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Instead of having to listen to the entire playerbase - probably better off picking 10-20 players from top guilds that have been invited to the beta and 10-20 avowedly casual/solo/duo players who have consistently made semi-intelligent posts on their forums. Keep those 20-40 as your Greek Chorus...

I hate this attitude but I"m not going to single you out because there"s a ton of people who would agree with you -- likely including Ngruk and the staff at 38 as well as the boys at Blizzard, SOE and most other game studios. * * * One of my favorite (non-game) anecdotes about fear of the...

Okay now I remember my point in moving this thread to the front page -- with Free Realms having an attached in-game CCG and with Chronicle of Spellborn apparently having a weak CCG-like ability wheel (I got this leet CoS infrom from a penny-arcade comic so don"t ask me about the actual game), I...

It was 5 concept art shots not 3 my bad. And we already got huts. Or is the treehut not hutty enough to meet the cliche?

So Moor/Ngruk when"s the first actual info/or next art update for Copernicus? In three months it"ll be a year since the 3 art shots.

As has been mentioned before, you can have fun healing in a diku-based game see, e.g., VG.

I will never understand the appeal of D2. Diablo was great for its time. D2 blew. Oh (and this applies to both D/D2) there is nothing good, right, interesting or fun about spending 10 minutes filling up your belt with as many regen pots as you can and then clicking them as fast as you can...

Class theorycraft (trinity v. everything else) gets discussed in depth at least 2 or 3x a year here (and discussed in passing much more) just search. I"m just waiting for the sub-job system to get mentioned along with the inevitable hybrid v. pure class discussion. * * * As for me, I...

Heh. Well that"s partly an issue with BoP loot - which I despise for just this reason. I like your epic comment though -- I certainly don"t think all loot should be random. Quests should give you specific loot. We"ll have to agree to disagree though since I"m not designing any MMOS anytime ever...

Zehn, I think you"re a really smart guy who"s thought about this a lot and is trying to prevent folks from being screwed the way you"ve been screwed in the past... and yet I still think you"re dead wrong with respect to your pick-an-item system. You"re just not going to get the serotonin...

I think adding a little smarts to the RNG is fine. Doesn"t have to be a purely random drop from a static list - should taken into account classes. A no drop/bop item that can"t be used by the classes present (whether in a raid or just in a group) should never drop. In general I also think...

You fail at human psychology: take some time to check out CCGs, your local horse-racing establishment, a scratch ticket and Las Vegas. People aren"t driven by the fear of "poor" chances, but by the hope that despite the long odds we"ll get what we want. Random drop (from static loot...

Badges are fail. Their worst offense? They"re a mediocre solution to one of the key aspects of an MMO: the quest for loot. Yeah it sucks, you raid and raid and raid and that one item you want doesn"t drop. But when that one item you really want does drop and you get it... it makes up for...

I wouldn"t mind a change from fantasy and space -- something that hasn"t been done at all is good pulp. I"d like to see an MMO with a world based on Indiana Jones/Mummy/Call of Cthulhu with a dash of prohibition-era bootlegging for the occasional change of pace. So yes, I would very much like...

This is pretty much where I think MMOs should go - best of both worlds. I would add that it"d be good to add a few portal stones so once you"ve run through the public areas to (for example) the group instance or raid instance you"ll be able to port directly to the start of the instanced areas...

Eh something about being able to progress your char after level-cap. Does it really matter? These days I hold out no hope for the current and coming crop of MMOS right now. We"re entering the Generation X of MMOS - shiftless, feckless and tired. All the developers are going to try to...

Wall of Text incoming. Pretty much agree with most of the points in this post -- though I"ve got nothing against adding say one or two sub-endgame full-group dungeon (with superior rewards). -- though you kinda imply that with the SM mention earlier. Majority sub-endgame dungeons should be...

This quote makes me want to ask the following question: how many of your level designers have played the really great CRPGS of the past: Planescape, Fallout1/2, Ultima VII, Baldur"s Gate. I"d say all of those games (and in particular the first) we"re extremely memorable and yes I can remember...

OMG.Hellno. This is a terrible idea. D2 is the antithesis of what I would consider a good MMO experience. You hate the diku-type class system: dps/tank/healer/cc. You postulate a D2 system - which basically means everyone is dps -- how is having everyone be dps >>> the current hybrid/pure-class...

How do you feel about hybrid classes?

You don"t ever balance 1x1 for the reason you state. The only reasonable "balance" achievable in an MMO is Rock-Paper-Scissors. Class 1 should usually beat Class 2 (1x) Class 2 should usually beat Class 3 (1x) and Class 3 should usually beat Class 1 (1x1). Assuming you ahve more than 3...

I don"t know if I dare seek within... Help me Zehn, you"re my only hope!

Zehn"s pulling a reverse-Magritte. Thus my post.

Fox monk. I don"t care if a guy likes to play a girl in EQ or the proverbial 100-pound weakling wants to play the equivalent of an 500 lb Tauren Warrior in WoW. But I leave my fantasy at ./exit (or whatever the equiv is for WoW). Dolphinoplasty - Clips - South Park Studios

My vote iis for RRHoS. Retard just works for me... * * * It"s all still so confusing to me -- I really don"t care if you"re a pre-op transgender who wants to be referred to with female pronouns, use the ladies room, and etc. I don"t care if your gay (indeed I"m going to go out on a short...

I"ll fess up that I didn"t figure out Millie was born with a penis until mid to late 2004 and even then I just assumed the whole don"t talk about it schtick was some FoH guild transgender in-joke that a non-FoH member like moi couldn"t possibly figure out and would never be explained to me so it...

My humble attempt to explain it all... I know it doesn"t make any sense -- but then neither does the reality. I think it"s funny. Screw you.

It"s genius. It was sure to go to Hall of Shame -- which happens to a thread about as often as a true blue moon. So "A note from Millie" will be on the front page of the boards for a long, long time. Kudos!

It was like Fight Club or Harley-Davidson or both. You either got that you didn"t talk about it (or better yet like me and others just didn"t care) or you didn"t get it and got banned while those who got-it watched. But rep was/is a trust issue. Maybe it makes no sense to you -- it makes...

I"ll be the fifth dentist. I think Millie was okay moderating on some issues -- most recently the crazy initial Yahoo Live period that got a little wacky over in FoHSS. Of course when I got banned it wasn"t by Millie but by Ravvenn so I"ve got a slightly different perspective. Not that I...

There are many much worse things in this world. * * * I enjoyed the one or two debates we had in the movie house and really couldn"t give a shit about the online transgender thing.

STD Facts - Genital Herpes The more you know...

A girl can dream...

Lol. False dichotomy. You"re confusing something I said was necessary with what I think is sufficient. For most guys, it is a necessary but not a sufficient condition to get girls that they dress reasonably well when going out, that they have decent cars (not in NYC of course), that they have...

Just to continue the love-in for one sec. Aych said it better than I did. I"m not nearly as far along the "path" as he is -- but I did pick up my pretty cute hairstylist the other day (8 face, 9 body). Something I would never have done successfully just a year ago. I"m decent looking but a...

First off: bias alert I actually run a small dating services as a side business in LA. So I"m not totally disinterested in this post. Still I find posts like this annoying - especially with shows like the pickup artist on TV I know its an older post but wanted to comment on it anyway --...

Mmm. Okay. I"ll believe that when I see it. Like Genjiro said (well sorta said) I don"t care if you guys shill here -- just be upfront about it and throw in some actual info with the shill (and yes concept art does count as actual info).

Oh I"ll check it out as well -- in open beta if there is one and if not after it goes live if the comments are favorable on this forum. But we still haven"t seen butkus on this game. Not gameplay. Not screenshots. Not even sample artwork.

Please. Let those who want to drink the koolaid, drink it in peace :-/