Abefroman
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They should be able to afford it if they don't do seamless since its like eleventy billion dollars for that.
Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO
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Elisha Dushku
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KCXIV
Molten Core Raider
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Yeah, when VG first launched, my friend was in the 30's i believe his character dissapeared. I think there was a thing on that for a bit. We did petitions and no response at all. I messaged Brad on here and asked him if he can help. The very Next day, Brad replied on the FOH board in PM's and said Fixed it for ya! Tell the guy sorry.
Brads a good dude, he just got caught up in stuff. It happens.
So excited to hear this. Please keep that philosophy.
One mechanic often overlooked in modern games is negative modifiers, such as trolls being weak vs fire. Modern games are nothing but +bonuses on everything, from racial traits to gear. I encourage you in your overall design to leverage this, as it really adds a certain realism to the world: make people choose worthwhile trade-offs.
If you keep this in mind in terms of overall design, there's lots of things you can explore, such as picking a troll that worships the god of fire, for example, which would offset the negative modifier vs fire with a +bonus to it.
Please make us make worthwhile choices.
Budos
Golden Knight of the Realm
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Just make it so mobs drop mats instead of full on items, let say a skeleton has a shiny blade with which he proceeds and tries to beat on you with. After his death he will drop a mangled chunk of iron with some magical properties to it. Which then you can use to make something nice...
Changing the subject a bit, I really think that people will be pleasantly surprised to see the interest spike in this game because of its hardcore design...
I would not mind dishing out a 1k if I like what I see and some cool stuff is thrown in I wont say no to it...
Ukerric
Bearded Ape
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They speed up content consumption by a factor that is out of whack with their apparent utility.
Witness the problem Blizzard is having, right now, with regard of limiting their use during the levelling process because the ultra-fast WoW levelling is made even faster with it and even they realize it is a problem. And they face a backlash because they've trained their users to expect flying ability all the time, everywhere, and those players resent when they get that ability taken away.
The good solution, right now, is the WOW fly-path / DAOC horse-path that drops you in the zone you're looking for, then you hoof it to your current point of interest. Alternatively, and to keep an EQesque feeling, you'd use the GW2 system, scaled back: Find a zone's Wizard Spires, "touch" them, and you can now recall to that zone when needed. Anything that lets you go ultra fast from capital to the exact quest point is nice feeling, but bad for gameplay dynamic (see Dungeon TP).
Flight path or horses are preferable to instant port. Instant port makes the world feel just as small as flying mounts. Gw2, eq2, rift all used ports and it made those worlds feel tiny and disconnected. Don't discount the time factor of a long flight path taking awhile making the world feel large vs instant port.
Flipmode
EQOA Refugee
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EQOA used coach paths similar to flight paths. You had to make the run to grab all your coaches and even then they weren't always close to where you wanted to go. That's acceptable to flying mounts, IMO.
I don't want travel to be so fast that one guild can monopolize all contested content across the entire continent or multiple continents/planes.
I don't want travel to be so fast that one guild can monopolize all contested content across the entire continent or multiple continents/planes.
Whidon
Blackwing Lair Raider
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So how big does everyone think the potential audience for this is?
I was skeptical but seeing the response on this board a bit of other media to essentially nothing... Also I told a few old RL friends who played EQ with me, one actually shared our accounts so we could keep up with the raid scene despite HS. I was kinda surprised how enthused they both were despite neither playing any MMOs since 07-08, both said they would put in enough to get into the early beta at least...
I was skeptical but seeing the response on this board a bit of other media to essentially nothing... Also I told a few old RL friends who played EQ with me, one actually shared our accounts so we could keep up with the raid scene despite HS. I was kinda surprised how enthused they both were despite neither playing any MMOs since 07-08, both said they would put in enough to get into the early beta at least...
Ukerric
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A challenging crafting system can be challenging across three separate axis:
- It is difficult to acquire recipes
- It is difficult to acquire craft materials
- It is difficult to execute recipes
And the last axis doesn't mean "I have a whack-a-mole mini-game each time I craft an axe's head" (cough, EQ2). The difficulty can come from a variety of environmental/pre-requisites to execution (a Stick of Truth can only be assembled in the depths of the Dungeon of Doom, and the runes at the entrance of the instance, decoded using the Codex of Truthiness, tell you which room after the last boss is the correct one. No codex? Better bring three times the craft materials and hope you get the right one the first time).
(and the chief consequence you need to remember: any "good" and "challenging" craft system will lead to most players not being crafters)
Ukerric
Bearded Ape
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Yea. Have a small team spend a lot of money churning out 40 different looking mounts. Sounds like a plan.
Mr Creed
Too old for this shit
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Diablo had it right: Warrior, rogue, mage is all you need, the rest is fluff (Screw D&D with their 4th pillar cleric stuff).
Where do we stand on prestige classes that you open through gameplay? Too close to EQN? Too much like AD&D? Or could be something to look into?
Ukerric
Bearded Ape
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If you want people of the same classes play differently, then the solution is simple: have obtaining the "perfect build" be difficult/long. There's a perfect build, but you need 200 hours of specific dungeons and questing and raids to obtain every skills in that build. So, what are you going to use in the meantime?
(the AC1 solution to that isn't a good one. The idea was that, the more a skill was used in the world, the less efficient it became. Did not work)
Three years out and your already trying to put us wizzys and druids out of business with alternate means of travel. Not nice dude, not nice.
I can go along with that so long as the results of the time and effort put into crafting are worth it.
Bruman
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I wouldn't mind instancing if it was restricted to raid content.
But no story instances, no starting in an instance, and for the love of baby jesus, no instanced group content. Let dungeons be dungeons. If there's an instance to go into the big dragon room at the end? Then fine, I'll deal if it keeps from the P99 raid drama.
But no story instances, no starting in an instance, and for the love of baby jesus, no instanced group content. Let dungeons be dungeons. If there's an instance to go into the big dragon room at the end? Then fine, I'll deal if it keeps from the P99 raid drama.