Posts made by Tuoni

I doubt that players can run towns by themselfs. It can easily be behind timewall what it comes for building and maintenance even there won't be other restrictions. Moreover, you can not progress from hamlet state for town without having several players settled on same town area.

"When a town area has been cleared of the creatures infesting it, any player can place the foundations of a house in one of the few dedicated lots of land in the area. Once at least one house has been fully built, a hamlet – and a citizen! – are born. A hamlet has no rulers and no rules. As we’ve just said, anyone who can settle on a planet can add his own house to a hamlet on that planet. No specialized structured can be built in it – only residential buildings. If all the citizens of a hamlet leave the settlement or let their homes decay, the area becomes a haunted place once again. If, on the opposite, a hamlet grows large enough, any citizen can present himself as a candidate for the role of Governor. Once the elections take place and a winner emerges, the hamlet can finally transition to a full-fledged town."

However, the key point is this: "hamlet grows large enough"

How much is large enough..?

@Aurellas Yeah that would be fresh topic..

@islesofurth said in People who buy a founders pack today get more than yesterday:

@Specter said in People who buy a founders pack today get more than yesterday:

Prometheus feels he shouldn't have to rely on the Foundation to have an active community. (We know many forum members disagree with this assessment, hence why the Foundation is still here).

IF he wants to get rid of the foundation, he is going to need to get rid of the bonus for posting daily first.
There are far too many people who take advantage of this in the wrong way.

I'm sure the original intention was to get people to be active on the forums, but it has created the wrong kind of activity.

If they want people to be active on the forums, then the should be encouraging people to ask more questions & providing more answers.
People are always extremely interested about the development, even if the reply only comes in a few words or a picture.

Personally, i don't care about the rewards as much as i care about ensuring a game is worth my time.

I agree. At the point when there is not enough new topics to discuss with and all the old ones have opened several times, then that daily post system just causes wrong kind of activity tbh. If developers are not active in forums themselfs and there is not enough content/topics to discuss, then it is hard to have active community either. Atm I am more like daily spammer rather than active community member.

@Azurael said in Another year another new MMO in the works:

I know there has been a lot of MMO hype but not many of them actually seem to be moving up their schedules...

WoW Classic is the only one I know which has stay with their schedule, but that is something what you can actually expect from Blizzard. Anyway, good point.

Hmmmm.. this is getting weird. Anyway, if devs introduces new content and shares just crumbles, they should know that people wants to know more about it.

@ricklemydickle said in Another year another new MMO in the works:

Hey everyone!
It seems like there's always talk of a new MMO in the works each year and it's really taken a toll on my expectations i have for new upcoming games.

I guess this is quite common feeling. ..anyway, hi and welcome.

@LilCassiopeia said in Communication between the worlds:

I think the most you can hope for is a global channel which only applies to the world you are playing in.

I actually hope we will see only local chats, which are restricted to continents or even smaller area. And now I am talking about general chats and not guild, party or private chat options.

@FrownyFox Greetings and welcome also from player who started MMORPG gaming from Runescape. I think it was year 2004..

I would personally like to see reasonable and meaningful achievements and titles. I do not see any downsides as long as rewards stays cosmetic. Titles and achievements are simply great goals for players to reach for.

Some achievements could be hidden like abilities in knowledge system and some achievements could be vanity items (like trophies from animals/creatures) which can be used for house and/or estate decoration.

@Gothix said in When will shop items become available ?:

@Znirf said in When will shop items become available ?:

The bought items will become permanently bonded to your account, as you noticed all of them are pets or cosmetics things, so there is no need for a later refund.

You might wanna recheck that info because in all MMOs I've seen people test cash shop by buying lots of stuff they don't even need, just to see if it works. They are then later refunded on release (stuff taken away of course), so they can buy only what they actually need.

I agree. It would be better to wipe also all those bought items from cash shop after all test phases. Otherwise people will save all or most of the purchases for release. Albion Online for example wiped everything and refunded the gold after every server wipe.

This is very interesting topic, where it would be really nice to have more comments and insight from devs behalf. That would help us, as community members, to discuss more about this topic.

@LilCassiopeia said in WoW Classic is coming:

The main difference for me is that every aspect of the current game is so unpersonal. Crossrealm dungeons and raids have realy destroyed the game for me. Nobody is realy talking in the chat anymore the current game is pretty much dead. In Vanilla you have to communicate to create a group to go to dungeons.....I don't want to start with organizing 40 ppl raids. People have to get themselves together. If you are verbally abuse ppl and leaving the groups you are an outcast on the sever. So for me this a big diffference maker in how to play/approach the game.

Even this is true, it will not always be "a dancing on rose pedals" kind of thing what it comes for organizing dungeon groups. Usually in guilds everything goes smoothly, but with pugs it can be quite nightmarish time to time and can really waste your limited playtime. However, I have also bored with the current mentality where people just rushes through the dungeons, pulling everything for AoE and in worst scenarios leave the group after one wipe or mistake. I want to see more commitment and more friendly approach in Classic.

Bigger talent tree for creating hybrid classes again

Oh yeah, the old talent tree is way better system than what we have seen since MoP. I am actually surprised that Blizz has stick with that shit now four expansions row. I also liked that updated version of talent tree in Cata, where some totally useless talents where removed and that max 5 points was decreased to 3. However, I do not remember if there where some downsides as well...

Knowledge system getting some flesh around the bones sounds the most interesting aspect for me.

@Dariusacmar said in Enchanting crafting materials?:

So in the news release just now, it said under enchanting that the materials will have a component called intensity. Is this like the quality of the material? For instance, common quality, uncommon quality and rare?

Well maybe someone could turn this sentence for a little bit understandable form. I am not sure either what it means..

"Each reagent comes with different properties, called “power aspects”, and an intensity for each property."

Okay, in Alpha 2 there starts to be a good amount of content and features to test out. That is nice.

@DCCCXIX said in WoW Classic is coming:

@Tuoni atlest we can hope for it.
Vanilla wow's best plus was the atmosphere the community created, it will be a fake time travel.
But atleast PvE enthusiasts should try oldschool Naxx.

You are right, the experience won't be the same, not even close. All the guides, videos, Addons, private servers and of course already played content will take care of that. I wish people understand this and they do not have too high hopes and expectations.

I am actually very keen to find out what will be the player distribution between Classic and Retail, after the first weeks rush spike ofc...

@Gothix said in Fractured = SAO:

@Tuoni it will be easy to pick starting gear and go run around, however customization of that gear to fit for different purposes (go hunt specific hard fire boss) might take some effort.

Not all gear will be easily replaceable I think.. but no gear will be more powerful than some other, just fit for different purposes better, this is why it will not be hard to get back into fight, even if you lose everything, but once you get your general gear, then you will again need to spend effort to create customized gear... or go steal it from someone else through PvP.

I might be wrong, but this is what I think how it will be.

Problem is that making all gear equal regardless of the materials and time needed to craft those makes zero sense. For example bronze and steel gear has huge difference in every aspect. Moreover, gathering and traveling rare resources around the three planets, and then craft the same shit armor you already have with few different stats will definitely be a huge turnover. I understand your point, but I do not see how that will work (keep players interested) in long run.

@DCCCXIX said in WoW Classic is coming:

@Tuoni said in WoW Classic is coming:

WoW Classic is launcing 27 of August 2019. Who is interested to test that out? If you are, what are your expectations? What kind of plans you have?

People are delusional. They think that they'd have the same immersive experience, which is not gonna happen. Vanilla is figured out, FotM builds for every patch are out there, location of every weed to gather is known, strategy for every boss is known, etc. All of this flavored with dozens of addons for retards which tell you where and what to cast, where to go to do your quest, when to evade attacks, etc. Everything bound to gearscore DPS/HPS meters. The exploration element is dead, "Guilds of friends" are dead, "epic adventures and funny stories" are dead. There is nothing to do but chain questing to 60 with quest helper -> raiding with a million addons for retards.

Even more, before WoW was like an extension of WC3 story, now it's in the past, and people treated the game as a game, not as a competition of who gets to 60 faster than others.

It's just a ruse and an attempt of a company, which once made good games, to make people buy their game twice. Same with WC3 remaster everyone is pissing their pants about.

Vanilla private servers have been extremely popular for years, so only those players will be the foundation for classic. On top of that we have a huge amount of players who have not played WoW in years or who have never played Vanilla before. So it is not just nostalgia trip for all. Classic will be a success for sure, even some people are not so interested this time travel. I am not sure how long I will personally stick with Classic and clearly you are against it, still imo Classic will save Blizzard and will have huge impact for future expansion and direction of WoW.

@Gothix said in Fractured = SAO:

Gear being completely equal, there can still be HUGE difference between players... and this is what I am hoping for.... for progression to be not in gear, but in players knowledge and ability to be efficient at playing.

But that is not character progression, that is player progression what is part of all games anyways. If we can craft and wear the best gear from day one, we could predict quite short lifetime to the game. From crafter pov everything important is achieved during first week, and that is quite bad in any game based on player-driven economy.

@Psymantis Mainly yes, but with few changes. I guess we are not going to see this for example: