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In other news, it sure looks like it"s easier to pitch in the National League than the American. Any truth to that ?

The fewer tanks, the better. 2 is more than enough. With dps and healers you can have more because there are more "types" of healers and dps as some have stated. Backstabbing rogue or fireballing mage. Big single target heals or HoTs. With tanks, if you try and balance them to where its...

I really prefer the classes to be unique like in EQ and have say 10-12 to start. I know that I would prefer to have say a shadow priest class and a healing priest class over what WoW does which is combine the 2. I think there is a sweet spot in the amount of classes there should be without...

I know Im old school but I always liked killing trash in PoF and PoH, HoTesting, etc because the trash could drop loot that was a step up from what you could get before. Also, is there any chance of group exp being just as meaningful as solo questing? In that same vein, any chance to have...

Any chance you have a "weather" team? Id sure like to see thunderstorms building in the distance complete with thunder and lightning and then move in to certain areas, among other things. Can that be done yet or are we still like a decade off ? Also, the WoW model but with realistic graphics...

I"ll take EQ with tons of quests and instances or WoW with grouping as a viable means of exping and camps plz. ...and my idea for a Lufia 2 style 100 level dungeon.

Can we at least say "fast combat" > "slow combat" ? Not so much for the actual gameplay decision but for the enormity of the idea. This idea wasted 1 year of developement because Brad was too egotistical and stubborn to realize. Please understand too that most of us followed Vanguard from...

Who the hell would ever do something like that ?

I still want my 100 level dungeon from Lufia 2 and have that as an instance in an MMO. Its one of the cooler ideas of any RPG I have ever played.

I know Ngruk knows this but I will say it anyway. Gameplay >>>>>>Graphics Not saying you cant have both but at the very least, make this game fun.

Perhaps I should have just put a big smiley at the end of my last post. I really didn"t think you would be working for Curt based on posting on his thread.

So can I assume that since Scott posted in Curt"s thread that he will be lead designer for 38 studios ?

So if you had 100 people making an MMO, what would the average breakdown be? 1 CEO 10 designers ? 40 coders? 20 engineers? 20 artists? 9 QA ?

What do senior engineers do in the gaming world again ?

Im sure this has been discussed in the other 182 pages but has Curt talked about acquiring say Speedtree or Unreal 2.5/3.0 ? Anything of that nature yet ? Or is he building everything from the ground up >?