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I was just throwing number out there.

You're very tiring, especially your attempts to troll me with your quoting. In any case, I specifically mentioned that a game like NWN is a design that would actually work. Anyway, you're my own little social experiment, so continue acting like silly boy.

Queue to log into the server, the whole concept is to have small servers to create smaller communities. If you read the concept again, I mentioned AV.

@Tmac Thanks for the reply. Here are some responses to a few things you brought up: Server size: You can have 10000 people on the server, I'm not limiting that. Only you start a queue at, like 100 people. Small world, and the population should accommodate that. Battlegrounds: This...

Compare how fast Legendaries were made in GW2 to anything EQ had. The only thing is in today's world, most people would quit EQ because it was bug ridden at the start and it would never of lasted for expansions to come out.

Here's kinda what I'm thinking. If a fight is 5 phases and on phase 4 if you die and release you are sent to a holding spot inside the raid while the encounter is ongoing. If the encounter reaches a certain point in phase 4, whether it's a enrage timer or some other mechanism like to many...

The whole world should be filled with centaur events, going on all the time, everywhere, forever. With or without people. The fact that they are not is a huge waste of design. There are hardly any bridging events in the game except the end level areas and the centaurs in the human areas up to...

It has nothing to do with gear honestly. Just encounter design. You can read my manifesto I posted in the What now thread for what I want my game to be.

Just clean up after yourself.

I think that belong is some sort of gaming nostalgia wanking story section.

I agree with this. I enjoy raiding, I hate precision based raiding these days. I need more room for error but still requires some coordination.

Ok here are my design docs for a MMORPG I would make if I had lots of money and smart people to make it work. A majority of these ideas are heavily influenced and mostly taken from the MUDs that I played and helped build back in the 90s based on Owen Emlen's code. This will most definitely be...

That usually only works successfully if it's a game that promotes you getting together with your friends and playing through a game together and nothing large scale.

You have to store everything server side. No uploading. Also voting will still get abused. 1000s of people do bankable shit every day in games and don't care.

You're a boring poster. You should stop.

The whole language thing is just one issue I'm throwing out there. You can ignore it if you chose. Running a game regionally is very expensive. Limiting the size of a module will not give you enough room to create content of any significance. The whole voting system, stored system, QA...

My bullet points were just a list of independent problems that could arise with player generated content they don't really have to relate to each other honestly. It's just extra shit you either you have to take account of or create in house just to facilitate user generated content. While a...

User generated content is a horrible idea, in every way. You have zero quality assurance. You have no control over the design and implementation of your "world". You have to create infrastructure and staff just to monitor and/or approve of user generated content. You have to create the tools...

Oh really? WOW didn't invent the internet too?

What is the difference between classes other than the starting position in the passive chart?

Just study what they did in COH. Did it really add to the game?

You've made a ton of assumptions that don't work in my model, but then again I can't fault you since I didn't really flesh it out. 1) You are assuming levels mean a lot in power differentiation. In present terms think about how EVE allows newer players to contribute. 2) You assume that...

Yea but I said I'm building a PVP focused game. It's specifically catering to people who like and want PVP and no PVE. The game is all about running around the world, gaining xp and levels and loot so you can PVP. Once you get to max level, you either stay max level or start over again at...

I understand completely, and if you had people that could design a really good AI that would be ideal. Unfortunately MMORPG companies aren't developing really good AIs and instead are relying on heavily scripted events. Shit, every MMORPG still relies on static spawn points for the most part.

What the fuck is car effect?

We need need HBO to buy Star Trek and make a show or two out of it.

Heh that's funny.

Texans over the Vikings. Why? Because.

I agree and I know what you're saying, I'm just repeating what devs say, time and time again. Instead of investigating how much to do, they ignore it to a certain degree. However, I can tell you that Arenanet did a very good job testing their own UI which is why a lot of their NPCs are fun to...

I'm not against free for all PVP and it might actually work with the game doc I have in my brain. It's just that hard coded sides is just easier to design and build for. For example, you can build parts of the map as "home base" that you can raid. In a game without sides, you can't do this...

The original Rift was a pretty interesting model but then they killed it because the focus groups hated it. I was at a little press meeting that Scott Hartsman was heading and the subject of Heroes of Telara vs. Rift came up. Essentially it boiled down to was you had two friends who played the...

It's been tested before. The majority of gamers do not like really smart AIs in their game. Most of the time people get frustrated if they lose and then quit the game.

That still doesn't matter because people still fuck it up all the time no matter what.

Thats just a bogus claim. WOW has not dumbed down anything. In fact, it was the game that introduced incredibly complicated raid encounters where if one person makes a mistake it wipes the whole raid. You can talk about class design though and how each class has become less and less defined...

The "next big thing" or whatever will be a game that doesn't follow this formula: Step 1: Start at level 1 Step 2: Do Quests like WOW etc. Step 3: Supplement Step 2 with "Dynamic Events" which is just a silly term for randomly generated or locally scripted short term repeated events...

I agree with this as well. I like the idea of the movie (I probably should read the book), but the way it was constructed was confusing as fuck and it didn't flow at all. I kept attempting to keep all the characters straight and follow who was who and in the end it didn't really fucking...

I haven't watched the show in a while, it's so deep in my DVR that it rarely gets recorded. Hester quit/got fired?

Don't waste your money unless you like broken exploitable MMORPGs. Some people do.

I tried this many months ago. This game any good? Should I fire up my old beta account? Last time I played it felt a little clunky.

FYI Spoilering things doesn't save bandwith. They still load into your browser no matter what.