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  • We apologise again for the whining in the subtitles. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked.

  • Posted: 7/21/08 5:31 PM
    Star Wars Galaxies
• • Worst thing to happen to you in galaxies?

  • Look's like the Riddler's UN relief supplies dropped on schedule.

    Worst thing that happened to me was my own damn fault: I added an extra '0' to the maintenance fee for one of my harvesters. I shook it several times, but alas, I could not get my money back.

    I figure it's dug up something good by now.

  • Posted: 7/21/08 4:37 PM
    Star Wars Galaxies
• • Saga of Ryzom is comin back...

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    (I gave up on getting the quote block right) - - XoloX: “RoS is needed for learning. It should only make very clear that it is there for that purpose only and that it's different from Atys. The problem with telling the player just that is: which casual player actually reads what the "system" is telling them? From my memory and experience with RoS 85% of all questions about mechanics itself have been answered by the system before...and have simply been skipped, clicked away... How do you transmit information to a player that doesn't read?“

     

    I don't know if you can, but I think you can at least reduce some problems by establishing a different pattern of behavior earlier on. What I was going for in my plant-based interactive manual was this process: “Select something you want to learn about > Get told how to do it > Get told where to do it if you want > Go do that until you decide to stop and come back to learn something else.” That's a different approach than “Get told to do something that has the veneer of being part of some story arc > Go do it, learning something in the process (maybe) > Come back and get a reinforcing reward and get sent on another errand.”

     

    If you move people to a different pattern of working with the game, it might lighten some shock even if they don't bother reading any text. On the flip side, you still get the “Talk to NPC for direction” vibe, which may help ease people into the game.

     

    Or not, whadda I know... ;-)

  • Posted: 7/13/08 12:40 AM
    The Saga of Ryzom
• • >[Poll]< What are you?

  • I got AESK from this quiz here:

    http://www.gamerdna.com/bartle.php

    ...and that seems pretty fitting, given the description:

    AESK players are interested in the player-versus-environment aspect of the game more than anything else. They are often soloists who want to achieve and see what the world has to offer. Often, they find groups cumbersome and PVP to be more an annoyance than a feature.

    Last I took the Myers-Briggs test I got INTP. I'd love to see if there was any correlation.

    EDIT: Here's my breakdown: Achiever 66.67%, Explorer 60.00%, Killer 33.33%, Socializer 40.00%. So I'm on the Achiever/Explorer cusp, which also seems accurate.

  • Posted: 7/11/08 3:20 PM
    General Discussion
• • What game are you playing right now?

  • I'm shopping around right now. I've tired of WoW and can't muster the desire to get my characters to level 70. I've been poking at EQ2, and although I find it entertaining it hasn't really grabbed me. I just recently dusted off my Xbox and have been dinking around with GUN, Destroy All Humans, and other "ancient" non-MMO titles.

    I'm looking forward to Ryzom for my freeform gaming urge. I'm also keeping an eye on Stargate Worlds and Champions Online. I also keep hearing positive things about Sword of the New World, so despite my distaste for the free-to-play model I'm tempted to give it a whirl.

  • Posted: 7/11/08 1:58 PM
    The Saga of Ryzom