It's been said before, but apparently some of you missed it. Kickstarter campaigns get most of their funding in the beginning and the end. Especially at the end.
People are obsessing over the average needed to be funded and I understand that it's going to be close, but it's still making progress which is more than what can be said for Kickstarters with no chance. I think the last minute surge is going to far eclipse the opening two days. New pledgers are going to bump it, too, but the people that want Pantheon to happenreallywant Pantheon to happen and are going to start throwing more money at it, raising that average pledge amount even higher.
Well that's exactly what happened.. HBO paid for it. A Larry David kickstarter would have been funded in minutes with the promise of physical media though.
Serious. Boozecube, you have said the same "oh brad raped my wife" rap for 400 pages. Get over it you bed wetting homo.
You obviously cant read for shit. Maybe remove your head from your asshole and contribute something.. look at your post history it's complete horseshit either sucking on the Pantheon cock or bitching about other posters.. You are Jack's bleeding vagina.
Yeah but It takes a level greater than love. Plus a lot of people have moved on from that kind of gaming or are happy in other games. They don't obsess about the glory days of eq. In fact given how wow jizzed all over everything it could be fair to believe most people felt inhibited and held back by eq and would have zero interest in going back.
This reminds me of something daoc had. Which I think was a question queue and you could sign up to answer questions. Then when a newbie had a question a more experienced player who has specifically volunteered to help could give them guidance
I kinda want one starting/main city, and the other cities are actually NPC cities you have to gain faction in or conquer to use. It would make regional markets more interesting. Maybe make it so items from outside a region have a huge tax compared to items sold in a region, so you conquer a city as a guild or gain enough faction by conquering the cities enemies and you're able to put items up on that market, and then other players have a reason to travel there, earn respect for that city enough they can use that market.
Problem is, even if it picks up some it's going to require quite a last minute boost. like 250-300k. Thats a TON of money.
2 per minute for main and 1 per minute for off hand was at 305-404 dex. 205-304 dex was just 1.5 main hand and .75 off hand. Pre-Pop it was not possible to have more than 255 dex and therefor not more than 1.5 procs a minute in the main hand with the exception of Bloodfrenzy and a couple of other specific weapons.
The warrior 2 handed epic as well as Gaudralek from the Temple of Veeshan both had hate procs on them. The problem with proc weapons pre-PoP is that proc rates were so low for all but a couple of weapons(IE Bloodfrenzy) that they were unreliable. Sometimes a Blade of Carnage would proc 8 times in a row and you'd be able to hold hate like a champ other times it wouldn't proc at all for several minutes and make holding aggro a pain; two handed weapons were much more consistent in how much aggro they generated which made them far easier to manage. AAs introduced in Shadows of Luclin such as Flurry and Double Riposte also further helped out two handed weapons since flurry and riposte are abilities that only happen with your primary weapon. When you get into Planes of Power; the dex cap goes up to 305 which allows 2 procs per minute in the main hand and 1 proc per minute which provides a nice boost to dual wielding. Bloodfrenzy is an awesome weapon, between it's generous +55% proc rate and it's meaty riposte mod; it was a very good weapon for generating hate. However like you said even though it might have been the best hate it wasn't the best weapon in many situations since getting riposted by the mobs was a problem that was best dealt with by wielding a good two hander like blade of war.
I don't disagree with this statement however the original conversation was framed in the the context of end game Luclin where dex capped at a mere 255 and where there was no augs, weapon affinity aas or combat effects stat. With the dex cap increase and the introduction of the combat effects stat in Planes of Power, the introduction of anger augs in Lost Dungeons of Norrath, weapon affinity aas in Gates of Discord and Slippery attacks aas in Omens of War that once at rank 5 removed all chances of being riposted with your secondary weapon; it became a totally different game that greatly favored dual wielding. You really can't compare Shadows of Luclin to Omens of War when it comes to how to play a warrior and generate hate since the circumstances were very very different.
I was always okay with knights being able to generate hate better. Just as you said earlier; higher hate generation was their bonus for giving up the extra hp/mitigation of the warrior.
Matter of opinion I guess, not everyone interested in this game expects the same features.
Design those zones with all that in mind. An example from EQ would be how lively EC was because players created a trade hub there. Have important NPCs/resources around that mid/high level need to talk to or want to fight. Have less levels (say 20) where the newbie areas and mid-level areas are interwoven (bonus: griffons, sand giants and sons of Arugal for all!). A raid target at the shrine to the God of War maybe. They're asking for enough money that I expect them to figure out solutions instead of taking lazy shortcuts.
Three is the number, and the number shall be three. Two is one less than what is required and four is only the second multiple of two -- which is not in any sense three.
Even if it does barely get funded, it looks like they are going to have to do this anyway because I think it's pretty safe to say that it's not going to reach any of the stretch goals. I still go back to what Brad says about this KS proving to the industry (and potential investors) that people really want this type of game. Even though they've raised over 300k at this point, they still have less than 2500 backers. If I'm an investor/publisher, I don't see that as a 'huge or even average amount of interest'. I see that as a small but very vocal group of people that are willing to throw money into this project.
One thing to keep in mind, the primary reasons zones like EC and GFay were trade hubs was their close proximity to cities and easy to get to via ports. So any zone like this in the future would have to have those same elements. Has brad (or any of the other team) said that trade/commerce would be strictly by chat channels or are they going to incorporate some sort of Bazaar (which is different than an AH).
I've been playing a lot of p99 and have been loving it. I had no idea what I was missing all these years.
