Usually whenever you want to credit Warcraft or Starcraft with something original, you have to first double-check Warhammer and WH40K because it's likely that they are the actual sources. That being said, Blizzard probably picked the "noble savages" orcs idea from someplace else because in Warhammer the ork description ends at 'savage'.
How do you not see this as an issue? So your group spends a few hours working their way down to T5 for the first time but wipe. No problem, we'll just head back down...oh shit. Earthquake! Fuck, now all our progress is wiped out and we have to start from scratch.
I guess I would be ok with that, although I'm worried that what counts as "effort" these days equates to 5 dailies. I'm ok with a dark elf being tolerated in "good" cities if he puts in some work for each of them. But for a dark elf to actually become a knight of truth paladin it should be on the level of getting tormax faction back from max kos and after that reparing your skyshrine faction.
Its only a problem due to your preconceived notions of what wiping entails and what the consequences associated with it is.
Besides Trinity setup? Because it's hard to brainstorm for a class/combat system I might not enjoy.
Excellent post and also a perfect explanation of why EQ favored grouping over individuals (as in WoW etc). Raiding in EQ was as much about managing very large groups of people as it was about knowing your class, if not more so. WoW and its successors are all about getting together a medium to small size group of individuals who can all do the exact same dance moves in time. In WoW you can cut and paste almost anyone into your raid as long as they can memorize the moves. Friends need not apply to your guild in WoW, only the autistic.
what happens if you're in Dragon Necropolis and your raid wipes deep in while another group is on your tail. Now you have to run back, summon corpses and get leapfrogged. What happens if you wiped in Veeshan's Peak and can't recover your corpse? What happens if you wipe in Fear at 3am in the morning and you cant get help recovering your raid? This type of whining is why games suck now
I actually always wanted to. I used to design modules and house rules for RP games at the hobby shop around my house, I even started selling kits for a few rule sets (Not for a profit, just to cover costs of printing ect, after some word of mouth made it so I was getting requests)...It was fun, and I really wanted to do that kind of design in an online RPG setting but the more I read about the industry, the less likely I found that I'd ever be able to break into it--it feels like a very "fall into it" kind of industry, if that makes sense. So I gave up the ghost, went after a degree with a clearer track to a career, and now post here to live out the fantasy vicariously. I'm sure there are at least a dozen in the same boat, in this very thread (But yeah, I wish the path to being a game designer was more solidified when I was in school. I'd have gone for it.)
I think what's cool about this place is a lot of people have strengths/weakness or should I say varying opinions!? in regards to games and their designs so some interesting ideas are always popping up. I always say that I'm totally guilty of spouting out ideas with no regard of how hard they would be to implement lol.
I'm wondering if he has an idea for a MMO and used that as leverage to return for the funding?
He left to come back as king of Trion? That's unexpected. Let's see what he can do, Trion is in a rough spot right now.
Great, Great points.
I think this is the point that people are forgetting about raiding in EQ. Travel was a fucking bitch. If you're on a different continent and can't find a port, you're talking about it taking HOURS to get to the raid. Even if you do get a port, you may die and then you're looking at corpse recovery. Or if not, unless you had JBoots, you were either begging for a SoW, or walking your slow ass to the raid.
Right, there's a difference between running back to a static dungeon and having to discover an entirely new dungeon because the one you were in just vanished.
Georgeson kind of addressed this in a recent interview with EQHammer.
you just described what made EQ awesome and what no other game has been able to replicate.
