Revaulting wrote on Oct 11^th, 2014 at 11:07am:


Brilliant. Well done!

I think that the end-game raids should all be compatible, too. But your idea is definitely better than my previous one.

5 Foot Step wrote on Oct 12^th, 2014 at 3:30am:

All it really takes would be one 

Viktor Vaughn wrote on Oct 7^th, 2014 at 2:28pm:


yeah no shit man.. do they even think some of this through..? i nominate viktor and shadehater for PC. bc obviously the ones there fucking hate us.

DropBear wrote on Oct 19^th, 2014 at 4:55am:



there has to be an easier way to get a larger viewpoint across to the devs. it seems we are basically represented like a wierd democracy. and there would need to be a way to filter out the opinions that werent thought out as viable. bc obviously alot of people love this game and would like to see it succeed further. and maybe set a few standards for the genre. corporate capitalistic failings aside, is there yet hope for ddo?

hikari shinji wrote on Oct 19^th, 2014 at 3:54am:



As if we had any say in term of choices like Saga or not Saga... Shinji Kun.

To give you an idea this is what we were given as choice for Orchard :

- Werewolves or not  Werewolves ?
- The Named items to comment ( they were revised 4 times before going to Lamania Forum )
- The backstory of the raid. ( note : not the raid mechanism, just the story that goes with the raid )
- Oh and the Paladin stuff.

Tell me where Saga comes into play here ?

Once again, we are a panel that gets to give feedback on things shown us.
But Turbine does as they wish... if they want to force feed the game with something about which we said : Hell No! they can do it, and we have absolutely no power to force them to stop it.

Since you've taken such a nice sockpuppet name Shinji Kun, you must know how it is to be powerless in front of events/things.

As for nominating people to the PC, they don't get nominated : But people can apply, since this year PC tenure ends in 2 Months, there's going to be a new round soon.

Flav wrote on Oct 19^th, 2014 at 6:26am:



One thing I love reading about this Flav, you actually see how it is. ML was exactly the same

This is why I push so hard for Lamm. Then everyone can see how it is.

Meli wrote on Oct 19^th, 2014 at 6:36am:


haha thats when the char copy IS working and you dont get any errors loading the client. THEN you can play on lamm. sorry i cant beta test a game for someone for free then pay them to play it when they release it as a post alpha pre beta phase even worse than what was tested.

hikari shinji wrote on Oct 19^th, 2014 at 6:32am:



It's not hard, once upon a time Eva was The Anime everybody a bit in that knew about.


Don't get your hope too high... Actually don't gets any hope... That would be more in character with your sockpuppet, because we tried very hard to push for changes...

as I stated somewhere, we tried to get them to work on a coherent, revamped rebuild all encompassing crafting system based on Greensteel/Cannith and Alchemical....
And they pulled the rug under us by adding Thundergorged... yet another new and completely unrelated system...

This is just one of the multiple examples we tried to push.

Flav wrote on Oct 19^th, 2014 at 6:48am:

you can hope in one hand...
the combined system idea is genius, but would never work because of "legacy" coding right? or am i wrong there?

hikari shinji wrote on Oct 19^th, 2014 at 6:16am:


The PC concept is a good one.
As I have always said, it depends on how it is implemented.
Unfortunately, they don't report to a Producer - they report to the lowest member in the DDO food chain, the incompetent community manager who likely filters out any dissension or comments that might hurt dev feelings.

So feedback is given as:
"That's great, but here a few problems I see with the proposal...."
Here's what the devs likely see:
"That's great!"

If you get a representative sample of players, you are going to get differing opinions - which is great if you are capable of making decisions.
For those who are not and hide in corporate structures, you hire a bunch of grads and "yes-people" and then every decision you make is popular and no-one ever tells you something did not work.

They need to see balanced arguments around concepts and major changes - not the fucking back story to a raid. 9/10's of the players couldn't give a toss.  Yet the actual raid itself and how it works - critical to its success is kept away from the PC.
The Turdbine team are muppets - by association if not direct involvement.  They have an amazingly loyal and motivated gamer base who would do almost anything to improve the game they love, and they don't use it.  When the community make a quiet respectful protest, the Community mgr mocks them - what an idiot, and then she gets promoted.

They treat all of us like stupid marks - the Fernando mentality permeates throughout the orgn.

Yes they're a business - I understand that.  But engaging with a loyal player base need not be mutually exclusive with profitability.
And when you need to make unpopular changes (nerfs), if you have the support of most of the player base, they will grumble but understand if you explain it honestly!

Turdbine do nothing right when it comes to customers and community. From what I see on the outside and hear from inside, I've never seen a worse run orgn and the only reason they survive is they jagged some good IP.  Hardly a recipe for success.

Flav wrote on Oct 19^th, 2014 at 6:48am:

Because the orgn is dysfunctional.
Individuals are allowed to pursue personal agendas (their CV's) at the expense of the game.
The only Dev I see working coherently appears to be Sev who seems to want to unify and simplify various systems which could have many benefits to future expandability as well as server loads.
But who knows, maybe that's for his CV too.

What should be happening is a Producer to take pride in the system and begin tidying up the legacy stuff and inject new life into the game.  Content yeah - but get the systems sorted out and crafting could be an important part of the game for many players.

Instead, we have a rolling replacement schedule of Producers who can't cope or don't care as they update their CV's.
The devs are given free rein to do whatever they like and who gives a stuff what the player response is? They won't be around to deal with it.

There is no sign of coherent structure to all the changes - no clear plan if you will.  Lots of changes just seem haphazard.
I'd like to think the class enhancements were structured and planned, but even that is iffy.

For awhile, I think some of us thought MajMal might make a difference as Producer, but that was a short lived disappointment.

hikari shinji wrote on Oct 19^th, 2014 at 6:52am:

Nothing needs to be as complicated as integrating crafting systems. Just add a trade-in to the next new crafting thing they pull out of their asses. That trade-in can let you "downgrade" the new ings, colls, what-have-you, into ings from the previous system. Ask whatever exorbitant trade price they want. Done.

If they want to get fancy, allow a trade-in for even older ings. No need to touch the old crafting interfaces.

Leave special stuff like shards of power, and greensteel & alchemical blanks alone. That stuff is clearly too complicated for their puny dev brains to fathom.