Quote (SkillShotGG @ 10 Sep 2014 09:07)
The idea of the marketplace is mainly what i've seen draw people attention. I agree very much it's a transparent game and the difficult part is when you need expensive items to progress. There needs to be more thought into the game regarding progression and overall play-ableness. It's really difficult to play the game in it's current state; I really like the game itself, it has a lot of potential. Only think is, is that it needs to have more thought put into it so it appeals to more of a widespread community not just people on jsp who have the money for it.
(Edit): Not only that but if LS was developed further and they created a group of developers for this game, not only will it get bigger but it can attract people to the d2jsp forums who are interested in this sort of 3rd party website trading for econ based games.
I agree 100% with this. I believe the game has huge potential in and outside of d2jsp as well. The only thing holding it back to becoming viral or big is the combat and gameplay. If only could Paul make it so it feels like a action rpg where we point and move our character and click stuff to attack it. (Use attack speed, use evasion mechanics, use dodge) do a top-down action rpg style look instead of just the mindlssy clicking on random mobs and moving through a maze. I think that is what is holding the game to be at it's full potential.
Paul already has coded a lot of great features for LS:
Item Vault, Cooking, Marketplace, Transmuting, PVP Arena, Skills, Sounds, Art-work (he can get more artwork on his new engine if he makes one easily from the community here).
Which all of this is fine and dandy, but brings me back to my main point. The combat and gameplay is what is holding it back. It should be a top-down actionRPG type gameplay. Just like on D2, KingsRoad, PathofExile, D3.
The best type of example I can give is KingsRoad because it is Coded in Flash just like LS:
If Paul were to do some type of combat like this (Obviously not this extreme as this game was made by a full studio and Paul is a 1 man show) it would help LS a lot and gain a lot more popularity.