Steven
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Hi yall unlike last time where I got mad cus MAS got removed and made a lot of mumbo jumbo about stuff, this time I was gonna forego the rageposting and instead lay out some thoughts that popped in my head sorry for it being so long - but it's about...
...modsectionid and absolute beginners. most notably the new player guide that I feel is severely lacking in information regarding section IDs. It is only briefly mentioned under the Creating a Character section which reads:
"You can check the drop charts to see what kinds of items your character will find after his or her section ID has been assigned. Don’t worry if an item you want to find is not able to be found by your character. You can always join the game of another player who is assigned to the section ID of an item you want to look for. Also, before level 20, you can use the Ephinea custom command “/modsecid” to change the section ID of your character once, so even if your name and class combination doesn’t make the section ID you want, you can change your section ID."
But I feel for a beginner, one - how are they gonna read that? And two, how are they gonna know what anything from it is?? And third - as a beginner - why should they care to begin with???
Players are only (as of now) given a single use for modsectionid, either upon new character creation at or before lv 20 or whoever currently has one. What beginners DON'T know is that everyone uses the section ID calculator on a completely different website so they can preemptively get the ID they want for their class based on their needs, then just change their name afterwards cus of how the ID thing works, effectively now saving them an ID for later use if they would like to hunt different items. That's not mentioned at all, and if a new player is just told they should be x ID for this and that, they can effectively waste their only ID change right after making a character cus they didn't know any better. Or they're told to just reroll and I don't think that'd be a great experience. Orr...they're then told about the ID calculator by someone, which again I feel that should just be included in the beginner guide now especially.
One more thing - the importance of being specifics IDs - I understand there have been various drop table changes over the years to make it more balanced, but there are still issues where you just have to be a certain ID to get this or that...or tables just being outright better for different classes to begin with, effectively gimping your drops if you happen to mismatch with something. With ID changes being so restrictive now, I feel there needs to be more explanation into what IDs actually are and recommendations for specific IDs for different characters on top of just having a link to one of those calculators to begin with with a little bit of info on how to use it. I recall seeing a forum thread here somewhere that has recommendations, but I am not sure if it's quite up to date anymore. A referral to something like that would help immensely because I remember checking it out myself.
Unless it's just a "suck it up" type of deal where it's expected of you to either go out and trade with people for items you can't get yourself cus you got a "bad" ID or rerolling an entirely new character with the ID you were actually wanting instead but you made an oopsie
TL;DR: absolute beginners (imo) need more info about section IDs that is barely mentioned in the beginners guide since modsectionid is so strict now and the freedom to change based on your needs was removed
ty have a good day
...modsectionid and absolute beginners. most notably the new player guide that I feel is severely lacking in information regarding section IDs. It is only briefly mentioned under the Creating a Character section which reads:
"You can check the drop charts to see what kinds of items your character will find after his or her section ID has been assigned. Don’t worry if an item you want to find is not able to be found by your character. You can always join the game of another player who is assigned to the section ID of an item you want to look for. Also, before level 20, you can use the Ephinea custom command “/modsecid” to change the section ID of your character once, so even if your name and class combination doesn’t make the section ID you want, you can change your section ID."
But I feel for a beginner, one - how are they gonna read that? And two, how are they gonna know what anything from it is?? And third - as a beginner - why should they care to begin with???
Players are only (as of now) given a single use for modsectionid, either upon new character creation at or before lv 20 or whoever currently has one. What beginners DON'T know is that everyone uses the section ID calculator on a completely different website so they can preemptively get the ID they want for their class based on their needs, then just change their name afterwards cus of how the ID thing works, effectively now saving them an ID for later use if they would like to hunt different items. That's not mentioned at all, and if a new player is just told they should be x ID for this and that, they can effectively waste their only ID change right after making a character cus they didn't know any better. Or they're told to just reroll and I don't think that'd be a great experience. Orr...they're then told about the ID calculator by someone, which again I feel that should just be included in the beginner guide now especially.
One more thing - the importance of being specifics IDs - I understand there have been various drop table changes over the years to make it more balanced, but there are still issues where you just have to be a certain ID to get this or that...or tables just being outright better for different classes to begin with, effectively gimping your drops if you happen to mismatch with something. With ID changes being so restrictive now, I feel there needs to be more explanation into what IDs actually are and recommendations for specific IDs for different characters on top of just having a link to one of those calculators to begin with with a little bit of info on how to use it. I recall seeing a forum thread here somewhere that has recommendations, but I am not sure if it's quite up to date anymore. A referral to something like that would help immensely because I remember checking it out myself.
Unless it's just a "suck it up" type of deal where it's expected of you to either go out and trade with people for items you can't get yourself cus you got a "bad" ID or rerolling an entirely new character with the ID you were actually wanting instead but you made an oopsie
TL;DR: absolute beginners (imo) need more info about section IDs that is barely mentioned in the beginners guide since modsectionid is so strict now and the freedom to change based on your needs was removed
ty have a good day