I really am happy I bought this game in the first year! I suggested music and not only did they add it but the added on to the system I suggested. I am sure more than just myself requested it but that is not my point. My point ia they developers apparently do listen to my feed back and I really appreciate that. So, after a short break between the updates I recently returned. I had a real life project that had a deadline I had to handle. I was amazed at how the performance improved, a bit sad at being moved to a new server because I was on a Spanish/English server and both was using the game to learn Spanish thru the chat as well as several friendly English/Spanish literate players but also very enthused do learn I could now play with higher video settings even though I was on a server that has consistently a higher population. Plus there is now actually a story!
Which brings me to the point of this post and my first suggestion. I love the new start, but as someone who came back after only a few months from like days before the update to this week, it would have been nice to just watch/listen to a recap rather than rerun missions. I also sort of miss the original Windward beach/constable duo because they were a cute pair (husband/wife iirc). Despite that the new characters have so much more depth and all that so I love it! I just want the recap because all of a sudden Isabelle was in my head out of no where. Now I did spend last night grinding through the opening just for that story. Just saying is all.
Topic two! As a thanks for the update I got the skipping emote and warhorn from the cash shop and I wanted to request a cosmetic for glasses which I can wear with my hats and stuff. I have glasses and want my character to have glasses. Same for a tracking emote. I like to RP as a pioneer with a musket and hatchet. It would be cool to emote tracking my game.
The last two suggestions are linked. I love how respectful people are on my server in PvP on open. Typically people stick to their level range so no level 60 is picking on level 20s etc but also there is so much world and so much opportunity to ambush people in open PvP using the environment. Like high up in the mountains in Cutlass Keys and stuff.
What if as a part of holding a region factions needed to ship caravans to from that region captial city to other capital cities of the same faction on the map after the faction in that other region has lost the fort. Call it a reinforcement run, the quest will need to be done with the PvP flag enabled and multiple runs will need to be done to provide some sort of bonus to the defending faction when and if an opposing faction attempts to overthrow the city. Then players of a faction can guard that caravan as it slowly makes it’s way along the roads of the map stopping only when players of the Faction the cart belongs to move away from it and also said cart has a specific amount of Health Points based on the level those in the town which is sending it have leveled it up to like the other city resources. Players can take the quest from the town board to do this any they can run it at any point over the cool down week after a war.
Maybe that all is a bit involved and tedious but the idea is to create a PvP game play loop which uses the giant map we have. The reason it is a series of quest that run over a week is so the Faction sending it can do it sort of in stealth allowing them to hopefully break any blockade an opposing Faction would set but it would also allow the opposing Faction to set up a blockade which would last a week drawing things out amd creating tension.
The rewards for blocking or delivering the reinforcement caravan should be enough to really alter the fate of the battle for the city and provide each individual player enough of a benefit to encourage companies of Factions to map out ambush spots and stuff.
Just ideas feel free to brutally murder them or praise them or edit them.