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I just feel I should be able to start a game with whatever race/class I want. If you want me to purchase shit make it worth it but don't stop me from playing your game straight from the character select screen.
I don't even think it's good business. They want me to play their game hoping I buy from the cash shop but then they block me from being happy before I even enter their game. I'd quit sooner if I wasn't attached to my character than I would otherwise. I'm not going to buy a sweet looking set of armor if I don't even want to look at the character to begin with.
Mr Creed
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I think something like this is plausible, maybe done well enough to mask it. But afaik not even BF3 has entirely destructable terrain, there's no way EQN will (and PS2 doesnt have it either, that's the same engine). Terrain overlays and/or phasing tech to give the illusion of temporary terrain changes like they do in current games (EQ2 apparently, GW2 too) is what I expect.
Leashing can be done in a realistic way, like with Tad10's examples. I wrote a post on this 20 pages ago, but the summary is as long as mobs leash/behave differently depending on what they are (animal, guard undead etc) leashing is actually better then a blanket "agro until you zone". Also, I want some animal predator mobs that just laugh at your attempt to outrun them, then chase you and pounce you down, and on the other end of that scale shambling zombies you can run circles around.
Mr Creed
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Not sure if you played EVE. It's really pure FFA as far as PVP goes and not faction-locked. I didnt do any team PVP in EQ but my understanding is they had hard-locked factions like DaoC? That would be quite different from EVE.
tad10
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Never played EVE but I do know it's FFA. I'm just suggesting that if EQN goes EVElike it will go EVElight with soft starting factions to limit PvP ganking in civilized areas: halflings won't be able to gank other halflings. Once you get to 0.0 it's FFA. Hopefully that makes some sense.
However, you may be right, no factions at all - just no PvP allowed in 'civilized' areas.
tad10
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Lenas
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I think 1 thing we can all agree on, even if we disagree on Racial starting areas.
Even if like racial starting areas like most of us do, I will be surprised in this day age they just don't make everyone start in 1 starting area, its a lot less dev time then making and tuning multiply zones as well as balancing them they can just funnel us on 1 path.
I will fucking hate it, to me it makes it way less sandbox, let alone a true everquest sequel but fully expect this shit.
Cheers.
Even if like racial starting areas like most of us do, I will be surprised in this day age they just don't make everyone start in 1 starting area, its a lot less dev time then making and tuning multiply zones as well as balancing them they can just funnel us on 1 path.
I will fucking hate it, to me it makes it way less sandbox, let alone a true everquest sequel but fully expect this shit.
Cheers.
tad10
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I'd bet on a minimum of 3 semi-instanced starting areas: good, bad, neutral. I'll agree there may be a single instanced tutorial area where everyone can start (or skip) to learn basics of the game that then flows into one of the above three starting areas.
tad10
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Early AAs may be necessary/not-necessary-but-very-nice if class jumping is indeed in the game, seems like it would make class jumping more viable? Haven't thought it through really.
hard factions is a deal breaker for me. the faction system in original EQ was perfect. keep it that way.
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People disagree with racial starting areas? I didn't think that was a thing haw. It creates flavor for a class/character and shades your view of the game almost immediately, creating immense replay value. Also: AA being a subset of abilities/stats/character progression that isn't tied directly to the XP bar is ok. EQ2 actually had a decent AA system in from the start. Players who sought out rare mobs in newbie areas were generally rewarded with more aaxp, to the point where they had a real advantage over people who did not. This should be emulated, but modified to exist within the gamespace of today. Tie it into the achievement window (which we all know is going to be in EQ:N) way before it can be a toggle switch regarding how much xp is going to aa or level progression. Empower the people who do all the things, not just some of them.
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I like them, I just don't think they'll be in EQN. It's a lot of work for a limited return. Having three areas you can instance heavily to deal with day one loads makes more business sense, and that's got to be an overriding concern over at SOE.
@etchazz hard factions are unlikely, this is the be all you can be EQ. You want to be a DE Paladin, you can.
Look think all of us on the boards like them here, racial starting areas but they more then likely be either 1 per side or per side with 3rd one for both that is neutral then after EQN is launched in future major content updates or expansions they can add new starting areas ala eq 2 like etc.
I was going to wait an let Big W Powah announce it but it seems you beat us to it. Big W is the site operator for EQN Junkies so if you are interesting in contributing to the site in any fashion, whether it's news, op-eds or if you want to live blog SOE Live if you're gonna be there, contact him with your interest.
I loved mutliple starting areas but always thought it was a waste of dev time. Should just be 3, and have them be cut and paste of each other with different environment. Then at about level 10 or so, it can open up in to a proper open world.