Daily Dungeon suggestion with poll.
I've mentioned this in a few other posts here, but I'd like to give it's own thread with a poll if that's okay?
DAILY DUNGEONS.
The daily challenges would be quests you can pick up in Brit Commons. Each day the quests would be several random dungeons or monsters in different areas that include free content areas and the High Sea/ TOL areas. As well as both Fel and Ilsh champ spawns.
The challenges are only good for 1 day, so you can't save them up. You would need to pick them up each day and delete any old ones you didn't finish.
Once completed you would acquire points for the daily dungeon master npc in Brit Commons.
Some dungeons and monsters could offer more points depending on level and difficulty.
Kill 50 earth elementals
You could also make it to where subscribers get more dailies than EJ accounts.
Create new rewards that entice players to want to do this and to buy TOL and HighSeas
Such as the:
1. Shard visitor token (allows the player to visit any shard) good for a round trip there and back. Once the player chooses a shard to visit they would go with what's in their pack and have a time limit of an hour before it would bring them back to their original shard.
3. set of collector items: Town replica village deeds (collect each town) it's like the little house deeds, but small mini version of towns -- like the one in Blackthorne's castle
4. set of collector house pets: once locked down in your house they can move around the house: cat, dog, potbelly pig, squirrel, hamster
5. set of collector mini monster pets: Once locked down in the house they can move, animated with
maybe a magic or melee move.
6. set of collector armor from each developer: a full set for each with names attached, could make these to be imbued.
7. cosmetic statuette pets, these would follow you around. Click and uncliick the statue like the wisp.
DAILY DUNGEONS.
The daily challenges would be quests you can pick up in Brit Commons. Each day the quests would be several random dungeons or monsters in different areas that include free content areas and the High Sea/ TOL areas. As well as both Fel and Ilsh champ spawns.
The challenges are only good for 1 day, so you can't save them up. You would need to pick them up each day and delete any old ones you didn't finish.
Once completed you would acquire points for the daily dungeon master npc in Brit Commons.
Some dungeons and monsters could offer more points depending on level and difficulty.
Things like:
Kill 10 blood elementals
Kill TravestyKill 50 earth elementals
Kill Barracoon the Piper
Kill Swoop
Kill 10 Greater Dragons
Create new rewards that entice players to want to do this and to buy TOL and HighSeas
Such as the:
1. Shard visitor token (allows the player to visit any shard) good for a round trip there and back. Once the player chooses a shard to visit they would go with what's in their pack and have a time limit of an hour before it would bring them back to their original shard.
2. Recipes: tired recipes for tailors and blacksmiths -- 120 skill for Mythical, 110 for Legendary, 100 for GM, 90 for exalted?
Mythical crafting recipes that require items from each
monster to create it; something from Dreadhorn, Mel, Travesty, Savage skin paint,
etc.
Mythical weapons and armor and lesser versions
such as exalted, grandmaster and legendary.
2. Recipes: Animated weapon skins, click to put on your weapon to make it shimmer with magic
Other reward ideas:
3. set of collector items: Town replica village deeds (collect each town) it's like the little house deeds, but small mini version of towns -- like the one in Blackthorne's castle
4. set of collector house pets: once locked down in your house they can move around the house: cat, dog, potbelly pig, squirrel, hamster
5. set of collector mini monster pets: Once locked down in the house they can move, animated with
maybe a magic or melee move.
6. set of collector armor from each developer: a full set for each with names attached, could make these to be imbued.
7. cosmetic statuette pets, these would follow you around. Click and uncliick the statue like the wisp.
- Should we have daily dungeons added to UO?11 votes
- Yes, I'd love to have them.45.45%
- No, I don't like them.54.55%
Comments
Personally, I think you're asking rather a lot. I suppose it might be possible, if they devoted the whole of next year to it.
Not hard to implement? Could you list out just what you think would be involved in the process? Because I think it would take a considerable amount of work to come up with the ideas, design the process, code the steps, check it all worked as intended, didn't cause a knock-on effect anywhere else, balance the rewards. etc, etc etc.
As far as I know, there's no actual list. I'm sure if I've missed anyone, or mis-remembered their actual role, someone will step in and correct me.
As far as I know we have: Bonnie Armstrong aka Mesanna, producer. Michael Armstong, aka Misk QA. Stephen Brown aka Bleak, software engineer, Greg Havlusch, Designer? and an artist whose name I sadly don't remember and who I believe prefers to remain in the background.
5. Add new rewards for the next cycle
If you want to make it happen with least effort possible, you could put an NPC in some city that gives out three quests per day, randomly chosen from a list of different things. Then you accumulate some point value like cleanup points and can claim rewards based on that.
Do you play any games besides UO?
the NPC could be at Britain commons
Quest Examples:
slay 10 raptors
slay Medusa
slay The Great Ape
Kinda like killing Peerless Bosses or creatures that spawn from tmaps...
And like @JollyJade suggested, rewards based on the difficulty of these.
It just lacks that next step of having them centralized easy access and rewards worth working towards. Nobody in his right mind is going to Heartwood doing the slay quests for a couple bag of trinkets.