Back when the game was young and the cap was ten certain things already blared claxon bells of warnings. I know hindsight is 20/20 but truly this isn't one of those things. As I mentioned in another post in 06 I went hard core in gamemode.

I was playing a lot and knew D20 and made characters that where capable in DDO in seconds of thought. I was one of those who would cap a ten in a handful of days and delete it just because I didn't care. But what I found d really annoying g was that anyone who played even a little less often then I would be so outpaced by my leveling. Now I dont alt or start a fresh character till the one I'm playing g is done. That's me but I've come across many with a similar view across so many MMO I do consider it a fairly common view and those who hold it a meaningful percentage of game population.

So soon pugging was really my only option to group. Statics didn't work too infrequently played. Guilds tended to expect you to keep a stable to switch around to as needed. Can't do that I need to play the toon I'm developing or I'm not having fun.

So I went to the forums and suggested a simple idea. Remove level issues by making the party lvl set by the leaders level. With those above being handicapped by temp neg levels inside the quest and those below receiving Temp buffs in the same vein.

Now remember we are in 06 right now where +5 weapons or a +1 with vorpal where the big hitters and most named gear had more flavor then effect. Mention this because of the main argument that was shouted by many and trolled the idea to death within days.

The complain. Was a lvl ten geared out would be too op for content just based on gear if it was use able still. And newbs buffed up would t have the gear needed to matter.

Keep in mind d to +4 gear with a race req was lvl 4 min. Its not like gear gaps where that big yet. Much more rested in the build itself. But that was the main thing brought up by the opponents. Gear power gap. I'd even suggested letting the lowbies be able to bypass gear reqs inside quest when the temp buffs where active so passing g hand me downs to new friends could help them jump in with you.

The entire idea was of course to make it easy and painless for people to play with each other.

Now we instead have TRing and gear from so many eras of development that it just makes me wonder if the opposition could of even begun to imagine DDO 2016

karavek wrote on Jul 30^th, 2016 at 11:29am:

nty

Rubbinns wrote on Jul 30^th, 2016 at 5:33pm:


Nice.

Most of KMFDM came to my house for an after party that year.

It was also the year my drug habits started getting out of hand, but I didn't really notice until late 2007.

Read as: "let me suck you off for a moment."

PersonaNonGrata wrote on Jul 31^st, 2016 at 4:44am:

() wrote on Jul 31^st, 2016 at 7:16am:


But you are a lonely butthurt faggot because you need to use socks to pretend you have fwiends.
Poor McFairy.

op, youre either gay and retarded or a sock; the chance of which both verifies and validates both preceding statements