Drastis' World II Suggestions
Hello everyone,
I am new to BS and so far I am enjoying it! I've been playing/developing/managing RSPS for 7+ years now and hopefully some of the suggestions I bring to the table can make it into the game. If this thread gains enough traction, I will more than likely keep adding to it as I play. If not, I'll make separate threads with less suggestions to give feedback on at a time. I have also added a poll to respond to for each individual suggestion.
1. ;; Commands: I've noticed that there aren't any ;; commands that can be used for the purpose of in-game features/content. By no means am I saying add so many commands that the wizard is completely useless, however I feel as if ;;train, ;;shops, ;;staff, and other commands of this nature would only benefit the community and server. I would be more than willing to compile a full list of commands that I feel would be useful to players if need be!
Summary: Make more :: commands
2. Donating/Donator Benefits: Battlescape has been around for awhile. That being said, there is no question about the servers ability to thrive. I looked into the way the donation system works and feel like changing how the donation system works could positively impact the server in all aspects. Instead of using bonds to purchase items in the store, make the bonds give a permanent membership. In fact, remove "membership" from the equation. If someone donates to keep this project alive, their status should be permanent. The only thing that should change is their donator level, and not just with a hat signifying how many bonds they've used.
Summary: Do away with Gold Membership, and use the traditional donator status set-up (Can still be made unique to BattleScape).
Donations Cont: Instead of using bonds to purchase items, add the Donator Bonds to the store along with the other items (Mystery Boxes, ROW, Outfits, Seed Box, etc), purchasable by donator points/coins/tokens/platinum (whatever you'd like to call them) I personally think BS Platinum sounds nice. Make the bonds anywhere from $10-$20, and permanent!
Summary Cont:Increase the price of a bond and put them in the store with other items that can be purchased with real money. Create a donator currency.
3. Teleport Wizard: The Teleport Wizard is obviously the way to go as far as getting around on a RSPS. However, the Teleport Wizard could use a revamp. The layout seems to have no organization to it other than the specific group that the teleports are apart of. I would love to help with this!
Summary: Revamp the Teleport Wizard
4. Player Death outside of Wilderness: If you're making players pay to retrieve their trade-able items to fight against AFKing, I could somewhat understand the purpose of this. If not, then I don't. The money sink aspect of this wouldn't make sense either. Deaths outside of the wilderness should be 100% safe deaths. Give players ALL of their items back, except for untrade-ables. That is where you would have an NPC to reclaim them.
Summary: Do away with trade-able item reclaiming after PVM deaths outside of the wilderness. Introduce an NPC for Non-tradeables only (Fire Cape, Defender, Avas, Etc).
5. Yell: I was informed that yell was staff only. Tying into my donation suggestion, donators should be able to yell, and the higher your donator status is, the less of a cooldown you'll have in-between yells. The 'Battlescape' CC should be used to assist newer players/players without clans/players that aren't donators, and act as a "help" CC. Yell adds a perk to the donator status, meaning more incentive to donate!
Summary: Make ;;yell donators+. This alone will make more players donate.
6. Teleporting in Combat: For locations outside of the wilderness, players should be able to teleport during combat without using a glory as long as the death is a safe death. There is no use restricting how long it takes to teleport after the NPC has died either.
Summary: Take away the log-out/teleport timer while fighting NPCs in safe areas.
Thank you guys for reading! Please leave your feedback in the comments or simply respond to the polls!
EDIT: I did not set up the poll how I would have liked for it to work. If you agree with the suggestion. Simply vote for it.
