Wipe wrote on Jul 14^th, 2013 at 8:20pm:


I name them after what I load them with...  Crafting, NamedItems, Weapons...TRCache (dedicated to my main TR).

Has anyone mathed out how this will affect F2P? That is, I think it's still possible to cap at 25 with only the F2P quests (yes?), but with the repetition penalty and lack of free high level content, will it be possible to cap to 28? If not, then DDO can't really call itself F2P anymore, can it? I mean, I'm pretty sure I'll still renew my sub when it comes due in October, and if not I own everything except slots and bank space... Just curious if there's going to be a Freemium backlash with the cap raise and rep penalty.

OnePercenter wrote on Jul 14^th, 2013 at 6:30pm:


And that helps with BTC gear how again ?

Dickbutt wrote on Jul 15^th, 2013 at 9:07am:


Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. It seems to me that with current over-level penalties, that it wont be possible to level past 26 on F2P content alone. Add in the rep penalties and even getting to 26 will take 2 years less a day.

So my question for Maj et al is: Is this Turbine's intent? Are you leaning towards giving up on the F2P model? Do you think this new state of the game is really going to attract enough new money to make DDO viable going forward?

Personally, I would think that your repetition penalty plans should encourage players to become subscribers in order to be able to access all the content they need to be able to level. But since you then punitively charge extra for expansions that offer little to no new content like Shadowfail, you're effectively pushing those would-be subscribers away. If you are really re-thinking F2P/Subscription, I'd seriously take a look at how you charge vips for expansions, and at the very least make damn sure you're giving them/us the content we expect for the $ we pay.

Now here's a VIP benefit I'd think was worth the money: quest ransack allows 3x at each difficulty before degrading instead of 1x.

Bigjunk wrote on Jul 15^th, 2013 at 12:09pm:


Amen...

Bowserkoopa wrote on Jul 15^th, 2013 at 12:44pm:


I'm glad I never bothered upgrading my Twilight as it's looking like out-dated crap already.

Bigjunk wrote on Jul 15^th, 2013 at 1:38pm:



its turbine what else do you expect?

Looks like I should be spending moar time in the beta for other games.

sadface wrote on Jul 15^th, 2013 at 1:45pm:


One would hope they'd learn from their many mistakes.

I'm looking at 5 more necro DC between ENH pass and the 1 more INT from the level up. A +5 item is 7 more.  Thrown in an enervation SLA and necro might be back on the menu.

it's still addressing an issue in the dumbest way possible.

Latest on the xp nerf

[QUOTE=KookieKobold;5041707]Hey there folks, just an update about the placeholder values that are on Lamannia right now. 

Currently, the text that explains the values is bugged and is using old placeholder information.  The actual values we will be using on Lamannia are as follows and are closer to what we would actually go with:

XP Bonus on daily first run: +20%
XP Ransack per repeat:  -20%
XP Ransack caps off at -80%
XP Ransack regained per 18 hour "day" cycle: +50%
XP Ransack regained per other quest run: +0%

Please keep in mind that these are not final values, and we have not yet decided 100% on them. [/quote]

Also the +5 evocation item was a named item, I haven't looked to much into random lootgen etc.

Bowserkoopa wrote on Jul 15^th, 2013 at 2:44pm:


When have the "placeholder" numbers on Lamannia ever not gone live as-seen and all fucked up?