Gidorick's Concept Repository

tinythinker · February 2016

Gidorick wrote: »

Lol @JapanesePlayer , I've had fun and it's kept me interested in ESO. No more a waste of time than playing the game itself.

True, there is no point in posting ideas for ZOS to implement, they are only to share with other players. One day I might have enough to actually open a curation thread like this, but for now I just cram the list into a comment on a buried thread someone made months ago.

ProfessorKittyhawk · February 2016

I am still a big proponent for the character off spring idea. I want my bloodthirsty kitty lizards.

JapanesePlayer · February 2016

no pvp-related concepts?

i like this old one for example
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/173566/forgotten-wayshrines-new-cyrodiil-idea-by-quadrotony/p1

nimander99 · February 2016

JapanesePlayer wrote: »

no pvp-related concepts?

i like this old one for example
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/173566/forgotten-wayshrines-new-cyrodiil-idea-by-quadrotony/p1

Gid tends to lean towards the PVE aspects of gameplay, I'm not sure if he PVP's. But his ideas are well thought out, which is more than I can say for most posters in these forums, myself included

I would follow fengrush or sypherpk if you want more of a PVP take on matters.

Gidorick · February 2016

hehe. I agree @ProfessorKittyhawk . I think that idea would be tons of fun and they would make Champion Points make a little more sense narratively for the characters. Your parent trained you in their style of combat. You learned from their teachings and that is why you start out more skilled than your counterparts.

This is just one of those concepts that I don't think ZOS would ever consider though... its' a shame, really.

Gidorick · February 2016

JapanesePlayer wrote: »

no pvp-related concepts?

i like this old one for example
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/173566/forgotten-wayshrines-new-cyrodiil-idea-by-quadrotony/p1

I actually commented on that thread @JapanesePlayer , and @nimander99 is right about me skewing VERY heavily toward PVE.

I do have a couple of PVP concepts like

War Mounts:
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/152462/siege-weapon-concept-war-mounts/p1

Instigation (PVP open world Dueling):
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/146367/instigation-concept-for-justice-system-and-pvp

PVP trophies (teeth, ears, fingers) in my Brutality Pack concept:
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/222351/brutality-pack-concept/p1

Battle Pets:
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/231976/immersive-battle-pets-concept/p1

Most players concerned with PVP go a bit more into the "this skill should have these percentages" kind of talk and that just doesn't interest me much. I'm more of a big-picture type who would suggest things like... "ZOS should create a Necromancy skill line that allows players to raise the dead of their fallen PVP opponents. The risen dead would fight FOR the faction that rose them from the dead and shouldn't be directly controlled. A player should only be able to raise the dead for a certain period of time after they have fallen. It would even end up that a player might face their dead doppelganger in combat! That's ok, though... The dead should be little more than annoying fodder to act as a distraction or slow down mechanic."

I've gotten into numbers and percentages before but I don't feel like I know enough about all the moving parts to make sound suggestions on that. I just figure ZOS should be the ones to deal with those figures.

Enodoc · February 2016

tinythinker wrote: »

Gidorick wrote: »

Lol JapanesePlayer , I've had fun and it's kept me interested in ESO. No more a waste of time than playing the game itself.

True, there is no point in posting ideas for ZOS to implement, they are only to share with other players. One day I might have enough to actually open a curation thread like this, but for now I just cram the list into a comment on a buried thread someone made months ago.

Yeah maybe I should do the same

I've forgotten how many threads of ideas I've created, and right now I can only remember a few of them

cksupreme · April 2016

OP...great work gathering all these ideas into a central place. It's gonna take me some time to read through them all but man, I really like the creativity I see so far.

I just wish ZOS would do more to acknowledge these efforts and try to expand it into an official repository that we players could vote on or something. Bro it's frustrating for me to read through all the player feedback on these forums, and then see something like this repository you created...and well I think that some of this stuff players have been asking about since ESO's launch 2 years ago still haven't made it into the game. I mean we get content now which is cool sure (better than the first year), but why doesn't ZOS ask all the players what we really want before and after the content?

Sigh...just venting today, don't mean to derail the thread. Like I said, awesome job man on this repository.

Gidorick · May 2016

Thanks @cksupreme ... I do feel like ZOS listened to one of my suggestions, the catch up mechanic. But more likely someone at ZOS just had the same idea I did. hehe..

I too wish they would communicate and work closer with those of us who have ideas for ESO.

jamesharv2005ub17_ESO · May 2016

I had no idea there were so many lol.

Gidorick · May 2016

jamesharv2005ub17_ESO wrote: »

I had no idea there were so many lol.

hehe... and I haven't updated this list in a while. Maybe I should do that.

Ffastyl · June 2016

I think I'll just bookmark this...

Ra'Shtar · June 2016

@Gidorick we need a concept for sea battles against sea monsters in Tamriel.

Gidorick · June 2016

Concepts added:

Gidorick · June 2016

I reorganized the whole dang list. Added some categories and grouped the concepts together a little better.

Gidorick · June 2016

I added some concepts I have worked on at some point but never finished.

Incomplete & Unposted Concepts:
Prostitutes Guild

A support class with:
Active skills like:

Inspire: Raises Critical Chance on group for a period of time
Tempt: Distracts enemies but they don't attack target
Devotion: Causes an enemy to fight against their allies for a period of time
Grovel: Ensnares an enemy as a follower for a period of time

Passive skills like:

Night of Passion: Allows players to proposition players while in bars. They agree to a price, see an animation of a door closing and can log out. When they log back in they both get a buff and coin has exchanged hands. The buff amount depends on the skill level.
Sweetalk: A chance that guards will let you off with a warning
Distraction: Being near an NPC will allow them to be more easily pickpocketed.
Allure: Gives the player the passive skill to get a percentage off of the asking price from specific merchants.

This wouldn't be a blatantly overtly sexual skill... and could include other support type skills. These were just my initial ideas.

This could require an additional attribute set to be added to NPCs: sexual orientation. A male Khajiit merchant might be attracted to male Orcs and if you are playing a male Orc and have the Allure skill, you just happen to get a percentage off of that specific merchant’s wares and are paid better for your items. The orientation would never be explicitly known to players and this could be used for a future update where players would be allowed to woo, court, and marry an NPC.

Werewolf vs Vampire vs Nightguard

Creation of the Nightguard Guild (Werewolf and Vampire Hunters)
New skills specifically damaging to Werewolves & Vampires
Day/Night buffs depending on "faction"
- Vampires buff every night - debuff during the day
- Werewolves buff at night, buff is more the closer to a full moon - debuff during the day
- The lack of buffs during the day for wolves and vamps make Nightguard essentially buffed during the day.
Collecting Werewolf pelts and vamp fangs as regular daily quests

External Guild Tool

Guild tool in the launcher for organization
Guild Calendar
Mass mailing
Event creation and support (raffles and such)
Guild "Crown Store" where guild leaders can buy items for real money with their guild logo on them to sell to members for gold.
Grandmaster Accord would bring multiple guilds under one leader.

Guild Cities

Guild ownership of in-game cities
Guild leaders could set "tax" prices effecting income
Guild sets laws, punishments & number of guards
Guild Tabards around the city
Guild gets to decorate the mayoral home
Guild recruitment NPCs around the city
Killing guards lessens the Guilds "influence" of the city.
Guild V Guild battle by proxy through town guards.

Advance Economies & Town Trading

Each merchant would have writs to complete
Each town has quotas to meet
If the quotas are not met the trade missions are not available
Trade missions are escort missions, protecting a caravan from town to town
Players could choose to loot the caravans instead
If quotas aren't met and deliveries fail the economy suffers
Lower economy = fewer items for sale, more homeless, more guards, and perhaps even things like piles of garbage around town and stores closing sometimes during the day

More Immersive Cities

Closes down at night
More guards at night
Merchants that haggle
Donating to Beggars
More mundane tasks (rounding up chickens, sweeping, etc.)
Varying laws with varying punishments

Infamy & Fame

Each town would have different laws and different bounty for breaking different laws
Players would earn heat and bounty in each town for petty crimes (stealing & pickpocketing) which would raise local heat and bounty
Local heat and bounty would NOT follow a player to another town
Infamy and fame effect how NPCs react to you, prices, and services. Including being offered "special' rare items for a "hero", or being shunned for being a ruffian.
Excessive petty crimes would earn points toward Infamy
Major Crimes (killing NPCs, Attacking guards, running away from guards) raise Infamy as well as local heat and bounty
Infamy follows players no matter where they are
Petty crimes and Infamy can be paid with gold or with community service type activities (guarding a well, clearing rats out of a cellar, hunting down NPC criminals)
The highest form of Infamy leads to jail time
Jail can be it's own mini-zone with quests, objectives, and escape routes.
Some nefarious quests might require a player be jailed to make a contact (or kill) who is in prison.