Development Diary: End-game Maps

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golem09 wrote:

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Zaanus wrote:

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golem09 wrote:

Well, I'm pretty sure that's what the public party system is for. Finding people who want to get into a map.

But as I already mentioned I would like an additional challenge beyond that as well, a reason to keep farming maps. Something to put everything to use. As Roger Waters put it "TEAR DOWN THE FUCKING WALL". I'm for a brick wall the game advises you specifically not to try until you are level 80.

Let's see how long it takes people to figure out that some jackass public players porting to town 5x and ruining their rare map isn't going to be good times. Or just well meaning players who aren't geared enough to do it.

Good maps will definitely not be open invite, as people will only need burned once or twice to learn.

Add in that your chance of getting a new map within a map doesn't increase with additional public players... you will only do maps with people you know and trust.

I've seen other games (Hellgate) that used a similiar but much simpler system to unlock maps. It was a mess there too. There it was just an item drop to unlock an instance. People would make 4 player teams where everyone had an item and would use it in turn. About a million times someone would use the party for 2-3 instances then bail. At least there your instance wasn't ruined by the portals counting down or people ninja looting your good drops.

My idea was not that you have a public party open while your on your map.
More that there is a gathering phase before it. Through the public party system interested people can apply for a map (lvl requirements can be put in the party name) and then discuss whether or not they actually join the party.
And I think in many cases the map owner will either want the other partymembers to contribute to the map, or even pay with orbs to be let in. Once all is settled, the party is made private and everybody goes in. But public parties can help make the arrangements without spamming global chat.
And then of course there will be guilds, where map sharing will be quite mandatory I guess.

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Chris wrote:

In the upcoming 0.9.11 patch, we’re revamping Path of Exile’s end-game to introduce a new system known as Maps. Players in high level areas can find Map items that allow them to travel to random end-game areas featuring bosses, awesome equipment and more Maps. This development diary describes the design process of this system and how it works.

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Shriekingwillow wrote:

What is the estimate for when players will be able to work toward a max 100 level. Seems the monsters levels are topping out at 60, and potentially up to 70 or so using the maps?