Viktor Vaughn wrote on Oct 10^th, 2014 at 10:24am:


You volunteered yours already. Did she bite? Was it good? Can she support a meager hobo lifestyle with the earnings from it should she be pimped off for a quarter an hour?

kum-gulp wrote on Oct 10^th, 2014 at 11:01am:

I read this as a reply to this:

NOTSunnyshadow wrote on Oct 10^th, 2014 at 10:34am:

NOTSunnyshadow wrote on Oct 10^th, 2014 at 10:21am:


poor little clueless NotSunny thinks I was talking about sex. You probably wouldn't even recognize a vagina if u saw one.

Angry wrote on Oct 10^th, 2014 at 11:49am:

I dont see how it is ironic.
You need dick, dont you?

Why you dont need it?

Viktor Vaughn wrote on Oct 8^th, 2014 at 10:26am:


No difference between new and old quests, everything turbine does lately is the same quest over and over: go in, kill everything on way to boss, kill boss, loot chest, recall.
New quests means new favor, and that's all.

Zandos wrote on Oct 10^th, 2014 at 11:10pm:


Through a mirror darkly=scavenger hunt (Zelda: a link to the past style)
Lines of supply=tower defense
Precious cargo=ship combat
Prove your worth=puzzles
Ghost of a chance=boss is optional (Who can resist fighting MajMal though?)
Haunted halls=classic module port
Study in sable=mysterious mystery!

I wouldn't say they aren't trying.

Do we even know who is in charge of DDO?
Who is boss?

Viktor Vaughn wrote on Oct 11^th, 2014 at 5:28am:


I don't know. DDO Producer is a revolving door position that I'm not sure entails anything other than writing uplifting state-of-the-game posts once a year.

You know companies are in trouble when their turnover rate is high, especially with the managerial jobs, and no one tries to unify company vision. Not saying the game will fail, just saying the company itself seems to have an . . . unusual corporate culture that doesn't lend itself to greatness.

Asheras wrote on Oct 9^th, 2014 at 10:37am:


I think your idea would work fine, esp. w/epic reincarnation.

But, yuck! We'd need each need a database to figure out what to do. And you'd have to have all the packs to complete an item.

Even just being able to trade between crafting systems would be nice - they wouldn't have to totally rework it the way you outline, but either:

1. add a conversion so that all mats can be made to fit all crafting systems (various costs determined by frequency of mats, etc)

or

2. change all mats to a select few types. These then, in different quantities, make stuff from any quest line. And all the crafting systems would then have to be streamlined according to this system, along with mats given out per quest, etc.

I guess either of these would allow players to simply save up their mats from low levels and then, boom, item finished. You could get around that by making lower level items a lot cheaper, with higher level ones very expensive (and maybe even tiering the universal loot, such that some mats are only available at high levels) - and the quantity of mats being handed out varies by quest level (higher equals more).

But, whatever, it's never going to happen. They're just going to keep making diffuse and separate crafting systems - all of which, except for the top level stuff and the best twink gear, we'll forget.

Hiding wrote on Oct 11^th, 2014 at 5:59am:



It won't, unless the new system will cost more in the way of CoVs.    Making us use CoVs for crafting and other shit is how they keep the hearts selling.

5 Foot Step wrote on Oct 11^th, 2014 at 6:11am:


Oh, ok. So they can actually do stuff.

Ok, what's an "engineer" in the context of game development? I thought one of the devs said they design stuff, and then turn it over to an engineer. In my tiny mind I thought that meant they just make stuff up and then get the engineer to code it.

Thanks for your answer!  Clears up a lot. Wow, so we have...what, 3 real devs now? Or less? No wonder it's taking forever just for them to release the same quests at a higher level.