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One Feature from a MMO that you liked!
The Pub at MMORPG.COM « General Discussion 1/24/12 6:54:00 PM
Originally posted by WellzyC I agree, that was my first thought. Meaningful RvR with at least three sides.
I also want meaningful crafting. DAoC had meaningful but mind numbingly boring crafting. SWG had meaningful but interesting crafting that was worthing dedicating your one and only character to playing. |
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Quick reminder that 3 realms are better than 2: New DAoC Post for Fans
Round Table Pub (General) « Dark Age of Camelot 1/09/12 7:51:22 PM
Seems fairly simple to me. You can have two factions with a neutral faction willing to aid the highest bidder. Then just use in game mechanics to make helping the losing faction more rewarding. Yes, the larger side would logically have more resources, but jobs offered by the underdog would be tougher which would call for a higher reward, after all, a smuggler would demand more money for a riskier job.
Just a thought on how a two faction game with a neutral faction could work. Of course you would also need some measure of what it means to be losing, and it would need to be dynamic enough to adjust the rewards in real time. And balance isn't so hard since the neutral faction doesn't really need to be balanced as they would bounce from one side to the other. So there are still only two sides to balance. |
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There are only two ways I could see permadeath working. The first is if death is insanely rare. And I think that would sort of defeat the purpose. Second would be if characters required practically no time investment and were little more than pets you could throw away, once again defeating the purpose. I like tough death penalties for PvE (like EQ used to have). It keeps you on your toes in risky situations and makes PvE a little more fun. But in PvP, I like lower penalties because you want to encourage PvP, not discourage it. |
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If people have got this heated over Blizzard adding a Panda race, I would hate to see the rage of players when a new MMO add a Ogre race
General Discussion « World of Warcraft 11/01/11 1:02:56 PM
Originally posted by OkhamsRazor Actually, Pandaren dates back to April 1st, 2003 as an April Fools joke. Kung Fu Panda was released in 2008. Not that I'm taking sides in this argument (I don't play WoW and have never played other than a free trial), but they are a part of the lore of Warcraft and they do pre-date Kung Fu Panda. |
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Killer personifies rise of new far-right
Religion & Politics « General Discussion 7/27/11 12:40:36 PM
Just wondering because hearly every time I see his name in a news story it is preceded by "Christian conservative"
Now I know that a vast majority of the US media simply hates conservatives (never mind that conservative doesn't mean the same here as it does there). You see the conservative or right wing extremist label on any criminal that has any conservative leanings, but you don't see comperable labels for criminals with liberal political leanings. The media didn't call the unibomber a left wing extremist, and they even tried to pin the Giffords shooter as a conservative long after his real political leanings became known. It is just something that we have come to expect from our biased US media.
But before conservative in all these articles is Christian. It is the very first thing you learn about this guy, so you would think it is the most important thing about him. And if it is, you would think everyone would know what church he regularly attended, or what religious groups he might associate with. They would know who his pastor is and maybe even have some recordings or transcripts of his teachings. Maybe they would even have him on record talking about how Norway's chicken are coming home to roost. The media here was very cautious about refering to the religion of a guy who shot his fellow workers while shouting allah akbar, so they must really have something good on this guy in order to put the Christian label above all others. Or maybe they just hate Christians even more than they hate conservatives... |
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Killer personifies rise of new far-right
Religion & Politics « General Discussion 7/26/11 11:08:48 PM
What church did this guy attend? |
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Is tradeskilling dieing out of MMORPGs?
The Pub at MMORPG.COM « General Discussion 4/22/11 8:31:31 PM
I think DAoC had the balance between crafted and quest/raid gear down the best. Quest/raid gear was the absolute best gear, but because of the way stats worked, you couldn't really make a well balanced outfit from just quest/raid gear. And if you wanted to PvP, balance was important. So you went after those quest/raid items you wanted and built a custom suit of crafted armor around them to give you the best combo of stats and effects. That said, the crafting itself was tedious as hell. This is where SWG did well. Crafted items were useful, and crafting was interesting. Not all crafted items were the same because there were some random factors and all materials weren't the same. Materials had their own stats, and different items used different stats. On top of that, materials were different depending on the planet, and they changed from time to time. And the best crafting in SWG was bioengineer. You had to get samples from live creatures. It was a balancing act between stats, effects, and creature levels. And just to make it real fun, there were no factories for creatures, so no two were exactly alike. I haven't played every game, but of those I have played, nothing compares to being a bioengineer/creature handler. The thrill of crawling up to a wild creature that could kick your butt and poking them with a needle, to the fun of taming and training your own creations. I do miss SWG. |
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The harsh penalty for dying was the fun
The Pub at MMORPG.COM « General Discussion 4/12/11 12:34:18 PM
Originally posted by Xzen Games are just times sinks that keep you from participating in real life. Games with harsh death penalties are just better time sinks. |
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The harsh penalty for dying was the fun
The Pub at MMORPG.COM « General Discussion 4/07/11 8:41:25 PM
Without the lows, there are no highs.
I've played a lot of games since EQ and DAoC. Most were quite fun. But after a month or two or three they became redundant. There was little failure, and failure didn't really feel like failure, it was just no big deal. So it isn't that I like death penalties, but without them victory just seems inevitable and meaningless.
On the other hand, I'm not so big on large penalties for PvP. Just fighting another human is already more exciting than facing a computer generated foe, and PvP is more fun with more people in the fight. |
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Originally posted by Zindaihas And how long before 'turn your head and cough' becomes 'bend over and spread your cheeks?" ;) |
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Originally posted by Hekket Name the last suicide bomber who successfully smuggled a bomb on board a US plane through one of the airports now using these scanners and pat downs. |
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Will the Tea Party learn a lesson from the November Elections?
Religion & Politics « General Discussion 11/04/10 9:32:42 AM
Originally posted by generals3 So what you are saying is: 1. Life can not be created except by chance. 2. A feotus is either not living or not human (unless you are making the argument that few pro-abortionists make that it is just perfectly fine to terminate a human life if it is an inconvience to you). |
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Will the Tea Party learn a lesson from the November Elections?
Religion & Politics « General Discussion 11/03/10 10:51:56 PM
So who is being more anti-science, someone who believes a higher life form can create a lower life form, or someone who thinks it is okay to kill a feotus because it isn't an individual human life? |
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http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/14/fox-news-barack-obama-media-opinions-contributors-s-robert-lichter.html |
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Originally posted by sif-lawd MSNBC doesn't need to raise funds for democrats, they are a 24/7 commercial for democrat candidates and their positions. |
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Anyone else not going to be satisfied with MMOs until "skill" is added into the gameplay?
The Pub at MMORPG.COM « General Discussion 6/23/10 11:06:31 PM
You know, I have played MMOs off and on for over ten years, and while I keep hearing how MMOs don't take any "skill" I have yet to play one where there weren't good and bad players regardless of level and gear. |
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So wheres the thread on Arizona's "Show me your papers" law?
Religion & Politics « General Discussion 4/30/10 8:05:16 PM
Originally posted by Vato26 How does this have nothing to do with immigration officials? You claim the law doesn't mirror the federal law and you claim that before this law officials had no right to demand identification from someone in an altercation. So what are you saying now, federal officials don't count? Are you saying you only need to carry ID when you know you will have a run in with a federal official? What exactly are you trying to say? This law is just like the federal law and the only difference is that you might get off with a ticket (which I bet would be dismissed if you showed up in court just like a ticket for not having proof of insurance on you if you get stopped). If a federal official demands ID and you don't have it then you will be detained. And yes, this law could be abused just like every other single law on the books. Police are only human and some of them aren't good humans. Same is true for federal officials though. But your argument that the law shouldn't be on the books because it might get abused only makes sense if we were to wipe every single law that could be abused off the books which would basically be all of them. |
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So wheres the thread on Arizona's "Show me your papers" law?
Religion & Politics « General Discussion 4/30/10 1:01:44 PM
Originally posted by Vato26 So your assertion is this: You have a run in with immigration officials. The official demands to see some identification. You say no. Then they say, "Alright sir, you are free to go, have a nice day." |
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So wheres the thread on Arizona's "Show me your papers" law?
Religion & Politics « General Discussion 4/30/10 2:02:32 AM
Originally posted by popinjay Okay, I have read some of your posts and I want to get this straight. I am making these assumptions based on what you have written and I just want to make sure I have it right. First, your position is that republican politicians and their voters don't support and would never go after businesses who hire illegals. I am not sure where you believe democrats and their supporters fall in this, but the assumption can be made that they would be more supportive than republicans and their supporters, is this correct? Second, I have seemed to notice that you and others on the left love using sexual slurs against those with whom you disagree politically, why is that? |
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Gen. Raymond Odierno, the top U.S. general in Iraq says gay is ok
Religion & Politics « General Discussion 2/28/10 3:19:22 PM
Originally posted by Ihmotepp There is no comparing the two. Gay rights is nothing in comparison to slavery - nothing. Gays are not slaves (no, I am not speaking of the Mr. Slave argument). No one holds, or claims, ownership over an individual who is gay. Bad, bad comparison.
Try harder. I didn't say gays are slaves. I said the same argument can be used to justify slavery. The statement was, it works, and if it works don't change it. Slavery worked. If we use that logic, then we would still have slaves. It worked right? The cotton got picked right? The point is not that gays are slaves. The point is that just because something works doesn't make it right, and doesn't make it the ONLY thing that can work. What if it was the opposite, and there was no DADT policy? Would the General go, well, we've got gays openly in the military, and it works. If it works, don't change it. Somehow, I think not. These countries figured it out. I think the US can have just as good a military as these countries:
* 2.1 Argentina
Are you saying the US has a military inferior to those countries? Because I believe the US military is the finest in the world. |
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