andrew_mal posted:
3- no vent or team speak tools allowed (I know impossible to enforce).
There is a huge difference between the impossible and the difficult. The above suggestion is not difficult to enforce, it is
impossible to enforce. Because the suggestion is impossible to enforce it is just a fantasy.
andrew_mal posted:
4- a group fill tool, much like the one we have where you can fill it in and auto fill group- this would be an option to allow the more casual players to fill groups and with an option to flag for the class you need.
Maybe even choose how many players you want in your group 2-8 and maybe even you could choose realm ranks in filter too.
Lots of fun pugs. You could of course make your own groups.
An easy way to fill groups would be a good thing for the game.
Mythic’s existing LFG system seems to have been designed by someone who hated the idea of a LFG system but was forced to make one anyway, so they built something that had almost no useful features and almost no one uses it.
For a decade now I have advocated a better and more comprehensive LFG system with quest helper features, where groups that are forming would be auto-ported to a staging area, etc. . . . Mythic has never seemed to consider it of much importance. . . . but they have always been prone to egocentric stupidity.
andrew_mal posted:
5- Maybe we could even copy characters over or they give existing player 2 free 50s
6- I think there is a big gap what puts new players off and casual player will find it hard to compete vs set groups who vent up/TS and play most nights.
7- I think thats why we see atleast 1/3 of the player base playing steathers.
Guess I longing for the old days, I could just log on and get a group for a few hours on me cleric.
You are correct that there is a huge min/max problem in DAoC. Even with the game having a huge min/max challange, more easy-mode is not what the game needs. It would seem that suggestions 5 through 7 are based on a faulty paradigm.
Easy-mode has done far more harm to the game than it has done good. The game does not need free level 50s. Giving free level 50s is so faulty in so many different ways. . . sorry but it is not a good suggestion.
The more easy-mode that is put into the game the smaller the population. Players do not ‘NEED’ easy-mode. Yes players may spout that they ‘want’ easy-mode changes but most people yell for things that are selfishly self-destructive. Unfortunately over the years Mythic seems to have given in to Mythic’s own egocentric selfishly self-destructive urges.
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