Compilation of ALL the ideas I could find

[MissMaul]

I have compiled a list of all the things I could find that needed to be added to AO. They are categorized, as well... Mostly just a vague list. This is an OPEN list- post things that you think need to be added if I missed something.

Balancing:
Uhm. I just realized I have NO CLUE about what needs to be done. Wow, I suck. I'm going to let you guys fill this one in. My only comment:
-Do away with the level req. on nanos.

Content:

1. Storyline
a. We need an actual storyline, with events that follow the storyline.

2. Clubs
a. Open a lot of the 'closed' clubs.
b. Add more clubs.
c. Add cool stuff to clubs.
d. Add a SkyBar, which floats above Omni-Ent.
e. Casino/Lottery.

3. Apartments
a. Either do away with the item limit or raise it to AT LEAST 20
b. Add more furniture.
c. I suggest handling apartments this way:
You purchase an apartment depending upon quality. For example, a low-quality apartment would come with a template consisting of:
-One main room (with perhaps a couch or chairs)
-A small bedroom (with a bed)
-A bathroom (with a toilet)
You could then purchase higher-quality apartments, which would add:
-More rooms
-Item limit raised
-Windows
-More set furniture
d. Your keycard would be like a container for other keys. This way you could have access to multiple apartments, even in the same door, at one time.
e. Apartment access commands (Open to all, open only when I'm here, closed to all)
f. The ability to reset your apartment

4. Places of Interest (this sort of overlaps Clubs)
a. Make the Lush Hills resort more...resort-y.
b. Add a casino
c. Add jails.

5. Social Content
a. More emotes:
-sleep
-faint
-freeze (pauses the current emote)
-frontflip
-more dances
-group emotes
-sing
-punch/kick
-Leet dancing
-comehere
-hug (hugs whoever you're targetting)
-poke
-dive (actually moves you)
-pushup (Heehee, then when someone won't do what you want, you yell 'DROP AND GIVE ME 20!')
-socials for our pets
-flamingo (stand on one leg)
-airguitar
-Breakdancing!
-posture (affects the way you stand, walk, and hold items)
-slowdance (Slowdances with the person you have targetted)
-laydown
-macarena
-dive
-slowdance
-rave
-cartwheel
-the foxtrot
-karate training/stretching-type stuff
-and many more!
b. The ability to take a friend for a ride in yalm/car
c. A set chapel for weddings (but also the ability to have your wedding someplace exotic, like you can now)

6. Gameplay
a. Add map marking
b. Add a mail system, where for some extra credits you can have an item appear directly in a friend's inventory.
c. Make a sort of 'group list'. It would list ALL groups in the current playfield: with information such as: Current leader, lowest level, highest level, and slots open.
d. Let us name our backpacks. We could name them stuff like 'Mission loot' 'Collected Monster Parts' ect. ect.
e. When we drop an item, it should display the item model, not a small black box with ?'s on it.
f. JETPACKS!
g. In the team window, have the information already there, the level, AND a picture indicating which profession they are.
h. If you kill a guard of your own alignment, you lose a token for every 10 levels of the victim. You will still get xp and loot. If you do not have any more tokens you will be foreced to neutral.
i. A one-time Character Head Skin...re-choosing.
j. Make mission maps highlight the entrance room and elevator room in a different color.
k. Make a quick exit in the boss room of every mission to the outside.
l. Allow players to write their own books/guides and have them sold in AO shops for credits.
m. Add drink making tradeskills and items. Seeing as CompanyMan's post is gone (I think?), these drinks would add a little to some skills. Stackable? (up to, say, 5 at once)
n. More vehicles
o. Drinking too much alters your text to 'slur' it and adds some visual changes. If you drink way way too much you will automatically terminate
p. Profession channels
q. A slider to change the opacity of the chat window.
r. A Cosmetic Surgery machine to change our body type/head.
s. Customizable AFK message
t. Reload button
u. A player marketplace. There would be one, as a seperate zone, in Trade/Ent, Tir/Athen, and Newland/Borealis. (As in 2 per faction) You could go inside and there would be lots of stalls, with NPCs standing next to them. You could talk to the NPC, and depending upon how much money you gave them, you could rent the booth for a certain amount of time.
v.Once you had the booth rented, you could 'use' it and it would pop up a box which you could put stock into. Then you could set a price for each item. Players would come along and browse, and try to haggle if they thought a price was too high. Let's face it, the shopping channel is kinda useless.
w. An 'Employee of the Day' board, with a randomly chosen player's profile and stats. This would change every RL day.
x. We shouldn't face the mob attacking us.
y. [AFK] should appear on our names when we are /afk.

7. Vehicles
a. Bumper stickers (Honk if you love leets, I <heart> my gun)
b. Speederbikes.
c. Hoverboards.

8. Clothing
a. Make open trenchcoats, so you can see part of the armor/clothing beneath. (Mmm...Matrix. )
b. More shoes! I want colored sneakers!
c. More casual-type clothes...such as jeans, shorts, t-shirts with Baboons/Bronto Burger logos on them
d. Make Senpai coats, the flamey ones- in different colors. Cooool.
e. Let guilds make a custom uniform.
f. Wedding clothes (veil, top hat and black suit)
g. Hats and wigs (So we can change our hairstyles)
h. REGULAR glasses
i. Dresses
j. HALLOWEEN COSTUMES! This isn't hard to implement. Really, just add props, and maybe some more clothing that semi-resembles other stuff.
k. Little leet costumes
l. Almost all male pants are BLACK...
m. Knee-length skirts
n. Leet fur coats, so I can boycott them! (They should be REALLY expensive)
o. Cargo pants.
p. More colors of cloaks...we Illemonati (NOT Illuminati, IlLEMONati) want some lemon-yellow cloaks and hoods to worship in.
q. PAJAMAS!!!
r. Fingerless gloves
s. A tab to switch to social clothes instantly
t. Gothic clothes (wheee, black is fun!)
u. Bare feet (list the item as an ankle bracelet or somethin)

9. Guild Housing/Guilds
a. Guild leaders will have to pay rent depending upon how nice they are. The nicer the guild house, the more rooms and NPCs.
b. In the main hall, there are many terminals, including:
-Basic shop terminal
-Cell scanner (Takes too long to get to a town to save, but your guildhouse is closer? Save there!)
-Bank terminal (NOT guild bank)
-A specialized guild shop terminal, with a tattoo of the guild's name, guild uniforms, ect. (The players would have to create these)
-A donation box. (You can take anything out and put anything in. You can place credits in but if you want to take some out, you have to ask the leader to go get them out for you.)
c. In REALLY, REALLY expensive guildhouses, you could have an instant whompa to Tir or Omni-Trade (depending on alignment)
d. In REALLY expensive guildhouses, high-ranking officers could have an office.
e. Guild badge creation

10. Miscellanious
a. We need a Yutto morph...badly And don't forget the singing...
b. Soup. (Don't ask me, Seppubot made me add this... No version change)
c. Printable character sheets
d. Beeping. ("Hey our teammate isn't moving..." *BEEEP* "Ahh, I'm up, I'm up..")

11. New Items
a. Glowsticks
b. Lower chest tattoos for females
c. Books that we can hold
d. Musical instruments
e. Lampshade hats
f. Flowers
g. Whips
h. Make boomboxes play music
i. Piercing implants. You take a special Piercing Head Implant and add eyelid piercings, nose piercings, ect.
j. Umbrellas
k. More wizard-like objects (We're tired of pillows and leet dolls)
l. Tents
m. Campfires
n. Cigars/cigarettes
o. Make jewelry visible
p. Lawn chairs (makes camping Alvin more comfortable!)
q. Hair dyes
r. Special illegal stims that can only be bought in alleys in places such as Newland. These could only be bought from NPCs, and for incredible prices. As well, the NPCs you could buy these from would spawn only every once in a while. (They'd have to be hard to get)
s. Binoculars. Sometimes you want to zoom in on stuff.

12. PvP
a. Dueling. We should be able to attack anyone we want, regardless of suppression, if they accept. Team duels should be available as well.
b. Make it easier to watch arena duels.
c. Some tower stuff for you...we should be able to open up shop terminals, grid terminals, and maybe bank terminals.
d. Engineer-constructed fences around our territories. Lasers should be color-coded to indicate Clan, Omni, or Neutral.
e. Traps for fixers or engis. Or both.
f. More arenas, like the Cave-In arena in 4ho, with stadium seating and stuff. I'd love the 4ho arena if it weren't so tiny.

13. Towers (felt it needed it's own category)
a. Towers actually mining notum. Notum chips, fragments, or some new item that could be refined into notum could spawn around the tower base periodically.

14. Tradeskills
a. New weapons that can only be built from scratch, from a lot of items- some buyable in shops, others missionable for, others that are mission-loot-only perhaps?

Profession Stuff:
(Really limited at the moment)

1. All
a. Profession specific missions.

2. Engineer
a. /pet warp

Edit version 4.9

[_____Late Nite RP'er]

These are great ideas!

Another thing I would like to have is a posture command. Someone could type /posture and then happy, sad, angry, frightened, bored, etc. and it would change the way the character stands, sits and walks. Unlike an emote, it would stay in effect until it was changed to something else. I think this would be a good way to show what mood a character was in.

[______________Orchid]

These ideas are so beautiful !!!

[MissMaul]

Wow...I'm already at Edit #4...

Keep the ideas coming!

[coldwarkid]

Stunning ideas, especially since they're not of the "Profession X is broken/gimped/uber" variety. The only thing I'd perhaps look askance at is the mail system - while it's a great idea and I'd love to see it, it makes twinking a breeze, so from Funcon's perspective it may cause more problems than it's worth.

My own wish-list:

Some means to allow others into your appt. Key duplication would work, especially with a /changelocks command. Duplicated keys should be nodrop items, of course.

Storeage lockers in your apartment, linked to your bank account.

A better means to auction off loot. Something like a public terminal in the supermarkets. You set the price, the machine takes 25% up front. An option to downgrade the price or retrieve the item if it's not selling.

Better still, shop space for players... You'd need a *lot* of dedicated trading space though, which would probably require setting up new cities or drastically expanding someplace like Borealis, as well as some means to re-locate to the city your business is in.

Cheers,

~R~

[MissMaul]

Just a quick bump.

[MissMaul]

Sorry...I KNOW bumping your own posts is lame but I feel this is valuable to FC...

[_____________lichoon]

All are great!!

[AdriaanBlackwind]

/punchjaw/cheek/nose/belly <target>
</me> punches <target>s jaw/cheek/nose/belly, <target> grips his jaw/cheek/nose/belly in pain.

/hug <target>
</me> lays arms around neck and hugs <target>

/kisscheek/lips/forehead/neck <target>
</me> kisses cheek/lips/forehead/neck <target>

/kickleg <target>
</me> kicks <target>s leg. (anything higher feels a bit too brutal)

/danceclose <target>
</me> holds around <target> and dances close for some duration of time
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Well, that's a few, surely there would be hundreds of other types of emotes.

I also feel the urge to lay down once in a while, so kind of:

<x (default sitting button)> /me sits
<s (default backwards button> /me lays down.
also in this feature, sidewalk would make /me rollover, like a leet, to change sleeping position if you're sleeping.
This would also help roleplay a bit, like "Oh gosh, a dead body!" "Oh no! he fainted!" "Get up you lazy git!" "/me lays down next to boyfriend/girlfriend. /say I love you honey. *smooch smooch*

also a second 'running gear' would be appreciated, jogging sometimes seems weird when you have alot of runspeed, so hitting backspace(default) twice when walking would make /me RUN, and not jog.

Suggestion to dance emote: /macarena (or does it already exist? /me has bad memory)

also some sitting emotes, like:
/leanback
</me> leans back on arms

or even the ability to choose your own sitting position, being 'depressed' and sitting in a lotus position just doesn't feel right. I'd rather crouch down and hold around my legs (if you know what I mean).

Also I think the /kneel emote is kinda silly. When I write /kneel I'd rather /me gets down on one knee with /me 's head downwards, you know, knights kneel as they become 'Sir' sort of...

/limbo1/2/3/4/5/etc Higher the number, the lower you go. making it need sort of the 'Agility' ability to decide how low you can manage. ^_^ Opifex = limbo masters. haha.

Atrox = /gorilla
</me> pounds chest

Clothing:

Ripped up jeans/baggy pants (sick of these tight clothes!!), 70s clothing (stayin' alive/John Travolta), hats/caps(backwards, sideways, etc)/helmets(for the rollerblades/skateboard/sand skiis), more coat/cloaks, sneakers/jogging shoes/slippers/animal slippers/swimming flippers/platform shoes/high heels/sand skiis (anyone wanna hit the slopes?)/rollerblades(!!!)/skateboards, Jackets, piercings(like an implant, you can add several 'piercings' into a 'piercing headplant' which will addup more piercings on your face for example = earpierce+nosepierce+eyelidpierce).

And making a possible way of showing what weapon you are using when NOT in a fight, without holding it in your hands, for example if I used a sword, I'd have it on my back when I'm not fighting, but quickly take it out of the 'sleeve' or whatever it's called when I am. also the ability to choose WHERE to have it, like the back or on your hip for a sword, leg/hip/back for your pistol, and things like rifles would certently only fit on your back I think.

/bow

[___________wardivich]

excelent idears.

i can see that some of them will be imposable to implement though, but i stll like 'em lol

:?)

[AdriaanBlackwind]

Hey, they made the leet talk, they can do this aswell.

But they defenetly need more low level armor differences.. Look at the people besides you, you've seen that kind everywhere, it's a bore.. *sigh*

[Naraya]

A casino would be uber. Very uber. Just make sure that the dice are colored green. I always lose when the dice are red and the only time I've ever played craps where the dice are green (Hotel de Paris in Monte Carlo), I had one roll and it lasted for more than a half n hour and the other 11 people on the table almost didn't let me leave.

[Naraya]

And oh yeah...can I have a rounder ass? My ass in-game could be used as a sharp obj weapon if an atrox were to pick me up and throw me at a Skilled Bothacker or something. Look at yourself from 3rd person when you're sitting down... You will see what I mean.

[________DarkGatherer]

Very Very Good Idea MissMaul, I think this is what the community has been needing.. A summarization of all the ideas/fixes that needs attention, and its very well organized. Now maybe some FC employees could take the time to run down the list and check out some possibilities..

My only suggestion is to keep it nice and neat, try not to compile soo many things(some things may need to be left out), and someway somehow we'll get Cosmik or Cz, or somebody up there in Funcom-land to pass this along to someone who can make a difference!

[Narchy]

"The only thing I'd perhaps look askance at is the mail system - while it's a great idea and I'd love to see it, it makes twinking a breeze, so from Funcon's perspective it may cause more problems than it's worth. "

"b. Add a mail system, where for some extra credits you can have an item appear directly in a friend's inventory"

the person your sending the item to might need a message box confirmation, cause some players could get evil and send loads of crap to him/her filling up the inventory with loads of junk...heh...
how bout a way to use this system or a better system to also give it to an alternate character of your own...excluding no drop items of course..

twinking isn't wrong nor is it a big deal....

players already twink their characters without this suggested system anyways by asking friends..etc...and there is nothing wrong with twinking, for the most part since it takes a high lvl character first, and for the most part they have earn'd the right to do so because it takes alot of time just to lvl up a character to get the items...

and twinking actually adds to replayability also i think....which is a good thing...

[AdriaanBlackwind]

Mailbox/service... That gave me an idea, how about we were able to write notes/letters to one another in AO?

Another idea, ability to make food out of monsterparts, and how about finding grapes or fruit or something to make our own drinks? Would give the game some new things.

[___________Stercoral]

+ Umbrellas (maybe with some melee, poisonous attack, or bonus in adventuring or...).

+ Tent and campfire (I saw campfire in Antiguardian database, but still not saw one ingame, or even a picture of it)

+ more objects wizard like (pillows, pfffffff, leet dolls, pfffffffffff), like a glass sphere, a old wood stick, ...

+ social pets (spiders ? gold fish ? cat ? , just for fun)

+ Players sheets on the official website (accessible with password) with all your stats, level, guild, maps uploaded, ...

+ a way to have a .txt file of what you have in the bank, and in your Inventory

+ as for marriage, do something to promote family, children and so on (wrote a long post on that: http://forums.anarchy-online.com/sho...threadid=30562)

+ more vehicle, including open vehicle (like futuristic bikes)

+ add the possibility to hide our personnal information, dammit !(it's no fun to know the name of everybody in advance, the name of their guild and their level !, where is the unknown, the real fear of engaging a pvp conflict, where is my ingame privacy ?)

[________DarkGatherer]

Bump

[CompanyMan]

My 2cr.

Add these items:
Empty timbler
Empty martini glass
Bottle of vodka with 30 charges
Bottle of rum with 30 charges
Bottle of gin with 30 charges
Bottle of water with 30 charges
Bottle of Jokka clear (7Up) with 2 charges
Add 1 chage to bottle of Jokka Cola
Bottle of OJ with 15 charges
Bottle of Tomato juice with 15 charges
Jar of marachino cherries with 30 charges
Box of celery with 10 charges
Jar of olives with 30 charges
etc...

Then have a list of recipes. If you pick up the ingredients and right click on the glass, you add that item to the glass. At some point the glass becomes a drink. Then people can have real drinks at parties.

[Drawd]

New chat channels that are profession and side specfic. For Instance I would have on my main a
Clan Adventurer channel.