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True, but there is a difference between haxxed/exploited/cheating and just bringing more people. You might bring more because they are your best friends or you might bring more because it makes the encounter easier. But that is far different than cheating. And I do see the point of preventing...

I guess I disagree with this statement. And if people want to cheese things....you would argue that designers should stop that(or try), I am saying they should not. There are many people who would like to do things in a legit way or near it. I do see your point though....just not sure I agree...

I agree 100%, which is why I personally prefer to just say fuck it. Design the encounter based on your target(6 person group or something) and let people who want to cheese it cheese it. Who really cares? As long as them cheesing it by bringing 100 people doesn"t prevent other groups of 6 from...

I like reading this more than I post here, mostly because I can rarely add something that hasn"t been said in the last 100+ pages, but I have noticed a few things I would like to point out as, at least, interesting to discuss. It seems many people here have positive things to say about...

I normally don"t say this but if there really are that many people guilded and on vent roaming the lands of Azeroth to kill Sam....I"d claim he"s already won regardless of what happens.

I dont understand why everyone makes fun of her, I"d hit it so awesomely. Where is the beef? Is there a back story I don"t know because sex with her looks fun.

I second your suggestion

I"m actually with Zehn on this one... Quests should be about something. Access to an area, getting a new spell from your master at the city, learning a secret to kill goblins(+2% dmg to goblins or whatever), being sent to a new area which then allows you to travel there via whatever speed...

Hmm...i guess since I never played in top end WoW(only EQ) I never fully experienced this. Sounds like it sucks. The more I learn about what it takes to be top dawgs the more I am quite happy being in the average guild. Things have changed since EQ. This old timer is on retirement.

Again not trying to be devil"s advocate but could you please explain why? I see it as the exact same now as if a guild did not want to recruit but wanted an extra healer, they would ask you to reroll. How, just because you dont loose name/skills, would they ask you to reroll now? In either...

I disagree that it is forced. Is having an alt forced now? The benefit is that you get to keep your name/identity and any faction/tradeskill/etc that you"ve done on your main character. You cannot be both at once. And I don"t think it solves any guild problems(not sure if Zehn said it did)...

I am with Zehn on this. It is not JUST a character name(though for me that is a HUGE part of it). It is also faction, quests, items, etc. Some of you seem to glance over this but I really love having a single character, and if I get bored I can just try to level a different job, like FFXI...

I dont think the UI is the big part of what adding a built in threat meter would do. My guess is that it would IMPROVE omen/KTM because it adds functionality to the API that would allow modders to read exact levels of threat. Perhaps in a really cool fashion or maybe just by a call such as...

instancing stuff... I"m not sure if I am just insane or what but when Vanguard once touted it"s AES, I really did believe it was the end all be all of this instancing bullshit. Of course I think it never made it in to the game or did in such broken form none of it mattered Bottom line is...

Exactly the same thing here. I started boxing very early because I was a necro and my best friend a mage. But instread of always doing the standard leveling pattern and all that we liked to explore and try difficult stuff duo. We died alot and getting a rez was sometimes difficult depending on...

I loved boxing in EQ because well, I did it! And it gave me the ability to not need to wait for hours on end to try and find a group to get anything done. I was my own group(granted not as efficent as a full group of individuals but good enough to make time online not pointless). That being...

I may not be the majority, so go with what sells, but I personally hate it. I think something along the lines of what EQ2 did was ok, and I really really loved the idea of what Vanguard claimed it would do. VG said it would have these things called AES(Advanced Encounter System). A dungeon...

LDoN was good for what it was and the time it came out. Had good gear for "casuals" and like a token system you could earn your way to the gear, it wasn"t hit or miss like a boss loot drop. It also came a time when people were starving for good xp groups that eliminated competition etc. It...

On this topic please take a look at what FFXI did! They had "cut-scenes" in game!! To everyone else it looked like your character was just standing there with his thumb up his ass, however on your screen you were going through a small cut scene that contained information, lore, and...

What everyone else said man. You must not be in the industry at all. I am not in the "game" industry, but software. And it is very common for this sort of thing when you buy a solution of some kind. And yes, there are huge NDA"s you sign when you view/buy/talk to people about certain products...

Same here. Only time I contacted a GM was when my dumbass accidentally destoryed my jboots. And they were back in my inventory when I logged in a mere day or two later. I was quite impressed. I, as most players I imagine, just dealt with other issues amongst my peers. I think that was a very...

That"s good to hear. Thats hit was insane in pvp when I was playing.

As I said, I got no major problem with the flashing text in the center of the screen. It"s not my preference, and I do believe it is a bit much, but I get it. What I tried to say my problem was with, and I may have failed, is with the scripting(as I will define below). Script where if you...

I see your point, but seriously...the buff bar wasnt enough? I"ll concede a mod that makes the bar bigger but flashing text is a bit much, at least for my tastes. Anyway, I am old school. I like eq/eq2 style interface. The game decides what you can and cannot do(IE no scripting), but you can...

Easier than it sounds set a /loc hotkey to your movement keys and then parse and analyze the log. Pretty cool shit actually. You can then fill in the holes as you go. <-- Huge nerd. EDIT: Also, MQ by its nature did not have maps. It just had the mobs. Remove the map files from the MQ...

In that case the best answer I saw was an MMO where everything is optional and the user picks what to do because it"s fun. That"s just perfect. For me however, the single thing I hate most in an MMO is the dividing of people. Uber guild or not, high population or low and cant find groups...

From reading this thread it sounds like most people want second life with better graphics, more fluid controls, and some kind of combat and general NPC"s with AI.

I don"t know if you are wrong because I have no numbers, but I believe the xbox360 charges for online play of it"s games with a monthly fee. I think it is per xbox not per game, so for say 14.99 a month you cna play any xbox game you own with others. At least I think that"s the setup....though I...

What scares me about modern consoles though is their push for internet connectivity and gaming(good thing) but also as a means to patch and update(can be good thing).... But as we have seen become common with MMO"s if you can patch, you can release 50%/80%/99% done and leave the rest for a...

This is all true. I don"t think anyone is doubting(god I hope not) that you can tell the difference between a skilled player and a non-skilled player(whatever the definition of skill may be for you), because you can. It"s not even up for debate as far as I"m concerned. And as far as the...

Mine have been fine for the most part, better than in WoW. My personal experience was so fucking painful in WoW it almost drove me to hate the game. I didn"t move over with my EQ guild(mistake) so when I picked up WoW a year after them I just rolled where ever. Every single pick up group I...

See, now I will defend WoW a bit here because there WAS that option IF you wanted it. You could go to Wailing Caverns at the appropriate level and have a fairly fun/difficult time, needing to CC or at least control aggro in some fashion. The problem, in my opinion, was that since leveling was so...

This is 100% anecdotal, BUT I have a friend that I work with. Never even heard of an MMO until we started working together, caught me surfing forums, updating magelo etc. so we began to talk about it. Long story part skipped the point is he and I, along with a few other co-workers decided to...

Well, tad...I like VG quite a bit also. Tried WoW could never stick(though I think it was because I couldnt find a good group of people to play with), even got sucked back into EQ from time to time, which dispite all the rage I still enjoy, and now I really like VG from what I"ve seen...

I could be wrong but that seems like the worst business approach ever. You are rewarding those who use/buy/play your product most often. I am scared shitless of the day these games move to anything other than a monthly payscheme. For awhile I thought it was a guarantee(after AOL ruined my...