General Discussion

Heres a list of ALL the things that would describe my DREAM MMO.

• No levels. 100% skill based, you buy skills/gear from NPC's OR get them as Drops, or buy them off other players, OR craft them (including skills)
• Skills and gear from drops, NPC's, Players, and crafting are ALL equally good. But all of them are unique in their own ways.
• NO classes. Be whatever you want. Each player can wield all sorts of gear, mail plate cloth leather etc. But each kind of armour has their advantages, and their disadvantages. Same with weapons. You finish deeds (like in LOTRO) and get the ability to equip certain armours and weapons.
• Alot of character customization, kinda like CoH/CoV. A great variety of races.
• Free For All PvP - With FULL player looting. (Yeah, sounds like Darkfall doesnt it?)
• Sieging. Destroyable building's and cities made by players AND npc's. A group of players can destroy other cities, but they're guarded by .. well... GUARDS. And in the end, you get rewarded like saaaaay you get what the city was worth and its divided amongst the players.
• Player owned houses and guild halls. BOTH instances like in the future of LOTRO.
• No button smashing, not FPS either. Like TCoS or AoC or Darkfall (without the 1s person).
• Mount combat.
• Naval combat.
• Other players can board your ships, naval combat mainly like PotBS.
• A major role of player economy, MOST of the items in game to be player crafted.
• A fair bit of grinding aswell as questing.
• Amazing animations.
• Good looking spells, not like Fury though - so much light and explosions you cant even see wtf is happening.
• Ofcourse, top of the line graphics with an AMAZING engine.
• In a fantasy setting, with a mix of mideval.
• Ability to train your own armies (of maximum 10 soldiers), Squad combat ... like Guildwars ? (Plays minor role - you dont NEED them to play)
• Flying mounts aswell.
• Gainable titles like in LOTRO, but they give you buffs.
• Arena's ; like from WoW, but only small and short - kinda like GuildWars.
• NO HEALING! Mentioning arena's from guildwars reminded me of the healfest.
• Massive gear customization, logo's on armour - writings on swords, blood on your axes, cracks on your hammer. You can customize your gear while crafting, customization depends on how much raw material you use, say one bar of iron can only make a small dagger. This also determines the speed and damage. 10 bars would make a 2 handed mace, therefore slower but more damage. Crafting system such that almost no gear looks similar.

Well thats what I want. The closest thing to my list is definately Darkfall, but im slowly losing interest looking at the graphics slowly getting outdated and the First Person view kinda looked gay from the videos. But only time will tell.

What do YOU want in your dream MMO?

(Im bored, thats why I just wrote that! Theres almost no good MMO out there for me atm)

AoC Graphics

AC1 Gameplay

EQ2 Content

WoW Appeal

DAoC PvP

SWG Character Creation

AO community  ( I haven't been playing long but these guys are really helpful )

Similar to the "Too many MMOs" thread...

Sci-Fi world

Skill-based, no classes

Planetside targeting/combat (no aim assist)

DAoC PvP

All player created gear with components dropped by PvE or crafted

Crafting complexity on par with SWG/EQ2

1st person

Realistic lighting (night is DARK not just a blue hue shift with daytime clipping plane)

Established IP perhaps (eg Star Wars, Star Trek, 40K, Starcraft)

My dream MMO?

Easy. That would be a free version of EVE Online

Lineage II without the grind.

I like your list, however i'd change 2 things.

Healing would be in it, but not in the ''press 1 button and get a big chunk of health'' all heals would be dot types.

Wouldn't want another fantasy world filled with elves dorfs humans and a generic small race.

Basically my perfect mmo would be your list set in a Star Wars world (replace naval with a decent and seamless space combat).

Won't happen but gotta love a dream.

Just gotta ask the OP. Why would you not want levels, and then ask for a mix of grind and quests? Other than that a fairly solid list.

Originally posted by xenogias

Just gotta ask the OP. Why would you not want levels, and then ask for a mix of grind and quests? Other than that a fairly solid list.

Direct levels in a skill system isn't needed. I do look on levels as a easy road for developers to add progression and balance.  We get alot more interesting system without it. The drawback without levels is that its more expensive and harder for the developers to make a working system.

I (can have fun with)/(like) almost all styles of MMOs...However I hate almost all of the comunities out there .How about hackers? My dream MMO would be a really kind community with zero hacks , without asian gold farmers and brazilians.(I wouldn't mind about them if they were able to speak english , but most aren't able to , so...)