New CDI?

#4 - Dec. 9, 2013, 12:42 p.m.

Hi All,

I will be chatting with Izzy, JC and Devon this morning to see when they would like to wrap up. The next thread will be around Horizontal and Vertical progression and will depend timing wise on Izzy and Devon’s decision.

Note we won’t be doing another Process evolution until the next topic is discussed.

Chris

#5 - Dec. 10, 2013, 3:01 p.m.

Hi All,

Happy Wintersday! The next CDI topic will be starting tomorrow and will be housed on this forum. The topic will be around Player Progression: Horizontal vs Vertical Progression.

Looking forward to discussing this topic with you all.

Chris

#22 - Dec. 11, 2013, 7:21 p.m.

Hi All,

I have been extremely busy today and probably will be tomorrow, hence the thread not existing yet. I will try to get it there tomorrow and if not Friday.

Thanks for your comments around the proposed title. The topic will focus on Character Progression within GW2. Whilst Ascended Gear will obviously be part of that conversation I don’t want it all to be about that, hence not including it in the title.

The focus of this thread is about evolving the game through design philosophical discussion with evolving being the key word in my sentence. Thus I hope we discuss all types of progression, what has worked, what hasn’t and then brainstorming progression moving forward.

Cheers

Chris

#24 - Dec. 11, 2013, 9:33 p.m.

Hi Finnway,

This will be the last CDI of the year as the topic applies to WvW, PVE and PVP, and also we can take the extra time to keep it open for a while over the holiday period.

Exciting!

Chris

#26 - Dec. 11, 2013, 11:15 p.m.

Hi Cactus,

‘I hate to be a broken record’

Your post doesn’t come across that way.

‘none of us have the slightest idea what he thought was worth pursuing from 23 pages representing over 1,100 player comments, and all of us pretty much expect that nothing will ever come of any of it.’

I do hope that you understand that you are making an assumption here.

‘but you realize that Devon never did a wrap up summary’

With all due respect Izzy made it clear that he would be working with Devon on the thread and he decided to do the summary.

The summary is as follows:

I’m going to close this thread as I think this topic has come to and end, I wanted to thank everyone involved it’s been a great thread here is a summary of the discussions, this is a list of the main topics that where discussed and not a list of upcoming features. As with all CDI threads will bring the info gained from these threads into our discussion internally.
Commander Visibility
More options for the Color/Shape of the tag itself. This could be tied to functionality or rank of commanders but mainly targeted around organization.
Removal of buff display to enemies. As well as we should avoid doing skills/abilities that highlight the commander to enemies.
Ability to limit visibility to a sub group, party, guild, ect..
Tag sizing. (I debate this a bit as when you auto size the tag you can often lose the ability to see how far away something is but it was brought up a lot so listing it here)
Add squads to LFG system.
Commander Tools
More detailed supply info that’s always up. (Increased radius)
Ability to create sub roles within a squad.
Current squad tools are rarely used.
Seems to be some debates on buffs to followers, but there is a lot of good examples of ways to do that.
Squad size needs to be increased.
Ability to group up parties or other commanders to form different squad organization.
Improved chat suppression for commanders
Commander announcements (yellow text across the screen)
Open/Closing Squad tools
Commander gating
Current 100g gate isn’t the cleanest gate. (Whole goal behind a gate is to limit the number of commanders out there.
Gating using WvW abilities seems to have some debate to it, but seems like something we should avoid.
Account bound commander tags vs character bound.
The next CDI thread will be run by Chris Whiteside starting on Wed 12/11 the topic will be Progression.
Once again Thank you these threads are a joy to read and cause many great conversations and discussion here in the office.’

I hope this helps.

Chris

#43 - Dec. 12, 2013, 11:56 a.m.

Webba.3071:

Chris, copying this over from an old CDI thread in case you missed it. Given the OPs question it seemed relevant.

Webba.3071:

I dont know if this is the right place to post this but its the best I could find, which in itself is relevant to the suggestion I would like to make.

It seems that CDI does not have a home, so to speak, but is spread out across the various forums the different threads are related to. This makes sense, but for someone who doesn’t visit the forums everyday its quite difficult and time consuming to find where the various threads are.

I would suggest a stickied post in the suggestions forum listing all the CDI threads, current and completed, in chronological order and with a short paragraph describing the purpose and contents of each.

This would allow participants very convenient access to any topic they might want to contribute too or read up on without requiring you to move any existing threads or reorganize anything else on the forums. It might also help people to grasp the big picture of CDI, which might help them appreciate what you are trying to achieve with it, something that is hard to see if you only see one or two threads every now and then.

I think this is a good idea to and we will do something in this spirit early next year. My only concern is folks not seeing the thread and thus not getting involved.

Looking at my schedule today it is likely i will post the topic tomorrow. Sorry for the delay but i want to give the topic my full attention.

Chris