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Dynamic Duos: Offensive Fighter + Healer
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Everything Is Fixed,
So Now What?

By Dalmarus 

style="font-style: italic;">November 15th, 2007




This week I've decided to take a short break on our Dynamic Duo polls
in light of the interest/controversy over the style="font-weight: bold;"
href="http://forums.station.sony.com/vg/posts/list.m?topic_id=21665">Producer
Letter and href="http://forums.station.sony.com/vg/posts/list.m?start=630&topic_id=21665&#244096">follow-up
post by Thom Terrazas. If you don't understand a
term
or abbreviation I use here, please check our style="font-weight: bold;"
href="http://vanguard.tentonhammer.com/index.php?module=ContentExpress&file=index&func=display&ceid=135&meid=109">Game
Terms 101.



Thom nailed it on the head with one comment from his letter to the
community - "These are pretty exciting times right now for Vanguard." I
think everyone would agree that is a fair assessment of our current
position. The game feels like it's poised to start truly making some
headway and that, even in and of itself, is an exciting prospect to me.



Before anything is
discussed, this week's poll is contingent upon believing several
assumptions:



1) The game
has been optimized to the point that the majority of players are
experiencing average frame rates of 30FPS or better.



2) The
majority of bugs (most of the recent bugs, all the long-standing bugs)
within the game have been fixed.



3) The
Ancient Port Warehouse raid and permanent flying Griffon mounts have
gone live.



I realize the above items may be a wish list of sorts, but for the sake
of argument (and this poll) we're assuming they have been completed.
The big question this week is:

"What
feature or game mechanic would you like to see added or changed within
the game first?"

XP loss death penalty removed/altered

This week’s href="http://vanguard.tentonhammer.com/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=813">newsletter
revolved around it, href="http://ralsu.blogs.tentonhammer.com/?p=61">Ralsu’s
blog explored it, and it’s continuing to be
discussed on our forums href="http://forums.tentonhammer.com/showthread.php?t=20923">here.
Those three places alone should give you plenty to digest, but
here’s the basic breakdown – Some people feel the
xp loss adds incentive not to die, thus adding a level of excitement to
the game. Others feel that xp loss is not the way to handle death and
feel it is more detrimental to a player’s enjoyment than it
is motivational.

Alternate Abilities (AA's)

AA’s are a point system within EQ and EQ2 that continue to be
highly popular. They add a deep system of uniqueness to each class/race
with abilities ranging from various stat enhancers to extra abilities.
In EQ, they are reserved for high level players, while in EQ2 you begin
to accumulate them much earlier. If you choose this option in the poll,
please also explain whether you want to see them near the end game, or
earlier.

Relaxing side activities, such as fishing.

Sometimes it’s fun to just log on, grab a fishing pole, and
chat to your friends or guild mates while getting a little fishing in.
There are possible other uses for fishing in various games, but for the
sake of this poll, assume that it would not garner anything else in the
game other than time killed.

UI Improvements

Some people like the UI the way it is, others feel it needs a bit of
tweaking, and still others think it should be scrapped and rebuilt from
the ground up. Choose this if you feel it’s a better
alternative to using a third-party UI mod such as href="http://vanguard.tentonhammer.com/index.php?module=TTHUIRepository">Drox
or href="http://vanguard.tentonhammer.com/index.php?module=TTHUIRepository">Core.

Add loot rewards to the Legends of Norrath online card game
for Vanguard

I’ll freely admit that this one was added just because I want
it added at some point in time. While the cards and the lore would make
no sense, the game is a lot of fun, and I want to get in-game loot
rewards for it like our SOE partners in crime, EQ and EQ2.

Helmets!

Is there really much more to say with this? Especially if there
aren’t new hairstyles in the game before then?

Other

Obviously, I can’t cover every possible thing someone may
want to add. The only thing I ask is that if you choose
“Other”, please take the time to post what you want
that to be.

Now it's your turn.
Tell us what you want added/changed!
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IN OUR POLL!

What feature or
game mechanic would you like to see added or changed within the game
first?

Remove or change the XP Loss Death Penalty
I need my AA points Give me some relaxing side activities such as fishing The UI needs to be improved immediately Rewards for the Legends of Norrath card game
Helmets!
Other
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HERE
(this poll is always open)