I remember playing this back on the test server. There was a small button on the character select which would start loading you into the game. It would pick a random low level monster and then you would take over it. The highest level creature I got to be was a shaman mob in Kerra Ridge. It was cool to be able to scribe spells, cast them, and have an inventory as an NPC. You were ally with other NPCs so you could not attack them, but you could attack and cast on players. I'm not sure if you actually got experience for killing players, but that would have been funny.
While it was a cool concept, you didn't really get anything to do except jump around, /wave as a skeleton, or other small gimmicks. Who honestly wants to invest into an NPC creature that is going to die in ~10 seconds or a few minutes. On the other hand, who wants to level up on this server against a ton of people griefing lowbies with it? Just look at the R&F forum and try to imagine how it'll work out in this server's community.
Maybe the devs could take a list of volunteers and incorporate this into some sort of GM event, but otherwise it just seems like wasted effort that could go into fixing the server or releasing kunark.
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08-27-2010, 03:40 PM
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