All Posts by ryan0009

FoM was an amazing game. I pretty much played the whole beta and it was definitely the best experience in an MMO that I've had...I just wished they would've kept in in beta for a little longer. I don't know about this new Rebirth version...seems like it's not gonna be very similar (meaning it'll be worse to me).

But yeah, first day I played the game, I made an LED and was going to the vortex gate to travel to one of the Earth cities and there was a guy standing there with a gun out, so being a cop, I told him to holster his weapon (I didn't have a weapon myself yet), and he asked if I was talking to him, so I said yeah and told him to put the gun away again. Instead, he decided to kill me :( 

This is what made the game amazing in my opinion...you always had to be careful and be aware of what was going on around you (also, having friends that play the game helps make it more fun of course, which a lot of my friends did play).

The game started to fall apart for me near the end of beta, when they revamped the mining and production systems (I preferred the original system), but the revamped graphics and UI were good changes after the '1st' beta. Also, they made it harder to sell drugs (but it was more realistic by not letting people sell them on the markets :P), but it did make the drug business somewhat less lucrative.

Definitely one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had were in this game (the only time it got annoying was when people would never believe me when I was telling the truth about what happened and why I had to kill a guy or something, but they'd believe the other people that were lying...I was part of the MotB at this time, so that probably had something to do with it).

Originally posted by Kenorv

The best solution would be to just get rid of standard quests altogether. Just make an MMO full of real time events. Of course that would require GM's that actually cared enough about a game to put in the time and effort to run the real time events. Yes I know that a lot of people would be upset if they missed out on an event but I think it would be better than everyone doing the same standard quests all the time. Real time events would give life and breath to a MMO world. And becaue they're real time events and not standard quests, there's no way to know how they will turn out. They could have a positive or negative effect on the world, and most importantly a lasting effect on the world. If an NPC is killed he doesn't come back to life in 5 minutes so he can be killed again like in most MMO's. If a town is raided and burnt to the ground, it isn't rebuilt in 5 minutes so it can be raided again. That's the type of MMO that I want to see.