Social-Group Play

Any ideas on how to support socializing in the game and supporting group play? A lot of innovations to support online gameplay usually cost the socializing aspect of mmos (ie group/raid finders, sharding technology, etc.)

I was wondering if there are ideas to support socializing in an mmo space people would like to share?

A few ideas I've heard or thought of are as follows;
* A board or other mechanism that works as a group finder functional only while you are in a tavern (play a mini game or hit a room for rested xp while you wait for that tank or healer.)

* An activity at a tavern that is triggered when a full group is formed that provides a minor buff (xp, loot drop chance, etc.) When the group is formed you answer a question about a randomly selected party member. This data would need to be thought of how it is gathered (probably at character creation or in their bio, etc.)

*Mechanical Synergies. Buffs/debuffs between archetypes and combos of abilities or cc for example. This promotes conversations between players and not just joining a group and start clicking. Good example would be interplay between elemental and other damage types. This would vary based on archetypes so would definitely prompt conversations too.

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Ludullu

Otr wrote: »

One way they could integrate easier would be ingame voice chat, if they would join a group which happens to already be chatting. I've seen people searching and configuring their microphones to not be left out from conversation, once they realized that the players are cool and friendly.

And I prefer to not go into voice unless I've spent days/weeks with some people in chat. So there's definitely a range of sociability. And the game pushing people to join others in order to clear content, on top of my suggested temp-guild for time-limited people, should in theory ease in some people into being more social. And if they aren't - oh well, it's their choice.

Ludullu

Otr wrote: »

Will mayors see a list with their citizens?
Will the house show the owner's name?

I think it's a yes to both of those.

tautau

Re voice chat: Some players, generally immature ones trying to pretend to be grown-ups, tend to curse constantly. I find that tedious and would rather not listen to it, I had my fill of cursing when I wore a uniform.

Leukael

Otr wrote: »

NiKr wrote: »

Otr wrote: »

One way they could integrate easier would be ingame voice chat, if they would join a group which happens to already be chatting. I've seen people searching and configuring their microphones to not be left out from conversation, once they realized that the players are cool and friendly.

And I prefer to not go into voice unless I've spent days/weeks with some people in chat. So there's definitely a range of sociability. And the game pushing people to join others in order to clear content, on top of my suggested temp-guild for time-limited people, should in theory ease in some people into being more social. And if they aren't - oh well, it's their choice.

Voice chat i think is needed when coordinating battles, especially larger ones.
But those chats, for security reasons, have no public discord channels.

I've seen PvE guilds advertising "no microphone needed, chat is ok"
Competition to get members is high
I am curious if such guilds will thrieve in AoC.

But I find interesting the approach AoC takes, to give more buffs to 40 people guilds compared to the 300 sized ones.

Interesting idea. I haven't heard their plans on this but there is such a robust list of choices I would be surprised if they developed this. I, however, could be very wrong.

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