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Hello, PhonelickAnal, and thank you for your ideas. I hear the lack of nameplates is working great for TESO, so I'm sure it will gain traction in other games. In general, though, this sounds like a great idea for a single player game and I hope Pantheon will take your suggestions into account.

Had the same experience. Was giving myself a vague budget of $500 going into this. Settled on the $100 for now just because nothing above that was very interesting to me. I don't want to pretend I'm a dev and name an item or make some poor company have 'popsicledeath' in their credits...

Wasn't nearly as bad to control in Vanguard, and GW2 was smooth and easy enough, so there's a precedent for it not being as obnoxious as it was in EQ, which was pretty obnoxious. Maybe we'll finally get the oceans and boats and sea monsters and underwater zones/raids and the full promise of...

Tempted to donate at the $500 level just to name something Siliusucksasaurus and eventually get booted from the in-game dev guild. The most exciting part for me is ogres are confirmed?

The system of mobs having 'tells' and combat being more reactive reminds me of what was being said about early Vanguard, a system that ultimately didn't really work; and what Vanguard became, a system you could still describe in such a way, but the description would elicit far more hopes and...

Had me at:

How would that work, really? And then what's preventing a daytime NA based raid guild from doing the exact same thing on a NA server? What about West coast guilds getting screwed because the East coasters were able to mobilized while they were still at work? They'll have to be smarter...

And if the mob respawns during US prime time then Euro players probably don't get the kill. Bad streaks gonna happen with any system, whether it's another guild getting there first even though you've got it timed or whatever. Just like some guilds have a raid target on farm and still don't...

The problem with contested raid content in EQ and having a variety of time zones on the same servers is that the respawns were predictable. Make respawn timers more random, and a lot of the issues are solved. Or do like Vanguard did where contested content is in the open world, contestable...

You're focusing on what I wasn't focusing on. Because what I was focusing on is your convoluted logic based on the assumptions you make that make it sound like you think you know the game down to it's every last detail. Edit: Shit, I missed this tweet: PantheonRotF ?@PantheonRotF 2m...

Does it piss you off when there's a holiday event that results in an item that is good enough that everyone who missed the event is pissed off they not only didn't get it, but have zero chance at getting it in the future unless the company simply copy/pastes the same event next year?

Who here was talking about implementing events like WoW? Okay, everyone else, whether you wanted holidays and events in-game or not, agreed it had to fit the full context of the game? Everyone? Okay, great, then I guess it was pointless to pretend to know exactly what Pantheon would be to...

OH DAMN! SOOTHING, WARM-TOWEL BURN!!!

Add it to the list of things on the list of things that were talked about in Vanguard development that never saw the light of day.

Don't get me wrong, I'd probably play the game in Dumar's head. But unless I'm Ender and he's Mazer Rackam, I'm not yet convinced he's got all the inside information and we're all just pawns being dragged along until we're finally worthy of being shown the full truth and breadth of his insider...

I read the next sentence, and agree. I still think the arguments you consistent make based on what you seem to know regarding the finished product of this game that isn't close to finished is ridiculous. They're not for this game.... that doesn't yet exist. The people of this world... that...

Moving while casting. If it's not in, the game will be a design embarrassment and doomed to fail. Is there anyone on Earth who doesn't think moving while casting is absolutely necessary?

I know, right, it's just not realistic and ruins my immersion. I mean, there's no time in the history of history when, during the shit time of year, as people are starving and freezing and dying from small pox does a community decide to band together for some level of festival, holiday or...

Ya shoulda made a joke about only having half a life! Chime, chime: I like pets and trinkets and shit. Not a priority, but adds a little fun to a game. Everyone talks about useful things, like jboots and stuff like that. But I also like collecting things that aren't even all that useful...

Geez. You're worse that that popsicledeath asshole. At least he tries to either be funny or make valid points while utterly dismissing someone's ideas as idiotic!

No need to lie for me, you magnificent bastard! squiblysquibly I find there to be big difference between the way EQ did subtle references to outside the game and the way other games have. Especially in the discussion over Vanguard, where we ended up with shit like an NPC named Slapply the...

The EQ model was good for crowd control not so much imo because of the abilities of classes, but dungeon layout and mob power. When you went into a fight, you had to worry some, plan, form a strat, etc. I think the reactive aspects were great in EQ, but the proactive CC ended up being broken...

This, times a million. He seemed to be arrogant, as if his VERY minor exploits on a game like Vanguard mean he was hot shit and could treat everyone else, including a small and shrinking playerbase, like shit. Not just generally, but specifically in the forums being an asshole to people...

Truly social mobs should tweet that you're trying to pull them so all their friends get notifications there's a flash-mob about to go down. #socialmediaintegration

I don't think anyone is saying Vanguard class balance was perfect in every specific instance, or at all, really. I think people are saying overall the classes were well designed, the approach to keep defined roles active but make more classes able to fill those roles, and the general fun-factor...

This is the kind of BS that makes for bad discussions and misinformation. Better at what? Just better?! Better at tanking when they got agro? Because I can tell you I had a button on my blood mage that had my invuln and self heal and /g 'I GOT AGRO I'M ABOUT TO DIE' all hotkeyed, because the...

Is it that content was so hard FD splitting became necessary, or that content was designed around killing groups of mobs early on, then FD splitting was found out, MUCH easier, and developers felt they had to balance the game around the assumptions groups would look for ways to solo-kill mobs...

There's nothing wrong with having a defined role. What's wrong is when one class has a monopoly on that role. Or when one race has a monopoly on the one class that has a monopoly on that one role. For instance, you HAD to have a cleric to raid heal. In two different raiding guilds on two...

This doesn't even make sense. If he had 20 minutes, why wouldn't he have been drinking his beer instead of letting it get stale. Stale beer is the reason people hate zero-downtime mechanics, not mechanics that make you sit around waiting to play the game with nothing else to do but drink beer...

I don't think anyone is against a FD ability, only what it became with single-pull FD splitting. FD to help scout: cool. FD to shed aggro: cool. FD to save your ass from dying occasionally: cool. FD to trivialize content, make it such that the entire game is balanced around that one...

Dear DarkAkuma, My apologies for not explaining my position in more depth. My annoyance was such: I'm seeing people register just to post a somewhat long-winded letter directly addressed to Brad that doesn't really offer much of anything new that hasn't been covered in the thread, but...

Please generally just shut up (your face). Thanks!

Bah. Just grow some balls and put someone on ignore without broadcasting it like a little bitch crying for attention. Sorry. Pet peeve. You too!

Exactly. I don't recall a complete heal spell in a game since, unless I'm mistaked. Maybe one in Vanguard? I doubt it, assuming they'd learned from their mistakes. Not sure, though, as I was usually dpsing hard on my blood mage so anytime I was grouped with a cleric they usually just...

The difference is tad played a monk and got addicted to feeling needed and liked (and didn't realize it was the class people liked). Tad has a problem thinking outside of his own selfish needs, sometimes. He means well, but most of us have learned to theorycraft based on the [perceived] good...

Inquisitor! It's in, guys, we're finally getting Inquisitors!!! Oh, also, any experience (or anyone on the team) have experience playing Rift? Basically, long and short of it is I want a rogue tank. Thank you.

Interesting. By your logic, instead of having some of the best healing classes every devised, Vanguard perhaps had no healers, then. Because none of the classes were 'just healing' and all had other things to do that added fun and dimension to the class.

Eh? Even AFTER druid and shammy got their good heals, it wasn't like they were being asked to be main healers a lot of places I went. They were just better backup healers. At what point did I come even close to saying they should make multiple classes all able to fill any role needed...

So make the safest a way that includes the full group and still has inherent dangers? Because sitting around not starting a group until you had a solo-puller, and then sitting around waiting for that solo-puller to pull a solo that your group could devour with no real challenge wasn't...

It was just one of the ways in EQ. Until people found it was safer, and safer was easier. Then it was the only way. In my opinion the only way to make it not become the only way, is by making it pretty much unnecessary except for maybe the rare occasion. That won't make very many people...