Feral Heart

Game & Forum Discussion => Game Discussion => Game Suggestions & Ideas => Topic started by: Jango_Fett on January 10, 2019, 11:20:10 pm

Title: Portals.
Post by: Jango_Fett on January 10, 2019, 11:20:10 pm: I was talking with AlphaEclipse just a few minutes ago, and I agreed with it whole-heartedly.
she gets credit bb

The idea is simple:

Add additional portals to Lonely Cave to potentially boost the population of the lesser-used maps.

Bonfire used to be a gathering place for everyone. It was easy to access and the old spawn point. It had history and a reputation. Now it's out of the way, hard to find[even if you know the way], and very very very dead.

A simple solution would be to add portals to these maps[Kiwimbi, Cherika, Bonfire] from the spawning map.
Not all of them if you want to keep a sense of exploration, but definitely a couple more waypoints would be useful. Especially for newer or returning players.

The old Lonely Cave was able to circumvent the dead maps[mostly] due to immediately showing you the 4 main pathways to access all the maps:
Ascension Island[Sky's Rim]
Ficho[Bonfire - Fluorite > Temple of Dreams]
Cape of Distant Worlds[Fluorite > Temple of Deams - Modded Maps]
South Pole[Atlantis > The Last Cave]

Currently the main way to get to any map is The Grounds. But that's only for a few of them, and many of these maps intersect in confusing ways. Kibou and Cherika are dead in part because they are absurdly difficult to get to, and are super out of the way of where the people are.
Seaside Grove you can access immediately but it doesn't go anywhere save for The Grounds. You'd think you could get to Kiwimbi Beach from there, since, y'know... Ocean. Or an alternate route to Bonfire Islands.
But it doesn't.

So there's two ways to go about this:

Just organize map portals so some of them are not as hard to get to, save for the ones where it should take you time to 'earn' the privilege of finding.

And/or add additional portals at the start to better convey the different intersections leading to the different maps.

Have a nice day.
Title: Re: Portals.
Post by: Fonzie on January 10, 2019, 11:44:38 pm: i completely agree with this, but i do understand why they're the way they are, and that's likely to force people to explore. although after you've found everything for the first time i can see running around getting quite old. i'd love it if they were at least a little closer to each other to avoid the latter. hopefully this is taken into consideration.
Title: Re: Portals.
Post by: AlphaEclipse on January 10, 2019, 11:57:22 pm: i will rprt u 4 idea stealin

In all seriousness, obviously I wholeheartedly think this would be a great idea to implement as it would hopefully spread crowds to less popular maps worthy of some love, especially those that could be considered difficult to reach, such as Zama Grotto and Cherika Valley. As Jango said, do not include all portals in order to force exploration, but giving more access points would seriously help take stress off of seasoned players looking to reach an "outskirt" map.

It is by no means urgent, but it's something to think about when considering placement of maps in future updates.
Title: Re: Portals.
Post by: Azurain on January 11, 2019, 12:03:26 am: Hi yes I enjoy this idea a lot. I never even thought of this myself, but it would be amazing. Lonely Cave combined with "Portal Island" that a few IT servers I know of have.
Title: Re: Portals.
Post by: Kahbloom on January 11, 2019, 12:15:00 am: I quite like this idea!
Although, yeah, it might take some of the fun out of exploring, I think that it would boost activity in some of the less-populated maps!
Title: Re: Portals.
Post by: LordSuragaha on January 11, 2019, 01:10:20 am: This is actually a thing I mentioned to Raz in some discussions for helping spread people out through the maps more. I totally agree with this and I strongly believe this is an idea that can actually help a lot. Unfortunately I can't make any promises as to exactly what design ideas will be accepted into the next patch as that's not solely up to me. I will make sure that this idea and thread of yours gets brought to the attention of the right eyes when the time comes again though <3. Thanks for your suggestions!
Title: Re: Portals.
Post by: Valar.Morghulis on January 11, 2019, 08:03:32 am: That’s actually a really great idea! It has my full support definitely. I hope to see it in the future.
Title: Re: Portals.
Post by: Notorious. on January 11, 2019, 12:55:19 pm: This is honestly quite the interesting idea
As already stated from the previous comments, by doing this, it'll help bring activity to the other maps that are hardly being used. If the idea of adding more portals to Lonely Cave does get implemented into the game in the future, hopefully people will use the other maps more often.
Title: Re: Portals.
Post by: Insoholic on January 11, 2019, 09:03:51 pm: What a neat idea! Glad to hear that it will be thoroughly discussed.
Title: Re: Portals.
Post by: yourlocalcrow on January 11, 2019, 10:08:03 pm: This would definitely be helpful, especially to newer players! The main one I'd really like to see in Lonely Cave is a Bonfire portal that perhaps is by the waterfall. More interconnections between the related maps would also be nice (ie. Kiwimbi portal in Bonfire, Seaside portal in Kiwimbi) and create a more cohesive world.
Title: Re: Portals.
Post by: wolfdog01 on January 12, 2019, 12:58:50 am: Though I do like how the maps connect each other smoothly, I gotta say having random map placements seemed to help the game before. Like the old Lonely Cave example, had a few maps all very different from each other so people could easily spread out. Kinda neutral on this idea tho, dunno...
Title: Re: Portals.
Post by: Jango_Fett on January 12, 2019, 11:08:45 pm: Quote from: LordSuragaha on January 11, 2019, 01:10:20 am
This is actually a thing I mentioned to Raz in some discussions for helping spread people out through the maps more. I totally agree with this and I strongly believe this is an idea that can actually help a lot. Unfortunately I can't make any promises as to exactly what design ideas will be accepted into the next patch as that's not solely up to me. I will make sure that this idea and thread of yours gets brought to the attention of the right eyes when the time comes again though <3. Thanks for your suggestions!
glad to hear this

it's a very small thing that shouldn't take too much time, so i can understand it being a lower priority.
but at the same time
it short
it sweet
it eat.

regardless, glad it's at the very least going to be considered.
Title: Re: Portals.
Post by: moonwolf303 on January 13, 2019, 04:31:50 am: Very nice idea! (lol, Im trying to post some...my rank had remained low cause of me being the little antisocial crab that I am..)
I completely support this! When I first joined It was very hard for me to find anything...it took me weeks just to find Cherika..and I literally JUST found bonfire last week. This would be very helpful to newer members along with the older ones as well.