Curse

Luis · Jan 21, 2007, 10:48 PM // 22:48

After you beat the game what will you do? Capture some elites, get 100% map, do Protector and that's all. I want something, where we can spend our time during the game. That's the occupation. We could do some extra missions and get some rewards. The Elona is a great place to place this idea. I have thought about 3 types of occupation. Let me explain:

Istan - corsairs; when we join them, we could do some thief & spy missions, which can reward much, but there is a risk, that we will be caugh, which would lower our reputation on the terrain of this country (reputation system). Reward: we could buy a boat and we could swim to any outpost (which we visited) that is near sea. The boat also would be our place to gather to treasures.

Kourna - army; when we join them we could become one of the huge army and battle with other player or monster armies. The battles would last long and they won't be easy to end in one day. Reward: abbility to remake the greatest historical battles (such as Battle for Jahai).

Vabbi - merchants; after we join them we would have access to Gambling Districts where we could play in games a'la Las Vegas. The players will gain "Gambling Levels" which will be a good money source. Reward: when we will win/gain enough money we will be granted by access to the Housing Districts, where we could buy a house. The house would have the status of the huge storage place, thus we could decorate it of course. After we gain enough money we can upgrade its status (Flat -> House -> Mansion -> Palace/Castle).

Velentine Hath · Jan 21, 2007, 10:54 PM // 22:54

/Signed

This is a great idea, i would love for Anet to introduce this into the game.

Ghee Warmaster · Jan 22, 2007, 01:29 AM // 01:29

/signed

Awesome idea. It would add much more to do then the usual hack/slash/repeat of farming.

Senrath · Jan 22, 2007, 01:32 AM // 01:32

/signed

I'd love to see this happening, but unfortunately I don't see this happening. The closest I see would be for it to come in a later chapter, due to the magnitude of this entire thing.

In otherwords, I'd love to see this, but I doubt it will happen any time soon, if at all.

Phantom Flux · Jan 22, 2007, 01:43 AM // 01:43

This is awesome, especially the Vabbi Merchant Idea. In the flat/house/etc, we could have a closet for our armors.

Aegeroth · Jan 22, 2007, 04:11 AM // 04:11

I think the Vabbi Gambling idea would increase the Game Rating, because its illegal for minors to gamble.

Priest Of Sin · Jan 22, 2007, 04:32 AM // 04:32

let's not call it gambling, let's call it "creatively learning about economics through repeated consumption of alcoholic beverages and inserting money into a stranger's underpants"

/signed

drakun01 · Jan 22, 2007, 04:39 AM // 04:39

I can sort of see the Army one, which is a great idea. However, the ship and houses and gambling don't sit too well with me for some reason.
Definatly great though!

/signed

holababe · Jan 22, 2007, 05:10 AM // 05:10

It won't get added to Elona because the devs don't do any major additions to previous chapters.

And your 'reputation system' - don't you think that you should explain it in this thread, because your first suggestion revolves around it.

Luis · Jan 22, 2007, 10:07 AM // 10:07

@holababe
I think, that explaining "reputation system" in new thread will be better, because the Occupation - Corsairs only revolves around it. Soon I will write topic "PvE Idea: (international) Reputation System & Birthplace".

Angel Netherborn · Jan 22, 2007, 10:11 AM // 10:11

While I kinda like some of it, due to the obvious size and complexity of your suggestions, I'm positive nothing will happen. Small changes and improvements are possible; huge additions are not. Especially after the DoA update.

Aeon_Xin · Jan 22, 2007, 10:45 AM // 10:45

You know, I came up with the reason I didn't like it, and the improvements that could be made, and well, it turned into a seperate IDea.

I don't like that it's NF only. Owning a house and decorating it is a little outside of the scope of GW. Plenty of other RPG's have that or similar already.

All I would support, is a place to gamble(available to everyone, or a seperate one per box version) to work on lucky and unlucky titles, and that's where my other idea evolves.

Ralli Pemirl · Jan 26, 2007, 08:06 PM // 20:06

I like the general occupation concept. Of the three mentioned, I think the corsair is the most interesting. Other than the gambling, though, these look just like more quests, which - if they keep our interest - we would eventually finish. It's like an expansion for the expansion which would eventually also be old news.

I must say I love fishing/herbalism/etc. in WOW - its the reason I paid monthly fees for the game, so I'd love to see GW find something along those lines. Extra storage and a better trading system would probably be necessary, but hopefully they are working toward implimenting those anyway.

Other occupations:

Sorcery -making fun time-limited buff potions. These could turn players into animals, large and small, (using different recipes and ingredients) or randomly created chars wearing their clothes, or fun costumes. It could all be temporary. The recipes could be purchased like skills, and the ingredients would lead to complicated treasure hunts.

Prospecting/Archeology/Digging for treasure: In respawnable areas like locked chest, people could dig for artifacts and treasures. They could find pages of old manuscripts, lots of vendorable junk, and occassional good drops. We'd go crazy trying to find missing pieces if the whole picture was interesting enough.

Dancing/Acrobatics Just for fun we could spend gobs of money at NPC trainers to learn new emotes, dances and acrobatic stunts.

I would love to see fishing, cooking, herbalism, etc. which are in WOW, but I know that would be copying. Maybe others will come up with more options just as good.