All Posts by JackDonkey

If your players impulsively transfer servers you might not be a sandbox game.

I hope there's more lady troll dancers this year.

All MMO's all the time

Multi Boxing is interesting because doing an instance in WoW with 4 accounts is easier than with 5 individuals.  I think it's because all my other 3 accounts had to do was /assist Piggy /cast Frostbolt/Starfire/Lightning bolt.  People have too much pride to just sit back and spam the /assist Piggy /cast Frostbolt button for 2 hours while one other person leads them around.

The first thing you should do in Wurm Online is get a fishing rod.  If you don't it becomes a wilderness death game or a forage for 3 hours a night game.

But yeah it's kind of a survival game, it's a pretty decent game, it could be much better but for what it is it's alright.

Sites like thottbot allow you to kind of play when you're not online.  The only games I've played for a long time were Eve and WoW and in my early days of both games lots of time was spent on EveI or thottbot.  So I think without these kind of sites the interest in the game would be a little less.

Common in all MMO's possible goals are to be the most feared pvp'er, best guild leader, play with friends, excellent strategist, and other social type goals.  Another common goal is to see all the content.

So after that I imagine what makes a sandbox different than other MMO's is more possible goals.

The less ranks the better but there needs to be a leader, and then people that know what's up when the leader's not online.

Class leaders in your typical warcraft guild are a dumb idea.  Especially when everyone worth being a leader of anything already has played multiple classes up to 60 or 70.

You could just say you couldn't change armor unless you were at an inn.  Or you could say changing armor takes 30 seconds per piece of armor... unless you're at an inn, which is kind of already built into wow with the 30 second cooldown on abilities of items with abilities, so you can go from archer to a tank but you can't do anything for 30 seconds.  Or you could take advantage of being able to change armor anywhere and assign weights to your stuff in inventory and have weight be a speed penalty that way part of your tactics could be the ability to change armor if needed but at the expense of speed.  Also maybe your gear could make you an industrial ship and your armor would just be lots of backpacks and pocket space and other armor that increases your speed so you could haul a lot but have paper thin armor, maybe that would be another welcome "class" on raids to haul loot and other peoples change of armor so they wouldn't be bogged down by the weight.

If WoW wasn't such a success maybe the new MMO's would be willing to try this type of stuff.

There's not really any difference between putting armor on your ship and putting armor on your avatar in WoW, just that in Eve you can only do it in the station.

When stuff like the Gnome Death ray has an ability tied into it (and pvp trinkets) the code is already there in WoW.  Now just eliminate all trained spells and instead make other items provide them, like your staff has a heal spell or fire spell, or a ring gives you a spell, or a dagger gives you backstab or a 2H mace gives you overpower.   Now you got yourself a classless system fantasy avatar game that works very similar to EVE.

I tried 4 boxing once so I have 4 accounts. I think I may just get scrolls of resurrection once every 23 days so I can play for free 10 out of every 23 days.  No idea why I'd want to though I hate TBC, I leveled 15 levels above 60 on two accounts and 6 new characters to 42 since the expansion so obviously I prefer the older content, only one of those 6 leveled to 20 in the ghostlands since that zone sucks as hard as the rest of TBC.

Well I guess that means I'm not going to buy boxes anymore since I'm not really buying anything.

Originally posted by l3lasphemer

Originally posted by Recant

Every time you write a diatribe on how much you think WoW sucks and everyone that plays it is a moron, you lose a sliver of your soul, which is harvested by Blizzard and used to fuel the WoW servers.

With every word you type you make yourself more their servant.

 

The force is strong with this one....

 

Anyway, I played WoW since 1 week after release and enjoyed every moment of it up until the dailies came out.  After grinding so many dailies until my eyes bled, I decided that it was time to look for something else.  I miss my ingame friends, but resubbing is not worth it for me. 

Eventually WoW will go by the wayside, long time from now probably, but still it will happen.  Carthage fell, Rome fell, it took years but it did happen.  WoW is in decline in my opinion, they will get some people back with the expansion, but after all is said and done, they will realize that it is just the same old thing, new continent, new levels and new spells. 

The standard MMO formula needs a boost, I cannot think of any games coming soon that may be that boost, but I sit by waiting patiently.  Until then I will be in the World of Telon.

 

 

Man if you ever wanted justification in calling a game crack it's dailies.  Oh crap I have to work in 1 hour and I have to squeeze my dailies in I hope not too late to work.  Or you're about to go to bed and you're like oh nuts I forgot to do my dailies, then you go to bed a couple hours later.  Only other time I ever brought this up I was made fun of but really what is an addiction, something you have to do at certain intervals of time usually at the detriment of your health or work or something like that.

I spent a decent amount of time trash talking people on the forums in eve online as Dirtball but none of that stuff ever seems to get back to you once you're in game, it's almost like it's 2 different games the forums and actually logging on.

Everything Rob Pardo says is stupid obvious I don't see why people think he's a genius, he's more like Michael Bey then he is Tarantino or Eastwood.

While in combat it's not the greatest but something should be said about Eve's system of getting into and out of a fight.  A day one noobie having the chance to escape from a veteran.  I used to sit in a pipeline 1000km off a gate aligned to the next gate, when someone came in local I would spam the scanner to see what kind of ship they were in and if it was a ship I could beat I would warp to the next gate cause that's where they were probably headed.  You just can't do those kinds of things in regular fleshy avatar games.

I also loved grinding and running instances in Warcraft when I could still use CastSpell in macros and made 1000 line one button mashers, but after they broke that it wasn't fun at all.

Also it's dumb when you split up the server population with horde and alliance that can't talk or party together.

Originally posted by paulscott

WurmOnline lets you build a house anywhere, terraform the land, a nice tree/forest simulation as well, and the wild server lets you bash in each others heads and property as well. 

Granted it's still has that indy feeling and isn't remotely casual.

and it crashes every saturday night.  Pretty decent game though, once you get a fishing rod and can actually feed yourself.

Got my cooking up to 3.1, It's a lot easier once you get a fishing rod.  And eating raw fish is better than foraging for an hour to make one casserole that's big enough to feed you enough to mine again.

PvP is only good in games like Eve, where there are no levels and combat is somewhat escapable and there's a reason to pvp.  If Bioware is going to make a game like WoW I hope they don't have any pvp.