1. Your about to reach max. stamina, and looking for buffs, but you simply can't find anyone online with one or more specific buffs you need.
2. You're getting ready to hunt, and looking for the buffs you need, but the game is laggy and takes several seconds loading every page, so by the time you finally have all the buffs needed, some of them are already about to wear off.
3. All of your friends/guild mates are offline, and you can't afford those crazy prices everyone is taking for their buffs so your stuck, not being able to hunt or whatever your going to do.
There are plenty of examples, just listed three very common problems when looking for/getting buffed for something.
My suggestion is to improve the overall skill/buff system.
Request Skills Function
My first part of it, is to add a new function to the player profiles where you can see a complete list of the specific players skills, and from there request them just like you can buff others with the Quick Buff page.
Also, there should be a preference for this aswell, so players can turn this off, so others can't request buffs from them and neither can they see which skills they have.
Skill Queue
This is all about skills not activating on you right away when cast on you by another player.
I'd like to see it so that when another player casts a skill on you, you'll have to accept it before it activates on you, and the casters stamina is not consumed either, before the skill has been accepted by you.
And skills cast on you, should stay in the queue for 12 hours before it expires.
This would be good in the following case:
You ask a guild mate for the hunting skill you'll need in the morning when you wake up, and go to sleep.
The Guild Mate buffs you, but after a 6 hours later he goes to sleep aswell. (Different TimeZone)
You wake up and the skills from your Guild Mate is still in your Skill Queue, with 6 hours left till expiration.
And besides that, this especially solves occurence number two at the top, as you could then look for every buff you need, and when you got them all in your queue you can just accept them all together at the same time and got no worries about skills wearing off before your even ready to hunt.
I'm sure some of you have tried getting buffed with unwanted skills such as Counter Attack, when you don't need it.
I've tried it a couple of times without even asking for it, sometimes even from random people i don't even know, and the annoying part, is that usually you don't find out before it's too late.
This Skill Queue feature also allows for my next part.
Skill Cost
This one quite reveals itself just from it's title.
It's about adding a new input field to the Quick Buff page where you can define the price you wan't for the selected skills.
This solves the problem with people scamming others, by not paying for the skills they request.
And in reverse order, people paying first, and then not getting their requested skills from the seller.
Becuase this would go along with the Skill Queue system, as if the seller defines a price on the Quick Buff page, the gold/FSP would automatically be transfered from the buyer to the seller.
Skill Request Board
And now for my last part, again, the title pretty much reveals it.
It's about having a board where people can request specific skills, that way skill sellers can quickly find others needing the skills they have.
Including some preferences.
- Min. Skill Level
- Max. Skill Level
- Max. Price in Gold or FSP
- Extended?
- Min. Sustain %
This was all my suggestions, i hope you enjoy and comment, thanks!
