Posts made by Mazikar

We will get our winners soon enough. Good luck to all!

Just had issues with security in the past. Never seriously liked the UI and that is just me. People must like it, most game developers use it almost exclusively to talk to their player base. It makes me sad, AoC made me lose interest when they started using it exclusively and crapped on their forum users.

I have never been a fan of discord. I have it, been forced to use it, still hate it.

and then there is today, lacking of energy to even get up to take a nap.

I look forward to seeing more about the crafting system as it is said to be central to the game and character development. I do hope things like you speak are in the game, the more flavor things have the more interesting the combinations become!

This game has some chances at other options.... I will be playing a Wolf .... I guess I could become a Wear Human when the moon is absent, and while human I could be infected with the vampiric curse. That would be interesting.

I could see it a cure or permanent. If it were to be permanent though it would need to have a strong bonus and an equally strong negative.

I am the lizard squire!

I was talking to the "Frosty Chicken" sticker on my toasters waffle microwave today and it specifically told me to post something in this very forum. I want to be as cool as Frosty Chicken.... please tell me I am cool by up voting me. If I get enough up votes I can wear the "This Guy is Important" sticker for a day.

The problem I have always had with MMOs that do both is they end up balancing to one end. Be it PvP or PvE, one side is considered over the other for balance and that side is usually PvP. PvE can at times suffer for it. I just hope that whatever they chose for the game they stick with it. You do at times have to step on a few toes, some of those toes are attached to the loudest people, but in the end its the developers creation, their long term vision. Games fail fast when the developer is second guessing their vision.

Pretty sure you have to make it to level 10 by doing all the normal stuff when you join, such as read the news section, make a forum profile and such. This was all to prevent people from just creating hoards of unreal accounts just to get referral points.

Man, this game is getting more and more awesome every update!!!

Here is a post and its just for you!

@jetah exploits are an issue with pretty much everything attached to PvP. I can see this being done correctly, but there is always someone with a bright idea. No way around it. Just need a good beta period with deviously honest players.

Bounty boards only if in game actions create them and not other players.

Making items account bound seems to be the oldest and most effective way to make items rare and keeps the economy from faltering. You can set medium rare items to bind on equip and the most rare or powerful items to be bound once picked up. This allows trading of the semi rare items and keeps a trader in business while not upsetting the dynamics of the game. The thing I would like to see changed is what you do with the ultra rare item after it has lost its use to you. I would like to see a value in its demise yet not so much as to make people want items they could not use just to break them for what ever end.

Stuff like that sticks around long after the event is over, makes for some good times.

With as many MMORPGs that are out there and are on the horizon its going to be hard to win over players and even harder to keep the ones you get. Stuff like what I mentioned would help but by no means is the be all end all. Just sharing what I have experienced.

Being a old school vet MMORPG gamer I have seen many different forms of interaction, some good, some bad some game changing epic. My first full time MMORPG was EverQuest. That was the best sandbox game ever made in my opinion. It was far from perfect but its was the right game at the right time for me. I dabbled in pretty much every MMO after it and other than an extended stay with WoW and a love hate relationship with the first PlanetSide nothing stuck like EQ.

With that said I would like to share some experiences I had in EQ and other games that were memorable. In EQ I remember the early days you had to /petition to get your last name added at level 20, and if you got a good GM it became an event. I got a good one. It was EPIC, I felt much much more attached to both the character I was playing and the game world. There were random GM based events in EQ that would just happen, you would gather the forces and fight or solve riddles that could only be solved with game lore. The loot was never super amazing for the events but the events were always good fun and social. I did however get stuck in a GM event that delayed me and the guild I was in from doing something, and that delay ruined the night so it was not all good all the time.

Server events are another thing, waking the sleeper in EQ was quite an event and depending on what you and your guild wanted to do once it happened it was over and everything changed. It caused great strife with my guild and the guild that woke the sleeper but it was still memorable as it was a sever wide event and done quite well. Some other games did this stuff as well, Rift, and EQII but none on that level.

The thing I have noticed is that developers and GM staff have become more and more hands off once games go live. There is less personal interaction as games strive for numbers more than player experiences. WoW and the way it was done streamlined and canned the MMORPG for the masses, no longer just for the niche market. It was fun to an extent but as time went on it became less and less about the characters and more and more about streamlined meta.

Me... I am looking for a game that has life, not hand holding canned quests with a linear level path in a world that is safe if you follow the level path. I want to dodge specters and stay out of the path of giants, I want fear. I want to see this world cared for with active GMs, fun events and at times server changing epic events. I want to feel like I have an active part, and want to be rewarded for my activity. I am active in most new MMORPGs out there, still looking, hoping.