Revitalizing Talus Ideas

[fuz028]

Ok so the other day Aleshiea came over the chat asking about ideas to increase the want to go to some unused planets. Talus and Rori to be exact. So i was sitting here thinking lets go take a look at the planet and see what is there to work with. First off Talus: Once a starting planet with low to middle level creatures. several PoI’s like the Aakuan Champion Cave, where the +5 to range def. rings drops plus other resist gear. Pretty kewl, but not worth people to flock there once you have the rings.
Aleshiea went on to mentioned maybe something to do with PvP. Well there happens to be a Rebel vs imp battle ground, but with the server pop as is I don’t really see people flocking there to do world PvP.

Next locations (3) to be exact. Theres lots of terrain there open to pretty much anything, even something brand new.
On to the ideas and locations.

1)Weapons Depot: Online it claims to be a CL90 PvP complex(maybe in a later update). Where anyone entering gets flagged combatant, where then you fight your way inside to convert the base to your faction. Alas it is not that currently, I was able to as a Imperial enter the facility that has imp inside and explore the whole thing. Quite big and resembled the warrens, with working terminals and elevators(so something is going on in there). At the end stood a imperial high general with some guards. Hmm now this could be used with some tweaks.
Either as a rebel faction grind spot with possible loot and beefed up mobs, or as the internet says turn it into a faction war dungeon. whom ever controls it has access to say a rare spawn mob, or increased faction gain when doing GCW mission on the planet while its controled.

2)Detainment Center- Similar to the weapon depot it was filled with imperials milling about. the place was smaller then the depot, but at the end of this place stood a …. wait for it …. imperial dark jedi prophet surrounded by several guards. Again i was able to explore the place unhindered. Now this too with a tweak or two could be changed into a rogue imperial dungeon were any and all could enter (like the warrens) and farm the prophet for whatever loot the devs. deemed note worthy (maybe a weapon schematic, clothing schematic or even a new item drop all together. Maybe even something for the jedi a new crystal, a new robe, or even a new item like a jedi hat with stats like the jetpack. what about a hooded robe with some kind of stats hmmm?

3)Erran Sif- A rebel imperial double agent in hiding. Now currently she resides in a small underground lair with 13 guards and her two brothers. they are on a 3 mins spawn timer and drop after 6 kills normal meatlump junk, but 200+ credits per kill. According to the net she at one time dropped a DoT Vk. Not sure if she does on this server or not(Devs could enlighten us). If not a good place to help the TKM’s with their lack of weapon types. Introduce a new weapon for them after you beef her up a bit, but not like the nightsisters. Keep the NS motor top dog, but have this item be of different damage type, either a new schematic(like the geo cores and schematic) or as a drop. It could be any damage type other then Kinetic, maybe electric, stun, acid(ohhhh ) or whatever. Or for that matter since she is a spy for both side she has secrets and could there fore drop schematics for many different things, including food, clothing, weapons, or deco for the house. No need to drop armor we have the DWB for mando/ bounty hunter stuff and plus there is the RIS armor quest line. I think weaponsmiths could use some love all they have is the scythe which is limited to a two time only quest and the executioner hack which is super rare.

Now i know that was a big wall, but hopefully it had some ideas to inspire the devs to reignite talus a bit. As for bringing PvP to talus, its there just the populous or lack of it has no drive to venture there and meet on the battle field with no reward.

PS the lost village of durbin would be a nice place to spawn a rare pet to entice the MCH(who are lacking in love) to return to the planet (hint hint). A new CL 50+ creature spawning there(poppa daddy sludge panther guarding a baby) and MCH could not resist the call lol. Could even make it an event that is triggered by an npc wanting to get to his old home? which could require a group to do.

There you go revitalizing talus and adding new content, and quite possibly new player cities. Most of the boss mobs are there already they just need to be tuned. Don’t ask me how to go about coding that i’m just the idea guy lol.

[lassic]

I like what you are saying, save the vk damage type. There are two different types on the server currently, and the potential for the blaster fist to make it here. TK doesn't need to have all the different damage types. It is already very strong. Part of making the other classes balance is that no one class can do it all.
TK can hit all the pools, is speed capped without tapes, can blind, dizzy, stun, and kd. I think it will be okay having some limitations.

Other than that, I would love to see talus populated. However, it is hard keeping up the cities on the main planets, atm. Not sure, unless you have a group of friends dedicated to it, how viable it is. Good luck in your endeavors.

[Lasod]

popularity of a location stems from what value does a player gain form the location, xp, credits, badge , value item loot. right now talus rori lok do not provide the reasons to stay beyond getting the location badges.

end game items bring players to the locations. imo, buff up the factional bases on all plantes outside the main 3 noob plants and give them the higher npc loot tables and unique factional armor bonus crafting schems/mats . farming factional npcs is self policed via the TEF but there is no reason to farm because factional npc's dont drop anything of value. if you give players a reason to kill factional npc's the will and they will get TEF's and there will be pvp outside of jedi/bh

if you could go get +20 tapes or mats to craft top end armor and weapons from factional npc instead of random tribal npcs people would be walking around with tef's all day

[fuz028]

Ahh ok i was unaware of different knuckle types. just putting ideas out there to entice the dev team.
Either way if the loot gets changed then people might start going to talus, and new content was included. I agree with you folks so it seems popularity could be increased by loot drops. now that shouldnt be hard to do.

Here is another idea bonus faction increase in said locations. You kill a npc/pc for say 100 faction points but in these locations say its doubled while fighting. Plus allow loot to drop there, what kind thats up to the dev team.

[bobaphat]

The weapons depot changes between factions at reset. Useful for farming faction and dot weapons (especially with 9).