krysanth
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If it's in fact one starting city, I feel assured in saying EverQuest shipped with more content at launch than EQN will, despite a much lower budget and less dev costs.
Progress, my friends, progress.
Progress, my friends, progress.
Abefroman
Naxxramas 1.0 Raider
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Do you honestly think you would feel the same way today? I felt that also in EQ, a lot of it though was the newness of the internet and realizing that was another human being somewhere in the world. The magic isn't there for me anymore and it has nothing to do with game design.
Quaid
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Big Flex
Fitness Fascist
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If T2 (sea level) has 8 newbie towns i wouldn't care, as T1, T3, and T4 leaves alot of exploration room.
I remember being in Rivervale on my Halfling Warrior the day after launch and saw a woodelf bard and had no idea wtf it was, that was cool, much cooler than a troll shaman, elf wizard, and human monk all running after the same decaying skeleton right off the bat.
Drakurii
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More starting cities doesn't mean more content, lets wait and see what the entire world of vanilla EQN offers before we make blanketed statements.
Dr Neir
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If you target me and hit /q, it will open the target's quest and you can get something!
You can only do that soo many times before they get pissed at you thinking its a bad connection.
Big Flex
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"Hail young adventurer! Target me and type /ex and I will impart some of my experience upon you to level up!"
Easy solution to having multiple cities (if they are willing to make the lore fit):
Source that shit out through Landmark. I mean, of course they already said its so fun to build stuff that everyone, even people who were not level designers and artists, were loving trying to one-up one another.
Contest: Build the ogre bank!
Contest: Build the ogre guild hall!
Contest: Build the ogre "tavern!"
Have someone with a brain lay them out and populate them with whatever this game's cities are populated with and be done with it. "It's too much work" should not be an excuse in this game, when players creating content is the lynch-pin of the whole thing. If the only type of stuff flowing from Landmark into EQN is stuff like statues in the Feerrott, then that is a failure.
Source that shit out through Landmark. I mean, of course they already said its so fun to build stuff that everyone, even people who were not level designers and artists, were loving trying to one-up one another.
Contest: Build the ogre bank!
Contest: Build the ogre guild hall!
Contest: Build the ogre "tavern!"
Have someone with a brain lay them out and populate them with whatever this game's cities are populated with and be done with it. "It's too much work" should not be an excuse in this game, when players creating content is the lynch-pin of the whole thing. If the only type of stuff flowing from Landmark into EQN is stuff like statues in the Feerrott, then that is a failure.
Teekey
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Yeah, but you're never going to feel that way in any game, anymore. So I don't think they should try to design around trying to create that feeling, and inevitably failing.
I thought the whole point of the no levels thing was that they weren't trying to make a 'leveling game' and 'end game'. They just want there to be the game. Putting some big emphasis on multiple starting zones seemingly detracts from that. The whole goal should be to get you out exploring the world, and not forcing you into a little 'noob' area.
Cities full of NPCs you'll never bother with isn't the result of multiple starting cities, it's the result of bad design. There will be more than 1 city in EQN, the question is whether or not players can start in those cities.
tad10
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Static content, maybe. Total content, no. There's a tone of diabloesque procedural content.
Teekey
Mr. Poopybutthole
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Sure it will be. I don't suspect I'll make more than 1 character as there's absolutely no need. You can call it lazy design, but why create multiple starting cities, zones, experiences, etc when their entire game design makes the reuse of 'noob' content obsolete?
They're supposedly returning back to the land after generations of being in Kunark. Doesn't really make sense for them to have gone out and conquered the entire continent already. Makes more sense to have 1 starting/main city, then smaller outposts in the frontier.
This was posted on massively, I'm not sure where this comes from though:http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/08...idbits-from-s/
The article implies it came from an interview at SOE Live. Seems fishy though as they specifically stated they weren't going to say more than that they were leaning toward either multiple starting cities or a single starting city. I'll be shocked if it ends up being this rallying call starting location.
Teekey
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I think they did a lot of interviews at PAX as well as SOE Live, but wouldn't let them release them until SOE Live. They might not have said some stuff at SOE Live because they were giving the 'exclusives' to the various media websites, as well.