Common Suggestions and Feedback (with Dev Responses)

Greetings,

Since i do a lot of trading in previous games aswel in PoE i have come to a few conclusions and a suggestion that will increase players enjoyment of the trading "scene" exponentionally i reckon.

I'm suggesting a kind of LiveAuctionWindow (lets call it "LAW" for now :))

Imagin i am a guy that has a nice drop that you just dont want to vendor nor do you wish to spend hours trying to sell it at what you think is the right price.
With LAW you can spam the trade chat with the item and button , wich if pressed by people interested in the item puts those people into a LAW-party where they can c other people in a centralised window.
This window displays all potential buyers on the boarders of the window with the item in the middle of it (with starting bid or set price / or buyout ). The potential buyers can see there current currency items and can click on them (amount buttons) to up there bid witch moves there currency from there bank into a temporary pot in the middle of the LAW window
After the bidding has begon the Seller can select the auction to countdown to its ending (time features) or if the buyout has been reached it will assign a winner. At that moment everybodys currency is refunded execpt for the winner who gets the item in return for his winning bid.
Once the bidding has started there will be a winner of the item. Maybe you can put in a feature where a minimum bid has to be matched in order for a winner to be awarded or the auction will close due to lack of bids. You could charge a small currency fee for that feature to be selected (according to item minimum bidsetting).

This would greatly improve they joy for the people that are trading and for people looking for an item they need without the feeling of being scammed. I think this feature would be a great asset to trading.
No more spamming forever to get a proper buyer.
No more people pulling out of auctions after they have made a serious bid , with a result of outbid people thinking your a scammer.
No more ghost current offers
No more sniping buyers
...

I do not think it would be to hard to code this into the game.

Hope you guys consider this idea sincerly,


Greets !

EDIT:

some further ideas about the workings of this LAW :

Once an interested buyer has clicked on the button in trade chat and joined into the LAW he has the option to minimize the window witch reduced it to a small block on the side of the screen with a red light on it. This red light turns green and plays an audio signal when the auction starts.
Buyers should be able to join multiple LAW's but can only bid in 1 active (green) LAW at a time. Witch is automatically assigned by making the bid in this LAW or closing other joined LAW's.

(p.s. sorry bout spelling )

I think that adding body skins to the shop with the current item effect flavors would be a pretty quick way to make some additional money for the game.

Pets are nice and everything, but who wouldn't want to run around as a shadow?

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channingboy wrote:

I've read the post about all the suggestions u put there.

Im so surprised no one mention this:

1. WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO CHECK EACH OTHER's GEARS.

This one is so so important. There is no motivation for getting better gears if the only one appreciate the gears is urself. With comparsion, players will stay with this game longer, u'll benefit more caz more ppl will use rmah.

another thing:
the game opens up like a web page with 3 buttons on the right top corner, whenever we mis-click "x", it just instantly quit the game... which is weird. Whenever i click the top webpage bar by mistake in game(this happens when hitting minions on top side of u), i got stuck like forever, until i auto logged out .

2. PLZ TRY GET RID OF THE WEBPAGE MODE. MAKING "ESC" THE ONLY WAY TO QUIT GAMES.


3. After trading, auto combine the same ingredents if it is not full stack.

4. Portal duration is way too short. If u don't ever gonna make portal permanant, at least add some warnning to us, saying its gonna disappear soon.

-I constantly find myself in a situation while saying " oh, crap, portal is gone", then i need run all the way to that spot again. The reason is that whenever i back to town selling stuff, i check gears, compares,decide which ones to sell/keep, and takes time to think about the skill trees if upgrades available. it's more relaxed, thats what gaming is about, instead of rushing like crazy, the minute u get back town, u'll be thinking, i need run back, portal is disappearing soon. Im not new to RPG, yet i find this annoying. Imagining how new players with no RPG exp would find this to be!

Chaos damage is to strong and to hard to do anything about.

Kaom's or Shavronne's is nice to have but they're not for everyone.
Chaos resist together with all other must-have-stats is also extremely hard to get, so many characters does not reach satisfying levels of chaos resist.
Giving that you have to have a lot of life (CI excl.) and that means you have to try to reach all life nodes = boring.

Do something about it!

Ex:

- Chaos resist support gem: Gives +1 chaos resist per hit for X seconds

- Easier to get chaos resist on gear

- More uniques giving partly the same effect as Shavronne's (and Kaom's)

- More chaos resist nodes in the passive skill tree

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NIRee_ wrote:

Divination Distillate mechanics
wtf u still not fix this stupid flask? COMON GUYS u must understand that this is total BS with mechanic of this flask. I dont know what u thinking when did it this way but it MUST be fixed to give full time mf buff whatever u on full hp/mana or not this is simple as fck u already make mana/hp potion work in proper way with last patch but forgot to fix the uniqe buff!

I got flask today and was very happy. Then I discover that sth's wrong. Now I know what it is. I think guy above got some point. People use this flask not for mana or hp but to gain others bonus. Why ignore that?

May be too late in the game for this, but why can't we have as detailed a skill tree for ACTIVES as we do for passives? Instead of gems we'd get to spend 1 point per level on developing paths of active skills just like we do for the passive skill sets.

I dunno'. The gems are ok, but being able to personally customize my character THAT MUCH MORE through the use of a skill tree would just be awesome.

Awesome game!

Take care,
Chris

Hey GGG or fellow Path player,

Absolutely love the game, end really enjoy playing it. While I have no real gripe with anything in the game minus the de-sync, I think some micro-transaction effects would be rather awesome if you happened to implement them.

Wings - Maaan, I do love me some wings, I think it'd be awesome if we had some divine wings to attach to our characters to match the rest of the set I've got going on at this point haha. Plus they're fairly non-intrusive and I think it'd be a hot seller in the shop.

Reclaim All Effects Button - I absolutely hate going onto my characters and having to click on individual items to reclaim the effect. There should be a reclaim all effects across characters, it's just annoying to have to go through your characters when you want to show off your love for the game with your micro-transaction.

Lightning Storm - Probably a really dumb name, but what I'm referring to is the spell that Piety casts where she has a lightning cloud shoot down at you. We should have this, at least in skin form, with the firestorm ability. It's just a visual effect, unless you wanted to make it a skill gem at a later date, I think it'd be something that's easy to incorporate and nice to look at!

Alternate Character Models - You know what I like? Pants. I love pants, you know who doesn't wear pants? Half the characters. Now, I'm not saying I don't like their designs necessarily, but it would be nice to have a few variations of these characters or different outfits that we could buy from the store. It would make a world of difference for something that could be eye candy, think dances.

These are just a few suggestions I have, love or hate them, some feedback on these would be awesome, I think it would do nothing but benefit the game, but let me know what anyone thinks!

As for some of the above posts, Morcrist, I think it's a little too late in development for such a change to happen, while I like your enthusiasm towards it, I and many people enjoy the skill gems for a few reasons, if you're not enjoying your character and you've developed them into a skill in mind, you can switch it for another, not to mention the flexibility makes it so you can get very creative.

I really like Peacebringer's ideas with the chaos damage reduction, I get that it's more difficult to resist poisons as opposed to elements, but it very extreme, it would be nice to see a gem to mitigate this a little, or a better way for health builds to avoid the damage. I don't think it's as bad as it's made out to be, but it would be nice to see it as a more common affix or have it be affected by resist all affixes.

Channingboy, I like your idea, an indicator of "Your portal is about to close!" Would be great to see in big bold letters whilst in town.

Sandy_Vagoina - That may be one of the best ideas I've heard, it could be posted on the board in every town, your LAW is great for a few reasons, you could use affixes to search if anything was relevant to you, and it makes it a better way than just to vendor items that are great but can't be sold. I think this is a good idea, however, inflation of prices COULD happen, but that would be based on the community. I hope GGG looks at this, I like this idea.

what about a skin to make equipment (headgear for example) invisible? pooorrrnnootiiimee :D

This one is rather simple, but could be extremely useful... It would be nice if we could ROTATE items to more efficiently store in our inventory and/or stash.

we need a screen that show us the item dropped by the monster..sometimes i don't hear the sound of some orb

i have bad english