All Posts by Samuraisword

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Originally posted by olddaddy

Originally posted by karr1981

One day it wil happen, a proper wild west MMO with;

Land grabs into the frontier

Gold mining and prospecting where you actually mine ito the surroundings, creating mines etc

player formed towns and outposts

I just need to win the UK National Lottery after a good rollover, or if we can get 10,000 to invest £1000 and form a huge consortium and fund the project ourselves :-)

 

Either that or just piss the investors money away on blow and whores........and come out with another incomplete, incompetent MMORPG.

 

I see you also read Brad Mcquaid's book " Guide to riches".

The fun stuff for you is at the end of a game, and for most games that equates to raiding, which I clearly don't like, and is more of a grind than the leveling process.

The leveling process is combined with exploring the game world, learning the lore and mechanics of the game, meeting and befriending other players, and building a reputation for yourself, so to me it is the most enjoyable part and the reason I play MMOGS at all. Having that last longer thru a difficult to level process is more fun for me.

Finally someone who I recognize and have enjoyed reading their posts wins something decent on this site.

Because the current crop of developers are too lazy to design a historical based MMOG with realism.

It's easier to copy and paste another version of a Fantasy based game and claim it will be better than the rest when in reality it won't be because they don't apply any innovation.

Flying Lab failed with their opportunity at making a historical based Pirate MMOG with PotBS because they didn't stay true to the realism factor of a large sailing world which should take time to travel in and a Caribbean where trade abd exploration played a major factor. Instead they released a WoWified Pirate game with instaporting and super speedy travel which made the game world very small with a limited  economy based on NPC purchases and sales of goods and materials without harvesting or real crafting.

Yes it will definitely be a zerg tactic oriented game because there is no significant death penalty so there is no fear of dying and failing in combat.

Zerging, is the act of repeatedly attacking, dying, respawning, and reattacking in quick succession, especially with larger groups wether in PVE or PVP, in order to win in battle by overwhelming numbers. It's considered a sissy way to accomplish the goal because it involves no talent or skill or planning and only is possible because developers have designed a sissy game which doesn't hold players accountable for losing in battle.

Originally posted by Ephimero

Not at all ^^

This is false.

The Aion representative on these boards has already stated there will be some instancing. They claim about 10% of content will be instanced. It's hard to judge if that is too much without experiencing it in the game world but I personally dislike any and all types of instancing.

Is this post for real?

Most of what I hear and read is negative and rightfully so. The game had potential but wasn't completed and SOE has taken it into a different direction and WoWified it.

I always thought she did a good job here as community manager. The dealings I had with her were always fair.

Did anyone know her personally? I hope she wasn't clinically depressed or something and didn't end her life herself.

Combat experience games > than quest experience oriented games

This new trend of linear quest line games usherd in by WoW is boring and antisocial. Usually you have a short wham-bam-thank-you-maam type group arrangement which ends when the quest is over and then you follow the retarded questgiver floating icons and minmap arrows to the next one.

Originally posted by banthis

Originally posted by Samuraisword

Don't confuse loading a zone, which can be shared by everyone, with instancing.

There is no question that Warhammer has lots of instancing: instanced dungeons, instanced scenarios, and instanced city seige portions.  Dunegeons are only instanced at the BOSS fight they are open world other wise.  

There are very few scenarios and they count for alot less than the Open world Fights, not to mention they're incredibly SMALL in scale compared to the Open RvR areas.   The instance city siege is only a portion and due to server restraints you can't have 1000 vs 1000 on a screen.  That makes the instancing actually fairly LIGHT not heavy. 

Heavy instancing is AoC where everything you do is praticaly an instance.  Zones are Instanced off, Dungeons, ALL of PVP and SIEGE unless your on a Pvp server are instanced off.   WAR does not instance off its ZONES, WAR"S dungeons are primarily open, its heavy FOCUS is on the OPEN RvR areas.  Its instancing is comparable to EQ1 where they only instanced off

That's a lot of instancing! Places where you can't see and meet everyone who may be standing right next to you because they are in a separate copy of the same zone! WAR DOESN"T HAVE THIS :)

Just say no to instancing and send developers the message that we want large seamless worlds to play in, not theme park games for ADD kiddies.

 

I think you have things muddled for a game to be Heavy Instanced you'd have to instance for everything everywhere like Guild Wars or AoC.

Just because a Game has 1 Scenario every so often doesn't make it "heavily instanced' it merely means it has some 'instanced' content which in WAR's case you can play the game and never be required to EVER go to the scenario instanced.   Unlike Wow where you had to do the instances for pvp gear & rank in WAR you never have to touch a scenario making its focus more to OPEN world.

If the main focus was based around instancing i could agree that its "alot" but since 75% if not MORE of the game is openw orld I cannot agree that its alot of instancing.  

I can play the game and skip a large portion of content and thus avoid instancing? Gee thanks.

Don't confuse loading a zone, which can be shared by everyone, with instancing.

There is no question that Warhammer has lots of instancing: instanced dungeons, instanced scenarios, and instanced city seige portions. That's a lot of instancing! Places where you can't see and meet everyone who may be standing right next to you because they are in a separate copy of the same zone!

Just say no to instancing and send developers the message that we want large seamless worlds to play in, not theme park games for ADD kiddies.

Originally posted by VengeSunsoar

Originally posted by RedwoodSap

Originally posted by Inf666

Originally posted by Abrahmm

Item malls could be the absolute worst idea ever thought of for an MMORPG and completely defeats the purpose of living in an isolated online world where your accomplishments and failings are completely unrelated to your life in the real world.

I sure hope that was sarcasm. Your success in an MMO is extremly dependend on your real life. If you work 10 hours a day and have other stuff to do you will not have any time to play an MMO which leaves you with a weak character (time invested = strength of char). Yet if someone still goes to school or is unemployed, he will be able to play nearly 24/7 resulting in a powerful character. It is only fair to give those who have to work in RL a different way to keep up with everyone else.

 

Wrong.

That's like saying athletes who have the funds to allow them to train all year without working have an unfair advantage over athletes that have to balance their time and training between work and school etc.

People who choose to have a family and therefore are obligated to make a certain income and work more, are not entitled to buy their way in a MMOG so they can make up for actually playing the game less. As long as you stick with MMOGs that allow RMT thru item shops etc. though, then you can play that way, but don't you dare ignore the anti RMT rules in a subscription game and ruin other players fun who specifically choose anti RMT MMOGs because they enjoy a real virtual world where real money isn't supposed to have influence.

 

 

Um they do have an advantage.  This has been echoed in dozens of studies.  Countries that sponsor athletes, enabling the athlete to train without having to work, find sponsors, hire better trainers, eat better, hire better therapists or deal with the stress of having to find all those things do better in vritually every single competing event.

There is the exception, but those are exceptions not the rule.

Venge Sunsoar

I think "unfair advantage" is the debated viewpoint. There is no argument that playing more and spending more time in a MMOG will lead to more rewards and more success. That is the way it is supposed to be. You don't get a cookie for choosing other pursuits in real life and then whining about not being able to keep pace with hardcore gamers.

Well people certainly shill for their own products or businesses and against competition and those people benefit financially from the results if their product or business does well.

Figuring out ways to piss off and scam other players by uncovering faulty design and loopholes in the mechanics of the game, but not cheating by using 3rd party programs mind you, simply being smart and utilizing what the game designers may have missed.