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I finally actually read all of your post - eh, that'd be interesting, but I don't see how they do it without a lot of instancing. -_-

Lol. I would do it slightly differently: Open forums (all to see) but you had to donate at least 25 to ks to post. Also allows for additional funding from new posters as the game gets wider press.

The timing fits: Fukushimas radioactive ocean plume due to reach US waters in 2014 - NBC News.com Just a few weeks early.

Pretty much this. I'm cool with getting rare drops/abilities by dungeon delving. Not cool if it means I'm stuck at level 10 until I can get a group on the weekend to go into instanced dungeon X get the achievement 'killed the goblin king' and then get to level to 11.

It's tough being so right, while living in such a wrong-headed world with folks like you Araysar - folks who can't see the forest, the trees or even the little rolling hills with the little sheep on them.

Pshaw. More like 1859. Steam Power and Telegraph. You're just pissed you're going to be losing your wifi.

I don't see it happening unless the population only supports a single server. / A buddy of mind did point out a problem with Brad's 'must finish X dungeon to level up' system - it restricts leveling freedom. In VG and EQ you can pick your spot to level up in, which can be handy if common...

I note that Brad hasn't answered the instanced vs. non-instanced question...

Health officials respond to beach radiation scare - Half Moon Bay Review : News Not as scary as red-painted utensils, apparently deadlier even than bananas. Fukushima wastewater has hit California Beaches, as expected. Anyway, Araysar will be happy to know that the Government is on the job!

Your fault for starting the thread. No good deed goes unpunished, and etc.

Virtual groups. Nice. I assume a raid healer can setup a virtual group of all tanks/off-tanks.

Hahaha. Pay to vote. $1 per vote or more ;-) Make them show you the money. Interesting way to monetize development.

Yes VG Offensive/Defensive Targeting is the right thing to do (tm). But I'd still play the game if it was old-school EQ combat instead.

Spot on. If you allow voting you'll get an Edsel.

All I want from the KS is the baseline of the game: -Is it level based or something else. -AA's or something else -Will combat have ot/dt or something else. -Instanced or non-instanced content. -Expected leveling curve. -Solo content % v. Group content %.

Nah. Just make your game. You can't please everybody, so you got to please yourself. It's not that we're not on the same page, we're not reading the same book there are differences at the "Level" vs "No-Levels/Skill based" and "Instancing" vs. "Non-instancing" design level.

Eat away. From Nov 2012, things haven't gotten better.

As long as you can't use the mount until you get an equivalent speed mount in-game and then trade it in, I'm cool with this.

Housing plots if there is non instanced housing. Mainly because I would prefer no RMT for anything and the game be funded by ks and paid alpha/beta, however I don't care about housing personally but know other people go nuts for it. 100.00 for a plot by a lake with a cherry tree

I can see you still didn't actually read the article. Nice.

Yeah, my article is a little more recent then yours. Probably should have read it before cut and pasting.

Risk of supervolcano eruption big enough to far greater than thought, say scientists - Science - News - The Independent So no Yellowstone supervolcano eruption for at least a decade. Good news!

It was a good feature, and actually solved Kruegen's "I Hate AA" problem. IIRC, it was basically a sort of AA system - except you didn't buy it, kill 200 spiders and you'd get the +%damage to spider achievement. Then you could slot the achievements - so you didn't get AA bloat. I think at...

Prove me wrong buddy.

Project Eternity: An old school RPG trying do its own thing. Anyway, NewCo is going to get a lot more mileage and money trying to recreate some of that old-school experience than otherwise. Which is why @Convo I believe they have to do mostly non-instanced (inworld) dungeons and why...

No it isn't.

I like this. I think it's a nice way to combine AAs with Leveling and it leads to theorycrafting which Draegen wants (what AAs is the optimal build for a leveling X, yada yada yada), while preventing the 'I done fucked up' issue someone was saying. So you didn't do the optimal, Run 3 AA at...

What did Fukushima do to Patrick Star

This is always going to happen in any system. Again look at MTG - which is a classic leveless game (and which is an inspiration for EQN so that's why it is relevant to a discussion on MMO). I agree with Hachima that people chase items (as well as levels), so even if EQN was perfectly flat (one...

No. The raid guilds who could clear the old content are already chasing the carrot of the new content without need for the gear reset. All the gear reset does is screw over family guilds that couldn't clear the old content. So that's how you end up with shit like two types of group/raid...

For the record there is room for innovation in leveling systems. I believe a flatter leveling system that is more like original ADD might be an improvement over the current system. Generally leveling works best if: 1. There are no gear resets with new expansions (flatter itemization). This...

I am pretty sure 'because it works' is a compelling argument in the real world.

Yep. Need to be west of Appalachians

Good plan, get on it.

Solar storm of 1859 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A Carrington level Solar Flare could hit in 25 or less. We're actually overdue for a big one.

Are you high? There have been 3 supervolcanic eruptions by Yellowstone in the past 2.1 million years.

Scientists discover another cause of bee deaths, and its really bad news : TreeHugger Yeah, we're really doing a number on the bees.

Well, I don't know about scared, but probably a bad idea to build your bunker too near Yellowstone.