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The CDI threads on character progression have reached an impressive length. Here are some summaries to help you navigate through the threads.

The CDI on character progression started out as one thread. But after a couple of pages, it was decided that we would focus on vertical progression first, and then make a seperate thread on horizontal progression. And so we did.

The threads and their summaries:

CDI: Character Progression – Vertical-CLOSED

A summary of all the dev posts in this thread (Including dev-made summaries):

Edit: The links are no longer working in the vertical discussion thread, and I cannot edit my posts there since the thread has been closed.

CDI Dev post recap: part 1
CDI Dev post recap: part 2
CDI Dev post recap: part 3

CDI: Character Progression – Horizontal-CLOSED

Multiple summaries by different contributors in this thread (All in their own style):

Overall:

CDI summary by Bezagron – Page 1-6 and CDI summary by Guhracie – Page 1-6
CDI summary by Bezagron – Page 6-13
CDI summary by Bezagron – Page 13-17
CDI Summary by Guhracie – Page 17-22
CDI Summary by Bezagron – Page 23-28
CDI Summary by Bezagron – Page 29-34
CDI Summary by Bezagron – Page 35-40
CDI Summary by Bezagron – Page 41-46
CDI Summary by Bezagron – Page 47- 52
CDI Summary by Bezagron – Page 53-58

Orpheal’s page by page summaries:

Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
Page 4
Page 5
Page 6
Page 7
Page 8

And

Nike’s proposal
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Final update on this CDI: 16th of January – Page 67

Final update on the proposal.

The thread is now closed and stickied.

The CDI-evolution thread will be next and is planned for wednesday the 22nd.

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Bonus:

Chris posts a link to an interview on the subject of CDI’s

A very interesting interview to watch/read/listen to.

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Thanks everyone, for reading/contributing/summarizing and organising the thread!

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Ah yes, apparently it is the ‘vertical’ bit that has been added in the url as it was renamed that is causing the trouble. That will take some rewriting later on. (Renaming a thread apparently has this downside, something to keep in mind for the future)

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Bringing up the post for convenience again.

Latest update on the thread:

Chrispy lists the most frequently listed horizontal progression ideas. (After the request from Chris to make a personal top 3 out of all the ideas listed so far.)

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And let’s bring up the thread for convenience once more:

Please take some time to read another great CDI summary by Bezagron – Page 13-17.

(Even if you’ve been there from the start, it is easy to forget some of the gems mentioned so far.)

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Very nice. Hope this helps the developers in doing something.

Gandara – Vabbi – Ring of Fire – Fissure of Woe – Vabbi
SPvP as Standalone All is Vain

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Very nice. Hope this helps the developers in doing something.

I hope so too!

(Stealthbump)

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Next

Very nice. Hope this helps the developers in doing something.

I hope so too!

(Stealthbump)

Bump.

Chris

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Do devs have stealthbumps too? o-O

Gandara – Vabbi – Ring of Fire – Fissure of Woe – Vabbi
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Housing would have to be my boiled down choice. I realize that it might be considered in most games to be a waste of time to implement, but if done right, could branch out to be so much more. Crafting and finding blueprints/trophies among treasure troves would add so much depth to the game without adding anything vertical to it. If these housing areas, could be visited (outside unless made public) by all it could turn into a way to make the housing areas much more social and may even promote block parties.

The way housing is implemented currently (home instance) may be a lovely way to give us mining nodes, but does nothing to add personality to our characters. If you want to expand on the personalities of your characters, other than vanity gear this would, to me, be the best way to go about it.

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Do devs have stealthbumps too? o-O

Hehe (-:

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Do devs have stealthbumps too? o-O

Hehe (-:

it’s so strange to tilt my head the other way

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Thanks all, for bringing up my post. And for making it red!

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Bringing up the post for convenience again.

Latest update:

Chris requests a discussion on subclasses.

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Thanks for the effort in summarising the giant monoliths thread. Hopefully now I can try to add my 2 cents.

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Thanks for the effort in summarising the giant monoliths thread. Hopefully now I can try to add my 2 cents.

Please do

Quick update on the thread (I’ll add it to the OP later) - 9th of January – Page 47

Chris posts a link to an interview on the subject of CDI’s

And Colin thinks the biggest thing he was trying to get at with his question is: what should the journey towards an alternative system of horizontal progression really be like?

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A deserved bump.

Gandara – Vabbi – Ring of Fire – Fissure of Woe – Vabbi
SPvP as Standalone All is Vain

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Latest update: 10th of January – Page 51

Chris intends to write a proposal over the weekend. The thread is most likely coming to a conclusion soon. So jump in while you can!

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Latest update: 12th of January – Page 55

Chris tries to schedule the end of the thread.

(Good luck Chris)

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Big thanks to Bezagron as he writes his final summary. (for now?):

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Latest update: -14th of January – Page 63

Chris’s proposal for horizontal progression.

We are nearing the end of this CDI, so make sure you read that proposal and mention anything that appears to be missing or wrong. Before the thread gets stickied.

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These CDIs cannot continue to be in forum format. It is impossible to sift through 30 pages of posts to see if your idea has already been posted. They should use some kind of proposal system with voting and comments.

Edit: maybe use reddit make a subreddit for each topic

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Well, the quickest way to check is to scan Bezagron & Guhracie’s summaries. But if that takes too much time. – Take a look at Chris’s proposal, pretty much all of the thread comes together in that post.

And feel free to just add your own ideas if you are in doubt of wether it has been posted before or not. Getting it out there is better than keeping it to yourself in fear of repeating the ideas of another player.


A CDI – evaluation topic is going to start after this one, be sure to mention the reddit idea there.

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15th of January – Page 65

The latest update on the proposal.

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Latest update on this CDI ever: 16th of January – Page 67

Final update on the proposal.

The thread is now closed and stickied.

The CDI-evolution thread will be next and is planned for wednesday the 22nd.