Книга жалоб и предложений разработчикам
Материал из Энциклопедия EverQuest II
С 08 октября по 03 ноября командой "Энциклопедии EverQuest II" проводился сбор пожеланий от игроков для "Книги жалоб и предложений разработчикам". Проект вызвал огромный резонанс, форум и страничку в вики посещали более 15000 раз, а количество сообщений превысило несколько сотен. Всю опубликованную информацию по-прежнему можно увидеть на странице обсуждения в википедии и на форуме компании-локализатора.
Ниже приводится перевод сообщений, который размещен в специальной ветке официального форума разработчиков. Будем надеяться, что самые новаторские идеи буду реализованы в самой игре и она станет еще лучше и интереснее :)
Art, visual effects, character appearance
Zone art
- There’s no seasons like winter, summer etc. in the game. Would be great to have it in common zones like Antonica, Commonlands etc.
- Character select screen needs some new art – some people voted for the version with the ship, while others ask for something fresh
Character appearance
- Long-time problem with hairs under the caps, hats etc. Also need more new haircuts.
- Long-time problem with torn arms when a char jumps.
- Add some class specific adjustments to humanoid races – mages shouldn’t be the same body-builders like fighters for example.
- Sarnaks need something to cover their heads with. If there are some technical problems due to their shape – add race specific items.
- Barbarian and dwarf females should have a smaller chest (they tend to fall forward or have to lean back all the time), while gnome ladies would appreciate at list something popping up form their flat bodies. Why not to make it customized when a character is created?
- Glasses, whiskers etc. Ratongas lose their whiskers putting on a hood, gnomes lose glasses under hoods but have it above Halloween mask and assassin’s class helm.
- Add “sleeping” pose for chars – they can stand, sit and move in different ways but can’t lay down nicely unless when killed
- Fae and Arasai should better stand on the flying carpets, not hover over them
- More fun skills with the appropriate art – mages studying books, bards playing musical instruments…
Illusions
- Need to add fae and arasai illusions
- Add new quest series to get a vampire look. It shouldn’t be a completely different appearance but specific changes to the existing one – reddish eyes, pale skin, bigger canine teeth
- Long-time problem with illusions not being displayed while riding mounts.
- Make the fun illusions always displayed over the class illusions, or make it customable. Now a fury keeps wolf/tiger shape even after putting on the Halloween scarecrow illusion.
- Add illusions for certain body parts – like a claw or hook replacing one arm, wooden leg etc.
- Give players more monster illusions – dragons, wargs etc…
Equipment
- Class specific visual armor sets. Acquired from class mentors or thru completing quest series.
- Class specific mounts, i.e. daemonic horse for necromancers, wolf (not warg) or bear for druids, pegasus for paladins etc.
- More mounts from the EQII bestiary – manticores, elephants, viverns, spiders. That would better fit the role-playing needs of the gamers.
- While hovering thru zones let the flying chars or those on flying carpets not to use the standard mounts (sokokars, griffons etc.) but hover on their own.
- New faction outfit
- More of a pirate-style items
- More of the dark soul items – with blood, skulls etc.
- Wings from the Shard of Love – add some varieties in different colors
- Give females characters high-hill s shoes please. And the footwear that is not ugly looking with dresses
- Self-dyed cloths
- Make the jewellery visible on the toons. Female characters will appreciate it greatly, some males too.
- Please remove class specific constrains for appearance wear. A great robe from Varsoon fits mages only, brawlers have awesome kimonos – make the stuff available for all.
- Add masks that would cover the whole face, just upper (Zorro-style) or lower part, left or right half of the face (Phantom of the opera style). Make them rare, expensive, high-lvl only but not class restricted.
- Madj’Dul stile wear. Add new recipes for those grate jackets and turbans.
- Give the toons shorts to wear.
- Would be great to have not only cloaks but also shields with the guild heraldry.
- The Guild Strategist flags would look much better with the guild heraldry on.
- Deity cloaks should be reworked to become more or less equal and desirable for wear
- Please add more options to place unused weapon and armor in the player’s houses or GH. Probably adding mannequins and special displays for that is not a bad idea.
Spells
- Jester’s Cap should have an appropriate animation – something like a semitransparent cap on the spell target, not the caster.
Items
Availability
- Make the TSO torsos and pants smart loot
- More friendly smart loot code – many times parties in Ward of Elements get mage caps but can’t receive those for bards/druids/ Brawlers
- Please consider a possibility to progressively increase the drop rates for loot items. For example, for the first time kill there’s a standard drop rate applied, after the 10th kill add an additional 10% chance added, after the 100th visit to the same zone the drop rate should be standard+50% etc. This mechanics will help those who have to raid the same nameds dozens of times to get the desirable item and what happens now is that sometimes the item doesn’t drop even after 100 kills.
- Make some items true rare with such a small drop rate that there shouldn’t be more that a couple of such things per server. The items can be anything – appearance cloths, armor and weapon, quest starters, recipes etc.
- Let the merchant sell the high-end items for the void shards – the price could be 300-500 shards but that’s the only way to compete with the randomizer that sometimes completely ignores players’ needs even after dozens of raids.
- Add to the encounter’s loot tables some very nice furniture like the items that could have been obtained from TSO zones
- Add to the loot tables some nice adornments. Would be great if they also added some visual effects to the equipment.
- Make progressively upgraded items in the game – when a master crafted piece could have several higher tiers achieved by completing special quests. Also same suggestion for visual versions, e.g. plain chest plate->ornate chest plate->chest plate with additional tiles etc.
Heirloom
- Add heirloom tag to the items from lore collections
- Add heirloom tag to the commission crafted items
- Remove the No-Trade tag from all the items in the game
- Add a special item to turn attuned equipment into its original state
Usability
- Please consider making items with manually triggered effects to work from the inventory so that they don’t need to be put on to activate the spell
- The items that fit more than one slot (ear/finger) could have two adornments with the effects from each being active only in a certain slot
Storage
- Please make a special bag for quest items. After completing a quest the related item should disappear, turn into a placeble house item or just move to a normal bag.
- Another suggestions regarding the quest items – make them not items but special objects on a separate tab in the quest journal. They can be activated\auto-used from there leaving more free space in the inventory.
- Please make the quest items disappear after completing the related quests or at least change their color
- Add some boxes for specific types of the items that can be placed in banks
- Please add special containers for collection items and fuel
- Make the spell books stackable on broker
House/GH items
- Would be nice to get an option to turn petrified eyes and other illusions into mannequins that can be dressed up like the ordinary mannequins
- Books – there are tons of books in the game, so it would be great to introduce specific quests like getting a special bookcase for obtaining all Legend and Lore books, same for tome collections, maybe for some other types of books as well. The books themselves should be automatically removed from the storage and placed into the bookcases.
- Books – another option. Instead of bookcases the full sets of books could be changed for a single one, maybe with a unique design, pictures etc.
- Please make the way to store the books in the house without spending hours on trying to line them up. Maybe to add a special type of storage boxes where the books can be dropped and then the box would get a visual of a bookcase with tomes on its shelves.
- Add signboards to the game so not only custom voice messages could be used but visual ones as well .
- Please change the title scrolls to the signboards so they can be placed on the walls and seen by visitors
- Add user created gift cards
- Add wallpapers so the player houses could get much more varieties
- Please make the carpets attachable not only to the floors but to the ceilings as well
- Make all the heritage quests rewards be placeble at home
- More interaction with the house furniture – sitting on chairs, sleeping on beds etc. Also resting at home could give a fluffy buff to a toon.
- Add mannequins in different postures, with weapon in arms or whatsoever
- Add more different looks for players written books
Revamps
- Please revamp the adornments to make them useful
- The two-handed weapon is of no use at the moment. It should get considerable improvements to make players leave aside their epics and use two-handed items instead. Some ideas: melee weapons are known to be great against any armor – let it have a chance to ignore encounter’s defense; mage’s staffs are good to block the hits – let it increase the wearer’s defense.
- Make the tier 1-6 legendary items better than master crafted
