Path of Exile Talent Competition

My work: http://inq-sparker.ucoz.net/start.html
Sources: http://my-files.ru/o4hqtd
Sorry for my bad inglish.

My talent, if I have one, is to detect problems and find a solution to improve one's quality of life. In this case, I'll make a suggestion to try to make the master leveling experience even better.

It's a known fact that leveling your masters yourself is extremely hard and time consuming for a league, and since I leveled all my masters to 8 for the first time doing master rotations, I found the following problems with the experience:

- To find a group you need to pay attention to Global 820 waiting for people to make a group, the problem with that is that a not all players know that channel, the channel is having problems (Connecting players that can talk in the chat but not receive messages) and that people can miss groups for the masters they want to level because of timing and chat spam;

- It's incredibly hard to find some rotations, not even considering the game's huge player base;

- Losing dailies because of slow connection/computer and people not waiting for you;

- People forgeting they've done the mission the day before;

- Having to link items to prove your master's level;

- It often takes too much time;

- Scammers.

How can we use assets already in the game to make the experience better and more inclusive to new players?

Using the Event Noticeboard. An mostly unused asset with the potential to make the master leveling experience better. There could be a tab in the Event Noticeboard for Masters, and in that tab there would be options for each master (including an option for all masters), and clicking in one of those would allow you to enter a group for master rotation from level 5 to 8. It would also show you how many people are in the currently open group. You wouldn't be able to apply for a group if your master isn't at the required level or if you've already done their mission.

With that you could enter a group and go do something else while the group isn't full and whenever it's filled, you get an alert and choose if you're ready to do it or not and can communicate with your group to explain to them why you're not ready yet, for example. If someone takes more than 1 minute to get ready after the rest of the group is ready the player will be considered AFK and get kicked from the group. And if anyone takes more than 2 minutes to get ready after the group is full, being the group ready or not, they would also be kicked. If a player is kicked before the rotation starts, the group would become open again to fill his spot, if a player is kicked after the rotation has started, the player would lose his daily and the group would go on without him, unless he comes back before the group finishes the rotation. A kicked player can come back and join the same group once again, but if kicked again, he would be banned from that group. And if a player gets kicked 3 times in a period of 1 hour, for example, he wouldn't be able to join any groups for the next 3 hours, for example.

Whenever the group is ready, they would be teleported to the master's mission map. In case someone disconnects, their daily would still be used by the rest of the group, but the player would be able to login and join again if the group still exists.

Since the last update made your own daily give you more reputation, the last mission could be the one to give extra reputation to everyone, as a bonus for completing the rotation. It wouldn't matter if they failed the first missions to get the extra reputation, only if they fail the last one.

You would still be able to open your daily in your hideout as it is now to share it, do it alone or whatever else.

This would change considerably the experience of leveling masters, but I think it would change to better. This suggestion can be shaped to best fit the game. And I hope the GGG team likes this idea :)

so i just finished my entry for this =)

check it out at https://soundcloud.com/user-506341307/the-touch

My entry to the talent competition.

Smartphone cover's painted, one "older" cover which was made at the start of of december and one made during the talent competition with a breach hand and my skilltree in the back. It's just paper behind a more or less transparent cover.




Camera etc. got cutted out after that picture. ;)

Here is the album with the cover made during the talent competition:
http://imgur.com/a/lL1hw

And here is the album with the cover made before the talent competition:
http://imgur.com/a/RSKRb

My Submission
Category: Game optimization

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wacalac wrote:

Hello, my attempt at Path of Exile art. It has been a long process but I truly enjoy the design and style. I love all the Breachlords, must see more of them. Here are my submissions.

Cool art, dude.

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MadWoof wrote:

Edit: 5 more pics

Just want to point out I uploaded 5 more pictures of the engraving.

Axe Kaom king.

Tribute to those Karuis who died in POE, here is a chicken showing a warrior death, the only way to die is fighting till the end.

You can consider this a submission. It's based on something I found in this competition thread.

It's a web app for a random character generator, themed to the Path of Exile forums.



GitHub link

I will be submitting my main project in the next couple days.