Developer Q&A Answers Part 2

I still want to know when you're going to fix higher tier map drop rates. They suck.

"Yes. We are good friends with David Brevik and both Max and Erich Schaefer, who we visit whenever we're over in San Francisco. They're great guys and while they have far more experience in the games industry than we do, there's enough common ground to be able to have some really interesting discussions. I have to admit, I am a huge fan of theirs so getting to meet my heroes was one of the highlights of my career."

That is SO cool. The fanboy in me wants to imagine what kind of MEGAGAME could be produced if you had those 3 guys on your dev team.....

This is a very interesting idea. While we don't plan to actually log people out for inactivity, the idea of considering them offline for trade visibility purposes (if they're actually away from their computer and not around to answer messages) is very possible. I'll talk to the team about this further



This is not a good idea. Plenty of us actively trade all day by using poewhisper and push bullet to go about our day but still come to the PC to trade.

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60x7 wrote:

I still want to know when you're going to fix higher tier map drop rates. They suck.

Say that to my 40 red maps. I can't do them fast enough.

Protip? 20% -> Alch -> Roll half decent mods, pack size is nice -> VORB


VORB: Vaal Orb. Does amazing things. Get sick drops from 158iiq/66iir/38pack size 8 mod maps ;)

Aaaaand... no questions about lab answered. Again.

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RabidMonk wrote:

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60x7 wrote:

I still want to know when you're going to fix higher tier map drop rates. They suck.

Say that to my 40 red maps. I can't do them fast enough.

Protip? 20% -> Alch -> Roll half decent mods, pack size is nice -> VORB


VORB: Vaal Orb. Does amazing things. Get sick drops from 158iiq/66iir/38pack size 8 mod maps ;)

You are lucky, therefore everybody are meant to be lucky. If only world worked that way...

No forced logout, please, I beg you. I have to take breaks regularly to care for kids, I'd never be able to complete a lab run if I couldn't stop for an hour long break here and there.

I'd be very happy to be unavailable for trade. I feel bad for all the people who message me during those times.

Also: I'm a D2 dev who has reached out to the team to let them know how impressed I am with their work. They wrote a nice reply. POE is easily the best heir to d2 I've seen.

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Taiberius wrote:

Cloaks? A new gear slot sounds noice :D

Can't believe I had to scroll to page 3 to find this comment. I know he mentioned in the last Q&A that he would like to do cloaks in the future, but this looks like confirmation to me. Hyped.

YES! Cloaks! And unset amulets!! And unset belts!!! And pa...err, leggings!!!! :p

P.S.: And underwear...;)

How do I keep track on these Q&A posts, so I can drop my questions as well?

Anyways, I would like to see the following being asked:

Will PoE ever have more weapon types like spears?

Probably beating a dead horse with this one, but... will our characters ever have pants/legguards for armor?

On the "logged out if AFK too long" suggestion, I'd hope there are other trade improvements that happen first.

Since the system is so clunky and I can be tied up in lab or high level map when I get asked to trade, I've bypassed much of the problem by having PoE on a second computer with another account, moving what I need to sell via the Guild Stash and listing it on my alt account. This way I can just turn over and trade without leaving the map (although if I'm in the middle of an uber izaro fight, this solution admittedly doesn't help)

Already the auto AFK system kinda messed that up, since if people get AFK message they are already alt-tabbed and looking for another item even though I reply like two seconds later, although leaving a proper AFK message generally helps against that.

If I was to get logged out automatically for being AFK though I'd either need a macro that kept moving me around to prevent me from being logged out (which would defeat the purpose of the system), or I'd have to stop trading on my second account and instead just miss half the sales I would have made since I'm otherwise tied up.

TL;DR fix the trade system rather than trying to fix the symptoms of a bad trade system.