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Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Khane
Got something right about marriage
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There are a variety of posts before that doubting the kickstarter. So no, you don't get a cookie.Rerolled
A few hours after the Kickstarter launched, when the honeymoon had just started and people were blindly pledging. The moment I had seen that video I went from a "Cool, Brad is giving it another go" to "umm, no".
THAT'S RIGHT, I WAS THE FIRST TO DOUBT THIS ABOMINATION OF A KICKSTARTER!
Can I have my cookie now?
Pretty easy to appear organized with a team of 45-60 and $150 million, including all the infrastructure, server farms, and a giant fucking company backing you up. Not defending Brads total incompetence, but not jumping up and down patting ponytail on the back either.~6 months ago everyone thought Dave Georgeson was a slimy snake oil salesman and we were eagerly awaiting Brad's announcement
how times have changed
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They just posted a map of the first (only for now) continent.http://www.pantheonrotf.com/public/a..._map_final.jpg
Looks a lot more professional than some of the stuff they put out before. I would not complain if the cloth map ended up looking like that.
Looks a lot more professional than some of the stuff they put out before. I would not complain if the cloth map ended up looking like that.
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September - March. Sure feels like 7 months worth of work right there.
I like how it's everquest zones with one word changed around to make it different. Everfrost Peaks is totally different from Frostfael Peaks herd derp high fantasy means I don't have to try.
Quaid
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I dunno man, the Isle of Yvyll (pronounced E-VIL I assume) kinda tickles my pickle.
Where did they say that they were working on the map since September? I highly doubt they had even the info for this map back then.
Map looks nice, call a spade a spade man.
Quaid
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Vandyn
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Eh, I'll give them credit. It's one of the few things they've put out that actually looks good. It's just a shame how it took 6 months to produce that. I think the big challenge will be fitting in enough 1-50 content into a small world (especially if leveling will be slow) where it won't get boring after a while. At least in EQ you had choices on where to level.
September - March. Sure feels like 7 months worth of work right there.
I like how it's everquest zones with one word changed around to make it different. Everfrost Peaks is totally different from Frostfael Peaks herd derp high fantasy means I don't have to try.
Ha yes, Skyfen Mountains does remind me of Skyfire Mountains.
Even so, this is a nice map. I like maps with lots of mountainranges, lakes, lagunes and islands. I am missing the rivers but I guess they will be added.
There is one interesting feature that caught my eye: there seems to be a huge dropoff from the area where the Lost Lake is, to the large peninsula in the South-East. As if the entire land just sunk 2 miles and left a huge cliff. Reminds me of a few Science Fiction stories that had this. At the edge of the cliff you would then find huge, horse-powered lifts that would lower you down 2 miles to the land below. So that could be cool.
Do not worry, not a dime. But that does not mean I can not oogle their map.
Even so, this is a nice map. I like maps with lots of mountainranges, lakes, lagunes and islands. I am missing the rivers but I guess they will be added.
There is one interesting feature that caught my eye: there seems to be a huge dropoff from the area where the Lost Lake is, to the large peninsula in the South-East. As if the entire land just sunk 2 miles and left a huge cliff. Reminds me of a few Science Fiction stories that had this. At the edge of the cliff you would then find huge, horse-powered lifts that would lower you down 2 miles to the land below. So that could be cool.
Do not worry, not a dime. But that does not mean I can not oogle their map.
This?https://s3.amazonaws.com/ksr/assets/...png?1388995319
Came a long way and I assume it's just one person working on this.
Quaid
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As someone who is kinda dorky and likes designing fantasy world maps (cough), I must say, theirs is quite well done. There is clearly some well developed lore and backstory already fleshed out, evidence of which can be seen in the map.
Ex. The opposing cities on the shores of the lost lake. I'm going to assume they will be opposing factions of the same race as well (cities have linguistically similar names). It'll be very visually interesting if you can stand in the middle of that lake and see both cities.
The zone choke points that I can make out are gonna make for interesting travel if they don't trivialize it. World just looks like it has a good flow.
Ex. The opposing cities on the shores of the lost lake. I'm going to assume they will be opposing factions of the same race as well (cities have linguistically similar names). It'll be very visually interesting if you can stand in the middle of that lake and see both cities.
The zone choke points that I can make out are gonna make for interesting travel if they don't trivialize it. World just looks like it has a good flow.
Soygen
The Dirty Dozen For the Price of One
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Unfortunately, Merlin thought Vanguard was great, so the irony will be lost on him.that sounds familiar
Dave "appears" organized because he actually is organized.
SoE is more organized now in large part because they fired much of the dead weights, incompetents, and flotsam that were still hanging around the place...
Convo
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Most of the people let go were just on old games with low numbers. They were more guilty for not trying to move to new projects.
They were on old games with low numbers (like Vanguard) for a reason. And if they had amazing engineering, art, design or management talent they would have been coveted by SoE and moved to new projects. Yes, its a cheap shot at the current Pantheon team, but its still a valid one imo.
I saw some guy with a Twitter name that was identical (Yvyll) interacting with Tony about that isle a few days back. Tony had tweeted some whiteboard drawing with that isle or something. Maybe Yvyll is one of their heavier investors.