I am taking responsibility to speak for community VK https://vk.com/requiem_amof, which is, for now, the center of Russian-speaking requiem players. I am one of administrators of this community; we are volunteers and are the same players as everyone here. Our work is to watch the game news on official requiem web site, WarpPortal forum and facebook community and to translate them as though Russian players were able to read the latest news in their native language.
Not long time ago I´ve noticed the suggestion on facebook to share any ideas about game improvement. All the time people suggest something in our VK community, so we decided to write a huge post with all the ideas by Russian community, because not all of the players speak English good enough to participate in forum discussians.
We understand the entire situation with requiem, the game is old and you are short on budget, and we also know all about skill balance game masters are working on. So there is nothing unreal on that list and nothing you absolutely can´t fix or be able to do, but everyone should really pay attention to all this issues.
First of all, we want to tell you about the poll which we had recently in our community. The thing was to understand the preferences of Russian player.
184 players took part in a poll so far.
Spoiler
The most desiring thing is a new races and classes. 37.5% would like to see these issues.
Second thing is technical improvements and client optimization. 21.7% want this.
Third thing is PvE content improvements, 15.8% wish this to happen.
To summon it all, we can say exactly that players are all in all satisfied with PvP content and skill balance, but almost everyone feels the lack of PvE content. Players don’t even really want any huge updates (like new continents or craft profession), they just want bugs to be fixed and client to be optimized.
So here are some suggestions by Russian community:
Gameplay basics and classes
Spoiler
Druid rebalance
The current status of druid class is more than bad. If you have a look at the talent tree, you would be able to see the idea of it. Druid is meant to be a kind of universal class, and player may choose between the role skill tree suggests (tanking, physical damage short range, magical damage long rage). For now, potential of that class is unrealized and no one plays as druid.
Commander rebalance
Commander class has the same problem as druid; it is supposed to be a counter-mage class with lots of controll and skill damage. But he is useless as in PvP, so in PvE for now.
Mystic rebalance
There is nothing really wrong with that class, it has a good balance and a lot of players pick it. But the problem with it is its full domination in PvE. All the PvE is about those hot black guys. The classic raid party which has been usable for many years is: protector, radiant, elementalist, forsaker and lots of mystics. This doesn’t make any sense and there is no choice for PvE players: they should pick mystic whether they want it or not. If they don’t, they just won’t be able to have a good PvE time. There is something to do about that.
“Miss” balance
It’s really easy to notice that physical AA misses much more often than skill usage.
Physical skills deal 0 damage in block
As an example, AA deals 1000-1500 damage.
Shadow runner (Chaos spinning skill)
The description of the skill doesn’t match with what the skill really do.
Optimization
We´ve figured out some serious technical problems and issues with RAM. The reason of those is bad optimization.
Spoiler
Processor resources trouble
Playing requiem for a long time requires more and more RAM. In the end, the client crashes with a memory read error.
Memory and performance leaks
This leaks provoke client crashes and suspensions, especially on a low performance PC. The reason is those skills:
Possesion Beast Rufus lvl 70 skill
Tempest lvl 80 Haste Acceleration skill
All the possession beast skills which requires casting to use, provoke a performance leak up to 10 fps especially on low performance PCs.
Forsaker’s fire totem
The flaming effect of damaging stacks a lot of times on a character. It provokes video card memory leak.
Long time duration AOE skills
Their animation is shown even though the duration if damage is over, if game was loading in a moment of skill duration (for example, if player has died). It lumbers video memory and player sight.
Secret lab
Textures of blood there are ugly and look like big black squares on ground.
PvE
Spoiler
Reviving old raids
There are plenty of interesting and cool raids and requiem, but in fact, no one goes there any longer: loot is outdated and useless. To make players go in Erunil tower for example, is pretty easy. We suggest to add some new loot which is required as a compounding components (enchanting xeons, rex compounding etc.) The other idea is to add completing raid as a server or guild quest (more about that later).
The strongest Raid bosses in game (Voxion, Mare Gall etc) can be killed by 1-3 players
The thing is that the stats in the armor and weapons are grow more and more, bosses’ stats still the same. Such thing is raid just doesn’t exist in requiem today.
Unworking dungeons portals all over the world
Those need to be used or removed at all.
Quests and leveling up
Spoiler
85-90 leveling up
Any kind of game is meant to be fun and entertaining. We all have enough boring routine in our everyday lives; there is no need at all to have the same routine in game. Doing everyday quests is just so boring and tiring… We suggest to make at least one or two quest chains on each level which will speed the process up at least a little bit.
Quest rewards, every day login rewards
Economic in game is changing. Quest rewards do not. The amount of lant for completing quests is too little. It really needs to be boosted, especially for newbees. They just can’t do anything with amount of lant which is saved from quests.
Quest for victory in battlefield needs to be boosted too. As though battle point rewards were boosted, the amount which player can receive for completing quest is just ridiculous.
We also want to pay your attention to every day login reward. 100 lant coupons are just trash, same is alfa xeons. Skill reset for day 50 is usually useless and that thing disappears in 24 hours. This needs to be changed. We suggest for rewards something universal, like atma infinity or tokens.
Server quests
The idea is to achieve a global goal with participation of every player on the server. For example, it could be killing monsters all over the globe in count of 1000000. Every single player makes his contribution. After achieving the goal, everyone on the server is rewarded (+70% to reinforcement dor example).
Guilds
Spoiler
Guild quests
Just like server quests, but narrowed a bit to a guild with guild bonuses only.
Guild bank
It’s a great opportunity of sharing stuff you don't need with your guild mates who could use it. If members of a guild are truly friendly and responsive, they could find this feature useful.
Blood points rewards
Players definitely need more guild war rewards, especially - BF points booster like +10-15%
Personal guild war point boost
It's a good idea to make personal benefition from guild war points, not only for a guild. For example you can score 20000 guild war pts, which go to your guild rank and the same amount of pts goes to your hands, so you can spend them however you like. One remains is to come with idea what those rewards would be.
PvP
Spoiler
PK system
PK system is under a big question. Many players are not satisfied of it because "serial killers" mostly remain unpunished. Some of them loves killing lowbies which is totally wrong. New players are not very pleased of that kind of treatment so they leave the game forever. We suggest toughening PK system in way so lesser players would rather kill newbies. Make PK tendency remover a bit more expensive, and make the way of "cleaning" a bit harder. Remove awarding for serial killers; add an option so other players could feel free of killing serial killers. After killing "red man" I'd like to loot something from him. Maybe after that they become more rational. That is our suggestion.
Ancient ruins
As we already know, this type of BF is clearly dead. We suggest merging AR points with Theme Battle points or a least to make a converting function. We reckon that NPC who gives those ancient points was a temporal solution so it’s about time to do something with it.
Game Launcher
Spoiler
We reached now to the game Launcher. It has banners with Item Mall offerings which prices are outdated. It has to be reviewed.
Launcher also has a much bigger problem - updating causes numerous errors. Certainly it has to be fixed somehow.
Item mall pets
Spoiler
Few words about pets. They work nice all in all, but there are still some exceptions. Pet is a pointless purchase for those who have Stealth. Even though no one can see you, there is still a pet that reveals your location and lots of AoE skills which can really get you. We ask you if it is possible to make pets invisible as well as its master.
Another point about pets is to add a function that allows you to choose what kind of loot your pet may pick up (only rares, or rares and consumable etc.). Pretty much people ask for this particular feature.
We do not insist on what we suggest, but at least 1000 people in our community wish to see what GMs answer will be. What we can expect or what not to expect at all.
Thank you for attention and good luck to everyone in the world of Ethergia!
I agree with almost everything you posted except for 1 thing
I strongly disagree on new classes.
The game already has 16, unbalanced, unfinished, undefined classes.
Only when all 16 are in the proper shape, can you even think about new races or classes
On everything else
I pretty much agree
And wonder why dvchel who is supposed to be representing the Russian community in the requiem rep chat has not brought this to helium
I agree with almost everything you posted except for 1 thing
I strongly disagree on new classes.
The game already has 16, unbalanced, unfinished, undefined classes.
Only when all 16 are in the proper shape, can you even think about new races or classes
On everything else
I pretty much agree
And wonder why dvchel who is supposed to be representing the Russian community in the requiem rep chat has not brought this to helium
We do not insist or suggest a new class. Thats just a statistic of a poll.
Dvchel is just an enthusiastic member of our community who helps pretty much sometimes. I am the one of admins of VK community.
The Community has given up unlike us. This topic was sent directly to Helium.
I'm not sure how many people complained this way, but we have about 1000 ppl that increases our chances a bit, doncha think
Great work my friend <3 I support all of your ideas and suggestions and im sure Helium does also
With new classes would be great but i see something like that a long way off since there is so much to do already @@
I know atm Helium is working on New Dungeon/New Armour/Class changes/Events and much more im sure, good thing now is community are being listened to and opinions are being valued like never before
First - you did so much effort making a huge topic like that, with a lot of suggestions in a language thats not your main one, with fluent and correct english. [Not using Google Translator copy/paste]
In my opinion, thats difficult to see from a Russian Player so congratulations! I think you are the right man or woman for be a RU Requiem Representative much better comparing to others like dvchell.. WTF!.. THATS A MISTAKE THING REALLY! I really think Requiem should put a Russian GM too, because to much Russian population playing.
2- Your ideas are really good and interesting, I aggree that GMs should focus mostly on fix current bugs and class balance..etc instead off add "lot new content", that could break the pve//pvp system even more. The game it feels like all times the same thing,mostly raids barely cost 15 mins, same monsters all time. Long duration of diary quests (DQ 70,85) that it makes you became tired of do it tho all days.. FOCs and other PvP maps a bit inactive and empthy without battlegrounds events,when they put that event -0N- all people wake up from wherever they are and come back to game for have some fun in FOC//TB and if you are not so fast for join,it gets fully fast, so you cant join xD.
Also this battle events would be interesting to put it permanent because enchants cost to much points like 700k each If I remember well..and it needs lot of time for make, thats why a bonus would help all players to create it more easier and for make the pvp arenas more fun with lot of people fighting!
Also we need different events for change our mind a bit for enjoy this game a lot again, things like massive guild wars, team battle tournaments (sometimes choosing your partners, and sometimes random ones selecting by support wp). 1vs1 battle tournaments like a colloseum.
And for pve massive raids party with all monsters increased power like 99999℅ so we would need lot of people-alliance for complete it and ofc good item drops as reward. Like Erunil (ET) when parties were full of 45 people if you remember for example. Also Farmer List for see which player PVE farm more in a week like PK one, for those who prefer farm instead pk so they can also be in a Rank list as pro farmer players! Idk to many ideas,with luck some ideas maybe they work on it, who knows
Too much attention to me, guys. It doesn't mean that I'm doing smth wrong when anybody post suggestions from Russian - speaking community. Guys doing great work and I helping them a bit.
Hope, Helium will watch this topic. I sent him link on it, as I promised.
P.S. And yes, my english is not perfect yet, I haven't got much practice since I finished school (5+ years). But I'll try to do my best.
I am one of the admins of VK community and the translator of this post. There are 3 people in our administration including Vulpes93, me and a creator of that community. Dvchel is not one of us, mostly he post information he got directly from admin chat and he is one of our most ambitios community members. And defenitly, he has nothing to do with that suggestion post. All the giant work of selecting proper suggestions, translation and forum post styling was on me and Vulpes93 again.
I think you are the right man or woman for be a RU Requiem Representative much better comparing to others like dvchell.. WTF!.. THATS A MISTAKE THING REALLY!
In fact, we didn't even know that there is a russian-speaking community representative. We knew that dvchel named himself one about a month ago.
dvchel is nothing more than an ambitious member of Russian community, he is not a member of community VK administrators and no one elected him as a representative, that was only his own solution. We are ok with it and have nothing against him. Whether he is bad or good is Helium to decide.
P.S. Thats a bit weird imho that in all that amount of important information dvchel saw only his nickname in users comments.
I am one of the admins of VK community and the translator of this post. There are 3 people in our administration including Vulpes93, me and a creator of that community. Dvchel is not one of us, mostly he post information he got directly from admin chat and he is one of our most ambitios community members. And defenitly, he has nothing to do with that suggestion post. All the giant work of selecting proper suggestions, translation and forum post styling was on me and Vulpes93 again.
-Nice work, I understood it and welcome too -
In fact, we didn't even know that there is a russian-speaking community representative. We knew that dvchel named himself one about a month ago.
-Yeah well, I proposed to add a GM that understand Russian language really good or a Russian Guy/Girl for Represent the Russian community in Requiem Departament. So Russian players could send that GM Suggestions for dont have problem with the language for feel comfortable speaking, I think this would benefict all Russian players. And maybe that GM could bring also different Ideas.-
dvchel is nothing more than an ambitious member of Russian community, he is not a member of community VK administrators and no one elected him as a representative, that was only his own solution. We are ok with it and have nothing against him. Whether he is bad or good is Helium to decide.
-Well, ambitious or not I dont think he would be a great representative He would only heard his own voice or his friends ideas. And put others ideas (Like My Ideas For Example) in a Trash Can and throw them in the Ocean or just answering back useless things ,ignoring Whisper Windows or he directly /Block you when you tell him a suggestion or idea.
He said his english its not so good, but he would try to do his best , okok What its not bad and admirable, but In my opinion I would prefer a Representative that could talk with all players,dont caring about game fights. Like you for Example Vulpes93 or you sinkor + you speak English Russian Ukranian and Spanish (my main language) and a lot of Requiem players talk any of those languages.-
P.S. Thats a bit weird imho that in all that amount of important information dvchel saw only his nickname in users comments.
Yes, that goes a bit off topic, but this is about players suggestions to help GMs to make the game better and all players are free for comment his/her ideas for game - free, what its nice and interesting read all players opinions. Anyway if you need something for translate of those ideas in Spanish I would be glad to help you (Russian Representative) with that, for the good of the Requiem community.
I am taking responsibility to speak for community VK https://vk.com/requiem_amof, which is, for now, the center of Russian-speaking requiem players. I am one of administrators of this community; we are volunteers and are the same players as everyone here. Our work is to watch the game news on official requiem web site, WarpPortal forum and facebook community and to translate them as though Russian players were able to read the latest news in their native language.
Not long time ago I´ve noticed the suggestion on facebook to share any ideas about game improvement. All the time people suggest something in our VK community, so we decided to write a huge post with all the ideas by Russian community, because not all of the players speak English good enough to participate in forum discussians.
We understand the entire situation with requiem, the game is old and you are short on budget, and we also know all about skill balance game masters are working on. So there is nothing unreal on that list and nothing you absolutely can´t fix or be able to do, but everyone should really pay attention to all this issues.
First of all, we want to tell you about the poll which we had recently in our community. The thing was to understand the preferences of Russian player.
184 players took part in a poll so far.
Spoiler
The most desiring thing is a new races and classes. 37.5% would like to see these issues.
Second thing is technical improvements and client optimization. 21.7% want this.
Third thing is PvE content improvements, 15.8% wish this to happen.
To summon it all, we can say exactly that players are all in all satisfied with PvP content and skill balance, but almost everyone feels the lack of PvE content. Players don’t even really want any huge updates (like new continents or craft profession), they just want bugs to be fixed and client to be optimized.
So here are some suggestions by Russian community:
Gameplay basics and classes
Spoiler
Druid rebalance
The current status of druid class is more than bad. If you have a look at the talent tree, you would be able to see the idea of it. Druid is meant to be a kind of universal class, and player may choose between the role skill tree suggests (tanking, physical damage short range, magical damage long rage). For now, potential of that class is unrealized and no one plays as druid.
Commander rebalance
Commander class has the same problem as druid; it is supposed to be a counter-mage class with lots of controll and skill damage. But he is useless as in PvP, so in PvE for now.
Mystic rebalance
There is nothing really wrong with that class, it has a good balance and a lot of players pick it. But the problem with it is its full domination in PvE. All the PvE is about those hot black guys. The classic raid party which has been usable for many years is: protector, radiant, elementalist, forsaker and lots of mystics. This doesn’t make any sense and there is no choice for PvE players: they should pick mystic whether they want it or not. If they don’t, they just won’t be able to have a good PvE time. There is something to do about that.
“Miss” balance
It’s really easy to notice that physical AA misses much more often than skill usage.
Physical skills deal 0 damage in block
As an example, AA deals 1000-1500 damage.
Shadow runner (Chaos spinning skill)
The description of the skill doesn’t match with what the skill really do.
Optimization
We´ve figured out some serious technical problems and issues with RAM. The reason of those is bad optimization.
Spoiler
Processor resources trouble
Playing requiem for a long time requires more and more RAM. In the end, the client crashes with a memory read error.
Memory and performance leaks
This leaks provoke client crashes and suspensions, especially on a low performance PC. The reason is those skills:
Possesion Beast Rufus lvl 70 skill
Tempest lvl 80 Haste Acceleration skill
All the possession beast skills which requires casting to use, provoke a performance leak up to 10 fps especially on low performance PCs.
Forsaker’s fire totem
The flaming effect of damaging stacks a lot of times on a character. It provokes video card memory leak.
Long time duration AOE skills
Their animation is shown even though the duration if damage is over, if game was loading in a moment of skill duration (for example, if player has died). It lumbers video memory and player sight.
Secret lab
Textures of blood there are ugly and look like big black squares on ground.
PvE
Spoiler
Reviving old raids
There are plenty of interesting and cool raids and requiem, but in fact, no one goes there any longer: loot is outdated and useless. To make players go in Erunil tower for example, is pretty easy. We suggest to add some new loot which is required as a compounding components (enchanting xeons, rex compounding etc.) The other idea is to add completing raid as a server or guild quest (more about that later).
The strongest Raid bosses in game (Voxion, Mare Gall etc) can be killed by 1-3 players
The thing is that the stats in the armor and weapons are grow more and more, bosses’ stats still the same. Such thing is raid just doesn’t exist in requiem today.
Unworking dungeons portals all over the world
Those need to be used or removed at all.
Quests and leveling up
Spoiler
85-90 leveling up
Any kind of game is meant to be fun and entertaining. We all have enough boring routine in our everyday lives; there is no need at all to have the same routine in game. Doing everyday quests is just so boring and tiring… We suggest to make at least one or two quest chains on each level which will speed the process up at least a little bit.
Quest rewards, every day login rewards
Economic in game is changing. Quest rewards do not. The amount of lant for completing quests is too little. It really needs to be boosted, especially for newbees. They just can’t do anything with amount of lant which is saved from quests.
Quest for victory in battlefield needs to be boosted too. As though battle point rewards were boosted, the amount which player can receive for completing quest is just ridiculous.
We also want to pay your attention to every day login reward. 100 lant coupons are just trash, same is alfa xeons. Skill reset for day 50 is usually useless and that thing disappears in 24 hours. This needs to be changed. We suggest for rewards something universal, like atma infinity or tokens.
Server quests
The idea is to achieve a global goal with participation of every player on the server. For example, it could be killing monsters all over the globe in count of 1000000. Every single player makes his contribution. After achieving the goal, everyone on the server is rewarded (+70% to reinforcement dor example).
Guilds
Spoiler
Guild quests
Just like server quests, but narrowed a bit to a guild with guild bonuses only.
Guild bank
It’s a great opportunity of sharing stuff you don't need with your guild mates who could use it. If members of a guild are truly friendly and responsive, they could find this feature useful.
Blood points rewards
Players definitely need more guild war rewards, especially - BF points booster like +10-15%
Personal guild war point boost
It's a good idea to make personal benefition from guild war points, not only for a guild. For example you can score 20000 guild war pts, which go to your guild rank and the same amount of pts goes to your hands, so you can spend them however you like. One remains is to come with idea what those rewards would be.
PvP
Spoiler
PK system
PK system is under a big question. Many players are not satisfied of it because "serial killers" mostly remain unpunished. Some of them loves killing lowbies which is totally wrong. New players are not very pleased of that kind of treatment so they leave the game forever. We suggest toughening PK system in way so lesser players would rather kill newbies. Make PK tendency remover a bit more expensive, and make the way of "cleaning" a bit harder. Remove awarding for serial killers; add an option so other players could feel free of killing serial killers. After killing "red man" I'd like to loot something from him. Maybe after that they become more rational. That is our suggestion.
Ancient ruins
As we already know, this type of BF is clearly dead. We suggest merging AR points with Theme Battle points or a least to make a converting function. We reckon that NPC who gives those ancient points was a temporal solution so it’s about time to do something with it.
Game Launcher
Spoiler
We reached now to the game Launcher. It has banners with Item Mall offerings which prices are outdated. It has to be reviewed.
Launcher also has a much bigger problem - updating causes numerous errors. Certainly it has to be fixed somehow.
Item mall pets
Spoiler
Few words about pets. They work nice all in all, but there are still some exceptions. Pet is a pointless purchase for those who have Stealth. Even though no one can see you, there is still a pet that reveals your location and lots of AoE skills which can really get you. We ask you if it is possible to make pets invisible as well as its master.
Another point about pets is to add a function that allows you to choose what kind of loot your pet may pick up (only rares, or rares and consumable etc.). Pretty much people ask for this particular feature.
We do not insist on what we suggest, but at least 1000 people in our community wish to see what GMs answer will be. What we can expect or what not to expect at all.
Thank you for attention and good luck to everyone in the world of Ethergia!
i agree with many of thoses ideas gz for that post
VKcommunitydoes not exist, it'sa bunch ofnewbiesandbeginnersto helpeach other.Theyhave nothing to dowith thosewhowere the realtesterson the Russianserver.
The listof thesetesterswereI and dvchel, withgame experience8 years.Peoplewhoareintroducedadministrationthere's never been.
There are peoplewho simplyhave copiedall of ourideas andtests withthe Russian Forumaboutthe gameoffers. First,you need toverify the informationbefore youpostsomething.
Edited by reqbugkiller, 29 September 2016 - 10:37 PM.
Its sad to see such a great post has been filled with drama and trashtalk, whether this was copied ideas or not it came from the russian community and no 1 person is responsible it is many people as a whole. Also dvchel is a rep who was sought out by VM/GMs that was there decision, you do not know what dvchel has and has not suggested unless you are seeing his direct messages to helium, otherwise stop being little -_-~
It is obvious that crusaders stand up for each other. Much admirable of them. But that doesn't mean you can slander on us, dvchel is going to be banned from our group all because of you. That means, he won't be having any community to work with. All information he "smokes" from VMs GMs leaves only for him and his narrow circle of friends which makes him useless. He probably said to Helium the he has an access to our community. What if he doesn't? Keep this up and you will see for sure.
I recommend to clean this topic up and continue the actual discussion about Requiem.
Yes that have been always my point of view, This guy Only save for himself and closed friends what GMs will say, and talk only to a close circle of people, a good Represent take ideas of all not a small group only, And If he dont like the VK Management, he could Exit.
Yes that have been always my point of view, This guy Only save for himself and closed friends what GMs will say, and talk only to a close circle of people, a good Represent take ideas of all not a small group only, And If he dont like the VK Management, he could Exit.
I'm not the only rep. U have Kazara, zello and sandman, they can explain better what Heluim say. Why I must write it?
I think you are the right man or woman for be a RU Requiem Representative much better comparing to others like dvchell.. WTF!.. THATS A MISTAKE THING REALLY! I really think Requiem should put a Russian GM too, because to much Russian population playing.
