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This is so true. Remind me again - you"re the same guy that said, a year ago, that leveling in WoW is much easier than in EQ ? And now your quitting those chars a year later with most of them in their mid 40"s ? You never will. Honestly. The thing is, Sam, you are looking for an, "I win"...

I"m pretty sure this isn"t the sort of quest drop Ngruk was outlining. Sounded more dynamic or branching. If it was part of a system that, i) was fun and, ii) couldn"t be easily spoilered all over the web, it would be a huge leap forward for MMO"s. This kind of thinking would also...

Danuser is so going to kick your arse.

While we"re on loot, can you 38S guys please make sure the in game freebies for the CE are actually meaningful. Anarchy Online founders got this backpack (with stats !!) that is, to this day, one of the rarest items in the game, because it"s still so special. Doesn"t need to be game breaking...

Well said. Guild app denied, though. Your charisma blows goats.

EQ raid loot dropped like candy when starting out ? Most of the people here were in leading edge guilds. Raiding was wiping all night, every night, for weeks, learning strats against mostly broken, cock block content. GoD was worse, because it was designed and balanced for level 70 players...

Please include options to just grind mobs rather than questing all the time. Playing EQ1 again the last couple of months its amazing how much I don"t miss doing any quests. At all. Not even a little bit. Thnx

Are you guys using v2.0 with NVIDIA PhysX ?

+90 Intranetz to anyone who designs a whole UI dedicated to Sam hunting.

You"ve obviously learned two things in your year in WoW. Jack and shit. ..............

You can boost to mid to upper 60"s. Under two hours 15 mins per char to lvl 60. As I"ve previously said, 30 characters to lvl 60 within a week - comfortably. Your chars are mostly lvl 45-46 after a year ? Rest of post deleted - decided to save myself some time and go talk to my 18 month...

Yeah but he still hasn"t figured out that Dr00ds and Hunters get Tracking, prolly THE most useful PvP skillzor. I"m betting he has never even seen the skill in action and doesn"t realize how shit hot it is compared to tracking in EQ. F***, s**t b****cks, ****, ****, b*****d. I wasn"t going...

The big problem with gold farmers these days is that they establish themselves very quickly in new games. They control the economy and make it very hard for the folks who don"t buy items/in game cash. I"d suggest it would be worthwhile considering having no auction house facility in new...

Look, stop being a fucking Dilbert. Stop throwing theory crafting around against people who have done it. How the fuck are you going to put totems down once you are feared ? Your toons all run off in different directions, with no control over what they are doing. You need to use an item to...

Do you even have a clue what you are posting ? You realize you are total backing up what people are saying to you ? I"ve boxed 5 Demo (that"s Demonologist spec fyi) "locks, so I know a little about that they are capable of. I know the difference the "locks gear makes to their pets power...

Honest to fuck Sam, there are dozens and dozens of different abilities and situations you aren"t considering. I look forward to screenshots of the first time your Paladin gets Mind Controlled (think charm, except the opponent can use your abilities) or your toons all get feared, near a cliff...

Draeg is spot on here. We could all outline ideas for a a half dozen different crafting systems, but without putting it into the context of every other part of the game we are just discussing our personal preferences. So, having said that, I get heavily into crafting in whatever game I"m...

No you didn"t, you fucking gimp. How you have the stupidity to claim that as your idea is beyond me.

I have to admit, that time frame is looking realistic.

Yeah, they actively sought us and the other top guilds out and approached us to be a part of it. It was interesting because we were working with both the EQ and the WoW devs. The difference between the two organizations was very obvious - both sets of devs were talented, creative and likeable...

A few people have referred to vanilla WoW beta. To put that into perspective I"m going to re-post the following numbers : I keep a record of all sorts of stuff. This is my personal record of how many players there were, by class and side in WoW beta shortly before it was unleashed on the...

That and, in case anyone missed it (from 10 months ago) :

To put this (nearly year old) thread into context - NiB has a lot to answer for Sam HAS learned somethings about Wow To put into Context just how long ago it was : Erronius underlined our luff for Zarc : Spronk reminds us how it all started : And, from that link, the...

The point is you are making it much harder than it needs to be. Such a place doesn"t exist outside of instances. By design. Take peoples advice and change your whole approach. In fact, if I were you I"d consider bining the present set up and start from scratch, with the exception of your Mages...

There are two issues being debated. To underline them : 1. Betas, historically, have been massively counter productive due to the mentality, expectations and application of the testers. 2. QA process development - including community involvement - in the industry has been extremely poor...

Darn it, Sam. 10 months to get to Winterspring ! You know you can do that in a day 5 boxing ? You"re in for a big shock post lvl 60. The game is much less multiboxing friendly, XP wise, outside of instances, plus it takes so much more to level anyways. Those mobs aren"t elite any more.

Well said. The other problem is that the vast majority of players and fans either do not understand what a beta should be or do not approach it the right way. Its all about getting an advanced preview, playing for free and gaining competitive advantage. All said and done, yes, games need...

I got 20 bucks says they don"t have a beta process resembling anything like that which we are used to. The whole "Beta" thing just has so many drawbacks and not much good going for it. The interesting thing is going to be the release schedule. There"s no major MMO due out in the next year...

Copyright Sam Deathwalker ? You cheeky bastard. to you and everyone else in this very thread. And you don"t stop at 30; you stop at 30.99 as you can only grant 29 levels, as I wrote there.

Sam, you seriously need to take some advice, mate. I"ve RAF"ed well over 30 characters, so what I"m suggesting is from experience, not theory. The point I want to make to you is for post lvl 60/61. 61-70, then 70-80 takes so much longer than previous levels that it makes the debate about...

When that vid was first posted in this thread I said I was chewing some things over about it and would post on it - I"m still chewing it over. I"ll say this though for now - it reinforces everything I"ve said about best practise and the culture of organisations. Mike Capps is obviously a...

Sam, wake up man. Seems the large scale multi boxers are messing up on the strengths of RAF. Link all accounts 1- > 2 -> 3..... -> 30 Level all to 40; level first account to 60 then use the boost levels to get all your accounts to 60. Unless boosted levels chain (ie for every 2 levels...

I"ve always believed Brett Close is a MASSIVE "asset" as far as 38S are concerned - moreso even than Curt, Todd or RA. More to come from me on that when I"m done chewing some things over, including the IGDA forum (yeah another multi-part, epic, QA and ethos in the industry post inc from Flight -...

Thanks for that Tec, I found it so interesting I sat through the whole thing - sadly it was gone 3am when I clicked the link, so I"ll put some of the thoughts I have on it down sometime after I"ve had some sleep (its now 4.55am

This is my problem, with regards to the demands I make on myself rather than on people working for me. Looking after my people is my biggest priority, but I"ll constantly push myself to the limit and beyond (not a good thing).

No disrespect to any of those people, but I live in the UK and I"ve never heard a single one of them. (I"m in no way playing down their reputations - I"m sure they are hugely respected people who have achieved a lot). I never heard of Curt Schilling the sports legend, I learned about Curt...

What Curt is saying is exactly what his company had to say when asked to comment : There are a lot of art assets displayed for the Ascendant game, even a trailer, along with the source for the above article at Kotaku. It would be remiss of 38S to not assess this opportunity. In an...

Like you Rayne, I adored that aspect of AO. And, yes, it absolutely was part of the game and class design. I agree with what you are saying - that to wring every last ounce out of the stat system required a fair bit of thought, stacking buffs that allowed you to use other buffs etc, then...

The reason people bitched about ToS"es wasn"t anything to do with their healing, it was simply that they could do more DPS than the "Wizard" class (Demonologist) - though specifically in PvE, not PvP. The thing is that all the classes outlined above - and many more - really come into...

Some of those things are true, though not all of them. The point is that the only thing that separates those games from EQ is a design decision to not include a dedicated healer as a required class. However, each of those games has encounters which are on par with boss mobs in DIKU MMOs...