Playable instruments

Wyietsayon · May 2015

This is a silly, not important thing that would easily be backburnered, but playable lutes/instruments? Could they be a thing?

Why playable instruments? Because sometimes we grow bored of the same songs for the lute emote. Because it'd be funny and creative. Rper's definitely would love it. You could create songs, and thus do community event concerts. You could kind of create a band. People would make videos of themselves.

I don't imagine it'd be too hard to program. Have some normally unassigned hotkeys be the buttons. The numberpad would be great for this. I'm imagining something like the zelda Ocarina, where there's only a few buttons. Maybe change the pitch with the mouse. Nothing overly detailed, but still fun.

Maybe yeah?

SHADOW2KK · May 2015

Um...I guess:}

BigM · May 2015

Yep I agree all online MMO's should have this. In LOTRO a lot of fun times playing in the inns during those boring times when just didn't feel like out questing. But saying that I have to say the best game that hit on this was the original Star Wars Galaxy game.

leshpar · May 2015

I see this being way more annoying than fun. People in Mournhold would just be using it to troll people and muck up the awesome in game music. What I'd like to see is, if someone is playing say, a lute, within 10 feet or so, and another player wants to play a drum or flute... then that player's music will sync with the first person's song, so they can kind of play the song together instead of being separate songs all together.

SHADOW2KK · May 2015

leshpar wrote: »

I see this being way more annoying than fun. People in Mournhold would just be using it to troll people and muck up the awesome in game music. What I'd like to see is, if someone is playing say, a lute, within 10 feet or so, and another player wants to play a drum or flute... then that player's music will sync with the first person's song, so they can kind of play the song together instead of being separate songs all together.

Only if you let it annoy you IMO, just like people spamming BoL in banks really annoys people, It does not bother me in the slightest haha.

You know people are around doing their own thing, and music would light up a party type atmosphere and just like a real life occasion, some would take the mickey, but that is human nature.
I do agree with ya on the syncing of um peoples musical talents though.

Revenant_Spartan · May 2015

I do believe LOTR also has a client side option to mute player music so - it being used to annoy would be circumvented by this simple option. I would love this feature - it's very popular and properly used in LOTR for the most part.

pugyourself · May 2015

Try /lute in your chat box. It's something like that

Amsel_McKay · May 2015

pugyourself wrote: »

Try /lute in your chat box. It's something like that

I think he is talking about actually playing your own music, so many MMOs have this people expect it now... but I do get tired of hearing star wars in every pub and common area...

TheShadowScout · May 2015

Personally I would want to see a whole bardic guild with that!

With musical instruments as "weapons" and songs as "abilities" (mostly to buff allies and debuff enemies...). Then you could have your secondary weapon set with your instrument, and filled with musical spells, same music per ability, but different played depending on instrument...

Mr.Turtlesworth · May 2015

Yeah I actually agree that they should add something like this. I liked the way Archeage handled instruments.

MissyMad · May 2015

Wyietsayon wrote: »

This is a silly, not important thing that would easily be backburnered, but playable lutes/instruments? Could they be a thing?

Why playable instruments? Because sometimes we grow bored of the same songs for the lute emote. Because it'd be funny and creative. Rper's definitely would love it. You could create songs, and thus do community event concerts. You could kind of create a band. People would make videos of themselves.

I don't imagine it'd be too hard to program. Have some normally unassigned hotkeys be the buttons. The numberpad would be great for this. I'm imagining something like the zelda Ocarina, where there's only a few buttons. Maybe change the pitch with the mouse. Nothing overly detailed, but still fun.

Maybe yeah?

Some kind of "Bard" skill tree similar to the thieves one?

Gidorick · May 2015

Should be a skill line associated with the bards college

Wyietsayon · May 2015

I dunno. Not everything needs a skill line. If one was added, it'd just be unlocking things like the pitch changing, or stuff like that. Not sure if everyone will want to spend skill points on that. You'd have to make music playing more important to the game then, something to earn money or help your build in some way. It'd become a bit too big then.

But, as a fun minor distraction, it'd probably do better. Just another small minigame, like fishing. I guess you could create some sort of achievement system, but I don't know what sort of achievements you'd make.