well, he mentioned somewhere(maybe here) that dungeons will be so large groups will actually have places they can safely camp at.. I'm assuming hes thinking some players may look to sell shit at those locations? I'm ok with AH's if they are regional.. I just hate the global system.. I'd prefer a straight trading system tho
he specifically said you have to go there once yourself, then you can tp there. That's exactly a WoW flight path to me.
I think the primary reason that downtime is hated is because of the grind. In WOW and every game that has been released you need to kill X mobs before Y reward, or complete X quests before Y reward. Downtime create a sense of urgency because you're not doing anything but you still have some metric left to do and the only thing that is keeping you back is some mechanic that forces pacing.
But he also said classes will be able to port.. so.. we can assume there are teleport locations within cities(like VG) and class ports that port you off the beaten trail to more desirable locations(like EQ)
you mean like Teleport to Stormwind?
This leads to non-level based progression, or at least non-experience based progression system. Instead of spending your time doing 100 quests to level, you spend your time doing one quest to level. This way you have one goal and don't have to worry about kill efficiency or collection efficiency. Puzzles, mazes and other non combat content can be used and not seen as a waste of time by the majority of people.
Could also be like the Dragon Rings back on Velious. I'd put my money on that instead.
heh? he said some classes will be able to teleport..hmm maybe I'm just confusing it..
Eh, Depends on how many. Might just be one or two connections because they can't put in boats.
He's lost his mind here. So basically yes, players can just zap most anywhere they want to once they have been there first. Which basically makes player porting, wizzys, druids, unnecessary. Brad, have you been listening at all?
I think the idea is to encourage players to interact as they did in EC through a channel or possibly create certain areas throughout the game to sell. Maybe these areas allow you to build bonus exp (rest) or give you a special buff for a period of time. As he said, EC wasn't by design so I think the key is to create areas throughout the world that facilitate and encourage people to interact through tradeskill and buying/selling. In regards to the AH, i'm sure they'll have some kind of system but I bet it doesn't not reach a global market (as he referenced) but the auction will work within a single town or region. I still think that EQII did AH the best and they could copy/paste their AH, Housing, Guild Hall, and Tradeskill then simply polish it.
Little confused myself.. I thought he said he was going for a mix of both.. some classes like Wiz and Druids plus a teleport to certain cities.. Maybe I'm just mixing it all up in my head lol.. He will clear it up I'm sure.
uhm, you lost me there. What was fast travel in velious again? I thought it was just the same wizard / druid teleport location system that was in from Launch. I Don't think you needed to have visited Cobalt Scar before you could be teleported there, right?
Yes, some classes also having teleports to major cities is also exactly what WoW did. Flight Paths + Portal Stormwind.
Travel is being laid out here now in our current discussion. Death penalty wasn't discussed at all. There was just this one sentence about "dieing in a dungeon" and a class can "teleport" you back to the dungeon, which to me is what Resurrection did.
Agree. As far as quest reward, some of the most fun I had in VG was working on the shadowhound quest line. Tons of fun.
That's not what he said at all. He's talking about that there will be teleportation locations in the world, maybe cities or larger central hubs, but you would have to travel from there to wherever you wanted to go. I didn't not take what he said about having 2-4 flight paths per zone.
I took that as meaning you would have to visit the port once, before you could later be ported by a porting class to the location, not just port yourself. EQ2 early on required you to go harvest a sacred plant at each druid ring before you could port to them, and I believe you had to gather a scroll near the wizzy spires as well.
