Revive the old and celebrate the new with an Instance Matching system

[Mateus Costa 15]

Have you guys played "Wartale" back in 2006? There was something magical about a group of newbies leveling together yet without many skills in Garden of Freedom. How about Ruinen Village? Where everybody was discovering their area skills and priests were like goddesses with their Divine Lightning. Same for mages with the Earthquake in Oasis, they were kings. How about Ancient Prison, Mushroom and Beehive Caves, Sanctuary of Darkness, Greedy Lake (my personal favorite), Iron 1 and 2, Ice 1 and 2... what if we could revive the feeling of leveling as a group, as newbies in these maps, leveling the old school way? 

 

I suggest an instance matching system where we would queue for something like a dungeon, but using the old maps randomly*. That to party people with locked gear and skills appropriate to the map level, to simulate the old days leveling in those beautiful maps 

 

randomly*  if a level 20 person enters the queue for the "dungeon", the maps sorted should be maps level 20 or below. To integrate the newbie and the end game folks, you know? That would be so cool. But the max level for the maps available being the level of the lowest person in the party, maybe people could vote for their favorite map? That sounds fun. Or maybe eveyone select their favorite map and roll the dice! The person with the higher number chooses the map among the ones selected by everybody!  I can sense chaos, and tons of fun!

 

Obs. 1: People should only be able to use the instance matching system solo, that way we would really integrate people from all levels.

Obs. 2: The rewards should obviously include XP and that should not be a fixed number, but relative to the person's level. The rewarding thing requires a lot of thought; it should be worth enough for the end game fellas to want to do this dungeon and not too much for the low level folks not to jump from level 20 to lvl 100 in a matter of 30 minutes or so. 

Obs. 3: I'd set all characters to have infinite HP, STM, MP potions, and also a force, while inside the "dungeon".  OR (hahaha) everybody gets a little amount of potions when they enter the dungeon and they gotta pick from the floor to keep going.

Obs. 4: The number of times one can do this "dungeon" daily should of course be limited, but I'd just limit it for the folks lvl 100+ or something like that. This also require some thought :x

 

What do you guys think? Can we revive the beauty of old times leveling and celebrate newcomers integrating them to the high level folks through this instance matching dungeon thing? 

[MadTale 765]

This is real good suggestion... +1

[Mateus Costa 15]

I'm glad you liked it! Would you share this post then?  Lets make this dream come true! hahaha I believe it would be much less laborious for the staff than building new stuff from scratch. Using the old maps...~ The only real issues I see would be:

1) Creating a good instance matching system. That sounds laborious lmao but definetely worth it.
2) Once there would be people from all levels applying to this, having the characters balanced to each map could be a little tricky. One way I see to solve this issue would be   having a "model character" of each class on the level of the "dungeon"; So, for the Greedy Lake map for instance, if you are a lvl 148 knight you would enter as a lvl 75 knight with no gear and no skills just to make it less of a work to program and to give people some freedom with their build. So what about the gear and skills? If we have punctual NPCs in the map, problem solved! And this opens a huuuuge opportunity: Instead of using gold to buy skills, gear, and whatever else you might have in those NPCs (100% skill up please), why not creating a new ticket? hahahaha This ticket could also be a reward from the quest, or from all quests in the game lol. We could use this ticket for many different stuff! Can you imagine, being a knight, you could do this dungeon as a Mage? hahaha just gotta have enough tickets~ 

 

[aruchan 413]

I'll suggest 'ironman mode'. 

You cannot utilize trades. You cannot pick up items dropped by other characters. You can only pick up items from monsters you have killed yourself. 

[ChocolateTeapot 186]

Let me see if I got it right, an instance where we could get in with our main characters, 14, 15, 16x and when we do so, our chars would became like 2x and we would complete the dungeon like we use to, back in the days? Or a dungeon for low levels where the up style is old school? 

 

I like the first version of what I understood.

[Mateus Costa 15]

3 hours ago, ChocolateTeapot said:

Let me see if I got it right, an instance where we could get in with our main characters, 14, 15, 16x and when we do so, our chars would became like 2x and we would complete the dungeon like we use to, back in the days? 

 

Yes! Here you got it completely right!  That's the main idea ✌ but instead of a new map dungeon, we use the old maps from this core idea we could expand to a lot of crazy stuff, but this is yeah the main idea~ 

[ChocolateTeapot 186]

7 hours ago, Mateus Costa said:

 

Yes! Here you got it completely right!  That's the main idea ✌ but instead of a new map dungeon, we use the old maps from this core idea we could expand to a lot of crazy stuff, but this is yeah the main idea~ 

+1 !!!

[intramus12 122]

+1

This would be nice. I can't image first time I play Wartale. Hitting those rabbits at Graden of Freedoom. Loot items and trying to figure what they are.

Today the sound of Caravan still remind me about it when I click on it. I left Wartale when Caravan doesn't exist.

[vhnh167 286]

+1. Matchmaking for dungeons is a critical feature currently missing.