Up to 5 SIMPLE things you would like to see implemented.

[saladasalad]

Examples:
"When in third person view, zooming in to one notch over the max will now switch camera to first person. Zooming out of first person will switch to the last used camera mode."
(Nicer camera handling.)

"If moving items inside container, no need to check for weight/size restrictions."
(You couldn't move heavy or big items within a sack to another slot, but you had to move it to your inventory first)

"Stamina now regenerates faster when sitting."
(It's realistic, as you rest more.)

"where the last used spell wasn't highlighted in spells window after window reload."
(The last spell you used is now highlighted in the Spellbook when you open it.)

That gave me another idea:

2. After each server rebuild, add new MOTDs with the new features and bug fixes. It would make people more aware of the work that the team is doing and might encourage more people to report bugs and test them.

[Manar]

Hmm, five simple things?  Despite the whole thread, how diffuclt can it be?


1. Increase the complexity allowed in sketches.
Should be pretty simple.  ~200 lines just isn't enough for good maps.  A decent outline of the temple is more than 40 lines already.
2. Show guild and rank in player descriptions.
You can already find out what guild people belong to, and what position they hold, through the labels and /who.
The player's description seems like a logical place to show them.
3. Save sitting state when logging out/in.
Right now you're always standing when you log back in.
I don't know how difficult this is, and it's not very important, but it'd be a nice touch, I think.
4. Trade while sitting.
You can't trade while you're sitting.
This is pretty irritating when you're sitting around a table and want to pass the salt.  Well, or a mushroom, newspaper, etcetera.
5. Tweak the foliage system.
There's already a foliage system in PS, but it's only used around the temple, where the grass doesn't blend in particuarly well with the texture below it.
This one is probably a bit beyond 'simple', but it could really use some attention.


Hmm, well, that wasn't that hard.

[pjv]

1/2/3/4: I think chatting with NPC should become less frustrating. The problem mostly is that you don't know if the problem is that you have it wrong or that the NPC doesnt understand your form of english (which seems to be very much related to typography and habits). For instance none of my keyboard accents (quotes) work in the game and I think I might have gotten stuck because of this several times.

What about putting an A.L.I.C.E. artificial intelligence chatting bot behind every NPC as back-end? It could run on the same server ofcourse but just use a different knowledge base for each NPC. This roleplaying virtual knowledge base would have to be created anyway since it currently has a real world knowledge base. Players could be asked, when asking a question, to either:
a) Do nothing and certainly don't input any garbage, when the answer is not satisfactory and they don't have the knowledge themselves, or if the answer was fine.
b) Write a little line that will be kept in the database if they have the knowledge themselves and the answer wasn't satisfactory.
Since every player has his login this could be done in a wiki-ish style where previous states of a certain item of knowledge could be restored and current ones could be edited. For instance all these annoying:
Asking Harnquist:
Player# Who is Jayose?
Harnquist# What? Could you say that again?
Could become:
Player# Who is Jayose?
Harnquist# I don't know, who is Jayose?
Player# I don't know either. <hangup>

Player# Who is Jayose?
Harnquist# I don't know, who is Jayose?
Player# Jayose is the librarian.
Player# Who is Jayose?
Harnquist# Jayose works in the library.

I for one would certainly enter text fragments like these if it was part of the game experience. The current hardcoded(?) entries of knowledge could be kept preceding the AI back-end.

5: I think there were quite some demands for a more balanced economy. Now this seems something that's not practically realizable. To have good gold prices, there would need to be something like a central bank that would make decisions to prevent inflation etc. For this you would need a bunch of players whose job is bookkeeping, banking, stock trading,... In other words you would end up making a copy of the (not even proven stable) real world economy and would just introduce back into the game all those boring jobs that we all are escaping from in the first place.

[Jeraphon]

Why are people so hung up about using chatbots? Seriously, that's like the opposite of "simple."

[Crj]

I hope my wishes are simple enough 

1) When doing quests NPCs should give back items of interest if the conversation about that item is interupted.
2) Make description windows larger and the font smaller.

[Jeraphon]

I hope my wishes are simple enough 

1) When doing quests NPCs should give back items of interest if the conversation about that item is interupted.
2) Make description windows larger and the font smaller.

#1 is tougher than you think.

I actually like #2. Those description fonts are pretty big. At least, certainly big in comparison to the communication window.

[Nikodemus]

2) Wish granted

[ThomPhoenix]

Some wishes here.

Now those are good wishes, good job Manar!

[Xanthan]

#5 show weight and trias in info window so we don't have to keep opening and closing the inventory window just to see this.

[Rapid Demon]

1.  A chat bubble for married couples.
2.  Better loot for the gladiators in the arena. (Cause fish get old really fast)
3.  A new area to explore (Not sure how easy that will be, but I'm dying for a new city )

[Rapid Demon]

A new area is definitely not easy. If it were, we'd have lots of them everywhere. But it takes planning, modeling, texturing, and a lot of settings work to put it together.

What do you mean with "chat bubble for married couples"?

Well, I'm married in the game, and if we're not in the same area, it'd be nice if we didn't have to uses tells to talk, being that we don't have a guild and all of our friends usually invite us to a group.  It'd be a really nice, easy way to stay in touch with your better half.

[Karyuu]

I really don't see how chat bubbles are a solution to this - they appear above your characters. Besides, it's really not that big of a deal to use /tells if you're only contacting one person. Is there really a need for something else?

[Rapid Demon]

I really don't see how chat bubbles are a solution to this - they appear above your characters. Besides, it's really not that big of a deal to use /tells if you're only contacting one person. Is there really a need for something else?

Haha, I didn't really mean bubbles, more like a tab?  But you're right, it's not that big a deal, but it would be nice.

[Usiell]

i agree with the married couples chat tab, with my wife it is often hard for us to communicate effectivly due to friends and guild chat, would be really perfect to have a tab that was just us 

[Karyuu]

Use tells people! A chat tab just to talk to a single person is way too much.