If people would explore more and the quality of high lvl drops would be increased a bit this could allready help alot. Steady income like sellable wellables would be a huge improvement as well imo.
Faster solo play and things like higher lvl solo whistle (maybe up to +10 or 15 lvls possible only for solo)for more drops/exp/prof could be a reason to Upgrade gear.

This is how i see it too.
People will not explore with the current drop rates though because the guys wearing the best gear in the game find one good item every few months doing it and it takes extra hours per climb.
If the drop quality improved it would be worth it.
We have the data that shows how hard it is to start fresh, just check all the completed buffcore topics, weeks of work, almost never any gear with 40+ ee on it.
A character and item wipe would make this game a ghost town, new players would be excited until they hit lvl 10 or so then realize its like climbing an icey mountain wearing crocs.

Even while exploring it's hard for some of us to kill ep's
for instance right now i am sitting with 3 ep's at level 47 that i cannot kill due to their damage out put and my bad gear.

well u have to invest in average gear to get somewheres...Start fishing/cooking u can make good tier 2-3 stacks and it wont take long

Or start killing eps at a lower level..(i know thats harsh) But this game is not for finding most of ur gear


/edit...or have a few friends who can help you out for free

This post was edited by richboy1991 on Aug 4 2016 02:47pm

I'll slash with you on hc, today I work a double, but I tend to be on a bit now.

Hi, I'm Nick. Sorry we've never met--it's been awhile since I've played. Feel free to check my blog for some of my previous posts...

I do have a current idea I'd like to share though. Make this game into an Ipad App, make it free, get it featured on itunes main page, have the gameplay through the App obviously allow play with those logging in through current method and welcome in 100s of thousands of players. This solves most of the issues of this game with increasing the population a couple thousand fold.

I agree with you stoked, I remember playing this game with ~300 players daily, you could make a group a 45 and it would be full before you reach 50, game was much more fun, people were climbing with newbies and didn't care

This game will never not be linked to d2jsp.

What matt said, doesn't apple take like 3% of every sale, I don't think that paul would want to have to pay apple everytime an ipad user bought FG, seems like it would be annoying to track and would require a bunch of coding.