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Sachant posted:It's very, very classic EQ-like in its mechanics My god even from the character creation screen this feels like EQ being rendered with Minecraft graphics. I created a Dark Elf Necromancer, loaded into the world and received a Spirit of Wolf buff, then wandered into a cleric (?) area and was promptly murdered inside of town.
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Pandaal posted:This is how Albion currently works as a "single world server". It works like this, let's take a look at this section of the world map: I really wanted to like Albion. It seems like they did a ton of stuff right with the economic interactions tying into risky gameplay and reinforcing a player backed economy. Things like the black market are also SUPER interesting: https://wiki.albiononline.com/wiki/Black_Market quote:The Black Market, located in Caerleon, is an essential component of the Albion Online economy. The market is where the world’s mobs get their loot from. As the need for dropped items increase or decreases, so does the price the Black Market merchant buys them for. I played it for a couple months and I was forcing it for probably half that because I wanted to enjoy it, but the inner loop of the game just didn't feel that exciting to me and I can't find the words to explain why.
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Ignoring the screenshots, this article reads like it could have been written yesterday. edit: lol except for this quote:Once everybody has moved to console games, due to their stability and lack of patches, I'm sure all you arrogant business clowns who keep pushing out unfinished lumps of poo poo can have a meeting and wonder how the industry got to the way it currently is. When I buy a console game, I can safely expect to take it out of its packaging and begin playing it the instant I get it. Bognar fucked around with this message at 03:06 on Aug 27, 2022 |
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Phigs posted:Nothing I said makes a persistent world impossible. This is how I wish Sea of Thieves worked.
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CuddleCryptid posted:The issue with that is that the tight view of the top down game is *why* it's possible to run the war like it does. Otherwise building infrastructure would be impossible once someone got a good rifle and a vantage point unless you made some honest to God 30 mile deep WW1 style trench networks. Hell Let Loose is not Foxhole, but it has some semblances of infrastructure management and lots of emergent mechanics around setting your own spawn points and hunting down enemy spawn points, while still being primarily a first-person shooter with 50v50 games on large maps. I'm having a lot of fun with it at least.
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I know you said not WoW or FF14, but honestly if loneliness is the thing you're trying to counter then I think an established regular casual raiding guild in either of those games is the ticket. Lots of old(-style) MMOs try to encourage social interaction via game mechanics in the world, but modern MMO raiding is an easy excuse to join an in-group of people and make internet friends.
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CuddleCryptid posted:Honestly I disagree with this, smaller guilds are the best way to find internet friends. The issue with larger guilds is that a guild with 1000 active members or whatever is really no different than trade chat on the server itself, and you could friend random people in PUGs just as much as one of untold numbers you happen to guild with. There's just so much noise. That's why I specifically called out casual. Modern WoW has pretty much all content available as 10-person groups and has flexible raid difficulty so it doesn't matter if you bring a few extra people along or lose a couple for the night. I got sucked into the latest expansion hype cycle for a few months and met some chill people in a small guild to do normal raids with, then ended up playing a bunch of other non-WoW games with that group too like League of Legends and Valheim. Not everything has to be a monster guild clusterfuck. For a lot of casual raiders it's just their third place and you'll be accepted quickly if you hang around and be pro-social.
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Ibram Gaunt posted:This makes me remember the insane cope from people who thought Vanilla was way harder than it actually was when people cleared MC in like level 40 greens the week it launched or w/e. Vanilla was way harder because I wasn't just fighting Ragnaros, I was also fighting my frame rate.
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Sachant posted:BitCraft alpha early next year. Trailer. quote:work together with others to build a new civilization in a single, editable wilderness So this is just gonna be covered in cocks then?
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kedo posted:This was, unfortunately, my experience with the last Evercraft Online stress test as well. I'm ashamed that I never played EQ (I was consumed by UO and then WoW), so I don't know if I just lack the foundational knowledge the devs expect, or if the games are just poorly designed for new players at this point. I spent way too much time just trying to figure out controls and systems. (disclosure: I'm on the EverCraft dev team) The last stress test was a while ago so it's probably not fresh in your mind, but if anything was particularly difficult I'd love for you to drop by the discord and leave some feedback. We have a handful of plans about making the new player experience more instructional and less EQ-style "drop you in a foreign world with a tattered robe and a pat on the back". However, the entire dev team is full of nostalgic EQ brain worms and often doesn't notice the sharp edges, so we love to hear fresh player experiences to know what needs attention. Bognar fucked around with this message at 04:35 on Nov 15, 2023 |
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shirunei posted:I would only like to join this discord so I can lead a coup against your blunting ideas! If the world isn't an unforgiving land full of death what incentive will there be for players to band together? That is basically the world design ideal, coupled with each class ideally having something unique to bring to a group composition. However throwing that hostility at level 1 players who are also struggling with old school MMO mechanics is a recipe to have people bounce off the game. My take is that it takes a few hours of play (ideally grouped) to start to appreciate the slower pace of advancement and inherent danger of the world, but that also means people need to not get fed up 30 minutes in.
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Any details on what makes it different from Albion Online? I really really wanted to like Albion, like it has everything I think I should find interesting in a medieval PvP sandbox economy game but somehow I just couldn't get into it.
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I'm really bored by instanced housing, like I never understood the appeal. If I want to build something I want to build it in some changing world that is occupied by other people. I figure game developers should overprovision the amount of buyable land to avoid shortages. While we're at it, I want to see an MMO go full Georgism and start taxing land rents at their market value. Most games still have a land-grabber's advantage with fixed rent costs that over time become less meaningful as the economy inflates. This could also be a way to combat currency inflation in MMOs.
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Third World Reagan posted:you then have to put in another system to stop people from land speculation That was exactly the point of a land value tax, they're tailor made to prevent speculation by making speculating costly. Maintenance cost of land should rise with its market value. As for how to establish "market value" in a game instead of just being lazy as a developer and setting a flat price, the simplest way is a blind auction system with bid costs and up-front payment (to prevent oversubscribing bids or bid griefing), then base rents off a percentage of the average auction cost in a given area. I should note that this is not something for every game. If you're building a PvE pro-social MMO then sure have instanced housing who cares, it's a checkbox feature for a certain kind of player. But if you're a building a sandbox PvPvE crafting economy-focused MMO, then there's a significantly deeper sense of immersion gained from everything being in the world instead of sequestered off into instances. Land is also often a useful resource like any other where you can use it for certain kinds of crafting/farming or use its location for setting up a shop, therefore it should also have an effective market instead of having the same flat fee everywhere and incentivizing land grabs.
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Blacula posted:Sim Tower: The MMO! I don't even know what this would be but now I want to play it. Sim Tower hooked me hard when I was young.
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Ruggan posted:EverCraft Online is having a full-weekend alpha test starting in a few hours. Thanks for taking over advertising! I had to miss this alpha test unfortunately due to some prior plans, but I made sure to help load test before disappearing. We only load tested 500 concurrent players but we ended up with 600 during the alpha so I'm glad everything mostly turned out okay. The dev team had internal bets going on concurrent player count and I think the highest was 420.
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