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Yeah warp pulling was money. Tag with HoS, run about 75% to group with max selos with mob like a mile behind you, run around corner and "pop" the mob is right with you. Made the second set of GoD trials go a lot faster. Playing a bard in EQ1 was the best.

I don"t like baseball but I"ll say thanks for finishing in four games so I only had to miss one night of House. =)

I love harvesting! I"ll spend hours "picking flowers", chopping logs, etc.. My biggest gripe is when that stuff isn"t worth anything. Like in EQ2 atm... pretty much all T1-T3 materials are useless. I hope in the future in EQ2 they add something like boats, or player built structures which...

Just have each "step" of the tiered quest be it"s own flag. You can share the tiered quest and start doing it with a PUG, but you can"t get the reward until you go back and complete the beginning steps, which you would get by talking with the starting quest NPC. The skipping is only temperary.

MSN Games - Free Online Games Just because you are bored with the content doesn"t mean there aren"t hundreds of thousands or millions of people who would still pay to play that kind of game. My gf loves the "Kill x of x" quests... I"d imagine that a lot of people (probably the majority)...

Just like checkers and tic-tac-toe

ROFL Sometime between Feb 9 and Nov 23, 2004

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so 989"s game was $9.89.... how much is 38 studio"s gonna be?

So GMG is financing their operations by selling herbal viagra and variable rate mortages through spam mail?

Imho shackling yourself to someone elses IP isn"t worth it. Take the general premise and copy it with your own names and plot twists... that way you have the freedom to change things around if you want, and you don"t have purists bitching from launch.

100K It"s like EQ2 with bugs and without the content that you need a massive computer upgrade to run well. In 2 years if they follow through it will probably rock, but for now. /shrug I got the pre-order anyways and will try it for a month just to mess with PvP, though. PS: I expect...

EQ1, is a prime example of people playing a game they are unhappy with because their is no real competition. The mass exodus at the launch of EQ2/WoW is evidence of that.

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I think the games being made these days are standing on the shoulders of giants. EQ1, and it"s other first gen compatriots set a good example of what NOT to do... WoW, EQ2 and the rest of the second gen games will get to skip a lot of the trial and error. I think Vanguard, which has the next 5...

Right now you have two fairly well established, content filled, well organized games running... EQ2 and WoW. 5 years from now when you are going to probably be hovering around launch time those games are going to be even larger and even more robust. Vanguard will be 5 years old, a meriad of...

O What is Gaereth making that Blackguard is going to want to buy?

well anyone who starts a thread about talk like a pirate day is aces in my book, even if you did work on EQ2

Eve"s crafting, economy, territory grabbing, and massive wars are so money. Everytime I read the Eve thread I"m like [Woah]... but then I think about actually playing the game and I"m like [yawn]. If some game that was fun to play could steal those 4 concepts and integrate them flawlessly I"d be...

Too true... Eve is ahead of their time in so many ways, and yet so far behind at the same time. I couldn"t stay interested long enough for any of that stuff to be pertinent to my experience.

You know I was just thinking... Why not have a game where nothing is "vendor trash". Make every item in the game valuable for something. Should even make it so that items can be reclaimed for their materials. Make every item in the game viable for scrap or rework into something better. A...

Waiting endlessly for skills to train is what really bored me away from EVE... I don"t want to incubate my account for 2-3 months before I can start playing with everyone else. With a system like that farmers don"t even need to farm... they can just incubate accounts and sell them as is.

Looks like they are going with the gamebryo engine... same as elder scrolls IV.

So when are the GMG forums going to launch?

bah one out of 23 pages slips by... =P This is one of the few threads I actually read (aka not about Vanguard or WoW).

Well they better get a 4th who"s done it before or they are going to be spinning their wheels just figuring out the basic crap for the first few years. Or at least hire a big name as a consultant at least to hold your hand while assembling the skeleton of your organization. Any start-up...

The problem is that MMO design is a niche field and the talent pool is small. I"m in biotech and we have similar issues. You need someone with experience running a biotech ship, but the field is so small you either hire the people other people didn"t want, hire inexperienced and train them...

I was going to post the exact same thing. EQ2 moves too fast. They have great quests, but by the time you find them let alone finish them, you have far passed the point of their usefulness.

The 24,500 quests to kill 10 mobs is just as much of a grind. It"s the grind I prefer because it makes it easy to get groups together... "hey you doing quest xyz? I"ll join ya". But don"t be fooled, it"s the same grind.

BSG MMO plz Battlestar would be awesome, but I think Stargate would lend itself better to an MMO...

Then MMO-Companies need to lock down what ARE the approved channels for releasing information, make sure information is only released through those channels, and make sure that information is reviewed before it is released. Ignorance doesn"t absolve culpablity. If your product wasn"t a game you...

A necessary fix would have been dropping a few rooting/snaring mobs in the handful of places where AE kiting was even viable. Anyone who thinks AE kiting was trivial is kidding themselves (well pre-nostromo... but even then all you need is a split second hangup in your client for instant death)...

We"re going to push things from the design and technological perspective and our nerfing days are behind us all the people in this room swear. John Smedley President, Sony Online Entertainment This was the summer before OoW was released... which most notably contained the bard PBAE nerf.

What game has he released since then?

Well that"s really where my "who"s $50M dollars" question comes into play. If he"s following the same model as everyone else It"ll be like "Yeah, ok you and 50 other companies who are doing the exact same thing"... If they"ve got a pool of cash and the investors are willing to trust that...

$50M in capital from 3 rabid MMO fans who want to make an awesome game, or $50M from misc investors who want the biggest return on their buck and don"t understand that thatdoesmean making an awesome game... regardless of deadlines? It seems deadlines bite a lot of people in the ass... they need...

rofl... I"m in biotech waiting for my company to go public so I can sell off my stock and afford to get a job with a gaming company... wonder how common that is. What kind of games are ya planning on making Curt?