Open ideas and questions, gathered in one place. Nothing here is promised; it is where tester suggestions have the most room.
The long game
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What makes day 30 worth playing before the economy is alive?
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How do the first ninety days on a fresh server feel when systems need many players?
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NPCs as a floor, never a replacement: workers, demand, guards.
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Equal experience per hour across activities: the difference is risk, not pace.
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Which systems belong at launch, and which can come after?
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What should the chronicle remember? First kills, sieges, master smiths. What else?
Combat
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Disarming: what causes it, how long, what protects?
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Dispel: which effect is removed? The latest, a random one, a chosen one?
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Which skills does heavy armour hinder?
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Crits between players work as they do against monsters. Should PvP have a crit rule of its own?
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Spells are to work against players too. Which spells, and in what form?
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A safe zone during an ongoing fight: escape route or not?
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Scouting neighbouring squares as an active command.
Schools
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Tamers, necromancers and summoners are meant to have things that fight for them. Which other schools should?
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Druid and necromancer mechanics.
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How other kindreds reach a race chain.
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Room for whips, firearms, time magic, music magic.
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Any number of new schools fits the network. Which would you add?
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Schools as places to travel to: universities as true landmarks.
Professions & items
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What exactly does the hunter do?
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Farming: buy land, send workers, or dig and plant by hand?
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Builder: its own profession or part of the plot system?
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Pickpocketing as a profession, a PvP ability, or neither.
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Personal artifacts that grow with you.
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Rare drops with modified stats, at reduced value.
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The profession list is open. Which professions are missing?
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Shares in player companies: sell part of your company to players who want to invest.
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A room’s key is the first soulbound item. Which other items should be soulbound?
World
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A hundred cities is a guide value, with themes and biomes.
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Weather that helps some builds and kindreds and hurts others.
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Dig your own cave.
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Choose where you were born.
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A limited auction house beside player shops?
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Names for cities and regions. Glinaur (the world), Aurzem (its capital) and Mudbury are decided; every other name is a working name.
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Disease: how it spreads, how it runs, and how players treat it.
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What lies behind the four roads that end blind?
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Which mythologies should become continents after the Nordic one? Roman, Greek, Slavic, Mongolian, Persian, Japanese and Kalevala are named.
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The ferry: where should it sail from, and where to?
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The Clay Mound is holy ground, where no fight starts. Which other places should be holy?
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What should count as a crime against the people of other cities, and outside the cities?
Character
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Traits earned by how you play: which actions, which thresholds, and can they be lost?
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A far wider trait catalogue. Which traits?
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Achievements and titles: pure feats, or do they give something?
Quests, events & pets
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Which quests? Kill, gather, deliver, talk, reach a place and survive are built as goals; blocking strikes and making an item are named. What else?
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World events and holiday events: which would you want?
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Pets for nearly every kindred, carrying loot and helping in fights, are the direction. How do you get one, what should it do, and what sets it apart from a tamed beast?
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Should dying fail a quest, or only running out of time?
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Should party members see each other’s quest progress?
After you have played
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Too many quality steps in your bag? Coarser steps, merging, or sorting?
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What in the interface would you change?
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Should dying cost lifeskill experience too, or only combat experience?
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Better names for the profession tiers, from Novice to Grandmaster?
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The Monsterpedia is in the game, and a search is planned, for a monster whose loot you need, or a school to level in. What else would you want to look up?
Social & conflict
Which dispositions should exist, and what should they be called? Four stand in the game with working names: the Keepers, the Purgers, the Warring and the Bridgers. The list is a start, not the final one.
What should the disposition tree hold, and what should each disposition’s own places, people and schools be like?
A grandmaster in every disposition, making time-limited alliances and waging war on others?
Can a neutral player’s property be raided or stolen at all? The heaviest open question in the design.
Raids on property: rules, windows, offline protection.
No square is open-PvP ground yet, where anything goes without a crime. Where should it be?
A neutral player can be attacked outside the Arena, at the price of Wanted time. Should it stay that way?
Should players below the novice protection level be safe from other players?
Looting a player’s corpse is always a crime. Should it cost less Wanted time after a lawful kill?
What would you build on a plot of your own: a house, a tower, a small town?
Clan experience and what it gives.
Thumbs-up player ratings.
Marriage: free, as identity and a story for the chronicle?