to do: (starting from nearest plans to the long-term ones)
* quests editor
* allow editing different maps (instances)
* ^ generalize some code first
* process npc rotation
* mob editor
* figure out NPC "triggers" (again an NPC field, from what i understand it's a way to spawn an NPC dynamically upon some action (like quest?) )
* describe npc types (picture / description?)
* add help popups on hover
I made an effort to check out the existing tools for editing PW files and honestly couldn't find anything even remotely interesting. Even in the paid tools you still have to do a lot of manual work that could be definitely handled automatically by software.
For me, the only way to manage and update a server is to create a new editor, so that's what I'm doing. The goal is to cooperate on creating the content. The PW Mirage community could use it to create new NPCs, mobs, bosses, quests, items, recipes, etc, then easily share it with me (and possibly everyone else) for review. Then with a single click or so, I could approve it and merge it into the real game.
The editor would be available as a public website. The video below shows an early version in action.
I'm hoping to bring it to a useful state in 2 weeks.
oh yes, we definitely don't want to offer doing wraithgate to low-levels 
True.
Although you only do your FBs only once. If charms are droppable, this shouldn't be a problem.
maybe an event-like npc that shows up for a random day (and a system announcement is sent) and offers a q to kill e.g. 5 Qingzis?
He could show up once in a week.
I love those ideas! If I can make the FB reward vary depending on player level that would be awesome.
Supply stash is a good idea! I could put one set of dragon orbs there so we could at least refine our weap to +5 as a reward for leveling.
I think dragon orbs should stay as something rare tho. I can boost the rates of the regular refine stones so they would be still useful, but the 100% refine chance with dragon orbs shouldn't come easy.
I guess we should also consider putting Herc and Phoenix into cash shop. Those should be farmable as well, but apparently there's a demand to buy those with real money on early levels as well.
More people would use those charms if they were given those without any extra effort required. Especially low-level charms. They're not something you necessarily want to craft, but they could be useful nevertheless. How about making them an additional FB reward (to the person who tabbed)?
KNine suggested to make it possible to take all BH 1/2/3 at the same time, without the need for stacking
I like that.
Leveling up on 70+ consists mostly of grind. Can we make it more interesting somehow? We could at least add a few daily quests to kill a world miniboss or some amount of regular mobs.
No R9, that's set.
R8 is probably the endgame, but how do you get reputation? FBs, culti, events?
5k rep for lv60 gear - needs to be difficult enough to get
35k rep for lv90 gear - same
I would like to include them in the game. They should be farmable, although I'm not sure how.
One idea is to make them drop from regular dungeon bosses.
In 39 there could be a chance to drop 1/2 star orb
51 - 3/4 star orb
59 - 5 star orb
69 - 6 star orb
79 - 7 star orb
89 - 8 star orb
I'm actually thinking of removing the boutique completely and using an NPC shop instead. After each donation, the user would have to relog to see the gold, and there's no such problem with receiving a mail with some gold-like currency item. It's also a bit easier development-wise to modify this npc rather than the boutique.
I'm hoping to make the following items buy-able:
Other utility items could be bought with other currency-item gained for BHs and FBs, or dropped from the bosses directly
Further down is the list of utility items gained by running particular dungeons. All of them drop an item (I'm calling it currency-item for now) which can be exchanged at a specific forge for the following:
Keep in mind, the numbers have to well adjusted for both low-level players that group up to finish the dungeon, as well as high level players farming it.
Dungs lv19:
Hall of Deception (29)
Gate of Delirium (39)
Secret Frostcover Grounds (51)
Valley of Disaster (59)
Wraithgate (69)
Hallucinatory Trench (79)
We want to additionally encouraged to run at least 1 difficult dungeon per day. BHs are really good at this.
As we saw on Azure Classic server, the original BH quests are buggy and can't be completed in certain circumstances. We'll need to either remove their randomness, so each day we'll get BHs for the same bosses on given lvl range, or we could come up with something else.
The server is meant to be low-rate, so players are expected to do quests, BHs, FBs and some grinding in order to level up.
X1 rates, however, are too hardcore. We've all played PW already and know most, if not all of the content, so the leveling up process would be naturally tedious.
I suggest the following.
Regular mobs:
XP x1.5, Spirit x1.5, Gold x3
Quest xp
x1 xp&spirit for quests lvl < 30 (there's a lot of them at this point, enough to lvl up)
x1.5 xp&spirit for all higher quests
x5 gold for all quests
Mineable resources:
3-4 logs/ores/stacks per bank
4-6 herbs per plant
There are also additional ways of gaining XP, Spirit, and Coins - check out other concept pages.
