Imagine you could alter GW2 endgame to be what you envisioned it to be. If you could tell the developers exactly what you want in a few paragraphs or bullet list what would it be? Mine would be as follows
- Raid like system (described in another thread)
- Guild Halls with the ability for guild leaders to create their own dynamic events and chain them with events in other guilds (yes, a scenario builder for guild leaders where the guild leader can pay in gems or silver to buy specific NPCs, bosses. Each choice would bring with it the possibility of special loot)
- Player home instances should also provide scripting of events in their home instance and be able to open these instances up so guild members can access them even when members aren’t on-line. Chaining should also be possible. Here’s how I envision this would work
It’s two AM I sign into GW2. Most of my guild is sleeping and off-line, I’m looking for something to do in-game and I want to see what my fellow guildies have come up with to challenge me in their home instances. I see my friend Rinuka has recently updated his home instance (I know this because there is an icon lit up letting me know this when I see his name in the guild list). I click on the icon and I’m ask if I want to enter his instance. I go in and I’m challenged with whatever content he as scripted. Rinuka and another guildie Sabu worked together. Rinuka is human and Sabu is Norn so their home instances are in different locations but their scripted content is connected. When I enter Rinuka’s home instance to begin I’m greeted with a cut scene which shows his character on the right and my character on the left. When Rinuka was scripting the content for his home instance he wrote all the dialog his character is delivering in this cut scene. He tells me about Luntu an Asuran who escaped from prison and is holding prisioners hostage (Rinuka was able to pick a Asuran NPC as a prompt give it the name Luntu and script out the whole scenario). At the end of the scenario an Asuran gate is present that lets me travel to Sabu’s home instance where I can play out the rest of this story arch created by my guild members.
You could take this system as far as you want it (finding it’s sweet spot where fun is not crushed by complexity where the challenge will be). I imagine an array of prompts accessible for karma/coin/gems that can have pre-built script blocks attached to them (think of a story like lego-blocks) and all dialog could be overwritten. Of course this dialog would not be voice acted (that would be impossible) but I think that would matter. NPC enemys could also be purchased and placed in the script. I envision these would each come with a pre-set range of things that could drop. There might be a Centar boss that cost 40g that has a 15% chance of dropping an exotic. There are so many possibilities.