All Posts by RJD

In my personal opinion, as a long time gamer, not as someone who works for a game company, I think Fantasy is more popular simply because you know what you're getting. You're comfortable there, you know generally how everything works... You have your Elves: tall, skinny, dextrous, good with magic. Dwarves: short, stocky, drink a lot, make good fighters, etc. On down the line, with very minor variations here and there, overall the fantasy world and races therein work the same from setting to setting...

With Sci-Fi on the other hand you really have no idea... Take all the "popular" sci-fi settings out there and compare them to each other... Star Wars, Star Trek, BSG, Dune, 40k, Serenity, Stargate, etc... They're all vastly different... You don't necessarily know going in if you're dealing with 50 years into Earth's future or 50,000 years... You don't know if you have a single planet to deal with or an entire galaxy... Chances are you're not going to be familiar with the races in question... Then you toss in things like flight and lasers and mechs and an infinite possibility of other things based on technology, it can be a bit mind-boggling for some...

And on the flip side of that, BECAUSE there are so many possibilities, BECAUSE there is so much unexplored oppurtunites there, people go into Sci-Fi games with MUCH higher expectations than they would with a Fantasy game... And therefore are generally let down. It's like a double-edged sword, the same thing that scares people away from the Sci-Fi games is also what draws them to it... And when the game isn't up to par, is what causes them to leave... So I guess that is actually kinda a triple bladed sword... which is just kinda weird... So I'm gonna stop rambling now cause I have the feeling nothing I said here makes any sense...

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Originally posted by Shayde
There's few sci-fi games because there's too many lazy companies who think THEIR elves will be kewler than the other guys elves. Just look at Dark & Light, or Vanguard. They're bringing nothing new to the table... hell Warhammer is only special because it IS Warhammer. If Mythic was making ANY other fantasy game nobody would care. Exhibit A: D&D Online.

Give me a good sci-fi MMO and you'll never see me playing another game. SWG used to have me until they screwed that up... I'd pre-order a 40K mmo right now.

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			Western High Fantasy 8.4% Mech / Robot 4.5% Eastern High Fantasy 3.8% Manga / Anime Fantasy 9.0% Medieval Fantasy 42.8% Sci-Fi 18.5% Space based 4.6% Super Hero 2.6% Real World War 3.6% Real Life 2.1%

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Originally posted by Fadeus

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Originally posted by Richard_Mythic
You do realize that not everyone at Mythic is on the WAR team right? Just because Mythic is doing something else, doesn't mean it is taking anything at all away from the WAR Dev Team. Mythic has always had completely seperate teams for each project... The Camelot and WAR Teams are seperate, on seperate floors of the building even.

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And employees never move between teams?

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Originally posted by Nimr0d23

Originally posted by Blurr

He went into a bunch of different reasons, and I'll give a few of his points:

-World Size: Warhammer Fantasy takes place on one planet, while WH40k takes place across an entire galaxy.
-Individuality: In WH40k, if you're a space marine, you're only 1 of millions of space marines and you don't matter so much. With Fantasy, it's easier to bring the player's character to the forefront as an important person.
-Popularity: I'm not sure if it's still true, but at the time more people liked fantasy than 40k
-Established in the Genre: Fantasy mmo's are already established in the genre as being relatively successful. There are far fewer Sci-Fi mmo's out there.

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So with other words maybe it's too much job for them right now.

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Definitely not too late, give the trial a shot, or even better, pick up a copy of the Epic Edition, should be able to find it in most places for ~$20 and you get everything the game has to offer that has been released so far with 30 free days instead of 14.

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Originally posted by Elnator

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Originally posted by JulianDracos

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Originally posted by Elnator
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True but if they really want to make sure Mythic isn't distracted then they shouldn't be sticking UO on their plate in any form until WAR is out, stable and well supported.  Anything other than that is directly meddling in the potential that WAR has.

Instead we're already getting announcements that Mythic and UO are teaming up on some project or other (with more details coming 'soon').  I love Mythic... and I like the potential for a revitalization of the UO2 project or something similar... but at the same time I'm concerned with the fact that EA is tapping Mythic with additional duties while WAR is still under development.

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Personally I don't feel you need to de-emphasize one to emphasize the other. People are always going to want/need personal goals and accomplishments to strive for, and to brag about to others. If there wasn't the Camelot Herald tracking it all automatically you can bet there would be some website out there where people posted and compared their accomplishments against everyone else's. So it doesn't make a lot of sense to de-emphasize what people so obviously want/need, the key is to make sure the "realm as a whole" is as important/satisfying/etc as the individual. I think the Zone Control and Capital City seiging aspects of WAR will go a long way towards that goal...

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Originally posted by EQTarbos
Yup took my ranking down today in matter of fact didnt you hear the new thing?

Ea split mythic now Half of their staff is now working on UO hum guess Ea will get their hands into warhammer and screw it up.


they merged design teams .

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Yes, you're talking about the game, not the IP, but you're ignoring what I said about GW... They have full approval authority over the GAME. Nothing can be added to the game or changed or done to the game that they don't approve...

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Originally posted by dimaryp

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Originally posted by razzielle
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You can scroll up to read the quote.  That is all find and dandy, and I hope things work out, but the bottom line is the bottom line, and in 6 months (if I'm not mistaken) Mythic will not own W.A.R., EA will.

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Some steps have already been taken to improve tanks... A couple patches back they were given some boosts which should have definitely helped, more HPs, resists, etc. More changes are still taking place in every patch, just more on a class by class basis rather than archetype basis.

No problem, let me know if you have any other questions! :)

He should get a message, been a while since I used it though so I could be wrong. However there should definitely be a buff-like icon up in the Effects area that shows he is guarding/protecting/intercepting someone. :)

And you should also be fine across zones if I'm not mistaken, but like I said, it has been a while since I played my Warrior so I could be wrong.

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Originally posted by markmcab
 Unlike in DAoC, where an item starts to decay and has been fixed constantly, it will just eventually be worn out to the point it will be destroyed. I think it wouldn't be nice and fun at all if for example you have a weapon or armour that you worked and searched so hard for to attain (your dream gear), will just eventually be destroyed permanently because of too much use.

So, why work hard for a rare and exotic item when sooner or later it will just be useless and be discarded? I wouldn't want to go thru the long process again of getting those same items over and over again. I believe it's a waste of time and just adds frustration to the player, and most specially it's NOT fun at all.

Maybe a crafter should just maintain the items constantly and of course a fee depending on the rarity and level of the item.

Here's a suggestion, for a certain period of time if the player doesn't have his decaying item fixed right away by a crafter and still constantly uses that item in combat then that's only when it gets destroyed permanently. But if he periodically maintains those items then it will never come to a point where it will be destroyed totally. 

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What everyone else said above, you only NEED the latest expansion/version of the game/client. Some people keep older versions installed as well so they can run less graphically intense versions of the game for large raids in RvR and such to help with lag, etc. Other than that, which is completely optional based on what kinda system you have, there is no real reason to keep the previous versions installed.

The free level system is simply a way to help out the under-populated realms on uneven servers. The side that needs help more gets their levels a tad faster than the others.

There are no titles or anything for declining the free levels, basically the option is there for the people who want to stop at level 24 or some other specific level and stay in the Battlegrounds for a while.

Yes, he just selects you and clicks on Guard or Protect or Intercept.

Guard: He has a chance to block a melee attack against you from the mob.
Intercept: He actually takes the damage that was intended for you from the mob.
Protect: He draws some of the agro that you would have drawn by casting a healing spell or such.

These are all random, meaning they don't go off every single attack. He also has a melee style, level 6 or 15, that adds extra aggro to his attacks and helps keep the mob focused on him instead of running off to pound the healer. If he's using Axes the style is named "Plague", level 6. For Hammer it is called "Provoke" and is level 15. For Swords it is also level 6 and called "Draw Out".

Hope that helps some. :)

Suggestion collected and passed on, thanks! :)

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Originally posted by Silhouette83
Its amazing the amount of time you see some one from the team or the press side on forums and boards saying about WAR giving bits and snippits, if more companys put in as much effort in to supporting there communitys there would be better relations and people would not complain as much about things and problems over and over again.

Also seen the a lot on Warhammer alliance boards

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Originally posted by MiNaAu
Is there any other way to get into the beta testing other than just wait for the newsletter every month for them to announce the monthly winners for the newsletter subscribers because I really want to test this game and I've waited for ages and ages.

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