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Secret Places
akabear
Member, Braver of Worlds, Kickstarter, Alpha One
One thing I thoroughly enjoyed in some of the earlies RGP`s I played was finding secret/hidden places.
The reward for checking behind that
I hope there are elements on the maps that only become revealed to these that go the extra mile to find things!
The reward for checking behind that
- waterfall to find a tunnel
- climbing that near impossible mound to find a plateau
- taking the risk of swimming up that underwater cave
- bashing at that slightly discovered wall to find an entrance
I hope there are elements on the maps that only become revealed to these that go the extra mile to find things!
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If it's technically possible, I'd love to see Node evolve OR degenerate, or randomly generate stuff as it goes through the seasons!
And if I'm lucky enough to find it ...... I'll tell only my closest friends and hide the info !
I like when dev's hide stuff for others to find.
Rift before they added the first raid had BIS warrior shield on an un-named easily skipable mob in a level 50 dungeon. Most people ran right past him till someone pointed out where it was.
I suggest adding achievements with rewards and possible good drops from hidden chests for example, to encourage player exploration and conflict in open world.
Also thought of secret places that perhaps becore accessible/inaccessible
https://youtube.com/@TheHiddenDaggerInn
What also would be nice is that has a node that develops that we get clues from NPC's with secret locations. I love spending hours on these treasure hunts hihi
I am talking about something similar to this 2 quest that has been in World of Warcraft:
* How to Get the Lucid Nightmare Mount
* How to Get the Jenafur
Here is the video about them
Lucid Nightmare starts 0:56 in the video
Jenafur
This type of quest was well recived by the comunity but they are single player made. But it was social because the community had to help eachother to solve it.
Another intressting secret stuff that World of Warcraft do well is location that can get triggered by doing the "right thing". I will give some examples and some ideas of stuff that could be nice to have as secret stuff.
* Mysterious circle
You find a mysterious circle somwhere and nothing happens when you are there, but If you and some friends just suddenly started to dance for whatever reason in this circle it would suddently spawn a mob! The reward would be something fun like a cosmetic pice of skin/tabard/housing item or a cosmetic pet.
Stuff like this is just fun to have in the world. and ofc it would in the future be put up on youtube how to do it thats preventable. And if the dev team have time they can sometimes remove secret location like this and put it somewhere else or make a completly different hidden location about something else somewhere else.
* 3 mysterious flat stones in the river.
You are alone near the river and jump on one of this stones and then jump off and continue on ur journey, nothing happens.
Another day there is a group of 3 players near this river. That suddenly decides to cross it together. By randomness all 3 of the players jumps on a seperate stone at the same time. Suddenly the stones are glowing and blue glowing circles are rising from all the stones like soap bubbles. A small creature emerges from the glittering water. If you click it you will obtain this creature as a cosmetic pet.
This would never happen if this 3 players didnt stand on the rocks at the same time.
*The fisherman
In a location somewhere remote there is a fisherman npc with a open box near him with different fishing gear inside it. You cant talk to this npc and nothing is around him. So you just decide to leave.
But another player decides to look around... and moves the mouse over this box with random fishing stuff. the mouse if hovering over a fishing net, nothing happens, then.. when he get the mouse to this tiny can with worms in it the mouse light up that you can klick it. When you do the fisherman turns to you and gives you a quest.
Only players that like to look around will be able to find this secret quest or ofc by accident xD like wait a minute......i can klick this?
* Random camping stuff up a mountain?
Imagine you are discovering the world of verra and decide you want to go to the top of this mountain and only to find the remains of someone who died there? there is random stuff that did belong to this dead man. If you dont look around you will never notice a small neckless hanging from his backpack. You click this neckless it will give you a quest.
* The strange big stone circle.
You are riding on ur horse and suddently you see strange looking stones that is placed like a circle. You decide to investigate. When you stand in this cricle you hear whispering sounds and alot of fireflies starts to fly around this stones. If you click a spesific firefly (one with a broken wing, hard to see if you dont look close) it will spawn a tresure of some sort.
this fireflie wont show any indication that you can click/target them. because you cant. There is only 1 you can click. so even if you would tab to try find an "enemy" it would not work.
If you would leave the area because you dont know what to do the fireflies will fade away and so would the whispering.
*mysterious tree
I would love to this something like this in the game, its sooo beautiful, the song and look of it, amazing.
This just looks like a beautiful big tree. But if exactly 8 players would play a instrument at the exact time the sun is about to go down this wonderful event would happen. That could possible open a secret cave/door or maybe a cave underground with some treasures?
*Coin in the ocean
When you swim in the ocean, you find on the bottom, a verry verry small coin that you cant see if you are not looking really good.
This coin will give you a mysterious quest chain.
* The barn quest
many ppl have quested in this barn before. The quest is to save 2 horses thats tied up inside the burning barn.
What ppl dont know is that there is a hidden quest inside this burning barn. if you are inside the barn and decide to look whats more inside it you will only find alot of boxes. If you decide to jump up on them you will notice a shelf that has a book on it. If you klick this book it will give you a mysterious quest.
Hidden creepy stuff in verra that is a mysterious and dont do anything?
In this video there is harmless creepy stuff thats just intresting to find. Maybe have some similar in Verra
Starts at 1:00
The other secret places that would be exciting to find could be a hidden island in the middle of a misty sea and a hidden path in a forest that could lead into a magical grove or grotto.
An item. An a tittle. An achievement. Anything at all and you'll have people looking for the secret place where the reward can be found. The greater it is perceived, the more people will be looking for it, then lining for it or fighting over it.
I am hoping very much that a few pop-up places and secret places are node specific and also server specific such that there is lesser chance that someone can post a walkthrough, make a youtube video for the game as a whole and cover everything.
Had great times in the early Baldur`s Gate and similar old games finding easter egg places.. back in the day if you did not find it yourself, you did not find it!
Anything making me wonder how it got there or why is there are the kind of secrets I love to find. A music box playing if you interact with it, a well in the middle of a desert/nowhere, a bathtub on the summit of a mountain, a sunken ship (warship at the bottom of a small lake for extra points).
What would be very neat would be if some of these were the leftovers of a destroyed/abandoned node. Like finding an nonworking crafting station in what was once a village but now is returned to it's natural state, or a corruption site.
What could incentivize ppl to *not* reveal every single secret place they've found?
Coz given the abundance of online guides / wikis / fandoms nowadays, no secret remain secret for long, and there goes the fun & excitement ...
limited/rare drops or buffs specific to secret areas. Anyone who posts basically shoots themselves or clan in the foot.