Posts made by Jetah

@00 said in When will shop items become available ?:

@Jetah Well im pretty sure they are willing to test the shop functions and exploits themselves if that can help raising 10\20\30k € more..
Is a standard thing to have a shop during alpha nowadays, is not like that Star Citizen will refund everyone after they have tested their jpgs models, or AoC his seasonal items ecc.
I don't get all this pressing to delete buys, you buy something you hold it.. You can alredy test your pets from foundation or ks or pledge pack if they will be aviable, and that's maybe the right question to ask. Else we are confined to test standard things or they can also put a 0 coins fox\rat to test out transaction and pet system..

star citizen doesn't have fake currency to buy then buy the ships (well not most of them). they're a direct purchase. I've tested plenty of alpha and beta games where the fake currency you buy stays but the items are removed because it was testing.

problem is i don't want to permanently spend gold during test phases. the items can change, the model can change. buffs could be added, buffs could be removed. they're demanding us make a permanent decision on purchases without anything being final. and they could toss in new items every month. so i'll wait to test until they say items purchased are for testing and the gold will be refunded at intervals and before release of the game.

@Fi
I'm not seeing reanimation on a summons from another 'dimension/world'.

the spell itself could have multiple requirements to learn. which could be all schools. the cast time could be lengthy too, lets say 30 minutes of no damage at all and can't be done in a city. and the cooldown could be lengthy too like a week or whatever to make it inconvenient. Then we can add reagents required for summoning which could require a near full inventory. and you toss in 1 or 2 people dying in the ceremony.

yes RoD is what i was referring to.

@Eurav

i'm sure if enough people want them, it'll become an item.

@00 said in When will shop items become available ?:

@Farlander Probably devs want an income to continue "breathing" meanwhile develope the game. If you delete every purchase from the shop after every test a part of the income is removed..
They are just cosmetics item similar to others we alredy have from pledge packets or the foundation, no need to test everyone if they work with the same mechanics. A founder bed is a bed, a tier 2 legendary pet companion is a pet companion ecc.

ps. May be useful to know if only shop items or either ks\pledge pack items will be aviable in alpha2.

that's not how cash shops work in test phases.

they get your money when you purchase the fake currency. you get that fake currency to buy things. when the accounts are wiped any fake currency you purchased is refunded while the items you purchased are removed.

example:
you buy 20k dynamite gold (just calling it gold from here on). you spend 15k gold buying cosmetics. between alpha 2 and alpha 3 they wipe the accounts. you're refunded 15k gold. at the start of alpha 3 you have 20k gold again. if you spend 20k gold then decide to buy 5k gold more and spend that, at the end of alpha 3 you get 25k gold back.

this test the cash shop purchasing. is the gold removed from the account. is the item given. are there any exploits that cause gold to be infinite or items to be spawned infinite. it test they're able to remove the items from accounts.

@Farlander

check out the GGG cash shop for spell cosmetics! https://www.pathofexile.com/shop/category/alternate-skill-effects

there's arcane, undead, ghost, arctic, light, darkness, blood, etc!

as much as i like the cash shop having options if there isn't anything available in game then people will cry paywall. there should be incentive to grind or play in certain ways to obtain some cosmetics. I'd love to see some unique versions too that can only be found in game. so when you see someone using then you know they played for it.

@Xzoviac said in Foundation chests:

I'm wondering/hoping foundation chests could become chest skins once opened, I personally really like the chests look and would like to use them in my house.

I would also be happy with buying a copy of them in the fractured store.

If you would rather not give them away for fee

why not the box exist as an item while containing the random item inside. we can use the chest as storage in our house! maybe opening the chest requires us to have a house (incentive to build a house!) before opening.

(i'd like to put the skin on all the boxes in my house too!)

@Xzoviac said in Game availability once Beta Starts??:

@Logain said in Game availability once Beta Starts??:

@Jetah said in Game availability once Beta Starts??:

(...) and the developers/publishers.

And the available funding. Hosting the game is going to cost money, that's something people often forget about. I do hope that they can manage and afford 24/7, but I wouldn't be shocked if not.

Having the game up 24/7 will produce money as well as more people will purchase a game they can actually play regularly

depends how long closed beta is and how long open beta would be.

@Yitra

i promise you that development doesn't stop if beta is 24/7. it could actually be more of an advertisement tool about the game than it being reserved for certain play times.

just 1 ad on a popular streamer could get DS a minimum 100k-1million views.

@Gothix said in Buildable items for plots:

@Jetah said in Buildable items for plots:

yes there will be raid content but if every solo friendly boss drops a head and it's easy to kill then it isn't really a challenge, is it?

I was talking exclusively about hard "challenge" mobs. Nowhere I have said every easy mob would drop it.

The meaning of challenge is that it's hard, and you have to do it solo without help, and only then, you get the head, that's bound to you.

I don't understand what is not logical about this. It would be some hard monsters around the world, that would reward the solo kill with cosmetic. People could still group up to kill them and get their normal loot, but no cosmetic reward in that case.

i dont understand the point of putting head drops in solo content when the game is a massively multiplayer. put these cosmetics in group content. which would also mean that the group has to run it multiple times so everyone gets a head!

in DAoC, it was a realm boss requiring 100-200 players to kill it while it only dropped 5 (iirc) copies of the head.

@Fi said in Summon Fellow Demon Players Ability:

This is a neat idea I would really like this to be a thing for the Conjuration and Necromancy schools of magic as a summoning ritual as long as the Summoners suffer something in exchange for summoning a Demon, and the Demon still has some semblance of free will—enough free will to kill their Summoners if desired.

I believe summoning a Demon should require three to six Summoners of near equal proficiency in Conjuration and Necromancy as each other, but I'm undecided on rather the Summoners should be able to bend the will of the Demon to keep it behaved and obedient (if they are stronger than the summoned Demon) and rather the Demon should receive some sort of buff that allows them to persist on Syndesia longer than they normally would before they are dismissed.

Of course, the Demons should have a choice for rather they want to be summoned or not, and the Summoners shouldn't be able to summon more Demons back to back. Since I don't know much else about the magical skills and the stargates, I can't really think of any other restrictions there should be to not make this easy to accomplish.

there could be a 'fight' of some sort but i doubt the demon could be able to kill the other. i'm not seeing how necromancy would be a required skill when summoner would probably exist in game.

in the spirit of world of warcraft, 1 of the summoners could die (randomly) during the ceremony! Maybe in the same spirit, the Demon would be free to attack the summoners while 1 of them tried to enslave. ideally you'd want a tank (or someone with taunt), and a few healers as well at the summoner/necromancer that would enslave the demon.

(I'm really like this idea again \o/)

@Xzoviac said in Buildable items for plots:

@Jetah said in Buildable items for plots:

@Gothix said in Buildable items for plots:

"Hunting trophy" house decorations would be cool, to show off that you managed to kill those "hard monsters".

Decorations that drop from hard monsters should be bound when picked up (to the person that actually made the kill, not loot-able by random passer by), and should only drop if kill was made solo (no other damage on mob detected, no external healing on player who made the kill detected).

Get a "challenge" trophy (decoration), bound to you, only if you made a solo kill of a hard moster.

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Some normal heads, that @Xzait mentioned, could also be available, and those would be tradeable.

the game is setup to be solo friendly so that wouldn't work.

to give incentives to group up, group content could give heads of bosses.

Think we have had this conversation before but anyway,

solofriendly does not mean everything in game is soloable, or everything in game can be collected/killed/achieved with out being in a group.

The entire fractured world is built on player to player interaction

People are going to have to group interact guild trade and be part of the world to experience (and loot) everything in game

yes there will be raid content but if every solo friendly boss drops a head and it's easy to kill then it isn't really a challenge, is it?

@Gothix said in Buildable items for plots:

"Hunting trophy" house decorations would be cool, to show off that you managed to kill those "hard monsters".

Decorations that drop from hard monsters should be bound when picked up (to the person that actually made the kill, not loot-able by random passer by), and should only drop if kill was made solo (no other damage on mob detected, no external healing on player who made the kill detected).

Get a "challenge" trophy (decoration), bound to you, only if you made a solo kill of a hard moster.

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Some normal heads, that @Xzait mentioned, could also be available, and those would be tradeable.

the game is setup to be solo friendly so that wouldn't work.

to give incentives to group up, group content could give heads of bosses.

i've seen some beta phases be limited then transition to 24/7.

it depends on how many testers the game has and the developers/publishers.

@Jairone said in Game availability once Beta Starts??:

Typically betas are down less, but not a consistent 24/7. They tend to be on and off in bursts that are up for longer and down for shorter times, but... unless it is an early access program they do not tend to be 24/7.

Where that is no guarantee, it is what I find likely.

i've seen both 24/7 and scheduled betas. it really depends on the developer and publisher.

@Dariusacmar

the entitlement is the answer from the devs.

until they write down the full crafting plan and reiterate it a few times they might not know themselves. they may have said what they said then decide not to do it.

@Farlander said in Shop: common or not:

I think I read where items bought from the store bind to your account. I wonder if pets and such you find as loot are going to bind as well. I would expect not since some drops would duplicate. I'm thinking in terms of selling these items in game lol.

drops shouldn't bind to the account. they should be a risk if you keep them.

I love how GGG does their shop with Path of Exile.

keep a core set of packs. Include seasonal pack options.

add to your cosmetic spell, gear, pet, housing.

I loved DAoC having trophies from boss kills that could be placed in the house. Killing the world boss and getting a head was a great achievement!

@Xzait said in NPC Age:

, coz the younger a snake is, the more potent their venon is

that's false:

But the fact of the matter is that baby venomous snakes are not more venomous than their parents. In fact, quite the opposite is true in a great many snake species; adults have far more virulent venom than the young snakes. sauce

I like the idea that naturally aged hide being used for different thing or different qualities or offering different stats. this lets a group of animals age naturally or the player can age the hide.

@Gothix said in Blind Gamer Plays WoW, CoD, MK11, D3 through Sound:

Every single player would benefit from "better" "more immersive" "super accurate" sounds, not just blind players...

I'm just saying that costs in development could be too great, and that this should only be considered if game becomes successful enough so this can be afforded.

we all know if it isn't added at launch then it'll never be added. i dont see why accessibility has to wait till after release.

let us test the shop. each test tier (alpha, beta, release) refund the points. i dont want to spend my gold now to have something better release between now and release.