Pre-beta suggestions

Did any of you suggest anything during the early days,

that ended up in the game?

I was thinking about it recently and I few of the

things I suggested ended up in game. I don't think they

listened to me though, more like a happy coincidence,

but still it was nice that I basically got what I asked

for!

Here are things I suggested which I am now able to play

with!

1) While EQ2 was being made, I suggested on their forum

that they make names in the chat windows active, so

they can be clicked on like a hyperlink. That way, if

someone called Illikasngashanhlasha /auctions

something, you don't have to type in their name, you

can just click it or right click it. Not sure if this

ever ended up in EQ2, but it is in Vanguard and I love

it

2) When I got on the Vanguard forum, I made a

suggestion that I would like some special spells that

used special points separate from your mana. That way

you could save them for emergencies and if you were a

fast thinker, instead of doing your normal big heal or

group heal, you could use one of your special spells

and save the day. Same goes for nukes, if you are in a

tense situation and fighting several mobs, and one of

them aggroes the Cleric and is about to kill them, but

the mob is low on health, you could think fast and use

your special points to make a huge nuke and kill the

mob. The limited points would mean that you can't

overdo it though. Sadly my idea was shot down by the

other forumgoers at the time, because they said people

would save the points for raid encounters and just let

loose all their points in one go which would unbalance

everything. Fair point I guess, but what I suggested is

basically exactly what they did with half of the

classes in the game. The Phenomena points on the Druid

work exactly as I suggested! They took it a step

further by adding DoT's and stuff too and then the

ability to top up your points at higher level.

3) After learning that there would be no more EQ style

text interactions with quests (typing who is / what is

/ where is / etc), and instead it would all be clicked

on the interface, I suggested that you would still need

to do some things with text. My example (which sucked

in hindsight) was that there could be a trial for a

crime, and you have to learn who comitted the crime and

then at the final point, the judge asks who committed

the crime, and you have to "/say" the person's name. It

was a crappy suggestion because you could still just do

this by clicking on a list of names like you do with

everything else.... However they still added some text

interaction! When you go to Riftseekers Torrent, an NPC

wanders past and says a password. You have to then /say

this to get inside, and then you use it again to go

through portals later in the dungeon. They had probably

made this before I suggested, but still, it's nice that

I got what I asked for

4) The only other suggestion I can remember is this

one. I suggested that they have guilds or groups be

required to work together at some points. For example

there could be three big wizard towers like that huge

dungeon/tower in Velious in EQ. At the top of each

tower is a lever, and if the levers in all three towers

is pressed at the same time, it opens a portal to

special group or raid zone. So three strong groups or

three strong raid forces, would have to split up and

each take a tower. And then at the top, they would have

to communicate together and do a big 1..... 2......

3..... CLICK! and all click the lever within a few

seconds of each other.