Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

Zones are immense! Meter scale lets you really build big

That seems like a good goal, but you even have monies yet?

The world even with the unfinished couple zones is beautiful. They have a great world going already.

I saw in the sky there are two moons. Two moon expansions.

Pretty much unplayable, as expected, but it definitely already has that strong EQ vibe. I dig the ambient music too. I've always wished more MMOs would use the ambient music stylings of DAoC and AO.

Casters losing their spell book on death is a nice touch. Should balance out melee's getting screwed upon death. Something they should have fixed in EQ. I say this as a caster main too.

Araxen said:

Casters losing their spell book on death is a nice touch. Should balance out melee's getting screwed upon death. Something they should have fixed in EQ. I say this as a caster main too.

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Gotta bank spell books eh? I get it, but man that's harsh.

Koushirou said:

But how do they expect me to run back to my corpse with no SoW?

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Bank your spell books.

You can own multiples!

Koushirou said:

Do any of the vendors buy junk? So far all the ones I've found don't want my shit.

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There is a general trash merchant, but no - not all do.

Man, I'm spoiled. Can't find the SK GM for shit. Feels good man.

I say this as somebody who both loves this project and what they're trying to build and never had an issue navigating in EQ:

This city is STUPIDLY ABSURDLY too large and this is a very bad idea in a game without navigation aids. It's a gigantic maze. I've spent 2 and a half hours trying to find my trainer and still have not. Most of the rest of the play test (over 3.5 hours as of this post) was spent trying to find merchants to buy my stuff. When it comes to cities, less is more.

I don't think the city is too large. It's what it needs to be. It isn't flushed out because it's very early.

I couldn't find the Inquisitor trainer. My buddies and I had some trouble finding one another, but once we did we grouped up and killed some stuff around the necroplis, and then outside one of the gates. Got to level 2, maybe a third of the way to level 3. First hour or more was spent just trying to get spells into the book, onto hotbars, getting everyone on the same server and connecting to start killing things.

Yeah a couple of us wasted a couple hours looking for Spellblade trainer, and we were at the right place. One issue for me it that it would take minutes to load npc's, so I could have been right next to the guy many times and not known it. /shrug no biggie, still had a good time. Look forward to tomorrow.

The City is QUITE large. However i'm of the opinion of fuck em if you can't spend the time to get acclimated to the layout/ where you're trainers are. The one caveat is, i'd prolly put sense heading as a default skill for everyone. That'd mitigate a bit of the pain.

Servers down... intentionally. Very positive stress test.

Hopefully they complete the scope of their proof of concept and get more funding. They should be able churn content quickly out if they get it.

Mur said:

Yeah a couple of us wasted a couple hours looking for Spellblade trainer, and we were at the right place. One issue for me it that it would take minutes to load npc's, so I could have been right next to the guy many times and not known it. /shrug no biggie, still had a good time. Look forward to tomorrow.

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Yeah the loading lag was pretty rough. Assuming that gets sorted out, finding npcs will be quite a bit easier.

Araxen said:

Servers down... intentionally. Very positive stress test.

Hopefully they complete the scope of their proof of concept and get more funding. They should be able churn content quickly out if they get it.

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Yea, that was pretty great. Extremely EQ ass. In a good way.