Ask NGD - Week 3
 

Hi,

Continuing with the idea from Ask NGD, in this thread you may ask questions to NGD that will be selected by us. Once selected they will be voted by all of you and the winning question will be replied by NGD.

Questions will be accepted until Thursday. On Friday, they will be polled for you to vote them until Monday morning. The winning questions will be replied on Monday afternoon.

You can ask again the questions proposed in the previous thread except the winner one.

Please bear in mind that the only posts taken into consideration will be the ones with a question related to Regnum. Any other post will be deleted.

Again:
How does your vision of (class)balance look?

Will you go on making spells more situational? Will you nerf ccs? Shall classes be balanced in 1v1? Will you try to minimize luck?...

What was the reason behind removing shield drops with bonuses?
(I don't know if it was because it made knights OP, but as duel wielding might come one day for barbarians, it would be only fair to allow shields with bonuses to be dropped again.)

When we be able to change our email address?
Is there anything planned to resolve the problematic of boring grinding?
Will there be Dungeons?
Do you plan to enhance the Clan system?
What changes are you planning for Invasions?
If you are not planning to edit the magna weapons, will you delete the rocks and other loot from rocks in order to obtain more magna, or let at least epic monsters/dragons drop an number of magnas besides their normal boss weapon/armour drops?

Will the GUI be re-designed from scratch or only incrementally improved? ^^

Will there be more armor and weapon sets to differentiate specially high lvl characters?

If not game formulas, would you at least release chance of drop rate?

Will current knockdown system be changed?

Is there a plan of increasing the size of the War Zone in near future (this year at least)?
Any thought on adding or modifying bosses (except the thork sword)?

Any words on (not in a particular order):
Linked are my ideas/thoughts or ideas i really like

-invasion mechanics?
http://www.regnumonline.com.ar/forum...ad.php?t=67383

-warzone game mechanics (including WZ towns/places and supply system)?
http://www.regnumonline.com.ar/forum...ad.php?t=69322

-central island inclusion in game mechanics?
http://www.regnumonline.com.ar/forum...ad.php?t=69149

-Top player ranking rewards?
http://www.regnumonline.com.ar/forum...ad.php?t=68342

-new classes (including: splitting summoner and healer)
http://www.regnumonline.com.ar/forum...ad.php?t=70711
http://www.regnumonline.com.ar/forum...ad.php?t=71494

-arena team play (party vs party)?
http://www.regnumonline.com.ar/forum...ad.php?t=69974

-pet improvements (including: pet balancing and pet special attacks)
http://www.regnumonline.com.ar/forum...ad.php?t=71613

Will the magna weapons ever be upgraded, their stats are horribly outdated now

Yes magna weapons are currently NOT worth the effort to collect 5000 magnas to obtain a level 45 weapon when for 1 plat box I can have a lvl 50 with better stats.
Do you plan to redesign or upgrade magna stats?

My question is not really why, but will you re add them to the game or to lucky boxes?

Because NGD is kewl and made the best free MMORPG so far and Kailer asked me to be ask more open questions.

What are your plans for premium items in the coming months?

What changes are you planning for Invasions?
(Yeah, the third so far in this thread, but the most requested questions are chosen, right?)

Why does drop chance from boss doesn't seem random for all ppl?
Why does Daen Rha often drop couple of normal items in exchane to boss item? (got third time normal item today and gem 2% as dasn't looke like boss item)

What are your plans or concepts for an improved user interface?

Does NGD have any plans to expand the playable landmass such as the continent and islands?

Two questions:

Do you have any plans to address Realm Population balance with Realm joining-incentives/bonuses beyond the current +10%/+15% RLM experience bonus (which only really promotes the under-populated realm to grind)?

and:

Are there any plans to add more warzone objectives (things to do) beyond fort/castle capturing and putting gates in danger for invasions?

Will you ever implement quests for levels 40-50? It makes no sense that those levels should only be grind grind grind ad nauseum.






~a.k.a. Sylvae & Bryn Blackwood

Will you restore limited-time rentals for mounts using ingame gold? Not every player can afford, or has the means, to purchase xim, but every player can earn gold!





~a.k.a. Sylvae & Bryn Blackwood

Do you plan to enhance the Clan system?
Will there be Dungeons?
Will you introduce any kind of craft system to extend the magnanite weapons or make armor?

I do not know if this question is asked before.

But will there come a In-game Message/mail system? To send other players messages even if they are offline. (And maybe that we could add items with this mail?) - Would be very nice in Regnum.

btw - this is a account made forum ^^ The Information given doesn't fit with the account i play with.

Will the GUI be re-designed from scratch or only incrementally improved?

Beside this question, i have not found the answers of the questions from "Ask NGD - Week 1":
Can anyone help me or give me a link?

Is NGD still planning on adding expansions to the map? Or will these come after the current map is redesigned?

These, and many other items were removed from drop formulas when Lucky Boxes were added to the game. Just like how it was once possible to drop helmets with constitution bonuses. Many of the drops were redone, and in addition to that caps were added in bonuses. The max bonus for +Attack Range or +Attack Speed is 5%, max bonus for health and mana is +150, max bonus for +Hit chance is 25, and the max bonus for attributes is +5. (Note: This is the warrior/archer cap, mage drops will get a few more points, +7% AS/CS, etc.)

This all changed probably to put Lucky Boxes somewhere.

Does NGD have any plans to make super bosses drops completely random so that every class can have a fair chance to get them? As it is now some classes are totally excluded or have almost no chance to get the drops.

Would it be possible to expand the icon bar? The actual system is outdated in my opinion.

Will you ever update the UI? I have a lot of unused keys while playing the game, are there any plans to allow more key bindings?

Here's a tricky one :

What are NGD's plans for Regnum Online for 2011?

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When will you solve the boring grinding? This is stopping me from playing at this moment as I do not find this process fun or enjoyable. You lose players because of this aswell

Altough I agree with you, you must consider the fact that grinding is perhaps one of the most important things in a MMORPG, I would too find a way to gain lvl 50 without suffering, but I must admit that this distinguish real player from occasional player..

Among spanish questions they said that there will be no craft system since it's difficult to introduce in a free2play MMORPG without breaking ingame economy and premium economy..

Tricky answer would be "we will improve the gameplay and increase fun for everyone".

Ofcourse NGD is earning money from experience scrolls. I guess it will take a while before they come with a good idea to also earn money of grinders and still making it actually fun to grind a char.

Another question:

Phantom swings are back and really annoying. Any plans on fixing this problem once and for all?

Will shield position bug (when knight is riding some mount) be fixed?
http://img814.imageshack.us/img814/4376/shieldb.jpg

Will there be spell focus and spell resistance showed as values in Character window?

will NGD ever implent RP-scrolls? mutch RP-whores out here xD.. imagine 54RP if you are lvl 45 and solo a lvl 50 xD.

Clan system (+clan banks), when will finally get your attention?

Off topic: More magnanite bugs, more overpoweredness, Great idea. I think NGD is tired of monitoring the continuous abuse for magnanite duplicating.

On topic: Any new updates to avoid magnanite duplicating instead of ban or complete erase?

Are there any plans to upgrade/ change animations to provide better feedback?

The poll is there now, let's vote!

Please, don't post more questions for now. Thank you!

hmm. A tie so far. Does it mean NGD answers both if there is a tie? This one is too close to call with a couple hours left. I cross my fingers for the UI one.