New Expansions/ Storyline

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Originally Posted by Demios

We've been to the past and the present (excluding the far east as commented above for an interesting addition) but we've not been to the future. It would be quite interesting to have a future timeline expansion that would change in real time depending on content available in past or present: Doing quests/missions, fulfilling requirements, or killing certain mobs or nm's could make new (future timeline) content available. Create new quests/missions in the present/past and make them integral to the storyline and attainable content in future areas. Killing NM's in the past/present having an effect on future's NM's: NM's appearance, NM's drops, NM's mission requirements, NM's difficulty or use of special ability's/spells etc.

Or just add an expansion for the far east area and have storyline relating to missions/quests/NM's/jobs from past and present.

Your idea of a "controllable" storyline for a future expansion would be cool. I think it would need to be more solid, and not so controllable, where a mission would require you to go back to the present and do something, then return to the future to have that event changed things enough so that you can progress further. Would be cool, like a swarm of treants that ruined a city you need to go to. The area would be blocked by an NPC. Depending on which mission you are on, they may not let you enter.
First time they let you through would be for a ruined city battlefield in which you fight some really tough treants.
Then, you get some information as to where they came from by beating it.
You return to the present and find their origins, and get a key item that allows you entrances to a BC to fight a sapling swarm with the same name.
Once you beat that sapling swarm, you head back to the future area.
Second time you talk to the npc, they let you through to a city that hasn't been destroyed, and you continue the storyline from there.