Player created Quest

[Sauredfangs]

What if players can go on their own self created quest(for themselves) and be rewarded for it?

Each "Quest" is an active objective people can choose to adopt. Each active objective has "milestones" people can reach and be rewarded at them. For example if you kill 100 type of monster you get a reward. You buff 100 players you get a reward, etc.

-Here are some types of self quest people could adopt:

Kill Quest- Killing as much of a type of npc as you can. Ex. Guards, Ogres, Raptors, Orcs, Dwarves, Pirates, Naga.

Scouting- Explore different routes and taking notes. Ex. Road from Tarren mill to hammer fell, Road from Sentinel hill to Lakeshire, Road from Blackfathom deep to Warsong Lumbercamp.

Collection- collecting as much of an item as possible. Ex. Elf ears, troll tusk, elemental bracers.

Miscellaneous- Things like giving people buffs, Band Aiding injured players, dancing with people who are dancing, drinking as much booze as you can.

-Reward: Players are given adventure points for doing as much of the objectives as they can. Adventure points are given every time a player gets a certain milestone like 50 or 100 (number may vary depending on the task). To gain more points for example, they have to get another 50 milestone after the last milestone. Players can trade in their points for gear, profession mats, enchants, gold and transmogs. Some transmogs are unlocked when you’ve done a certain self objective enough, like a wolf head helmet for killing 300 wolves.

-Extra detail: Point rewards vary depending on how hard some task is. Killing elites gives more reward than killing critters or dancing with other players.

-People can only have around 3 to 5 self quest objective at a time so they can focus on a few specific activity at a time.

-There is a daily threshold on how much you can earn from self questing so its not too overpowered.

-Also I think this idea would help put the Role-playing more in a role playing game.

Note: Ive edited this post so the old replies are replying to a diffretent version of this post.

[loras]

What if players can make their own quest and be rewarded for it?

-Here are some types of quest people could make:

Kill Quest- Killing as much of a type of npc as you can. Ex. Guards, Ogres, Raptors, Orcs, Dwarves, Pirates, Naga.

Scouting- Explore different routes and taking notes. Ex. Road from Tarren mill to hammer fell, Road from Sentinel hill to Lakeshire, Road from Blackfathom deep to Warsong Lumbercamp.

Collection- collecting as much of an item as possible. Ex. Elf ears, troll tusk, elemental bracers.

Miscellaneous- Things like giving people buffs, Band Aiding injured players, dancing with people who are dancing, drinking as much as you can.

-Rewad: Players are given adventure points for doing as much of the objectives as they can. They can trade in their points for gear, profession mats, enchants, gold and transmogs. Some transmogs are unlocked when you’ve done a certain self objective enough, like a wolf head helmet for killing wolves.

-Extra detail: Rewards vary depending on how hard some task is. Killing elites gives more reward than killing critters or dancing with other players.

People can only have around 3 to 5 self quest objective at a time so they can focus on a few specific activity at a time.

The way you unlock a potential self quest is by doing something like killing your first wolf or exploring your first road.

Also I think this idea would help put the Role-playing more in a role playing game.

WoW desperately needs more player managed content, but it'd be hard to avoid abuse and cookiecutting.
"I offer you a quest to kill X of these close-packed mobs, and you do the same, then we reward eachother!" in example.

Still worthwhile to attempt it though, but maybe make it more about cosmetics than about trade goods and power.

Maybe something analogous to the crafting system, but now about quests and posted from those hero's message board things?
Might be fun to allow custom rewards as well, could give a use to certain valuable grey items in order to avoid the "Hero's guild cut" on any reward money you offer.

It could also help further reinvigorate pvp now that i think about it, in example by allowing to set bounty quests on anyone who has recently been an assassin.

[Relapses]

Reminds me of a quest from Cataclysm where you're the Questgiver:



(RIP CB. )

[Biomega]

Give it a few years, and with recent advances in AI we'll be getting procedurally generated quests for sure. Possibly on a per-player basis, so everyone will get something different.

It's got to be coming.

Leaving it up to the players would probably just result in a Wowhead guide going "How to farm your custom quest in less than 1 minute!".

[Sauredfangs]

WoW desperately needs more player managed content, but it'd be hard to avoid abuse and cookiecutting.
"I offer you a quest to kill X of these close-packed mobs, and you do the same, then we reward eachother!" in example.

Still worthwhile to attempt it though, but maybe make it more about cosmetics than about trade goods and power.

Maybe something analogous to the crafting system, but now about quests and posted from those hero's message board things?
Might be fun to allow custom rewards as well, could give a use to certain valuable grey items in order to avoid the "Hero's guild cut" on any reward money you offer.

It could also help further reinvigorate pvp now that i think about it, in example by allowing to set bounty quests on anyone who has recently been an assassin.

While I also like the idea of giving someone else a quest or your guild giving you a quest, what I meant by this idea is a quest made by you for yourself. Im not counting out being a quest giver to npc's though.

[Mysterymask]

Problem with player created quests and rewards is it stupid easy to exploit

See City of Heroes when they had that and people just made infinite xp and money quests

If your gonna do it you gotta keep rewards out of it and make it a purely RP thing

[Sauredfangs]

Problem with player created quests and rewards is it stupid easy to exploit

See City of Heroes when they had that and people just made infinite xp and money quests

If your gonna do it you gotta keep rewards out of it and make it a purely RP thing

hmmm.. maybe there is diminishing rewards after a certain threshold

[loras]

While I also like the idea of giving someone else a quest or your guild giving you a quest, what I meant by this idea is a quest made by you for yourself. Im not counting out being a quest giver to npc's though.

Oh.
That sounds a bit weird honestly.
Just do what you want to do, involving rewards like that just makes it weird.

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Problem with player created quests and rewards is it stupid easy to exploit

See City of Heroes when they had that and people just made infinite xp and money quests

If your gonna do it you gotta keep rewards out of it and make it a purely RP thing

Or you require players to provide the rewards.

[Shadowferal]

I've a similar idea that had the player build "current" lore.

[Mysterymask]

Or you require players to provide the rewards.

If that's the case why do it?

Hell to me that sounds like a fun way to launder RMT transactions

[Lollis]

There is/was an addon that allowed you to make custom quests for other players, but like has been mentioned, an official one would likely only lead to them being exploited.

[loras]

If that's the case why do it?

Hell to me that sounds like a fun way to launder RMT transactions

Because another quest rewards you for it

But yeah, maybe you need to make quests (&have them be completed) to be allowed to take on quests?
Just spitballing here.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Player created missions in Star Trek Online were often more enjoyable than the officially content. Sadly Cryptic closed down the Foundry a few years back, apparently they didn't want to continue spending money on the programmers who maintained the Foundry feature.

[Mysterymask]

Because another quest rewards you for it

But yeah, maybe you need to make quests to be allowed to take on quests?
Just spitballing here.

Bob makes a quest to kill a squirrel to reward a gold
Timmy makes a quest to kill a squirrel for 1 gold
Bob then makes a quest to reward 100,000 gold to give to Timmy cause he paid him

[loras]

Bob makes a quest to kill a squirrel to reward a gold
Timmy makes a quest to kill a squirrel for 1 gold
Bob then makes a quest to reward 100,000 gold to give to Timmy cause he paid him

Quest goes uncompleted forever.
A bit like those beggar crafting orders.

[Mysterymask]

Quest goes uncompleted forever.
A bit like those beggar crafting orders.

Think you missed the part that Timmy in my example basically bought gold from Bob and they used the quest to make a clean transaction that blizzard now has to make another layer of moderation to enforce

[loras]

Think you missed the part that Timmy in my example basically bought gold from Bob and they used the quest to make a clean transaction that blizzard now has to make another layer of moderation to enforce

Ah, sorry, misread.
Not sure how this would be more complicated to moderate though, since it's just extra added steps, administration and "fee" losses for the would-be launderer for no apparant gain over, say, doing this via direct transactions or the auction house.

[Mysterymask]

Ah, sorry, misread.
Not sure how this would be more complicated to moderate though, since it's just extra added steps, administration and "fee" losses for the would-be launderer for no apparant gain over, say, doing this via direct transactions or the auction house.

Eh would make the whole thing flooded with crappy get a reward quest

Don't know rather not have a reward and all the quests people make are more storyline or challenge quests and not end up like the group finder

[Lochton]

Naw, I'll leave that to the free market. You could with Gryphonheart Items (GHI), so I guess you can with TRP3 Extended too?

Else, I'd rather see Blizzard make competitions where five winners are picked, first place gets to help design a quest line of 5 quests, and the other four, a single quest. Previous winners have to wait a year before trying to participate again.

[Sauredfangs]

Player created missions in Star Trek Online were often more enjoyable than the officially content. Sadly Cryptic closed down the Foundry a few years back, apparently they didn't want to continue spending money on the programmers who maintained the Foundry feature.

Yeah. I think it would work well with Wow, since Wow is a role playing game. Weather its self quest or giving other people quest, it's essentially role playing too. Being able to get rewards for it makes role playing more a legitimate/valuable way to play the game.