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Maybe too personal, so feel free to not answer, but I assume guys generally still have day jobs and are working on their own time. I don't know if it even matters, but it at least could give perspective to would-be backers. I'm not sure if the better story is them burning the midnight oil...

No system is 'cleaner' than just letting players out level their friends, but fragmenting mico-communities so the people who can't play as often are completely turned away from the game isn't something even 'hardcore' fans will support, I don't think. There is a lot of room to negotiate when it...

Anyone wanna form a static?!

Most of the dissenting opinions are relevant to at least the last 5 years, though. ;/

Or there is, and what do I have to lose personally? Some cash. I'm fine with that. Brad's got everything to lose and to prove, and I'll let him attempt it, at least.

Oh shit, a guy wasn't posting online! RED FLAGS!!! Where is Sam Da Man? We need him to come in and warn us this Brad guy is no good! Thanks for your very relevant and current information and warnings, but fuck off.

Some people learn things. Like to not defend pedophilia on message boards. Maybe Brad's got a +1 on you?

I've tried not to suggest Curt should be contacted so he can donate to a game we all dream of making/playing, but like the rest of us doesn't have the money to develop himself!

There are a ton of things to get critical about. A bio that clearly states the titles and roles of the subject of the bio isn't one of them. He only seems to get full credit for EQ because you're a fucking moron who wants to think that. Why the fuck would he start taking about who did most of...

Link? I hate trying to wade through twitter and shit (shit being reddit, if anyone has links to major discussions there that include devs).

It's just a communication issue, I think. As far as I can tell they're 10 dudes with regular jobs theorycrafting in their free time and planning out a game. Sure, they could have spent another year slowly building assets. Or they can do what they're doing, and basically saying 'if there...

Faster to introduce yourself by your real name and send a PM!

It was awesome being there when the Fansy saga was blowing up and people were raging. A hero of mine, not only for being hilarious, but for staying in character, which just pissed people off even more, which was more hilarious. I just hope Pantheon has good guys for giants to love!

Good question. While we're still hashing out the details of our process, we are looking to take things back to the classic era of bullshitting when we tried to appease nobody, instead of the more modern trend of trying to provide acceptable answers to everything and every one.

My girlfriend came in, saw Pantheon's Kickstarter page and said "Oh, so that's what Kickstarter looks like... why does the website look so low budget?" I had to explain that she wasn't looking at Kickstarter as a whole, but that each project has their own page, and can customize that page...

It's mine now! I assume Tuco, unless someone else went about gifting avatars. Kinda his thing, though?

You'll have to wait for the West Indies expansion to have black slaves. ;/

That will be for YOU to decide based on how you role-play your character and what your charm stat is at!

One of my favorite quests in EQ was a Dark Elf one, I think just for rogues, where you had to sneak into Freeport and kill some woman. The reward was a whip that I'm pretty sure was a piercing weapon because it had snake fangs at the end. It was awesome, even though the whip wasn't even really...

I'm not a fan of WoW systems where you run to the trainer and buy all your spells without even looking at the cost because you want them all and they don't cost enough to matter. I also don't think a system where you solely fight for your spells/abilities will be good. You'll end up having...

That actually sounds like a great idea.

Yeah, that's exactly what I'm talking about though. There's a difference between what you're describing (same boat as me) and the tools who think that because THEY don't have the time or inclination anymore that nobody anywhere does. I just want a game that even in my more limited playtime I...

Bullshit. You remind me of someone who has had a crush on a girl for years, and then gets the chance to actually go on a date and you make a shit-ton of excuses why you shouldn't. You've built an identity around wanting something, and now it's not worth even a 10 dollar donation, putting up...

I was in the army when EQ launched and was playing it the most. I not only found the time, but so did many friends. I guess a game with more depth, challenge and that may even take more time to accomplish things in-game just wont work anymore... since we no longer have an army? In fact, I'd...

If they found investors, the investors would have a say in the game, and you'd be bitching up a storm about how the investors are going to ruin it and it's not worth investing your time/heart/whatever into. What do you lose by putting up a PLEDGE? Not a thing. Literally you can pull it a...

This is like making an argument that the 50's were all about Rock and Roll, but then everyone grew up and Rock and Roll just became too loud for that generation, so nobody likes it anymore. Or we loved fast cars when we were young, but then had a family and fast cars aren't appealing anymore, so...

I hope they're doing this. I hope they have a wide scope that they realize may or may not be attainable, ala the stretch goals format, and are concentrating on building the necessary core. I don't see them promising water content. I see them promising a good core to the game that may one day...

You mean kinda like EQ had, but without the floor telegraphs that become their own little arcade-style mini game that only really work (as currently implemented) in third-person? Are there no better ways to do this kind of thing than creating a game of frogger in fire?

This is why I don't like floor telegraphs. They seem to cater to one, and only one, camera pov. And not even just third-person, but third zoomed way out. Bleh.

Eventually I want to see a dev video of the first dungeon and them wiping a few times trying to break a tough room. Because even the best gamers wiped occasionally in EQ, which is one of those things that made it awesome. They need to not give us one of those canned videos where the devs are...

I love you, man. I almost like the idea of different spells having different movement penalties. I like that level of thought before you cast a spell. Like how the aoe mez in EQ could mez the enchanter.

Did anyone see any info on casting? Stop to cast, or moving while casting? It's nearly a deal breaker for me because after Vanguard I'm a tard and can't stop moving and interrupting my casts in other games. And it's an ideal don't-stand-in-red-circles mechanic.

I like giving people things, too. I remember when I was 'retiring' from EQ I gave a high level dagger to some random noob rogue in EC. Like a year later I returned to the game as a new rerolled (because I was hardcore and deleted my original toon) and the dude remembered me, helped twink me...

Yep. And you give, and give, and give, and people like me are the thanks you get! I always liked the idea of having 'official' communities that were supported by the game. Let fan sites do a lot of the heavy lifting in exchange for some shout-out cred. Makes a wider community than official...

There were a lot of little quirks like that in EQ that were funny and/or charming, whether intentional or not, they were at least not 'polished' out of the game like they seemed to be with later generation games that had no soul. So many little things were awesome. Like couldn't you drop...

Daaaaaamnnnn! tad just got owned. That should be worth a few of you hypocrites to pledge!

Brad has responded to some posts! Time for all the bi-polar nerds in this forum to turn their frowns upside down and start suckling again! I swear the mood in this thread goes up and down faster than a bad porno BJ. I've upped my pledge, yadda yadda. They've made a few missteps. They're...

Screenshots are used to display art, and pretty much that exclusively. For stills, use in-house concept art. To demonstrate the combat or mechanics, use generic imported models and make it clear it's not theirs, simply a way to demonstrate combat, animations or physics, etc. Doesn't seem that...

Thanks for the pep talk, but we're on the same side of this discussion. We can probably also agree there are going to be judgements made on those screenshots, especially when one of them has a fucking comic book SLASH! in it. People aren't going to sit and rationally think through the nature...

Isn't that sort of the definition of disingenuous. They're showing something that people will think is one thing, when in reality it's another. Whether having to show something was critical or not is certainly a valid point of debate. I personally think more concept art and some specifics...