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Originally posted by Amorphism
* Have you noticed that in most MMO the player is like a radar, picking out huge amount of information, without any
realistic sense to it? Like Health Bars flying above everyone heads, monsters and humanoids alike.
I thought that it will be more realistic AND fun to have a bar appearing once you got enough experience (not XP!)

. So the player must explore more to achieve knowledge that appears in his GUI.
Enemy thougness can go into that account, Map locations, how good/bad was your strike/spell effect etc'.

It's just makes sense that a veteran player has much more knowledge to his disposal, appearing in GUI, than a
new player.

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I'd rather SEE different graphics instead of Hp bars [except for my own Hp].

You hit and do damage, you see it bleed; you see it move more slowly, perhaps favoring one leg, etc.

Both Friend and Foe should do this - makes being a healer more of a challenge.

Also, Ryzom did something in this vein originally - not the damage, but strength of MOBs was based on size.  Unfortunately, in the last beta phase, they caved and put in star-rankings.

I like your idea of the map changing...maybe starting like an ancient map with many blank areas and crudely drawn, then becoming more detailed as more time is spent in an area.

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These ideal games are always a great deal of fun to read, whether it's because you agree or because you hope to poke holes in the design. What's unfortunate is that the tried and true games, games that we describe as "cookie-cutter" or "clones" will always fill the bulk of the market. These designs that sound ideal to hardcore gamers are too risky on a financial level. Why risk your money when you can go with a "sure thing"?

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Risk vs. reward. That's what the players want, and it's what the developers and producers want. The problem is the bean counters want Return On Investment. We're at a point where there's enough saturation in the market and if you want to draw people away from their tried and true MMO home you need to take that risk. SWG did, and it worked, for a while. Eve still does it to this day. The problem with most games is they try to get a "theme" and then they get stuck in it. People don't want to play a theme.

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Originally posted by Netherbeast

SWG was like this before the changes. To be a crafter meant owning power generators and harvesters. Paying maintennance, locating the resources, crafting items (that may not sell), auctioning the items or owning a shop which meant more maintenance and shop fees. Sounds cool, but you spend so much time doing all that, you never play the game. Not that there were "Star" nor "Wars" in that game, but you never become part of the world, you just have a job and pay motgages. Having a job and a mortgage myself, I would rather escape from that and play a game.

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Originally posted by severius
Every mob that spawns has some amount of money or certain value of items, every quest taken has a specific cash amount etc etc.  Let's say you find a mob that drops 50-100 *insert currency name here*.  whether 1 player or 1000 players kill that mob 1 time of 1 billion times the game world will continue to pump out 50-100 currency every time one dies.  Everytime a player kills that mob and gets x amount of currency that currency is devalued.

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