Please Give Support For Solo Savage Raids

[CyanTea]

For many personal reasons "interacting" with people/observing how people interact with each other generally irritates me and gets me exhausted.
These days I can't even force myself to join any trial practice groups - although, mostly because there is none.

Heck, simply looking at Party Finder, overrun by degenerate totally-not-ERP advertisements, always makes me question why I still play this game. But I kind of digress. Heheh.

I think trivializing old raids/trials, like developers are doing - is a bad idea, however, it would be amazing if we could do all available "battle" content (including the current Savage raids) with either squadron members or trusts - with added features like micro-managing where everyone should stand, for example - like in RTS.
That's definitely not going to happen, though.

[LianaThorne]

For many personal reasons "interacting" with people/observing how people interact with each other generally irritates me and gets me exhausted.
These days I can't even force myself to join any trial practice groups - although, mostly because there is none.

Heck, simply looking at Party Finder, overrun by degenerate totally-not-ERP advertisements, always makes me question why I still play this game. But I kind of digress. Heheh.

I think trivializing old raids/trials, like developers are doing - is a bad idea, however, it would be amazing if we could do all available "battle" content (including the current Savage raids) with either squadron members or trusts - with added features like micro-managing where everyone should stand, for example - like in RTS.
That's definitely not going to happen, though.

I love how ERP manages to find its way into every discussion, even when the topic at hand has nothing to do with it.

[Snorky]

I see no reason why old content can't become trust or squadron content. There is absolutely no good reason old content needs to be group. I am all for doing group activities but older content should be accessable to all. There has been some great advice in this thread, make friends or just be patient with people.

[Vidu]

I see no reason why old content can't become trust or squadron content. There is absolutely no good reason old content needs to be group. I am all for doing group activities but older content should be accessable to all. There has been some great advice in this thread, make friends or just be patient with people.

Would you be willing to sacrfice new content in order for them to adjust old content and/or trust/squadron AI to make it possible to clear old Savage fights with NPCs? Because its not enough to let you queue into this content with NPCs, the NPCs need to be able to actually clear this content with you... which would require their AI to be adjusted... which is something someone needs to do (since we know that Trust AI is adjusted per dungeon) - if that is even possible for certain mechanics.

Any adjustment to old content requires work and work equals time, that might be better spent elsewhere (eg new content). Older content is already extremly accessible, as is most content in the game - there is only a small amount of things that you cant achieve solo or through DF.

[LianaThorne]

Would you be willing to sacrfice new content in order for them to adjust old content and/or trust/squadron AI to make it possible to clear old Savage fights with NPCs? Because its not enough to let you queue into this content with NPCs, the NPCs need to be able to actually clear this content with you... which would require their AI to be adjusted... which is something someone needs to do (since we know that Trust AI is adjusted per dungeon) - if that is even possible for certain mechanics.

Any adjustment to old content requires work and work equals time, that might be better spent elsewhere (eg new content). Older content is already extremly accessible, as is most content in the game - there is only a small amount of things that you cant achieve solo or through DF.

As if the new content is anything super special to begin with outside of the feel punching moments during the story. Let's just be honest now. So yeah, I would personally rather them take a patch to focus on providing updates to old content (like GC ranks for example....) if we're not going to get drowned in new content outside of the story.

[Snorky]

Would you be willing to sacrfice new content in order for them to adjust old content and/or trust/squadron AI to make it possible to clear old Savage fights with NPCs? Because its not enough to let you queue into this content with NPCs, the NPCs need to be able to actually clear this content with you... which would require their AI to be adjusted... which is something someone needs to do (since we know that Trust AI is adjusted per dungeon) - if that is even possible for certain mechanics.

Any adjustment to old content requires work and work equals time, that might be better spent elsewhere (eg new content). Older content is already extremly accessible, as is most content in the game - there is only a small amount of things that you cant achieve solo or through DF.

Why do you think it's either or? Why would new content suffer, they are years ahead with the stuff they work on read some of the live letters. Old content is also something that can move laterally. I don't think it's a case of either new content or old. But yes I would like them to work on trusts or squadrons. It's content, just because they work on that doesn't mean there is no new content. It's kind of a straw man to say that.

[Menriq]

Why do you think it's either or? Why would new content suffer, they are years ahead with the stuff they work on read some of the live letters. Old content is also something that can move laterally. I don't think it's a case of either new content or old. But yes I would like them to work on trusts or squadrons. It's content, just because they work on that doesn't mean there is no new content. It's kind of a straw man to say that.

As a developer, I can tell you how these kinds of things work. You have a list of changes that need to be made to a system. These changes are bug reports, enhancements, new features, etc. You only have so many developers, and you only have so much time. This request would probably fall into enhancement since we do have an AI of sort already. The next thing we would do is look at the problem, and what the different solutions are, as well if this is something that can be done already. In this case, there are already perfectly viable solutions to the problem (PF, friends, etc.) that will take literally zero resources for me to spend on this enhancement request. Therefore, it's now a matter of "Do I work on something that is probably a small subset of what people will actually use, or do I work on something new that will get a lot more use"? People complained about Bozja, and Eureka, and PotD, etc., but I would be willing to bet that even now, they get more use than if time was spent to go work on trusts for old content. So yes, you would be giving up resources that could be spent on new and other things instead of working on something that can already be done with the tools implemented.

[IdowhatIwant]

Don't give support to savage solo. This is practically the only party focused content in the game.

If you want to play a single player game, don't play an MMO.

[Darthgummibear]

I'm sick and tired of having to rely on others to get items I can only get from savage raids.

If having to group with people to get the top tier of collectibles is too much then MMO's aren't for you.

[kaynide]

Why do you think it's either or? Why would new content suffer, they are years ahead with the stuff they work on read some of the live letters. Old content is also something that can move laterally. I don't think it's a case of either new content or old. But yes I would like them to work on trusts or squadrons. It's content, just because they work on that doesn't mean there is no new content. It's kind of a straw man to say that.

As they say, time is money. There simply isn’t enough personnel, budget or time to do everything. It is always always always an “either or” when it comes to game development. It’s the same reason Viera/Hrothgar don’t have hats.

They absolutely should, but it’s just not high enough on their priority list- they simply don’t have the man hours free to dedicate towards side stuff like this. Or rather, they don’t want to.