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PvPers are DayZ players.

Eh, if you get a permanent regen bonus just for being a certain race, then hell yes there should be a penalty. I wasn't playing at a terribly high level when EQ first came out, but I do recall that having a gnome/dark elf warrior was the kiss of death; they didn't get the racial bash, and ogres...

Not much of that is untrue of vanilla WoW.

My point is, go play eqmac and see if you still feel they are very similar. They both are fantasy, have swords and shields...tons of similarities, but the similarities are minor details. The "basic design" is not the same. I want to be clear that I am not saying one is better than the...

I guess I don't see it. I'm playing eqmac, getting punched in the dick repeatedly, and even that is a pretty tame representation of how things were in the early years. No death penalty (up to level 7 so far), no meditating while staring at the book.. Even without all that, it's still way...

It must have meant something to you for it to cause such a reaction 13 years later. My most fond memory of WoW was circling the burning steppes, mining and PvPing anyone and everyone that was farming/mining the circumference of the zone. I was a sword-spec arms warrior, before they nerfed the...

Nah, I don't think Eve will ever blow up in subs, simply because of it's setting. "You" aren't really you in that game; there's way too much separation from your character and yourself. Only the most dedicated (to that game) or most hardcore role players can form a strong attachment to a...

I won't pretend like I remember if false floors counted at traps, but rogues had detect & disarm trap skills. Things may not have been lined up perfectly, but that basic trap sysem was accounted for with in-game skills.

I have no clue what the game will or will not have; I'm in the wait-and-see crowd. I am waiting to give my mmo money to someone, though.

That's very different, though. That encourages staying in and committing to an area to make your grind a little more efficient..it gives the content [that we don't want to burn through in a few months] some longevity. Killing 20 goblins in one area, 20 kobolds in the adjacent area, 20...

You should kill 20 goblins because you a) feel like it or b) they give some anti goblin/pro gnome faction. It shouldn't be because you just happened to walk onto some particular magic goblin hill. That is speeding the game up for absolutely no reason whatsoever.

I think my main beef with f2p is that things that are desirable are held out for the sole purpose of selling it as an individual feature/item. Like, that isn't mutually exclusive to the design stage. Make something awesome for the game. "Do we want to add this for free, or sell it for $3 per...

I gave rift $25 for the storm legion souls, hoping it would cause me to want to play more than 3 weeks, but it didn't work. I have no doubt the f2p/p2w model is making more than subs. I haven't played a non-sub game that I enjoyed long-term or cared about, so whether its fair or not I hear...

That's the problem with trying to design games to have an infinite life cycle out of the gate; it immediately devolves into a diablo-esque loot system, +x to all stats, from low levels on. And that's not to say that's the wrong way to design a game to last. The problem is, it devalues...

The way I see it, if this is a problem the game is experiencing some level of success. Back on Rallos Zek, just getting the few no-drop items that existed was something to work towards, so that you could have equipment in more slots that you didn't risk losing if you were ganked out in the...

Did anyone else have issues getting this to run on anything other than 800x600? Tried a variety of compatibility modes, eqw/eqclient ini tweaks, running as admin, etc. Edit: Nevermind, got it.

Are you referring to item durability? Resilience in wow was resistance vs. players. To be fair, all sides of that argument involve the same game.

IIRC, Rallos Zek had an open loot system restricted to one item. It worked out well early but the shift towards No-drop items took a lot away from it. Some mix of the FV/RZ pve loot system, maybe with a delay when unequipping an item, could work. If there's no risk on a PvP server then it need...

Pretty sure this is calling for trainable mobs. Yes, please.

That would be some hardcore "The Realm" shit. People would be begging for an exp-loss-only death penalty if this were the case. @ Sylas: that sounds quite palatable.

The entire game is a competiton; you are always going to compare the state of your character to those above and below you. Whether you can fight other people directly to this end is irrelevant.

Like, that IS competing. And losing.

As much as not having them appears to suck on paper, instances are one of the main offenders of pushing the consumption rate of content up way faster than can be controlled by developers. The fact that someone can't get a group together to get achanceof getting [insert contested desirable item...

I played Rift recently and felt like there weren't many decisions to be made. I had 20 abilities on my hotbars, 10 of which were condensed into a couple of macros. I didn't have to travel, so I didnt have to decide if traveling faster mattered to me. I didn't have to decide if one class was...

All this does is force the KEI bot to eat up a group slot. The worthwhile buffs lasting more than an hour was fine. I'd rather pay some stranger or hassle my friends in town to get a buff that would let me go do something faster/easier/at all and not have to bring them along, personally...