Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

So this has basically been 8 years of theorycrafting and a bunch of nerds treating this like a hobby and not a business?

Anyone who donated money to this, without even seeing it get out of pre-Alpha first, was really just paying to support the MMO development version of a bunch of stoner nerds playing D&D in their parents basement.

Most of us don't even care about the "Vision", or any of the game's design or details, because none of that matters if Visionary Realms is still just spinning their tires and going nowhere. But they're still trying to sell the game like it's 2013.

Lunis said:

Unless we have concrete examples of what we're talking about here then it's just gamedev speak. Brad was very adamant about things such as no maps, especially dungeon maps. Has this changed?

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We have decided on a map topography that will also have a fog of war but no mini map. The alternative was hitting the sense direction button over and over and leveling it to an integer of 255 so you knew which way was north - but we have gone well beyond that bit limitation now with the glory of Unity and have much more room for growth! We will have more detail on how the map topography works with a useless fog of war (We wanted to win a "Unique with Unity" contest as it gave us an extra grand to put towards our Netflix subscriptions) in 2025.

Lunis said:

I'm more interested in the flow of grouping. You had mostly camps in EQ, but mostly dungeon crawling in Vanguard. Where does Pantheon lie on that spectrum?

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As you can see from our gameplay videos, we have NPC enemies standing in groups doing absolutely nothing with the occasional NPC path'd to walk through pull lines to mess up your pull and confuse the mezzer. We feel this presents significant challenge and will result in a heart pounding experience when someone yells "ADD!!!!"

Lunis said:

It sounds more and more like you are going with experience debt as opposed to flat xp loss. The big question is will your equipped gear be on your corpse or not?

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This is still under debate across all the MMORPG forums we are monitoring since 2001. (With the same people posting the same theory crafting driv... ideas) With that said, danger is subjective, although I have fond memories of waiting outside a zone line for 12 hours hoping someone would come in and save our stuff while chowing down super mom gas station sandwiches. Stay tuned - more to come. Also, if interested, we will incorporate a part of your idea if you donate to us - stay tuned for more details as we develop the process for that - ETA 2024.

Lunis said:

What I want to know is what a typical raid night for an average guild will look like. Modern WoW or FFXIV you have essentially infinite pulls with minimal downtime & use of consumables -it's purely a gear and skill check. For EQ or even vanilla WoW it was everything that came before the pull that made it difficult, the mechanics themselves were not very challenging. What is your guys vision for raiding?

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As you can see from our fantastic grouping mechanics, we fully intend to understand that our target player base has gotten much older. We will take out those confusing macros, add an auto attack button and allow you to select 3 presets for special abilities (Which we still need to create) in a raid zone (Which is 50% completed in artwork via a 64 pack of Crayons) so you can firmly plant the raid boss (It's a naked human right now - more to come) in a corner so when you fall asleep after dinner you can wake up in the morning and be treated with the "Stay Awake you old fart" challenge (This actually comes with a title, for donators only) to see who gets all the loot. Basically we feel there is nothing more challenging than staying awake since by the time this comes out you will be playing this from an assisted living center. Imagine waking up, taking your blood pressure medicine, and at the same time rolling your wheelchair as fast as you can back to the computer to see if you are the only one moving around while everyone else is at a standstill and a raid boss laying there with 5 pieces of glowing loot all around - knowing you beat everyone else. Ninja loot that shit and get outta there, while at the same time causing a train for the competing assisted living center down the road. More to come on this in 2052. Yes, we do have some ideas for those with electric wheelchairs which can be modded to move faster than those poors who have to use their arms to push themselves. We are working on how to combat that now in our accessibility design phase.

Convo said:

I miss my UTbro tho

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You too buddy