Announcement Ask the CMs in English

@Zamvel7 Hi. Its a shame that we have to discuss ideas here rather than in the creative corner. I see no reason for an idea that is well liked that is 2 years old to disappear. It makes sense if the idea was deliberately closed off, but thats not the feeling i get. I bet there are some really good ideas in the general archive gone till someone raises the idea again; its a bad way of doing it. Why not have 20 pages of ideas in the creative corner?

What is your objection to changing the tab key function. It could negatively affect you if something else could be implemented instead, in which case i could object to just about every idea which BP implements, and that you are inconvenienced because you have to copy your skills over to the second set, which i assume will be blank if implemented. Thats the negative side, the positive side is that you get 6 new skill slots, for items/buffs/skills that you do not normally get to use. You can also use this to have two sets of skills, one for PVP, one for PVE, particualrly useful if you have premium with a second skill set configuration.

 

@taketh
again and thanks for giving another reason to tell you this is not the place to discuss new ideas, that's why creative corner is meant for.

So go there do your thread and we can share all of us our ideas.

@Haruki

I remember in previous twitch it was mentioned the artist leader would be doing some interviews and then post them on youtube...when is this going to happen?

Gracias

 

@Zamvel7 https://board-en.drakensang.com/threads/add-another-skill-slot-or-slot-for-health-potions.67886/

It is NOT a new idea, thats the point i am making. When i asked Haruki about it, i got the impression that the idea was not come across before. If the people at bigpoint look at these ideas and decide to postpone them or not do them, thats ok, but to ignore them when other ideas make it for consideration does not make sense to me. People who post ideas in the creative corner or the general forum are wasting their time, just post them here, or in facebook, or the other ways in which the ideas make it to the suggestion box.

 

are you sure you have put unic on this game? is a real desaster..... nothing in 30 run on this ******* boss kara.

 

We already pointed out this silly concept of "gaming experience". BP replies that it's part of random-drop system.
Then, we exposed our (players) concerns about imbalance of drops: take 100 players, BP see that server is dropping 5 uniques in 1 hour (not real numbers, take it as example). That's good from BP point of view.
But, looking at real distribution, you can realize that 1 player dropped 5 uniques and 99 players wasted time. So we suggested to at least verify real drops against this particular aspect, not only from the top-level visibility.

In the meantime, i can assure that they nerfed the drop rate from Karabossa and Vargulf event bosses. Bell curves tell truth about it, even if they insist to say nothing about.

 

the drop of this games is not really funny,just a big desaster...you farm for nothing day by day.

where is the pleasure for players? ....nowhere.

 

Guild activity bonus,
the experience points i can't use at lvl 50
any way to incorporate something else? maybe travel speed increase by 4,0% on a 5,0% guild bonus?
or faster mounting by 25%

 

I not had a unique from karabossa last 3 times I have done this event

 

A bell curve would be ideal. No one ever accused BigPoint of anything near bias free.
Most distributions are heavily skewed, even for groups of one. The groupings of drop types and frequencies are huge, like the good stuff is all at the bottom of a huge list. It's more of a scheduled rotation through scheduled lists, with a little operator tweaking tossed in for good measure. And don't forget player tiers for drop averages.

It is what it is. The real game is maneuvering to OP, despite the BS. Balancing runs at cross purposes; it's more like damage control.

 

what about 6k gold belt ? are not emilia going to sell 6k gold bely any more?

 

Hello there playful creatures,

here we go with a bunch of concise and straight-to-the-point answers. Clock is tic-tac-ing.

As I said, we will work on it. It will either make it to rel158 or most likely, rel159.

*Stares at those images and tries to think amidst all the noise of the QA guys*
I would say: yeah, is rather normal. But since I do not know any other details about those shields and you are talking with a still rookie CM, maybe you or anyone else would like to pinpoint in the abnormal direction of those images... Do not apologize for your English skills; we read you loud and clear here.

No, you are not really mistaken "a lot". Rel157 is the release of the DK balance plus other juicy features that will appear in the game. Patch notes will come later on today and give you more details about what you are expected to find. And yes, PvP will be tackled after Rel157. Thanks for those chunks of amazing patience!!

Hello there,

well, I would personally adore if this thread did not cannibalize the other parts in the forums (do not think is happening, though). That is not my wish since the moderation team takes care of all the other subdivisions of the forums, scanning them and ensuring that we get a weekly hold of what you guys are talking, what matters to you and what you would love to see in game. This is to say, it does not mean that just because you mentioning something specific here, in this Ask-the-CMs thread, this idea of yours is going to increase the chances of getting addressed by us and ultimately implemented. Not really.

I post here in this thread because it is virtually impossible for me to address you across all forums subcategories. The moderation team does so in our behalf and as your advocates. It seems that people only believe that something is acknowledged or is happening when we actively talk about it but it's not quite true. There are so many things that happen behind the scenes... and this also includes the constant scanning of the Creative Corner and other boards for ideas, suggestions, problems, satisfactions.

We are not ignoring the good ideas that make sense.
The bad ideas who would actually break the game we prefer to ignore. (Thanks, CM Obvious).

Also, I would like to include here a little disclaimer: each time I comment on a suggestion/idea on this thread I think I have made sure the extent of my personal opinion. Meaning that me transmitting an idea to the team DOES NOT ENTAIL NECESSARILY that this idea is going to be implemented as formulated in the game. Not at all. Maybe some people saw this clear from the beginning. Maybe some did no. In any case, it should be clearer now.

Please, keep discussing your ideas in the Creative Corner then. ^^

Hey there,

yay - that interview!! We already recorded it and we will publish it later on.
You know what it comes, right? Of course you do! Stay tuned to our Youtube channel!

Umh, then maybe I gave you a wrong idea and I am sorry if I did so!

You have to understand that I am quite the rookie when it comes to people like Greg and the majority of the folks working in this studio. Sometimes happens that a suggestion you guys have made is already in our pipeline but we have not a release yet or is pending further design (for designs sometimes we need data, for data we need time, for time we need... patience). Again, if I happen to comment personally on a design here exposed DOES NOT MEAN that there are not previous designs under consideration. I thought this would be clear as well tbh.

The last word of a design being actually implemented in the game for you to enjoy or scorn is when this design description appears in the Community Roadmap (which, by the way, will be updated soon!!).

Again, posting in those places you are mentioning is not a waste of time. Our mods are certainly reading you there so please do not deprive them of their joyful moments on these boards... Thanks!!

We will say something about it when there is something to say about it.
We are reworking those events soon (not that word again...) so expect some official mentioning about them sooner or later. But not today.

I heard throwing peanuts to CMs and Admins at TS relieves frustration. But probably not. *Cough*
Joking aside: we are carefully reviewing this. Rel157 will not stop "improving" the game at all.

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Kind regards,
Haruki

 

above our character,under our name/title/class where it says what guild we are in,can it also say next to guild name our rank? (guild officer or guild master)?
do you know what i mean? so when you mouse curse over someone's name it says that info? that would be cool.
could say just "officer or GM" up too you. thx

 

I need help, before 15 days I accidentally threw Cloak of the Undefeatables from my inventory. I asked support, they can not help me, because it happened more than two weeks ago... Can you help me? thanks
nick: Mljax -> (MLJAX), server:grimmag

 

Only support can help you with such an issue, and they have a relatively new rule that essentially says they won't do diddly squat if its been more than 14 days, and they're really strict on it. So, unfortunately, you're going to have to bite the bullet on this one my friend. You'll have another opportunity to get one during the next Defeat the Undefeatables event.

 

Hi,

Thank you I for your time.

1. I am very disappointed that Emilia does not have the premium belt at all since I acquired the 6K gold needed to buy it! When will it come out?

2. Can you ask your folks to create a portable anvil/furnace that players can buy and use to melt items anywhere in game? We can upgrade our gear and buy glyphs with one click of the mouse anywhere in game. Why not melt since we can also repair our gear.

3. What am I supposed to do with 4 white tiger mounts? Can we craft them for a unique mount?

Thanks.

 

Hello

1) Whatever happened to our beloved belt we were to get from Emilia?

2) By the way- has any of the Admins paid us a visit ? :

 

With that many PvP points, I suggest you do what he says... eat that nerf gun.

 

Dear Haruki,

I do actually have lots of questions, and some were already asked here multiple times, but ignored, multiple times. So I will start with only 1. And I apologize to repeat it again, and again, but nothing happens...

When does the Team plan to address the critical hit low level items issue? Give a rough guesstimate, a SWAG. 2+ years low level items exist. When would I be able to get 380 single line enchantment on a ring, belt, amulet, adornment? If that is not going to happen, please let us know too. I thought it isnt that hard to proportionally change all the values of newer items and keep low lvl gear untouched, and also increase the critical hit boundaries if required to accommodate such an inflation. It is a couple of hours max scripting against your databases. Perhaps less.

 

Haruki

What is a live environment? A environment where a change in condition is true for all parties present in the instance, temporary or permanent. When I saw we had an interactive fire, i thought "omg cool!" and then it turned out it didn't affect the mobs in any way atall, just us. where is the fun in that? is it supposed to make it harder for us? if the team thinks environments would be a "make it harder for them" tool, they are looking at it the wrong way, because t doesnt matter either way. They should look at this feature like: "environments make this game more interesting and more fun to play". i tht i saw in twitch greg lure all the mobs into the grassy zone and set fire to them, i dont remember if that was my imagination or my eyes playing tricks, but the fire doesnt affect anything towards the mobs when i started playing . mind you i am not asking that it not hurt us. but if fire hurts us it shld hurt the mobs too. same with other surrounding things like, avalanches, ice blizzards, sandstorms etc if they are ever introduced.

 

Hello again!

First of all, I give thanks for answer my question, nothing wrong (technically speaking) with shields from photo, my point of view and I thought the matter was understood with the question if they would please increase the probability to get shields with shield block rate (%). None of the shields from photo have the attribute of shield block rate.

I think is the most important value for tank and many times you get shields with two or three values of damage, for tanking is useless. I know random system that assign attributes at items and this moment I would like to make a question: It would be possible to remove the damage attribute in shields? In a near future maybe?. Really appreciate your work and your time for answer our questions, nothing more and give again a lot of thanks.

Kind regards!