I'm so hard right now.

No but seriously, I was pretty damn conviced that this game was my surprise GOTY after putting 60 hours in 5 days in it, but this dungeon just sealed the deal, been a LONG while since I had that much fun in a MMO.

God how I wish this game was as successful as it deserves to be.

Ah well, hopefully the mass of new people (jncluding me) is here to stay, I know I will!

Well see, the thing is that I WANT space, I want different planets and extraterrestrial species, but I want space combats and travel to take a backseat so all the important stuff takes place on the planet themselves.

Basically I'm asking for a good version of Swtor, because this game had so much potential, but well..

And even if you remove the '' good '' part it's still hard, what are some important sci-fi mmos in which most the action take place on-foot?

Anarchy Online, Swtor, SWG.. that's pretty much all I can name, there are more I know, but I've never ever heard of them, so they must not be that important. (Note that I'm not saying those games are bad, they're just either past their prime, or dead)

At least spaceship fans got Eve, and I guess Star Citizen when it's released.

Any upcoming (and promising) Sci-Fi mmo I'm not aware of? I'm really craving for one.

Originally posted by TobiasGrey

Originally posted by Slheyas

Originally posted by gigat

Originally posted by Slheyas

I really don't see how it would be possible otherwise though, especially in the case of desolate areas that should be all but completely empty, how do you prevent people from going there en masse? Make it completely devoid of anything of interest? Make it unbelievable hard to get to (locking out contents because of player skill isn't a good idea)?

 

I really don't see a solution.

I am perplexed..  I'm confused by the part in green.  What do you mean?  Can you explain this better, or provide an example of how this has or has not impacted current MMOs?

 

Okay, imagine an mmo with an area that is a huge desert, think of it like Death Valley in California, nothing but barren wasteland for as far as the eye can see, a story quest though happens to send you in this area, as well as some other generic quests. What happens then is that tons of players go in that desert devoid of human life to accomplish their quests. The area then becomes extremely lively even though everything about it screams death and inhospitable.

 

And well, it doesn't make sense.

Very easy. Make those areas really hard to be in. Like a real dessert. Virtual worlds are relfections of real worlds. It goes to show how shallow themeparks are and how poor writing is in most MMOs... if you want an area to be desolate don't SAY its desolate, MAKE it desolate. Make it hard to get to, make it empty, make it harsh once you're there. "But then why go there" you say? Well, areas are usually desolate because people don't WANT to go there. Maybe only the best of the best go there. Maybe only bored explorers go there.

There are far better more interesting ways to do this than instancing, always the tool of the lazy developer.

While I absolutely love this idea it would probably be hated by players. Nobody likes having content unaccessible to them because they're too unskilled.

If the complaints about explorable mode dungeons in GW2 are an indication making whole areas too hard to bad players would be met with a massive amount of whining, unless those areas have nothing worthwhile in them.

Originally posted by gigat

Originally posted by Slheyas

I really don't see how it would be possible otherwise though, especially in the case of desolate areas that should be all but completely empty, how do you prevent people from going there en masse? Make it completely devoid of anything of interest? Make it unbelievable hard to get to (locking out contents because of player skill isn't a good idea)?

 

I really don't see a solution.

I am perplexed..  I'm confused by the part in green.  What do you mean?  Can you explain this better, or provide an example of how this has or has not impacted current MMOs?

Okay, imagine an mmo with an area that is a huge desert, think of it like Death Valley in California, nothing but barren wasteland for as far as the eye can see, a story quest though happens to send you in this area, as well as some other generic quests. What happens then is that tons of players go in that desert devoid of human life to accomplish their quests. The area then becomes extremely lively even though everything about it screams death and inhospitable.

And well, it doesn't make sense.

I love Ragnarok Online to death too!

In fact if I could take two existing mmos and blend them together I'd take everything from GW2 and mix it with the stat and gear system of RO.

I really don't see how it would be possible otherwise though, especially in the case of desolate areas that should be all but completely empty, how do you prevent people from going there en masse? Make it completely devoid of anything of interest? Make it unbelievable hard to get to (locking out contents because of player skill isn't a good idea)?

I really don't see a solution.

I'm thinking here of instances with a variable cap.

Cities would have no cap obviously, so all the people in them can actually interract with one another.

Areas close to cities would have a pretty high cap, say 100 so it's pretty lively but never crowded as hell.

Really remote areas in the middle of nowhere in a hostile environment would have a cap as slow as the maximum number of people in a party is with some flexibility, so if the max party size is 5 and the area cap is 5 the party could still enter if the number of player in the instance was 4, the absolute cap would be then 9, so it's possible for everybody to meet at least one other soul in an area.

Obviously you would share instances with people you don't know, unlike say, the original Guild Wars.

I really think it would help with immersion, and as far as I know it's possible to create instances without loading screens (SWTOR did it IIRC) so you wouldn't even have to deal with tons of loading screens.

Thoughts? I think this idea is never going to make it in any mmo ever (unless I get rich and decide to make one) but hey.

Engineer still need a buff.

Anet devs even said themselves that the class was underpowered.

Originally posted by Castillle
Oh...Btw get a sigil of blood lust. Its friggin awesome!

Ahaha, yeah I need something like that, especially since I'm going for a more mobility oriented Engineer, my damage might take a hit.

Now, before someone shoots me in the head with a bullet from its fanboy rifle let me say that I absolutely adore GW2, I have 155 hours clocked into the game and I still haven't got a character past level 21 (Altaholic), but I can't help but think about Ragnarok Online (before renewal) when playing this game, why? Because it really makes me miss the way Ragnarok Online handled gear.

Why? Because gear never really became obsolete as you grew up in level, a sword you could drop from a crappy level 5 monster could actually be the best damn sword you need for your build as long as you put the good cards in it (Ragnarok online used a system in which monsters dropped cards, that you could put in your gear for various bonuses).

This is something I miss in GW2, and in MMOs and general. The only good time to work for gear is at level 80, because before that you're just making gear that you'll trash eventually because you'll get something better, it didn't happen in this game. Sure you had to grind your ass off to get what you wanted, but once you had it it was forever, you would never need to replace it ever. I mean those Valkyrie Shields +7 with a Thara Frog card are STILL extremely good, and it's been since forever that you could get them.

I also miss the interesting effects you could gear from cards, and the insane amount of customization they allowed. You had cards with effects such as "+20% damage against element/race/size monster", "+30 damage -1MP with every attack" to things like '' 1% chance to drop a specific item when killing plant type monsters ", "5% chance to freeze enemy on attack (without a cooldown, and you could stack it)'', "Make your element Fire (thus taking more water damage but less earth/fire damage)" it was INTERESTING, I could make a full set of gear built around dropping specific items and it was fun, I could make a whole set of headgears giving me immunities against different status effects or a whole set of boots giving me experience boosts against different types of monsters. Nowadays the only thing we get from upgrades component and armor is plain boring stat boosts and the extremely rare proc with insane cooldown.

And even with all those insane effects from card the game still managed to be relatively balanced and PvP was fun and interesting since you could never know what the other guy would do, sure there were popular build, but then you'd find this guy who had this strange build with maximum attack speed and a dagger with procs lightning bolt that probably wouldn't do much damage but it was fun to fight.

Anyway I'm just ranting here and I guess it's not that much related with GW2 but well, it's the game that make me crave for the good'ol Ragnarok system but ah well, I guess I'll deal with what I have here. It's still fun!

(And before you ask, no I can't go back to ragnarok, I played for like 8 years and I'm burned out of it, and the renewal killed the game anyway, think of it like NGE for SWG.)

PS : Engineer master race, everything else sucks.

Lion's Arch is better.

If I had to marry a city I'd marry Lion's Arch and have consensual sex in the missionary position with her.

Also yeah, eating my time too, 40-50 hours in now.

If you don't want to kite better bank on those blinds, daze, knockdowns and other conditions that prevent enemies from attacking!

No idea if ranger has any of those since I don't play it but if you don't want to kite you won't have many options, except if you find a pet with tons of health/toughness.

I'm getting 20-30 FPS at the lowest settings possible (with textures on high otherwise it's terribly ugly).

It's really weird because I could run Tera at 60 FPS easily at medium.