Recent content by Ninen_foh

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While cut scenes are good (flag them to skippable AFTER the first time through), the answer is clear. *tongue in cheek* Simply make a randomized quiz (say 5 questions out of 20 possible) after each quest text block that needs to be answered to get full exp and loot rewards. Would still be...

If you"re spending 8 hours a day playing 5 hours of single player game and 3 hours of MMOing, how is that any better/worse (to you as an individual) than spending 8 hours of MMOing? 8 hours of gaming is 8 hours of gaming. Of course the Suits in charge want folks to pay for a month and then...

They actually mentioned Grim Batol in a recent interview. Who knows, maybe they got all their coders a new batch of ADHD drugs and/or chained them the fuck down, so they"d work on existing shit rather than chasing the next "Ohh Shiny." More realistically, its probably a matter of not trusting...

Some of the R.A.S. hate comes from how he treats his characters. Some fantasy readers like having the Hero(s) survive and overcome everything. Others love the George R. R. Martin approach where no one"s safe, and everyone can just randomly die. Me, I"m in the first group, I had to give up...

Evasion tanks are simply always in a bad place. If the content is trivial, then it doesn"t matter who tanks, including non-tank classes. If the content is current and/or hard, healers prefer non-evasion tanks due to consistency of incoming damage. The raid prefers non-evasion tanks due to...

Other than the LoLRP reasoning behind it, does it really matter if you"re refilling a bar to 100 (conventional healing), or simply keeping the same bar overfilled (preventive runes/shields/whatever). In one case you"re filling a bar to make sure it doesn"t hit zero. In the later you"re filling a...

Balancing an Ogre dps caster vs an erudite: Erudite plays down whatever path he choses, nuker, doter, pet"er, whatever. Uses talents so that spells get enhanced dmg from their good primary stats. Low hps, cloth armor, standard glass cannon stuff, no surprises here. Ogre plays down same...

I"m not talking about perma death, I"m talking about the very simple ratio between "penalty for dying" and how much you actually give a shit about dieing. And how the players need slapped every once in a while, how they need to NOT get what they want and assume they"ll be given. EQ you gave a...

We"ve kind of gotten past this point in the discussion, but today"s Penny Arcade is just as applicable to MMOs as it is to tabletop D&D. Every MMO needs a Tycho. Penny Arcade! - A Perennial Favorite TLDR: Fear of death/losing is a good thing.

The EXP is shit because you"re gaining character power a different way. The new stance, totem, skill level, whatever. Now maybe the balance was or wasn"t right, but there"s room in games for quests to have alternate rewards.

If this was directed to me, no, I didn"t suggest AAs. I suggested having a high chance at getting a free point of sense heading, intimidate, parry, 2 handed Whalefin Tuna expertise, or whatever.

There are also things you can have bosses "drop" that aren"t loot, that aren"t even applicable to those at the very top of their game, yet would be nice little "everyone wins something" things. What if, on killing Raid_Boss_04, everyone who"s there earns (or has some decent/high percent...

Ahh those days. Even as a rogue I had a *full* suit of +cha gear, just to squeeze those extra copper out of every transaction. 2 fisted mug action ftw!

I may not run Alienware level crazy machines, but due to always loving newish shooters, my machine stays decently upgraded. I"ve almost never turned effects off for lag reasons. To help distinguish person A from person B under all the crazy glows, sure; and other tactical reasons. I pity...