Hello there
Just a thought.. i was away from iro for about 6 months, when i came back, the amount of players online dropped from 2k for 1.4k
That tells us that rag community is getting smaller by the time, and at some point, it will be impracticable for WP to keep support, updates and all for this great game we all enjoy. I do think some changes should be done, especially to those players who don't have that much time to spend online.
Some of my ideas are:
1) shortening quest's: by that i mean increasing drop rate of quest related items. For example: nidhogg nest quest, we have to do a significant amount of extra quest's until being able to do it. For such, report from the new world takes a huge amount of time and dedication from players to drop report parts, attempts of getting a full report, and luck to get all 4 different types in order to get the final report.
PS: this may be unreasonable for those who did this, but let's look at the big picture, we have a handfull of players who cannot be reached. We have new players who tried the game, even enjoying, dont have any enthusiasm to continue, and most of those newcommers are kid or teenagers who dont have a income to buy WPE and deppend on their parents money to do so, being unable to progress on the game
2) more exp event's and maybe periodically drop rate events, so people can schedule themselves to that date and try to really make some progress.
3) refine events are great and really helpfull, but how much does it cost? a lot of us already have means to make zeny and get the safe certificates and ores to do so, but how about the newcommers? if they want a refined item to their character at least be reasonable to solo leveling, they have no option other then buy WPE, sell it, to buy said equips. That for sure isn't a reality for most. So i guess we could use more ways to fabricate safe certificates, so either a medium/newbies can make themselves (either to use or make some zeny), which will also decrease its overprice (30m a safe to 7 body each).
Rag is a great game, but it seems to be going towards its end. Just implementing new items in OCP isn't enough.
I know this will move a great deal for the developers, but i think it can greatly improve the game experience and attract new players
I could think of more things, but i dont have the time now, i have about 2h to play, so i'll go now do some instances. Hopefully WP will consider this seriously. I really like the game, but its has become not even pay to win, but pay to advance. I play since early 2017 and, despite some timeouts, i only have a regular RC GX 175, spending something around 1500$ (R$ 6000,00 im brazilian). I was aiming for a DD crit GX, but that seems impossible without spending a lot of money for one game (most of us play others things too, new games every year, bills to pay, travel plans and even study dividing my income with ragnarok). I would also enjoy playing with other classes, but i cant even finish 1, imagine going for a magical type class now? only if i sell all my GX items to buy sorcerer's