Boomtown, Dark Astoria, Terra Volta and Eden! Other than GM's and the Eden/Respec Trials. Personally, I think boomtown could use the Faultline treatment.

12. What ever happened to the WoW Armory type service that the devs were gonna give us?

13. More costumes! Especially animal type costume pieces (Bird head, cat head/face, etc)

14. Make the anniversary badges (Celebrant, etc) account level!

15. Longbow and Vanguard Epic Archetypes.

16. Reorganize the arcs in the Ouroboros Crystals so that the arcs are in the same level range as the badges they award. (Example: Ouroboros Initiation. Listed 46-50, awards 35-49) Conversely, also fix the badges awarded to some arcs to the level range the arc SHOULD be at, and are actually listed at. (Example, Jenny Adair's arcs are listed properly at 25-29, but award the 20-24 badges)

17. Give us a UI with LUA scripting. You know how much people love user created addons?

18. PLEASE stop packing so much new content into the 20-29 and 40-50 level ranges! Give 30-39 some more lovin, please???

19. Please move all arcs in Ouroboros into the level range that they award the badges for. For instance, Jenny Adair's arc awards the 20-24 badges, but is in the 25-29 range. Ouroboros Initiation is in the 46-50 range, but awards the 35-39 badges. I would also suggest that some arcs (like welcome to vanguard) be moved into the level range that they can be ACQUIRED at. Just because you can run it all the way up to 50 doesn't mean that it has to be in the 46-50 range. Also, some more content in the 40-45 range would be GREAT. (Because running Division:Line at level 40-45 and grinding those badges out is extremely laughable considering you can do "Welcome to Vanguard" for the 46-50 badges.)

20: Allow multiple auto powers. For example: Hasten, Secondary Mutation, and Practiced Brawler

21: Access to Safeguards/Mayhems via Ouro

22: (Suggestion may be met with I19, not sure yet) Add a way to acquire all Praetorian Badges through Ouro.

23: Rename SG option. (Even if it's a paid feature)

Well, Je-saist, thanks for what was mostly a quality reply. While I used the term "QoL" I will admit that some of my suggestions may not have fit that EXACT description.

There is a couple things tho, that I think you misunderstood.

As far as Ouroboros is concerned. I'm currently doing my badging in Ouro. Getting all the badges for running with the limitations set.

Now, here's where it IS a Quality of Life feature. As it is right now, it REQUIRES you to do outside research to find out what arcs award which badges. Simply reorganizing the arcs to the badges that they give, OR adjusting the badges given to the level range their already in is, imo, a very good suggestion.

As far as the 30-39 content. I'm not saying there's a LACK of content persay. What I AM saying is that most NEW content gets made for 20-29 or 40-50. As a matter of fact, the only NEW content (if memory serves me) other than the default contacts in Founders and Bricks that has been added to the game is Croatoa (30-35) and RWZ (1 contact, 35-40) and Cimerora.

Examples of 20-29 new content. (Note: When I say new, I'm referring to content after all the original contacts were put in the game, and then PI was added. All those contacts introduced a base system of contacts and a leveling structure.

So....Faultline (15-25) Striga (20-30) Croatoa (25-35) Midnighter Squad arcs (20-30) Mirror Arcs (20-30) new 20-30 content for Praetorians in Issue 19. Now, there is some overlap here, but keep in mind this is also new content on top of the existing contacts.

So, 35-40 actually becomes the bigger hole. In 35 to 40 you have only original contacts and 1 contact (Levantera) in RWZ and some stuff in Cimerora. (edit: Forget Borea, whom iirc is the RWZ version of Meg Mason in the hollows and gives repeatable mishes. So there's one other option, assuming you can start working with her at level 35)

40-50 Peregrine Island, RWZ, Cimerora, Shadow Shard. This is a shorter list, however more than enough missions in these level ranges to get you to 50. Also, 40-50 is prolly the place where alot of people start going back and doing all the TF's they haven't done yet, so once again, plenty of xp here.

Essentially, my point being this. I started a new elec/shield scrapper recently, with a pre-planned leveling path. Doing all the stuff I wanted to do even between 10-19 was HARD, however 20-30, without turning off xp right before you ding 30 is impossible, even when solo'ing. And that's without touching ANY of the original contacts (Talos and IP). I dinged 30 and still hadn't down alot of the NEW 20-30 content. Said toon is level 39 now, and after doing RWZ and Cim and a Numina and tip missions, it has without a debt been a very slow 4 levels since hitting 35. (And Croatoa is the only thing that makes 30-35 alot more reasonable). So, this is the first level range this new toon has encountered where I'm FORCED to rely on radios/tips/tf's to level. (Admitting this is my choice to avoid Founders/Bricks contacts, but again, I'm sure alot of people avoid these as well, as again IMO the old contacts REALLY need to be reworked.)

This also links into my previous point about reworking the original 1-40 contacts. Unfortunately, most people don't want to touch them with a 10 foot pole. They're full of hunts, fedex's, ALOT of traveling, and crap. And just on the NEW content alone, 20-29 is bloated, 40-50 is comfortable, and 30-39 is lacking. So, one of two things here. If, as the devs have said, they want to focus on NEW content, then add some to the 30-39 section. Or if, as I have suggested, they want to rework old content, then I'd suggest starting with 30-39 FIRST.

Let's see:

1. Yes, as long as the toggle that blocks SG invites isn't circumvented.

2. An emphatic no for the way you are describing it. Not to long ago the devs found out people were in coalitions were robbing other SG's blind because they could access their storage and get around the security locks the SG's had for their own members.

Besides we can now send ourselves whatever we want via email.

3. Sure why not.

4. Highly unlikely to ever happen. The devs have this thing called game balance they are always concerned about.

5. The devs have been doing this. It takes time.

6. No opinion on this one.

7. I want it too but as you found out they have valid reasons for not doing it.

8. Again highly unlikely this wil ever happen. the devs are dead set against hoarding. The fact that we went from being able to store 2500 salvage items in bases down to 30 speaks volumes.

9. We already can if we do it in a base or a mission.

10. I'm going to disagree with this one but only with this caveat. If they release another emote booster it needs to have 4 times the emotes for the same price. Otherwise the booster isn't worth buying.

11. No opinion on this at this time.

12. What?

13. Yes.

14. Yes.

15. No. At least not until we get Praetorian EATs. Then if additional EAT's get added it should be 3 at a time, 1 per each faction.

16. No opinion.

17. Not interested in this.

18. Yes to more content, but I don't care what level range it's at.

19. Isn't this a repeat of 16?

20. I think balance issues applies here.

21. No.

22. Why would you need to use Ouro to get exploration or kill badges?

23. Yes.

Hmmm.

1. Been talked about. Depending on how it's handled, sure.
2. Who cares if people run single player SGs? It's been done since SGs were introduced, it doesn't hurt anyone.
3. Eh.
4. Not needed. And this is coming from someone who likes running multiform Kheldians.Hell, I have characters with TOO MANY slots. Besides, wait for the INcarnate system.
5. Some, yes, some, no.
6. Nobody uses them now, so some love here would be fine.
8. Asked for before. We'll see.
9. AKA a "bug." And it's not just firefox. I've been checking on it with Chrome and it happens here too.
10. Eh.
11. I do. It's fun. Though I've already proposed DA and Creys Folly revamps (and a multi-issue Boomtown revamp,) as have others.
12. They tried it. It ended up badly affecting the server they tested it on, as well as became a victim of feature creep. It got pushed back to "sometime."
13. See multiple threads. See Jay's Costume Request threads.
14. See other threads.
15. No. Boring. Epic = tied to a story, and frankly, there are other far more interesting areas to investigate with an EAT. And ones that wouldn't have to be tied to a faction. (Coralax, Blood of the Black stream - both mentioned LONG ago, BOTBS still being pushed on occasion by Castle - and some want Rikti.)
16. Eh.
17. Don't really care.
18. You know that little thing called "Praetoria?" Not to mention tip missions being from 20-50? Cimerora (35-50?) They do spread it out.
19. See 15.
20. No. It's an anti-botting measure.
21. Eh.
22. Wait and see.
23. Asked for before. Wouldn't mind.

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Just commenting on ones I have an opinion on.

1. Offline SG invites. I know this has been discussed to death, but it's still at the top of the list.

Totally with you on this one.

3. An in-game build editor similar to Mid's. Create your builds, modify, tweak, etc...then load up the respec screen and simply hit "apply build"

Please yes.

4. More slots! WE don't even get HALF of the total amount of possible slots we could potentially use. If it were changed to simply getting 3 slots at ALL slot levels, that would be a very welcome increase, and not game breaking either. (I believe this would only result in 15 extra slots) Or maybe give us a way to EARN more slots? That would help the game in more ways than one. (It would get people out of AE, which would also result in more drops/more items on the market)

Yes it would be game breaking. No on this one.

5. For the love of god, can you PLEASE rework all the level 1-40 Hero side contacts?

Maybe not all contacts, but at least lower the amount of hunts and forcing people to zone 3 times to talk to one person only to have to run all the way back to the original contact.

6. Increase Titan-O's to dropping at the characters level range. As it stands right now, limiting them to level 40 has made them worthless. Or make them like IO's, so that they can't be outleveled. And on that note, maybe also make it so you don't have to be between levels 39-41 to start the Eden Trial?

Eden trial, so agree.


10. NO MORE EMOTE ONLY BOOSTERS!
I agree but if others buy the hell out of emote boosters then we will see more of them. Best way to prevent this is to not buy what you dont like.

15. Longbow and Vanguard Epic Archetypes.
Nothing fancy about either of those. They just use existing sets that are out there already.


18. PLEASE stop packing so much new content into the 20-29 and 40-50 level ranges! Give 30-39 some more lovin, please???


20: Allow multiple auto powers. For example: Hasten, Secondary Mutation, and Practiced Brawler

At best would have to limit this to 1 pool power and 1 other power.

21: Access to Safeguards/Mayhems via Ouro

Yes please. Quite annoying to get the low level badges if you switch sides.

22: (Suggestion may be met with I19, not sure yet) Add a way to acquire all Praetorian Badges through Ouro.

23: Rename SG option. (Even if it's a paid feature)[/QUOTE]
Yes please. Sometimes the leader quits and you no longer want to be associated with that name. Currently there is no way to change it unless it is offensive in nature and get genericed.

the only way i can see #3 happening is if it is power selection and slots only. no io's/so's. i'll get back about the rest later.

oh, and NO to #4.