Agreed on the UO housing point as well.. far too many people, far too little area. but then again, the map is nowhere near to scale
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As for pleasing everyone all the time.. I never planned on it. In NWN I was an active guild member and know the quality of player-run guilds, and its ability to increase roleplay and enjoyment. I actively support that in my game in several ways.. from allowing custom player-guild banners and so forth down to allowing them an easy way for active recruitment of people
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World simulation is fun, yes.. but the breakdown of the world is important. Something I''m trying to learn is how to break the world into several servers and still have them all tied in via a main server. The main one would do mostly the routing and such.. hold the world together so to speak. The others would be running the individual parts of the world, be it by country, or state. This would allow for things like "did the dragon go and slaughter all the deer?" and so forth. But I, as programmer and designer, plan to play an active role in the enemies troop movements. Almost like playing chess against your own populous
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My girlfriend and I both agree on the idealism part. Real life sucks enough already, a game.. and ALTERNATE reality, should be just that. That''s why we have plans for a reality sim based on the medieval ages.
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Your ideas for the skill mastery are very very well thought out. I''d never considered it that way, but I certainly like the way you''ve explained it! It actually works well with a lifelike situation, where you never really forget the tricks of the trade, but you lose your mastery of them after a while
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Your cross between level and skill based systems is very interesting.. I''m a natural skeptic and my mind is fizzled, so I can''t think too hard on it now, but I will later!
What do you define to be unrealistic expectations, exactly? what are some unrealistic expectations and what are some that are realistic? What would you do to fix the problems, or does the system need to change because the problem isn''t solvable? Thanks
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