October 2006

• [Off Topic] Have impatient players ruined 'The Ship'? William Leader
• • [Off Topic] Have impatient players ruined 'The Ship'? Johnicholas Hines
  • • [Off Topic] Have impatient players ruined 'The Ship'? Jeffrey Kesselman
  • [Off Topic] Have impatient players ruined 'The Ship'? Louis d'Ambra
  • [Off Topic] Have impatient players ruined 'The Ship'? Damion Schubert
  • • [Off Topic] Have impatient players ruined 'The Ship'? Siege)
• [ANNOUNCE] New LP lib packages available Cratylus
• • [ANNOUNCE] New LP lib packages available Robert W. Fuller
• [DESIGN] Kill Smarter...Not Harder (Player vs. Monster) Nicholas Koranda
• • [DESIGN] Kill Smarter...Not Harder (Player vs. Monster) Louis d'Ambra
  • • [DESIGN] Kill Smarter...Not Harder (Player vs. Monster) John Buehler
    • • [DESIGN] Kill Smarter...Not Harder (Player vs. Monster) cruise
      • • [DESIGN] Kill Smarter...Not Harder (Player vs. Monster) John Buehler
        • [DESIGN] Kill Smarter...Not Harder (Player vs. Monster) Dana V. Baldwin
    • [DESIGN] Kill Smarter...Not Harder (Player vs. Monster) cruise
    • • [DESIGN] Kill Smarter...Not Harder (Player vs. Monster) Damion Schubert
        On 11/3/06, cruise <cruise@casual-tempest.net> wrote:
        
        > This would be another form of emergent gameplay - in this case, complex
        > encounters emerge from simplistic enemies. It is strange that almost all
        > MMO's I've played seem to focus on single enemy combat the player (or
        > team) versus one AI oponent, which seems to be ignoring an awful lot of
        > potential.
        
        Trust me, this is something that MMO designers have been trying to do for
        years. There are a couple of hidden costs, though.
        * More critters = more AI cycles. AI cycles (esp. pathfinding) are already
        among the largest server CPU costs.
        * More critters = bigger worlds to hold them.
        
        I actually suspect that Moore's law will help, at least with the first part of
        that equation. And to be fair, City of Heroes is built a lot more around
        horde-fighting than your standard MMO - they get around problem 1 by
        being heavily instanced.
        
        --d
• [REPOST] [DESIGN] Simulation vs. Status Quo John Mauney
• • [REPOST] [DESIGN] Simulation vs. Status Quo Johnicholas Hines
  • [REPOST] [DESIGN] Simulation vs. Status Quo Matt Chatterley
  • • [REPOST] [DESIGN] Simulation vs. Status Quo Paul Schwanz