u/Reagilias

What's stopping DE from just adding a Railjack copy of Survival, Defense, Excavation?

Excavation: Void Asteroid mining. Half the crew drops out into archwing or on foot, installs equipment or whatever, has a mini Mobile Defense mission down there. Meanwhile, Railjack crew has to defend waves of ships and crewships trying to blow up the asteroid instead of letting it get into our hands. After stuff gets extracted, a new asteroid spawns. Maybe allow multiple mining operations at the same time like Excavation does, if you're good enough.

Defense: idk some critical satellite is getting besieged maybe. Maybe after Tau gets released, Sentients send a covert troop to retrieve Hunhow or destroy him for whatever reason, and we get a Railjack Defense mission in Uranus Proxima to defend him.

Survival: expand Invasion concept to Railjack. You're protecting the planet's nodes from being taken over by Grineer/Corpus, so you have to fight an endless horde of enemies. Maybe have a kills/min quota to maintain to keep fighting, and that quota gets higher as time goes on. Or tie rotation rewards to tiers of quota. Or keep the quota static and ship levels get higher, which makes it harder to keep the quota. Maybe have a "breacher" type crewship pop up every 5 minutes, and you have to board it and kill the captain or disable the ship or blow it up, and that's what gives you the option to extract or continue.

Assault: the inverse of Survival, but still Invasion themed; this time you're supporting the invasion. You board crucial perimeter bases or ships, disable them/blow them up, while you defend your Railjack from being attacked by defending ships. Blow up idk 3 bases and you get to choose extraction or continue

We've seen a lot of Ginny, Ron, Hermione, Molly, Dumbledore bashing; are there any good/funny fics that bash less common targets? I don't think I've ever seen Arthur or the twins get bashed, they're usually the token good guys in Weasley bashing fics.

Visited this sub way back when I was still reading TAPOV, and it has recently reappeared in my feed. But all I see being posted is "read this novel!" "hey guys I made a novel" which, good for you I guess, but posting in a sub about a specific novel? That's just rude behavior.

Sub seems dead, didn't expect to have to mute a dead subreddit because people randomly started shilling their novels here. That one really popular post at least has a premise similar to TAPOV, but damn. Post y'all shit in a relevant sub.

Would like to ask opinions on this. Also disclaimer, I haven't played RO in quite a long time, from way back in dial-up internet, then high rate private servers; basically I haven't kept up in-depth and this whole post might be a dumb thread so sorry in advance. I've moved on to other MMOs, one of them being Warframe, which is what sparked this idea. I still lurk here, looking for something to scratch that itch RO left (tried Spiritvale and waiting for EA, lurking in Samsara Saga to see how that develops) so I saw the news about Zero and the image of the paid shop.

I saw that and drew parallels to Warframe's market. EXP buffs, Item drop rate buffs, Enriched Elunium and Oridecon which I equated to Orokin Reactors and Catalysts, and Forma, basically for upgrading gear. IDK what Bradium and Carnium are. Weapons and mods in Warframe could be equipment and cards. So I thought the monetization was kind of similar, except that in Warframe you can trade the premium currency and the equivalent of zeny is used for NPC items and trade tax. Basically you can grind for items and trade it for premium currency.

On the other hand, of course there are lots of stark differences. The biggest one is that Warframe has basically defunct PVP and RO has WoE (and probably new avenues of pvp idk about). That alone might be enough for this whole idea to be invalid. Not to mention, I'm pretty sure Zero is also a subscription based model, so you're already paying to play in the first place.

Either way, I feel like it's a good question to ask. If it's viable, maybe some private server or budding RO-like can adopt this model.

I'm talking stuff like Spellbreak; in that game, spells have interactions based on their elements.

e.g. I can't exactly remember every interaction, but stuff like Player 1 casts a tornado, sucking people in and damaging them. Player 2 (could be an enemy) casts a water spell on it, it turns into a waterspout. Someone casts an ice spell on it and it gets frozen along with any player in the aoe. If someone casted a lightning spell instead, it would electrocute anyone in the aoe.

Stuff like that. For me it was the coolest thing ever and RIP Spellbreak.

It would be cool to have an MMO with skill interactions as the focus. You're a Mechanic and I'm a Sorcerer? Drop a turret, I'll enchant it to do elemental damage (bonus if the VFX changes). Bard drops by and now the turret is shooting musical bullets at a faster rate (bonus if it plays an actual tune). Druid casts Entangling Vines, which normally just slow down enemies; someone hits it with Metal Coat, and it gets a boost to the slowness effect. Afterwards someone hits it with a Sharpen Weapon, normally a melee character buff to increase damage for a time, and it loses the extra slow effect and gains damage.

Boss casts a lingering ground aoe fire attack. You cast Rainstorm on yourself to nullify it in a small radius, and your party gathers so they don't die. WRONG MOVE, boss casts Thunderbolt at your tank and since your entire party is wet, it chains and wipes the party. You should have cast a Resist Fire and an aoe healing spell instead. Or maybe Earth Pillar on yourself and your teammates to avoid the ground. Or your berserker uses Ground Pound to make you Airborne so you dodge the fire (he dies and gets rez'd by the priest after). Meanwhile, one of your DPSes, who picked Smithing as his life skill, steps to the side and starts upgrading one of his spare swords (the fire attack boosts forging success rate).

The possibilities are literally endless and I'm surprised no one has made one like this yet (that I've heard of)

I was reading a post-Year 6 war fic and they were doing the identity checks by asking questions only the other person would know, and a thought struck me: if they were Imperiused to act normally and report information back at a certain time/place, they would pass said identity checks; they would then be able to spy for the other side. Hell, if one trusted person got Imperiused, they could straight up just get close to a key person (Harry, Dumbledore, etc.) and end the war that way.

I feel like the Imperius is the worst out of the three unforgiveables because yeah, torture curse = pain, and killing curse = death, but the Imperius is full control over a person's agency, and it can be in place for as long as the caster wants. In canon, Harry is the only one who was able to somewhat fight the curse; probably 99% of the rest of the wizarding populace is susceptible to the curse.

A fic where the focus is on the Imperius sounds like the perfect setting for a mystery/horror fic, or at least a darker take on the franchise. Not being able to trust someone while in a war sounds like nightmare fuel, and you can't tell if they're under because even if they're acting as they normally would, they could still just be under orders to do just that.