July 2007
- [JOB] Linden Lab Brighton Party 26th July Jim Purbrick
- [JOB] Linden Lab Brighton Party 26th July Christopher Lloyd
- [BIZ] Forum software? Mike Rozak
- [BIZ] Forum software? Caliban Darklock
- [BIZ] Forum software? Adam Martin
- [BIZ] Forum software? Chan Yong Wei
- [BIZ] Forum software? Michael Chui
- [BIZ] Forum software? David Johansson
- [BIZ] Forum software? Dana V. Baldwin
- [BIZ] Forum software? David Johansson
- [BIZ] Forum software? Morgan Ramsay
- [DESIGN] Will players pay for public services? Nicholas Koranda
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Nicholas Koranda
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Tom Hudson
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Vincent Archer
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Travis Casey
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Tom Hudson
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Travis Casey
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Caliban Darklock
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... cruise
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Caliban Darklock
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... cruise
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Caliban Darklock
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... cruise
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Caliban Darklock
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Vincent Archer
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Vincent Archer
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Caliban Darklock
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Aurel Mihai
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Vincent Archer
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Caliban Darklock
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Vincent Archer
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Caliban Darklock
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Vincent Archer
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Caliban Darklock
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... cruise
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Vincent Archer
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Caliban Darklock
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Vincent Archer
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Vincent Archer
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Caliban Darklock
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Vincent Archer
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Caliban Darklock
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Michael Chui
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Vincent Archer
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... cruise
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Vincent Archer
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... John Arras
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Caliban Darklock
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Damion Schubert
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... John Buehler
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... cruise
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Damion Schubert
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... John Buehler
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Damion Schubert
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... John Buehler
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... cruise
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Vincent Archer
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Caliban Darklock
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Acius
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... cruise
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Tom Hudson
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Tom Hudson
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Caliban Darklock
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Jarod Reid
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Vincent Archer
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... cruise
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Travis Casey
On Jul 30, 2007, at 8:40 AM, cruise wrote:
> Thus spake Travis Casey...
>> ... or get someone else to level their characters for them, or
>> help them level. If you want to lock lesser-skilled players out
>> of higher levels, you'd need to either allow losing levels (so
>> that poor play of a high-level character would cause it to become
>> lower level), or eliminate character levels entirely and make the
>> game rely purely on player skill (so that in order to handle
>> difficult areas, you have to have the skill to do it yourself.)
>
> Is this necessarily a bad thing? It would certainly be a very
> different type of game, but one that might well appeal to a
> different group of players. It's bassicaly how games like counter-
> strike work, and they are far from unpopular...
I don't think it would be a bad thing, myself. Indeed, the steep
power curve of many MMORPGs is one of the things I personally
dislike....
--
Travis Casey
efindel@gmail.com
- [DESIGN] Removing the almighty experience point... Travis Casey
- [DESIGN] Believable NPCs (was Natural Language Generation) Nicholas Koranda
- [DESIGN] Active and Inactive Currency Nicholas Koranda
- [DESIGN] Active and Inactive Currency Travis Casey
- [DESIGN] Active and Inactive Currency Jon Leonard
- [DESIGN] Active and Inactive Currency Peter Keeler
- [DESIGN] Active and Inactive Currency Caliban Darklock
- [DESIGN] Active and Inactive Currency Peter Keeler
- [DESIGN] Active and Inactive Currency Michael Chui
- [DESIGN] Active and Inactive Currency Caliban Darklock
- [DESIGN] Active and Inactive Currency John Buehler
- [DESIGN] Active and Inactive Currency Johnicholas Hines
- [DESIGN] Expected value and standard deviation Nicholas Koranda
- [DESIGN] Expected value and standard deviation Travis Casey
- [DESIGN] Expected value and standard deviation cruise
- [DESIGN] Expected value and standard deviation Darryl Woodford