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Randin
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And has anyone else noticed all the floating islands appearing in artwork? There's one at the top of that whiteboard drawing of the different tiers in the black box video, and as I recall, the SOE Live presentation had a concept of the Oasis of Marr with a shit ton of floating islands.
Flight mechanics confirmed?
Flight mechanics confirmed?
Big Flex
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Shonuff
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tad10
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They already showed off the glide boots so flight seems likely but the islands are all T3 or above, so going to take a while to get there.
Lithose
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You realize the context of the post string you jumped into, we discussed how inhorizontal games classes are liketools, right? So....I was ACTUALLY correct in my description of what a class was (One minute, I'll quote you where I say classes are like tools in horizontal games). Which is why my post was not "factually incorrect"--because it was right and I was using references from earlier in the conversation.
Context matters. The discussion in the thread reached a point where everyone was in the zone to discusses classes as discreet tools, much like eve ships--and we discussed this because classes are essentially open slots to be outfitted with specific abilities, they are open frames like a mech warrior game (Or like eve?). The word tools comes up in like 10 of my posts, everyone has understood for the last 100 pages the nature of the word class we were using (Except you).
Next time, just get to what you know, and be less interested in making sure everyone knows you played eve and your evaluation of the psychology behind the thread, bro.
I wasn't justifying anything. I was pointing to eve as a system that has no stickyness in what skills you choose, which your entire masturbatory post on the franchise confirmed, while saying I wasn't factually incorrect but didn't understand the intricacies. (okay.) Also, I said multiple times in the post (Three times), knowledge of the game was second hand. I'm not sure why you felt the need to proclaim how you actually played, and I didn't....That's kind of weird.
You realize the developers themselves made these comparisons, right? People just didn't pull them out of their ass.
Also, rational thought on unquantifiable issues, dictates drawing from experience--pretty much every human alive draws on experience to explain things they don't understand when they can't test the subject matter. So if this thread "seems like that", it's because that's "human nature". And this isn't dumb human nature either, it's how we generate theories. Since we essentially got some frame work, some rough ideas and some correlations/comparisons to various other games, like Eve, League ect--that's what we are discussing.
Just quoting this because....I don't know, want to ask what you're on. I said "gear can be lost". There was no question mark. Not sure why you expounded this, but if I sound a BIT defensive in my reply, it's because your entire post is like this--you're jumping in without context of the conversation and then expounding on things that were clear in my post--and ACTUALLY correct. (Like this gear issue.)
Seriously, your whole post felt like this--as if it was some outlet for a fetishistic need to let everyone know about eve, and your experiences, rather than talking about EQnext. Kind of odd, again. Don't get me wrong, loved the eve info--but needed less of this, correcting what wasn't wrong, and more of your theories on eve vs EQN.
Big Flex
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Guys I'm going to pass around this card, everybody sign it and we'll have qwerty deliver it personally.
Lleauaric
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http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QAb5lQ7...%3DQAb5lQ7hzHs
All 10 hidden videos from the app.. Some interesting stuff
All 10 hidden videos from the app.. Some interesting stuff
Thats all part of the tiers thing they've got in the whole game. Both tiers for "leveling" and tiers below and above ground. The islands are suppose to similar to how you can dig down and find tiers below. They also mentioned that they will also have tiers above ground. I was thinking of maybe towers, but I guess floating islands would be one as well.
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Watched the World creation videos. Heals after 5min or so? So its basically static world in what is seen with some destruction but never anything permanent. So once a Rallying Call phase is started it will unlock after its finished building, that will continue to be a permanent structure. Wonder what areas or things will be marked as keepers? Things like bridges, shrines and tunnels.
Waiting for someone to afk or logout in a dugout tunnel they made just to come back to a sealed up spot. Interesting idea on the harvesting!
Waiting for someone to afk or logout in a dugout tunnel they made just to come back to a sealed up spot. Interesting idea on the harvesting!
Lleauaric
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Good Reddit discussion on trinity.
http://www.reddit.com/r/EQNext/comme...y_tactics_101/
Made me think, controllable encounters makes trinity doable... What if in Eq Next that simply doesn't exist. There is no pulling static spawning mobs. Imagine what a fight might look like if it was in real life. Sure.. When its your group vs 1 or 2 enemies, then yea.. You can probably have the tank hold them while you bash... But I'd imagine it gets much more complicated when, as it seems to the norm, you are constantly fighting greater numbers and have continual unpredictable adds in fights.
Wouldn't a smart AI have mobs pursue actions that fit in with their abilities? Rogues are stealthing to the back, casters are attacking from distances, priest mobs are separating, healing and debuffing... Warriors are up front and reacting to players who attack their healers or casters, pretty much what we have been doing. Mobs actions would change not only in response to players, but the classes of the other allies around them, constantly seeking more effective synergy.
Maybe the reason trinity won't work in eqn is for the same reason it doesn't work in PvP.
http://www.reddit.com/r/EQNext/comme...y_tactics_101/
Made me think, controllable encounters makes trinity doable... What if in Eq Next that simply doesn't exist. There is no pulling static spawning mobs. Imagine what a fight might look like if it was in real life. Sure.. When its your group vs 1 or 2 enemies, then yea.. You can probably have the tank hold them while you bash... But I'd imagine it gets much more complicated when, as it seems to the norm, you are constantly fighting greater numbers and have continual unpredictable adds in fights.
Wouldn't a smart AI have mobs pursue actions that fit in with their abilities? Rogues are stealthing to the back, casters are attacking from distances, priest mobs are separating, healing and debuffing... Warriors are up front and reacting to players who attack their healers or casters, pretty much what we have been doing. Mobs actions would change not only in response to players, but the classes of the other allies around them, constantly seeking more effective synergy.
Maybe the reason trinity won't work in eqn is for the same reason it doesn't work in PvP.
Randin
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Well, geography healing rates is one of those things that should be stupidly easy for them to tweak until they hit the sweet spot, so I'm not terribly worried about what they have it set to right now. If they're smart, they'll also try to find away for the game to recognize the difference between incidental damage from a fight, and a purposeful mining operation. So impact craters from a fight can heal relatively quickly, but a proper tunnel might stick around for a day or so.