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Originally posted by Tyranix

Originally posted by svann

To me vanguard feels very much like an everquest 3.  Many races, many classes, and bards.  A more developed and interesting combat system, a more developed and interesting crafting system, a big world with shared content (no instancing).  The gaming system is great, and very much the upgrade to eq1 combat.  The problem is they screwed the pooch on the coding of the world (hitching, falling thru world, etc), and they didnt have enough end game content.  If SOE were to make an everquest 3 Id hope they keep bards to be more like vanguard than eq2.  And they should make an all new world.  Dont try to make it a sequel world like eq2 did.  Just because it says everquest in the title doesnt mean it has to be in Norrath.

 

It's nothing like Everquest. The EQ lore is what Everquest 1 and 2. The Vanguard lore/storyline was its downfall

1. IMO it was the combat system, race, and classes design that made eq1.  Not the lore.

2. The vanguard lore is fine, just different.

3. It was bugs that was the vg downfall, at first.  Then later as bugs started to get fixed they made the error of increasing leveling speed without having end game content ready.

To me vanguard feels very much like an everquest 3.  Many races, many classes, and bards.  A more developed and interesting combat system, a more developed and interesting crafting system, a big world with shared content (no instancing).  The gaming system is great, and very much the upgrade to eq1 combat.  The problem is they screwed the pooch on the coding of the world (hitching, falling thru world, etc), and they didnt have enough end game content.  If SOE were to make an everquest 3 Id hope they keep bards to be more like vanguard than eq2.  And they should make an all new world.  Dont try to make it a sequel world like eq2 did.  Just because it says everquest in the title doesnt mean it has to be in Norrath.

I find it curiously amusing how there are so many posts in forums for games in production where people predict how things will go based either on their hopes or fears. 

In eq2 I have 3 rows of 12 hotkeys bound to keyboard keys (36 total), and I use them all.  Plus I have 5 more rows that I have filled up but that I have to click with the mouse.  Thats 36 keybound hotkeys and 60 mouseclick hotkeys.  I am glad tcos is rethinking things.

In mmo's skill should be about tactics, not personal dexterity.

Would I be out of line to ask for a link to the Sera post that you got this info on relative value of sigils?

I cant seem to login to forums.  I entered my key already, and I can play the game, but cant login to forums.  And now when I try to re-enter the key it tells me "No offer found for given key".  When I click on "send me password" it tells me it doesnt recognize the email address I registered under.  Any good advice or hints?

They really wanted to make aoc hardcore.

YOU'VE BE3N BANNED

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You mean its like vanguard release all over again?

Camel toe

1. A brand new world to explore

2. A new style of combat ui.  Hopefully it wont be too slanted to fps.  Id hate to see jumping through your opponent types of exploitive styles be dominant.

Originally posted by Fion

 

Originally posted by Aguitha

sadly, it look like Funcom did'nt learn from the horrible launch of Anarchy Online.   With only a few days before launch the game is still bugged like hell, crashes, lag, hitching, bad fps.   I was really confident that the folks at Funcom would have learned something, but as of today, Conan seems to be heading in the same direction of anarchy online.  

Hope i'm wrong, but i don't see how they could turn the game around in 2 weeks if this is the result for 4-5 years of developpement.

 

You DO realize your playing OB, which is for Load Testing, right?

 

This is sounding eerily like the vanguard open beta.

Originally posted by adammain

You should definetly do a little more research on the quest system if you are worried.

They have stated that quests will follow mulitple paths that you knowingly and unknowingly chose from. Also, from what I understand, once you fail a quest, you fail a quest. There is no picking it back up. So, the quests will be pretty dynamic, not so much a static quest grind such as WoW.

Im not sure I like that idea.  There are two kinds of players - those who adventurously try the quests without any clues, and those that wait till the answers have been posted to spoiler sites.  By making quests permanently fail you are punishing the first group and rewarding the second.  I can only think of 2 ways you could solve that problem and both are not good.  Either the quests would have to be so simple that they dont need spoiler sites, or there would have to be so many quests that it wouldnt matter if you lost some.  One is lame and the other is unfeasable since it would require infinite developer resources.

You cant expect everyone everywhere to be good people.  Its never been like that in any mmo, or even in real life ever in any century.  If you got several blank invites, just remember that the majority of guilds didnt say anything.

There very well could be another "eq1" but you may not recognize it and you may not like it.  What made eq1 so good was that it was different from anything else and it was its own world.  Copying a game from 10 years ago cannot replicate that.  The only way is to make something new. 

18+ just means dont act like a "12 year old".  And if you cant understand what I mean without splitting semantics then you probably need a few more years.

For most people its a matter of wanting to feel like they picked a winner, making themselves winners.  Its the same with democrat vs republican.  Once a person picks a side they really want that side to win, not just because they believe in the ideals, but moreso because that is their side.  See also footbal fans.

I tried lineage 2 and quit because it didnt have /ignore, and I got tired of hearing politics discussed in general chat.  Is it worth trying now?  Ive heard it was chock full of bots.

Id play any good game where it is possible to find groups in midgame areas.  I went back to eq1 and found that so much of the population was end game raiding that a new player would pretty much have to level solo to catch up.  I got to level 40 then gave up.  Trying eq2 now and having more luck grouping.  I think the mentor thing helps alot for getting that last slot filled, plus there are more new people than in eq1.

The fact is, every games gamers think their community is more mature than everyones elses.  Yet every games gamers include rude people.  People are people, wherever you go.  If the community truly was nice they would have told you to take it to /auction instead of being rude to you.  Actually, I think the "niceness" of a community comes and goes.  Sometimes they may be kind of obnoxious in the morning, but nicer later that night.

I dont see the point in allowing a player to outbid another player for an item in the trade channel, but not allow the same sequence on the auction house.  Or in the case of a broker, allowing me to try to sell for high price in trade channel but not allowing the same pricing on broker.  If someone else will pay more than you then why should you get it?  It wouldnt be fair.