Richard Garriot should be exempt from bashing. With the right team he can produce great stuff.

I was just thinking about this...

and remembered it wasn't the elder scrolls I really liked  it was Betrayal at Krondor that I liked around the same time as arena came out.

a bullet can travel alot faster... but ... as far as pain...

Seriously anyone interested in suck ways of dying check out some of the evil stuff they used to load into crossbows

Originally posted by vandorn

The forums should be back online soon, It is a funny  though the darkfall forums are a joke you should all go there and see all the fanboys screaming at anyone who does not agree with them. Vey very funny indeed. It would be funny if after thay take all the money for preorders the dev team dissapears with all there cash lol.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I would rather pay Tasos 100 bucks a month to piss in my mouth, than play any of the other games on the market. There are no other games that deliver anything worth playing "mmo-wise" and single player games are not doing much better, for once technology has surpassed the abilities of game companies to produce serious quality game.

I think its time the designers think outside the box, introduce a game that requires a manual, a scratch pad and a fkin brain.

World of Auberean, and I can cancel my viagra prescription.

I would say the system just needs to be... the spirit is brought back... but items and a "bleeding burned smashed..etc" corpse land on the ground. Cloning... sounds about right.

looting needs to take the time it would take you to actually loot someone. I don't care about epic gear, if you have it you can lose it. just remember when your busting your ---, 10 hours a night for 3 months someone can get your ---- in 10 seconds... People will take precautions and it will just become a way of life... think Hollowsuit in ac.

nm my bad

Originally posted by nightwing70

Will they like hunt me down and murder me?

If your in the US, the following. as it being federal... if they have any US ties.

TITLE 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE Page 392
§ 1832. Theft of trade secrets
(a) Whoever, with intent to convert a trade secret,
that is related to or included in a product
that is produced for or placed in interstate or
foreign commerce, to the economic benefit of
anyone other than the owner thereof, and intending
or knowing that the offense will, injure
any owner of that trade secret, knowingly—
(1) steals, or without authorization appropriates,
takes, carries away, or conceals, or by
fraud, artifice, or deception obtains such information;
(2) without authorization copies, duplicates,
sketches, draws, photographs, downloads, uploads,
alters, destroys, photocopies, replicates,
transmits, delivers, sends, mails, communicates,
or conveys such information;
(3) receives, buys, or possesses such information,
knowing the same to have been stolen or
appropriated, obtained, or converted without
authorization;
(4) attempts to commit any offense described
in paragraphs (1) through (3); or
(5) conspires with one or more other persons
to commit any offense described in paragraphs
(1) through (3), and one or more of such persons
do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy,
shall, except as provided in subsection (b), be
fined under this title or imprisoned not more
than 10 years, or both.
(b) Any organization that commits any offense
described in subsection (a) shall be fined not
more than $5,000,000.
(Added Pub. L. 104–294, title I, § 101(a), Oct. 11,
1996, 110 Stat. 3489.)

The following is in addition and state by state,

The Uniform Trade Secrets Act (UTSA)

Each state has laws that prohibit trade secret theft. Regardless of whether you use an NDA, you can sue under these laws to stop disclosures, and in some cases, obtain financial damages.

http://www.ndasforfree.com/UTSA.html

Will they do anything... lol

Originally posted by Squitty

Originally posted by Wakygreek

I am a vet of EQ, and one thing i can attest to was the difficulty and the amount of people required to kill "The Sleeper" i dont care what wow raid you beat. Nothing compared to a Giant dragon that could load into other zones and kill players by the 10's just by using its claw swipe. Forget the fact that it had more hitpoints then the EQ gods...translation it had more HP then all four capital city heroes put together on either Alliance or Horde.  Again...this thing could zone in after you...thats right...try to run away by zoning into a different area LOL...it chased my guild across 3 zones and it killed everything (players) in its wake.

 

That sounds a bit rediculous.  Hard is one thing but impossible is just silly.  From the sound of it you would need a group of several hundred to kill this thing.

In wow a mob has the ability to hit for "more hp than anything has"points of damage, fly,get angry and yet cannot leave a building.

In WaR guards hit for 30k

I like the idea of EQ

I can see why a designer would want the player to be in first person view, that being almost soley for pvp purposes. "maybe the occasional sneaky goblin."

The easy answer is to create a 2 plane field of vision for people who wish to be in 3rd person. one plane is displaying what the player can see "1st person" in real time, the other being the surrounding camera "3rd" that only updates when you look in that direction and only shows static objects. "like a shed or a tree"  

lol yeh homedepot.com was down for 6 hours today, Lowes went down at the same time but came online around 2pm est... I blame tasos!

Some folks are getting really worked up...

All the talent in the gaming industry, got eaten up by contracts and money. I will not fault the game designers of yesterday for taking high paid positions in companies like Vivendi, SOE, EA, ect... The control over the product, and the lack of control by the veterans created this copy paste atmosphere.  If you look around you will find that the same designers that made games like wow, and said clones are bailing out as soon as there contracts are up, they are teaming up with other veterans and friends. The following quote sums it up.

"MY DESIGN PRINCIPLES FOR CONNECTED GAMES
Broadband connections allow for so much more than current online games take advantage of—current games are built using parameters and guidelines established ten years ago and dogmatically obeyed in the face of new, available technology present in other industries. In addition to technology, many of the standards and practices that were established in the stand-alone gaming world have been ignored in the online game space. I started off in the industry as a result of a belief that there was more you could do with computer games than what was being presented, and I founded Trion with that same belief for online games. It is time for games to evolve into a globally connected world."--Jon Van Caneghem

http://www.trionworld.com/studio.php

More looking around will also show some trends really are forming, mainly the talent that mentioned earlier is moving on from the big companies.

heh,

Great days were these...

AC3

Lugians Tummeroks and Humans... great stuff.

Item drop on death = more forthought and better teamwork.

Vassal Patron system... Priceless needs an anti-exploit however.

Discovering spells/ recipes... Sets AC apart from everything.

Buffing... nothing like being prepared.

Botting ... ucm = bad, merchants, portals and buffers not that bad. 

BoP items... Soulbinding an Item should cost a rediculous amount,  and prevent that item from normal repairs.

Cities need to be more dynamic... areas should be guild claimable, other areas close by serve as hubs, merchants and such. "players should be able to make some money by buying in one town and selling in others, this should also subsidise player crafting" the more trade coming into a city the cheaper the mats are.

Eve like world

AOC like melee / combos

Cloth map, just like the old ultimas.

no coordinate system

instead of a quest log, have a search-able NPC chat log.

Items need description even though random. Like old time games , you pick up the longsword, it feels weightless the runes begin to glow as you handle it. upon drawing the blade to fend off the bunneh!!! forces and energies unknown lunge the sword into Bob your vassal. heh...

Life... No one gets out alive.

I also played AC back in the day,  there are just some things that are cornerstones of what we do. Maggie and crew thank you for then, and  thank you for now, in supporting the ac community I have always loved.

Ned, will be missed, and anyone whom had the privilage of rolling with him my sympathies are with you.

I have active subs to 4 games now, 9 accounts in total. I spent the majority of tonight playing might and magic one and talking on vent it was both fun and relaxing, except the few times I forgot to go to the tavern. It is actually the graphics that limit the game, cause the depth of a game nearly 20 years old trumps that of most new games.

Darkfall seems to have us older folks by the balls on this one, anyone else dropping half a G on a beta account.

Creator of Might and Magic series, and other very talented crew members gather under Trion. Currently developing an MMO with Sci-Fi.

www.massively.com/2008/06/04/massively-interviews-jon-van-caneghem-president-of-trion-world/

No idea why this information hasn't been seen or shared on this site, but thats confirmed that Trion is working on a Sci-Fi title as well as a fantasy title.

any chance of a submitions link for your age of conan "fansite" I got some nice additions.

Not interested in flight, on an animal at all, in the event they implement plot based character developement, then maybe it would be ok for a hand full of people to RP there way into flight. generic or class based flight = no imo.

Originally posted by -Jaguar-

Great idea... not. DT was the least played server in AC2.

followed by... Coldeve.