@jetah said in What if you had to choose one announced feature to drop?:
@chrightt
how it is fun to PK without a reward? Why do PvE raids get rewards by killing bosses but PK don't get a thing?
If you're saying you wouldn't bother PKing if you didn't get to loot items, this is just another argument in favor of removing it so far as I'm concerned. Get fake players out of here thx
Hey guys.
Fractured looks like a great game, but the reason I first looked into it wasn't really a sincere interest in the game and it's sort of fading. My leaving isn't really individually important so I don't want to waste time or be dramatic about it but I want to vent about it anyway.
I used to have a really bad habit of jumping between MMOs because I'm bored and depressed and need something to do. MMOs are really bad for people like me because as a genre they exploit our need to feel like part of something and very often they equate being part of something with wasting a lot of time and money.
Fortunately, Fractured is going a lot easier on that, which is nice, but I've come to realize I simply don't have the time to spend years on MMOs or the funds to purchase anything like the Kickstarter tiers, and the simple fact those high-roller tiers exist just sort of alienates and depresses me. It's like, I know they're basically just there to hook wandering individual investors (as opposed to corporate ones), which I'm not so I'm not losing anything, but at the same time I kind of feel like my role in the community will be relatively pointless because of this strong attention paid to ingame kings and governors or whatever. High-pledge tiers always make me feel this way since they're highly visible content I don't get to participate in.
Of course, as another consequence of the Kickstarter system, I won't be making it into the alpha, probably not prealpha either, so everyone else will be having fun (or more likely constantly bitching about how the game's not magically done in prealpha) while I sit outside sighing.
Anyway.
The other reason is that so many of Fractured's mechanics and design elements are coincidentally similar to ideas I had for a "one day" dream project MMO, which is fitting since my dream MMO also takes several ideas from Ultima Online, so I sort of clung to Fractured as the closest thing I'll probably ever see to that - but it's still not actually that dream MMO, which means I will probably be disappointed no matter how good the game is due to letting myself have unrealistic expectations, and I'm not very happy to be projecting this "perfect MMO" fantasy onto another game and it would be a lot healthier for me to just kind of avoid it altogether.
So all in all, I don't know if I'll continue to follow Fractured. It's not enjoyable to watch everybody else take part in the elite early be in the game club while I can't. If I vanish, I might come back for the proper release in however many years and be unhappy because everybody else has all the early bird bonuses and leave again.
Sigh.
We'll see how it goes, I guess.
Which UO are you looking for a new one of? It was basically three totally different games throughout its lifetime.
@protouserx said in Stretch Goals:
Not to mention it avoids that:
Company X reveals all stretch goals.
Campaign only reaches first few but is successfully funded.
Community really wanted Stretch goal X that wasnt met and now they are hounding Devs are you still gonna do goal X? If so when can we expect it? and various other combinations of questions about unmet goals.
If the community want to be entitled idiots that's their problem. They should've pledged more to the Kickstarter if they wanted it so bad.
Also, stretch goals are frequently added later when the released game turns enough profit that wasn't there in the initial kickstarter.
You should always list some stretch goals on the page or else nobody has any reason to pledge beyond the game's basic funding level.
@specter said in What do Carpenters do and VIP?:
Buildings require maintenance. Your own house, farm or other constructions will decay over time and eventually collapse if not maintained. The Carpenter NPC takes care of the issue for you.
Lifetime VIP can be obtained through crowdfunding only. First through the Kickstarter, and later through the website.
Last I was updated, lifetime VIP will not be available after Kickstarter. Immortal tier is Kickstarter-only.
I give it a month before they leave because they actually need skill to gank people in this game.
I don't think this will require a specific system, merely a creative implementation of existing ones.
I'm sure that server staff have the ability to "lock" certain game areas to prevent player building, which would allow them to set up memorials for any desired occasion. Gravestones are likely already an asset in generic graveyards (the kind where you fight skeletons and stuff) and can easily be repurposed.
And of course, players themselves are free to build memorials the same as anything else, it's just in that case they will be subject to raids and deterioration like any other construct.
It makes perfect sense if certain talents are restricted to good or evil. Fractured already has a similar system planned in that gods can grant blessings, and several gods are alignment-restricted.
However, something as sweeping as "only good guys can use poison" is just silly. Most of the alignment-locked talents should be of the "same DPS as everything else except higher against the opposite alignment" variety.
I'm expecting a UO-inspired system where you have to lay down a plot, and your character or account qualifies for only particular plots. You need to be in a guild in order to lay down "public" plots for things like banks, marketplaces, etc., or to lay down more than the one plot allotted to your character, or to lay down a claim stake that basically turns the entire surrounding area into a guild plot so you can freely build a town.
Once the plot has been laid down, you can start building tiles, walls, etc. on top of it, and there will be function-based furniture or spawn points or w/e depending on what plot you laid down, e.g. putting down a guard tower plot will let you add guard spawns, maybe ballistae or something.
^&!# exploring the ocean, I want to be a dreaded demonic ghost pirate. That would be awesome
Quests that ask you to get x drop items and then don't guarantee the drop every time you kill the monster so you end up killing 200 enemies to get 20 of the item.
I'm going with the deer from what's been seen, but I'm really hoping for a bunny!
I'm probably going to use a Beastman as my main character. Hoping for a bunny!
@finland said in White Raven calling all you wild beast!:
@tryton Good luck for your project
I played wow for over 11 years as hard core player since vanilla but honestly the last expansion were really bad. Anyway do not expect good pve content
Not on Arboreus you can't, and on other planets it'll counteract monotony and encourage partying or hiring escorts. Sounds fantastic to me
Pretty much exactly how I perceived it, yeah. It's fine the way that it is
@benseine said in PSA: The Kickstarter has been postponed.:
Add a demon & beastman gameplay trailer to the KS to boost the hype train!
They can't. Demon and Beastman don't exist yet. They can't do months/years of dev time in the future and then go back in time to put it in their Kickstarter
@specter Guess I'm updating my signature again! lol
@muker said in is this a game? if so, how do i download?????:
-Kickstarter starts on June 1 and will go for 1 month!
The Kickstarter will start in June, but it has been pushed back from June 1.
I've updated my signature accordingly so I don't have to keep saying it when people freak out they're level 0
@althalus said in Daily mission ?:
I guess Ultima Online never had quests?
It added them eventually in the course of ruining the game and making it suck.
@gofrit said in Log of characters' interactions in game and out game ?:
I understand you're point of view but my own experience in mmorpg show me an other vision.
If a tool exist and if one use this tool to do bad thing, what we need to do ? In your way, you want to stop this tools (it's what I understand in your post), in my way I prefer to change how people use it
The former is possible and the latter is not
