Looking for an mmo that comprises some of the following.  But it must have the first four at the very least.

1. Group focused, with as little solo content as possible.  I want to interact with my fellow players, not play a game with a chatroom built in.
2. Decent population.  If #1 is true, having a decently healthy population is a must.  Otherwise there's no one to play with
3. Intelligent AI.  I want mobs to react as an inteligent creature would do.  I am sick of fighting a bandit while 20 feet away 30 other of his bandit friends stroll around with their heads in the clouds.  Mobs should have a decent field of view, and react accordingly to my actions.
4. 3d game.  I am not interested in a 2d game or muds, sorry =)
5. In depth crafting - SWG / Vanguard / EQ2 (at release) are good examples
6. Some extent of wildreness to explore.  I don't want there to be zero exploration, with everything colonized.  NPC's everywhere I look, and a village always over the next hill.  Give me some vast wilderness to explore!  The more the better.

Originally posted by ragz45

Looking for an mmo that comprises some of the following.  But it must have the first four at the very least.

1. Group focused, with as little solo content as possible.  I want to interact with my fellow players, not play a game with a chatroom built in.
2. Decent population.  If #1 is true, having a decently healthy population is a must.  Otherwise there's no one to play with
3. Intelligent AI.  I want mobs to react as an inteligent creature would do.  I am sick of fighting a bandit while 20 feet away 30 other of his bandit friends stroll around with their heads in the clouds.  Mobs should have a decent field of view, and react accordingly to my actions.
4. 3d game.  I am not interested in a 2d game or muds, sorry =)
5. In depth crafting - SWG / Vanguard / EQ2 (at release) are good examples
6. Some extent of wildreness to explore.  I don't want there to be zero exploration, with everything colonized.  NPC's everywhere I look, and a village always over the next hill.  Give me some vast wilderness to explore!  The more the better.

All other features I am open to consider but nothing else jumps out at me as a big huge want or must have.

Unless it has to be Fantasy, EVE Online ticks all the boxes above.

As you said it has to have all the 6 points i would also recomment Darkfall Unholy Wars.  [mod edit]

However ontop of your 6 points darkfall offers also full loot and PvP enabled everyhwere except NPC cities which are maybe 3% of the world, maybe less.

But yeah its the only game i can think of that offers these 6 points.

You could alos check out Mortal Online and Xsyon they are free to play but very buggy and unpolished

  You might want to try Ryzom, it does however have a somewhat small population. It has a free trial that is considered a F2P option, allowing one to play to level 125 free but subscription is necessary to level above 125 ( level 250 skill levels are max ). The craft system is probably the high point of ryzom but it is a lot of grinding to level craft skills.

  I really beleive everyone should at least give Ryzom a try for a month or 2, its pretty unique.

Originally posted by ragz45
I had looked into Darkfall for a while, but something about the combat animations bothered me to no end.  After watching quite a few videos with the combat in the game, I kind of wrote it off.  It looks more like a lot of circle strafeing & just swinging away.  Rather than realistic hack & slash combat.