Got some Ideas? Post em!

After taking a month-long Silkroad break; I was wondering what's actually missing for an actual long term server. Meaning things that are there from the beginning that'd make the Silkroad joyable for over a year.

Ideas that are rejected:

• Raise Cap after XXX weeks/months
• Keep adding new shit every XXX days/weeks

How about this?

Remove all sort of SoX sets. Keep 1st, 2nd, 3rd gear equipment.
When an item is picked for the first time; Add random EXTRA blues/stats on it.

This means, get a value between a pre-set min & max value and add it as an extra.

Technical Example:
Char picks a 10D shield .
Get random blue or stat category (BR, Phys Def, STR, INT, Attk Ratio..)
Get random value to add for pre-selected blue/stat category (above). Values have a min and max range of course.
Add that stat onto the item. (UPDATE _Items ...)
Intercept Server -> Client pick item packet.
Save packet.
Modify packet with the pre-calculated extra parameter (blue & stat)
Send packet to client.

Non-technical Example:
Char picks shield.
Char received shield with 50 HP increase.

Result:
Player receives an item that is randomly generated and has better default stats/blues.

Usually, you can have 7 STR on an item. This way you can grant them 10 STR etc.

Problems:
In order to actually take effect, the player needs to teleport once, however, that shouldn't be a big deal since the blues & stats will be viewable client sidedly due to packet interception.

Now.. What kinda ideas do you guys have? Almost anything is possible, just say any kind of idea. Doesn't matter if its from a different game or anything. However, don't say something that completely changes the game. It should change the gameplay STYLE not the entire game itself.

Additionally, do NOT criticize other ideas, everything is welcome here. It should be a public collection of ideas from players that have tried out a variety of different games. The aim is to bring the best ideas together.

What I would really like to hear are ideas about quests. Again, it doesn't matter if you think its possible or not, just let your creativity roam freely.

Adding 10 str to an item.. which degree ? Also joymax's drop item idea is pretty much the same just the fact that they dont understand the word "random". A long term server needs a long term idea and a community to understand it completly to be able to enjoy on it. Use all features of the game => CTF/BattleArena/Fortresses/ForgottenWorld/etc.
Use all areas in game => Every possible area.. find a usage of it. Make balance between donaters and non donaters.. Make leveling matter (which is quite hard having every other private server in the background). Don't modify so hard the game itself. Silkroad had it's peak (iSRO) when there were no private servers apart from ecSRO/zszcSRO and people liked it the way it was. Less edits.. more stuff people to do. That's the way to create a long-term server and you should know that already. But to make people play pSRO for year or even over a year.. Quite impossible. (Rising cap each week/month/seasons(winter -> spring) is potato idea.)

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Originally Posted by Zed* Adding 10 str to an item.. which degree ? Also joymax's drop item idea is pretty much the same just the fact that they dont understand the word "random". A long term server needs a long term idea and a community to understand it completly to be able to enjoy on it. Use all features of the game => CTF/BattleArena/Fortresses/ForgottenWorld/etc. Use all areas in game => Every possible area.. find a usage of it. Make balance between donaters and non donaters.. Make leveling matter (which is quite hard having every other private server in the background). Don't modify so hard the game itself. Silkroad had it's peak (iSRO) when there were no private servers apart from ecSRO/zszcSRO and people liked it the way it was. Less edits.. more stuff people to do. That's the way to create a long-term server and you should know that already. But to make people play pSRO for year or even over a year.. Quite impossible. (Rising cap each week/month/seasons(winter -> spring) is potato idea.)

Zed, I was talking about 10D in that case.. usually the max is 7 STR there (if i remember correctly) .. Also this was just an example. It could be 50HP on a shield etc as well.

Basically, making the items very very very different. So that there are more than 5k different items. Makes the whole thing worthwhile.

Also, adding shit TON of dungeons maybe where you get the good drops from.

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Originally Posted by blablaRoyal Zed, I was talking about 10D in that case.. usually the max is 7 STR there (if i remember correctly) .. Also this was just an example. It could be 50HP on a shield etc as well. Basically, making the items very very very different. So that there are more than 5k different items. Makes the whole thing worthwhile. Also, adding shit TON of dungeons maybe where you get the good drops from.

Still making different statistics on the items won't add "long-term" to the server. "Shit TON of dungeons" could do that, but only in case people have what to do there. It must worth the time being somewhere grinding on hand. Something else btw.. Botting as usually must be allowed (just for the fun, I know players which play servers only to watch their characters botting and doing alchemy from time to time) but make it non-profitable and in no way to be in touch with getting last tier of gears.

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Originally Posted by blablaRoyal In order to actually take effect, the player needs to teleport once

that's not a problem, when I use sBot, I teleport about 100 fucking times anyway due to dying // no pots // getting my spot taken

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Originally Posted by Creationist that's not a problem, when I use sBot, I teleport about 100 fucking times anyway due to dying // no pots // getting my spot taken

Exactly, thats why im saying it no problem at all. Also, you see the extra shit on the item right away in real time without teleporting. But if you equip the item.. it wont give you the extra shit directly. You need to teleport at least ONCE after picking up the item so that it actually works

IQ test before entering the game ;o

That will kill botting :D Otherwise +1

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Originally Posted by SnowStorm1 IQ test before entering the game ;o

30 players FTW.

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Originally Posted by blablaRoyal Zed, I was talking about 10D in that case.. usually the max is 7 STR there (if i remember correctly) .. Also this was just an example. It could be 50HP on a shield etc as well. Basically, making the items very very very different. So that there are more than 5k different items. Makes the whole thing worthwhile. Also, adding shit TON of dungeons maybe where you get the good drops from.

Str is 6 in d10.

Regarding stats, see Tera's example, items do drop with random stats, then you have to farm over and over daily dungeons, 5-man, 10-man raids where one of the drops is this scroll that randomly gives you stats.

Then the plusing part, it doesn't necessarily have to be from mobs that elixirs drop from, it can also be done via 1 man dungeon that has like a 10minutes cool down, so if you want to get elixirs u have to do the solo dungeon, many other examples can be given,

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Originally Posted by SnowStorm1 IQ test before entering the game ;o

id want that for league of legends and dota.

Thanks for copying me .. AGAIN! You prove how awful you're day by day; The thread of troy *incomplete* was already @behance, you just took 1% of it *clap*


Aint something special for هندي

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Originally Posted by 鳳凰城 Thanks for copying me .. AGAIN! You prove how awful you're day by day; The thread of troy *incomplete* was already @behance, you just took 1% of it *clap* Aint something special for هندي

You're not special either if you type shit in your own language, it just makes you even more stupid.

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Originally Posted by TheWickedNite You're not special either if you type shit in your own language, it just makes you even more stupid.

Redefine what 'forum' means, please!

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Originally Posted by 鳳凰城 Redefine what 'forum' means, please!

Forum means being stupid?