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Yeah, looks like it's minority moddable but no toolset like NWN. Boo. Oh well.

Is there any word about the ability to mod/create content in Pillars? I didn't see anything in their FAQ, so I assume you won't be able to craft homebrew stuff- wondering if anyone has heard otherwise. Looks like you will be able to in the new Swordcoast game.

Yep. I'm going to pay box price for this game too- when they have an actual box to sell me. There have been so many failures in this genre... no way I'm going to pay for hopes, dreams, and a bunch of "good ideas." In my experience there is a direct correlation between how grand a developers...

You guys are horrible at book summaries lol, but I'll second that recommendation. Great audiobook. I listen to a ton of them. Here are just a few of my recs: The Martian The Martian Audiobook | Andy Weir | Audible.com | Audible.co.uk Blindsight Blindsight Audiobook | Peter Watts |...

Thanks for the response. Great to hear no cash shops and no instancing in adventure zones/dungeons. Here's my feedback on locked encounters and raid size limits. Don't do it. If you want to limit an encounter, find ways to "encourage" the limitation without hard coding restrictions into the...

Yep. That's what I said in my edit

I'm not really seeing why a small team of devs can't take the approach Pardo mentions. I don't see why it would be necessary to build both out and up at the same time. The "start small, get it right, expand" philosophy seems just as applicable to a small team as a large one. In fact, it seems...

I think Tad is referencing Rob Pardo's formula for game development. Here is a snippet: "Elwyn forest is the first starting area we did. Northshire Valley is the 1st through 5th level area for the humans and we spent and inordinate amount of time working on that area. We would work on how...

Joppa: 1. Locked encounters in any way- i.e. once a mob is engaged other groups can't affect it, etc? 2. Raid size limits? 3. Any form of cash shop? 4. Any form of instancing? Only four questions I have (for now).

Both of those things are big negs in my mind. The "color-coded" weapons are just unnecessary and annoying. You don't have to color code things to tell me how nice (or crappy) my stuff is. Give me the stats and let me determine rarity and value on my own, thanks. Locked encounter sizes are...

As long as there is a relatively easy way to identify both players beforeandafter a kill, I don't care if it's nameplates or not. I just want a method of identification and nameplates seems easiest. I can see the arguments for finding an alternative means of ID though.

What does ponytaildo? I mean, is he just a talker, or does he have some type of "hard" skill?

Who wants to live in a world where sheep and wolves look the same? If you don't want to be eaten like a sheep, become a wolf. Homo homini lupus

Watched it with my dad too. During the intro he always had me try and pick out the place in the stars where the Enterprise would come flying out before it happened. Spock always kind of reminded me of my dad. He was a rock of stability, strength, and wisdom among the crew. You always got...

It will not feel like a Blade Runner sequel without Vangelis (or someone just as good). edit: Like any great movie, a happenstance perfect storm of things came together to make it happen. You had Scott who had just directed Alien; Vangelis, who had just scored Chariots of Fire; and Ford, who...

Vanguard was built like some kind of wacky museum. Elements of the game were groundbreaking (offensive/defensive targets, class design, diplomacy) but those elements were set in a framework that vacillated between haphazard and outright broken. It's like the museum had some amazing exhibits...

From 2005-2007 we had the "why Vanguard will suck" and, alternatively, the "why Vanguard will be the second coming" thread that never left the front page of fohguild for those years. Starting in 2007 we had the "why Vanguard DOES suck" and, alternatively, the "what Vanguard needs to do to not...

I don't know what you guys find so objectionable about this. Of all the kinds of gold, I've always thought that false gold was the worst...

Ok here's an example: My guild and your guild get into a skirmish over territory. It starts small, but soon escalates into a large-scale conflict involving most of the members from both guilds. I'm running around the edges of the fray, sniping at opponents on the outside (I'm a caster and...

PVP in a game like this should be heavy on the two R's- Reputation and Rivalry. Knowing the identity of your assailant/target/victim is imperative. Nameplates make knowing the identity of your assailant/target/victim easy.

No nameplates, no backing from me.

They are saving a lot. They are taking a pretty smart approach to the KS. Don't show your hand all at once, keep goals low and increase in slow increments.

So basically, status quo hasn't changed.

I'd be fine as long as nameplates were visible within killing range. If they are too far to even read, who cares?

I don't know what kind of wars you've been fighting... Seriously though, their reasoning is bogus. I'm all for realism, but trying to excuse anonymity in pvp by drawing real life comparisons to war is bullshit. This is a competitivegame. Not knowing who your opponents are does nothing but...

What you need for a successful reset server is two servers. Run server 1 until progression run is completed, open server 2 and restart a fresh progression server. When server 2 has run its course, migrate the player base to server 1, then reset server 2 as a fresh progression server. You can...

If you guys think that the cash shop won't providesomeway for people to spend real world $$$ to getsomeform of in-game advantage, you're fooling yourselves. The path between real world dollars and in-game advantage may be obfuscated by a series of go-betweens (like trading things for other...

A very low one. The real question you want to ask is if there is a chance that Pantheon becomes an actual game worth playing. The chances of that are pretty low for any attempt at an mmo.

I won't argue with that. Doesn't seem like much effort was put into those, does it?

The art hasn't been bad. Not particularly amazing- but I don't really care about concept art (in relation to the final product of the game). Agree about the writing. They need help. The names they are coming up with are pretty cringe-worthy. edit: I find that names are one of the most...

Change buying assets to making assets and Pantheon is in the same position as Crowfall.

Looked better than expected. Color me completely indifferent to where they get the assets they use. As long as the game is entertaining, I don't care if they bought their assets, stole them, or made them themselves. However they got their assets, they blended pretty well in that vid, tbh...

I spend a little less than $120 a week in food. $120 a month is roughly $4 per day. You either live in a place where the U.S. dollar goes a lot further than it does in the U.S., or you probably need to recalculate.

That's disappointing. And it goes against creator guy's tenant of total transparency. Oh well, these tech startup guys always start out with such grand ideas, but the realities of "business" soon set in. (Still going to try it).

I thought about that too, but then I thought- how many times do you really see the process by which your food gets made? I'm willing to be way worse stuff happens in the harvesting/processing/shipping/retail cycle for food we eat all the time. Also, I don't know if you watched the entire...

After listening to interviews with the creator of Soylent, I am a little less enthusiastic about trying it. He seems a little... off his rocker. He admittedly has pretty much no background in health or nutrition. He's basically a computer guy who decided he thought eating was barbaric so he...

About to be locked into work shit for the next few hours and don't have time to make an account and ask- someone please ask about cash shops for the love of god. I doubt they will go into payment details this early, but if they do I can actually scratch off this game or put it at the top of my...

This is pretty much exactly my intent. I like eating as much as anyone, but most of the time I want to be able to make worrying about food way lower on my priority list than it is now. Then splurge when I have the time and inclination. It seems like making your own would be as much (or...

*edit*- What I meant is that the conflict is inevitable. I wasn't clear, my fault. The conflict of interest is that the people who run the game have to constantly fight a battle between limiting cash shop items to "aesthetic" items and making less money, or selling "gameplay impacting" items...

It's not just fair, it's inevitable. It's also the reason the cash shop idea is flawed at its root. The conflict of interest it creates is unavoidable and terminal to the integrity of the game.