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Which of these suggestions do you want to see implemented the most? This is not about new content - this is about improving existing content. With maybe new features I suppose ;P

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You can vote multiple times (3x a day I think?), but it would help if you vote only once. :). The first five votes were myself and a friend testing how this poll service works. Let me know if there are better free poll things out there I should use. This one just seemed nice and not too awful.

This post consists of the Top 10 SK suggestions/thoughts I've seen about social and interface issues in SK over the years that I would love to see in the game/community. I have linked to various associated threads to show support for these ideas over time. There are of course many more threads with these ideas than I've listed here. And for every thread, there's likely dozens (hundreds?) of players who have had the same thoughts. The ideas are somewhat related to each other, some more than others. These ideas are mostly what I tend to read around the forums/in game chatter a lot, and personally feel would improve the game tremendously. A few of these could branch into smaller topics (like #10), so if those "win," we'd have to do a similar activity where we decide which subthing is the most important to work on. Of course, I'd like to eventually see all these changes, but let's see if we can't put the pressure on for one at a time. Which one do we want to see first? Or the most in general? Vote in the poll!

Too overwhelmed? That's okay. Pick one for the poll you'd like to see first, and then say in this thread in a comment that you just want them all. Or state that you don't care!

The goal is to let OOO know what we want improvements on regarding these topics in general - the method of fixing has been discussed over and over in SK's forums. So let's get the machines going and have preview server style feedback threads, OOO :D. But yeah...

I realize this probably won't make a difference...but, I imagine it will if many players participate in the poll. Because OOO does tend to listen to us. IMO, they should implement one thing every other month that a user has suggested somewhere, especially if it's small (cause that's easy!), and link to the suggestion thread in the admin post. Would really enrich the community.

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Poll Details - Mostly proof of desire through time
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1) Costume loadout option, separate from combat loadouts.
-Best thread imo: Node 90209, cause it has this fake interface pic. I love fake interface pics! (2013)
-Node 77338 (2013)
-Node 45692 (2012)
-Node 65719 (2012)
-Node 36591 (2011)

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2) PvP loadouts - Improve them

With the way LD ques work, don't automatically mark new loadouts with pvp please. Loadouts should save to PvE as default. An option to toggle which you'd like to autosave new loadouts as (pve or pvp) in the settings menus would be best for everyone. Tiers are also an issue.
-Node 67799 (2012)

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3) Acc slot changes/overhaul

Instead of supergluing acc onto individual armor/helmet items/costumes, let us equip them to slots in a separate interface. They would bind when being equipped, like every other item. Alternatively, let us upgrade our most favorite acc to this hypothetical acc slot system (so they'd be like "superduper accessories," or something) while letting other acc get superglued like they do now, so the changes wouldn't be so horrible. With the huge number of aesthetics we have in this game, and will continue to get, the current system will not work. Recovery was a step in the right direction. Eventually, recovery should be synonymous with unbinding. Perhaps more rare acc could have higher "star levels" which have a consistent unbinding cost pattern like combat equipment does, but of course isolated from the Rank restriction. Cause let's face it - we don't want to spend the same amount of energy "recovering" a regal vitakit as we do pretty much any pair of wings. But we spent money to get both :/. This would likely rely heavily on Idea #1. It would also open up opportunities for things like Armor Side slot. It would stop the nonsense with "why does this thing have these slots but this other thing doesn't?" Cough. Gremlin Suit. Cough. Even the Frenzy news art had to be fixed because of slot nonsense. (First version vs. the second version).

-Node 109167 (2015)
-my personal fake interface proposal in general

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4) Shield costume slot
- This link is a google search. Lol.

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5) Allow us to see mail we've sent

- Node 88366 (2013)
- Node 47836 (2012)

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6) Allow us to bulk send mail to groups

This includes messages via some other method. Groups include "all guild members," "all guild officers," "entire guild," etc. Mail sending fees using flocks of snipes might be an issue. Yes, I like to think mail is delivered via snipe, like Harry Potter owls or something. And the fee pays for their little birdseed feed. Or whatever.
-Node 63236 (2012)
-Node 55290 (2012)
-Node 40011 (2012)

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7) Organizable social list with labels

The above option #6 could involve a more complex social list, like labeling a friend as a "PvP guy" or a "Merchant Guy" or "Guys that are not jerks that I genuinely like to play with." IMO, this could even be simple symbols. Like that one loading screen that has silver/gold knight horsey pictures. I would be in favor of simple labels/symbols over hover notes. I do this sort of thing in a word document, but in-game would be so very fantastic, in case I'm on another compooper or something.
- Node 5260 (2011)
- Node 10043 (2011)
- Node 73114 (2013)

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8) Chat Tabs - For region, friends, loot gets, etc.

While we're at it, clickable links in chat and mail please, with a warning "you are opening a browser page outside of the game" blahblah. At least it has a scrollbar. It didn't always have that!

- Node 88366 (2013) - repeat thread from #5, cause it has several ideas
- Node 73114 (2013) - repeat thread from #7, cause it has several ideas

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9) Improve the Auction House

Lessen/remove auction house selling fees. Increase listing fees to compensate, so it's more of a gamble, but punishes selling (successful sales) less. This should encourage listing things at prices others are more willing to pay, and items that people are willing to buy. Increase the time players can list items - perhaps even make 4 hours free (encouraging more log ins), while having fees for posts that last for weeks. I would be in favor of longer listing times, since the Bazaar thread is sub par (see next option), and there are so very many, many accessories out there. That people might not even search for for...months really. Eh, yeah, I'd say a lot of problems could be solved with better forums and a market service like the warframe one linked to below (doing away with fees alltogether). This of course has many issues and would need a lot of testing, and possible reimbursements to keep people happy.

Have a "wtb this item for X price" option, as well as the current "WTS this item/stack for this price" we have now. sorta like this voluntarily user-made service for warframe.

EDIT: Oh yes, displays for data (such as all-time lows + highs/averages/trending sales/buy graphs, including listings that failed to sell) would be very nice. Similar to what the Steam Market has. Accessing this data could be as simple as adding a tab in the Interface for the auction house below all the current tabs. I mean, there are a bunch of screens above the auction house with entertaining displays like this. Let's make those a "reality."

- This is a google search. Various results, including confusion, and general dissatisfaction.
- Node 52162 (WTB option, 2012)

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10) Clean up the past and the Website

Update the main page, forums, and wiki to more recent, user friendly versions. There are pictures advertising gameplay on the media page that do not reflect the game in its current state. Like, is that a pink pith helm!? Also, update the wayward bits in the game that are leftover (NPCs chatting about gate construction, old graphics loading images, loadout analysis using old bars, do a full cleanup).
- Node 111014 (pls fix in-game changes, 2015)
- Node 51264 (better forums - 2012)
- Node 65911 (better forums - 2012)

I'd like to see some features that Terraria's Forums use. Their forums are pretty slick! But SK is SK...just some basics would be really nice. Like tracking your own posts and # of unique visitors. Something I'd love to see is ...dis/likes, and mini polls. Some ppl don't want to bother with commenting, even +/- 1...but a like dislike button? Heck yeah! Easy peasy to click dat.

I've made countless support requests to update the wiki version we've got regarding various minor issues, they say they don't plan on it anytime soon. I love mediawiki, they've got lots of good stuff but our version can't use some of that good stuff. But perhaps with customer pressure...!