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Outside the whole solo vs. group content it comes down to this point. I think, let me know. Strip away the "social aspect" of running a single group dungeon around 5 other groups. That may or may not be a good thing in your opinion. I think what it comes down to is people don"t want to...

That was a mess of a post. But what I think you"re saying you like camping a mob or two for loot and then quit when you have to go? Most of the boss mobs in WOW contain scripts or sequences that could lead to bugs, griefing or just wouldn"t work unless they were instances and only set aside for...

I would put this under Pick Up and Play. Here"s my take on solo vs. group play. When I"m leveling all I want to do is hunker down and get it done. I don"t have a core group of buddies I play every game with. Most of the time I"m playing a game with 1-2 other people I know on the internet and we...

Prepost note: There is still one page to read at this time. I"ve asked several people I know, including my father who plays this game (turns 60 tomorrow), and they say they would never of played this game if they couldn"t of soloed. People love MMO"s because they feel part of a community...

I raid and play with my guild, how is that single player? I don"t enjoy jerking off with 15 other random people for something I want with my group.

You"re not supposed to call it the end game anymore, the new buzz word is "elder game". And how did I miss the classic McDonalds reference without making fun of it!?

You all have your rose glasses on. When I was grinding rep in dungeons in WOW I knew atleast a dozen or two shitty players constantly in LFG. I knew a lot of good people to group with in the same circuit. It"s there. You know the world firsts now of who gets the Sword of ZOMG. YOu follow them...

That"s great to hear. I"m a big proponent of having a 2nd and third opinion of quality.

You trust yourself to QA your own work? Shouldn"t you have someone else doing that? Or was that just a testament to your own responsibility for your work?

There is no lack of community. I know plenty of folks in the game from previous guilds and other things. You won"t step into a zone knowing people because you don"t spend 6 hours grinding to gain 20% of your level. The community is there if you want it, you just have to create it yourself...

You need a fine balance between instances and open content. Instanced story events, scripted challenges etc all need to be instanced in my opinion so the work you put into it is fully realized without other screwing up. World Design: You need a full open world that is full and living. The how...

A skill system of EVE, where you can"t actively improve your character, will never appeal to the masses. In EVE the only way to improve your character is through making money (there are many many ways to do this which is awesome) however no matter how much you make your character is still...

You want more DDO stuff like traps and hidden chests and stuff? Whats more rogueish behavior to you? Pickpocket more meaningful?

Short and simple opinion from me is that I prefer designed roles for each player. Not so much that there are only archtypes, Warrior, Priest, Mage, Thief, but allow flexability in each class with in a set boundary.

Whatever. Your faggot nerd points go up by a few. I lose.

As far as fantasy literature, just read any Dragonlance novels. That"s where it started. They don"t come out and say what you said, but it"s there in a form.

Of course it"s fantasy based. They hired R.A.Salvatore.

Oh I agree its a public opinion matter on this. I"m angry about this as well since I"m a very big fan of his as well. Being a Yanks fan I hate how some of my favorite players have cheated. I don"t like it but I tend to get protective, but I agree about everything in a public opinion aspect. He...

Good post. I agree 100%. It"s not the government"s position to spear head public opinion. Leave that to ESPN.

You can do math all you want, but it has no legal legs. I"m not passing judgement, but if you did steroids to enhance your performance then you deserve to be run all over in the public. But I think I can give Petitte a pass because, according to him, he used it to come back from an injury...

I was only speaking from a legal standpoint. You should relax.

Well technically the Mitchell Report is all hearsay. Eye witness accounts are not enough to hold someone accountable to a crime in federal courts. I havn"t paid too much attention to this, is there more substantial proof other than a trainer talking?

This happens in WOW right now with a lot of the SMV/Netherstorm 5 man quests. My new toon still has those 5 mans to do and I just don"t bother because I don"t feel like annoying guildmates to run me through them since I don"t need the rewards, but I like finishing things off.

Any game that"s being release in the next 3-4 years should be able to work fully on the computers that are new today. I was also not referring to scripted encounters and quests either. -- On a completely different note: I was just posting on another forum for a game in BETA where I was...

Sure. I think all devs should put in robots that give handjobs by stimulating my brain by a really cool USB brainwave sender-outer. You need to be realistic when suggesting things. As far as technology goes, you have to plan for that. Don"t you think WOW had the right idea for allowing for...

Bongk I"ll take 2bit"s opinion over yours. You just seem to be shouting for this and that without considering dev time, tech support etc of each idea. At least 2bit considers this first whether his ideas are good or bad.

AI is not the limiting factor. You can script events and give mobs a subset of scripts to run at any given time. That"s there. It"s all about dev time and the tech support behind it. Do you want to spend hours, days and weeks scripting out a mob going to the grocery store and then cooking dinner...

I think Oblivion did Mob AI scripting like that. However I have no idea what kind of constraints or load that would put on a server.

Quest design, deployment, type, and theme.

WAR has a great retro-credit for kill quests. If you"re sent off to gather X or Kill Bad Guy Bob and come back when you"re done and you find a quest giver that ask you to kill ten Little Guy Bobs which you just spent 1 hour clearing to get to Bad Guy Bob you automatically finish the quest and...

All great ideas. But in order for that to be worth while, you have to build content at an incredible rate. If you constantly have these server firsts and those events are unique people will complain about not being able to see them. They will only complain if they are few and far inbetween...

So what happens when the NPC that delivers this quest to someone and you come around looking for it? You now have to wait around for it. Or what happens if you miss it? Then find out about it weeks later and now are to high level for it and it"s boring? Stationary NPC quest givers are stationary...

WOW is full of scripted quests, but all you seem to remember are the filler ones. Hell all the top end quests in Netherstorm and SMV are full of interesting events. Great one is where you help a small force of guys to kill a large boss. It"s almost like a solo raid. I think you would end up...

That"s been done in WOW in several forms. I can think of two different occasions off the top of my head. Quest in Nagrand and the warrior berserker stance quest. That"s really not outside the box.

It was never the case that you COULDN"T do it. But it was more of the case of how it impacts people around you. There are plenty of scripted events in WOW dungeons that I know of. Case in point like Unchained said, what else do you want? Think carefully. You have a whole zone, you populated...

If you want more script go play a singleplayer game. Seriously, there are limitations when playing in an environment with other players. LOTRO did this all instances. The story quests were pretty awesome but they had catalogues and novels full of information to create this instanced...

If you want a perfect example of quest hubs and progression please go ahead and do every quest in the WOW Draenei newbie area. They put together a story and lead you along the different areas at a perfect pace. I think there was a perfect mixtures of collection quests, miniboss kill quests...

That McDonalad reference needs to go. I really hate when people use it. Just shuttup. Curt: In my opinion, animation is much more important than graphics. Prime example is WOW. The model animation is top notch though the graphics are on the low end. If you can animate a pile of rocks well...

I think it was actually only half that, so 5,711 of them.

Just saying.