Well, profile pictures and signatures for the forum would be nice (hmtl picture embedding)
Game wise, why not a consumables shop? Like mist energy re-fillers, and items that increase UV chance or something. That way players can go on the elevators as much as they like and crystal energy could only be a bonus for crafting. Energy prices are sky rocketing they way they are. And contests would be nice for competitive game play. Like players with talents could try entering a contest to design a trailer for the game as well as new armor designs and what not and chances to win free CE. OH GUILD BENEFITS from events. Such as winners each week for certain things like elevator races or pvp for a week's privilege of 15% crown, heat, or even mist refill rate.If you wanna be evil, guild gets 50% of each weeks listing fee on aunction house divided evenly among all their guild members. Every weekend guilds go head on against each other for these benefits and bragging rights on a sign in town that displays the winners. Make it more competitive and cooperative. And the idea of being able to post pictures in forums would be nice, that way players could make guides and what not for new players with pictures or youtube videos. GM events would be nice too, where GMs actually participate and get involved with the online community.
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competitive play isn't a bad thing, and guilds couldn't dominate depending on what the guild vs guild events are, pvp its based on skill not armor judging from the gameplay, obviously a balance system will be in order but it would bring alot more players online during the weekends for these events. To end the events you could have a CE energy fee or something.
I suspect that Three Rings have their reasons for not allowing image embedding...profile pictures I don't object to, but once you allow sigs on a board devoted to an MMO, you get huge, multi-line sigs, and then you get image sigs, and image sigs are amongst the most obnoxious forum elements since autoplay sound files. The forums as they stand are fast, clean, uncluttered and easy to read, and I honestly think they're better that way.
Edit: while we're on the subject, though, I'd much prefer not having to Preview every post before I make or modify it...every other forum I've ever been on has had a Post and Preview button side-by-side. Forced previewing strikes me as an unnecessary hassle.
profile pics and sigs are ok
no on the consumable shop
no on the energy refills we got CE purchase screen already
no on the increased UV for reasons that should be OBVIOUS
i admit energy prices are up but thats on the player base's head
im not opposed to the contests
no on the guild benefits, the 50% of the listing fees, GvG (for crying out loud bro this is just plain dumb... GvG would only lead to the domination of a few guilds)