All Posts by paulscott

a basic aprenticeship system provideing a premement social network,  somewhat tied to a guild system that lets also be a part of many guilds.

a semi open PvP system.  not much to put here except that excessive non-consenual PvP will lead to various death penalties from NPC interactivity lose, item lost, skill lost, and perma-death in extreme cases.  with community based penalties such as marks  and maybe a name change.

a skill based combat that lets make your own skills(something like the TES alchemy system).  ranging from passive stances to activatable skills. 

FFA doesn't work with no punishment/discouragement or enforced roleplay.

a tale in the desert, and wurmonline.

ignore eve online as while it does have so so crafting it'll be a month or two till you can start doing so for lowend junk like all the hybrid ammo.

granted I would download the source on it just for the example code.  thats worth a few bucks to me.  :hugs: industry style/quality code.

open source MMO.  every bug will be found and abused, every unbalanced build will be abused.

I get some enjoyment out of some of them

used to like neveron and i'm playing imperial conflict now, along with an mmo here and there.

any FPS shooter.

java=bad for games

java=good for bussinesses,  only a tiny bit harder to code in than VB and you still have access to higher level stuff like real multi-threading.

ah you caught me there I meant to say at most half the masters skill.

the typical hates

with an added bonus to beggers.

well the people that spend an excessive amount of time in a mmorpg are far fewer than people that don't want to spend that much time.

edit:

and a subscribtion payer is equal to any subscribtion payer. 

fancy equation taking the amount in inventory(or the amount of time it takes for one to be sold to the store),  and the average time that it takes for one to be bought(from the store).

you can't have it all.

good combat

fluid combat

solo

team play

graphics/good graphics(see text based games)

decent entertainment.

pick 3-4 of these.

guildwars, and eve.  though I do prefere guildwars combat more.

since you've not been here longenough to NOT know the differace I'd send you to WoW.  though I myself perfer guildwars  because the class system is 500x better(it actually made sense to have classes in it), team bases, and balanced PvP.

smaller developers have better ideas.  they just have worse graphics.

wurmonline

iron ore, you would be right about that.  client machines cant be trusted,  even if they aren't hacked various errors can happen due to versioning  or a 10^-67th calculation error happening.

the only thing the client should do is interupt data sent to it and draw pretty pictures.

the judical branch is the weakest.  It is purely reactive to whats going on,  not to mention court cases need to happen for them to do anything about it.

go make a simple enviroment for morrowind or oblivion(your own simple modles).  make custom teleport scripts to it.  and a chain of fetch and retrieve type quests.  I bet you you won't come back laughing at the laziness of the devs.