What Classic EQ should be (game mechanics discussion)

[iruinedyourday]

Originally Posted by kotton05 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I think they should of itemized permafrost abit like nags lair

Oh yea this! I wish perma was a comparable zone to lguk. I always wondered what norrath would be like if perma was an end game loot zone too!

[Daldaen]

Originally Posted by Brut [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Thought that way until I got a couple tells asking my druid alt to run and port some random lvl3 from Field of Bone to West Commons and bind them at Freeport. Wut.

/r sorry, busy

Fixes that easy. Though sometimes I fill that sort of request, mainly cause Firepot bound.

Really irks when someone who is Anon on every toon they play, requests me to rez or port them. Why would I want to help you if you purposefully /Anon or /role to avoid those exact types of requests.

[Arkaan]

I don't understand. Why go through the trouble of creating a replica of original classic EQ only to then turn around and start changing it?

Go ahead, change the game. Ruining it would be classic after all.

[forensic]

If you want to talk about creating an entirely new MMO, then it wouldn't be EverQuest anymore, and there are infinite ways to go with that.

I think it's more interesting to make very small tweaks that would make the game feel more classic.

So here's what I would do--not to make the game technically classic, but to make it feel more classic for everyone, and to bring out the best parts of classic:

* Make the world darker, as mentioned by several people

* Ban PLing from people 10+ levels higher. Make powerleveling against the PnP and implement countermeasures to stop people 10+ levels higher from buffing/healing/PLing/killing-for-and-blurring. There would be many ways to do this but just keep making changes until powerleveling by people 10+ levels higher is pretty much non existent. Allow powerleveling by similar level players though--so a druid 9 levels higher can still PL you. There will still be a market for PLing it just won't be as game breaking.

* Ban twinking. Don't let people use stuff that dropped off mobs 10+ levels higher. Crafted items could be the exception.

* Change the nature of currency in the game:

Let players create promisory notes to each other that are authoritated as coming from the player--that is to say each player can add their authoritative "signature" proving that they wrote a particular note. The notes can be traded and kept in special wallet bags that will hold dozens of notes each. Additional bank slots for holding notes will be provided to each character. The notes themselves will weigh 0.1 each.

The addition of player-backed paper money allows making flexible and player enforced contracts. The contracts could be shown to anyone. Reputations could be created and lost.

For coin, keep the same platinum/gold/silver/copper, but make it so there is a fixed amount of platinum pieces, gold pieces, etc in the game. This amount can circulate among vendors and players and banks. Deflation, while bad for real economies, will make the game more immersive as people will actually use gold/silver/copper. To offset deflation, the paper money currencies are available and will be used more and more as time goes on, as likely all the coin will be concentrated in a few hands, who will then use paper money to invest.

It won't create a utopian economy where everyone has abundance and money flows freely. It will create a struggling economy, but one where everyone is in it together, that will increase immersion and make for a general sense of both opportunity and threat.

The promisory notes will intensify the social elements of the game and make trading way more common. Being able to trade or not trade with NPC vendors will become more interesting and meaningful.

[Arkaan]

Implement another currency, "P99 Bucks", which are bought with RMT and can be spent on gaining levels, plat, items, bots, godmode, and a you-win button. Judging by the current state of gaming I think this would be quite popular.

Too bad they didn't have this stuff back in my day. I would have loved putting $10 worth of quarters into an arcade to instantly see the ending FMV and credits. Oh, and a number one spot on the high scores table. All of my friends would have done the same as well.

EDIT: Oh yea, make a button on screen available for purchasing P99 Bucks. The button should take up at least 15% of the visible area. May as well throw in ads in game as well, unless of course you make a purchase each month.

[harnold]

Originally Posted by Arkaan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Implement another currency, "P99 Bucks", which are bought with RMT and can be spent on gaining levels, plat, items, bots, godmode, and a you-win button. Judging by the current state of gaming I think this would be quite popular.

Too bad they didn't have this stuff back in my day. I would have loved putting $10 worth of quarters into an arcade to instantly see the ending FMV and credits. Oh, and a number one spot on the high scores table. All of my friends would have done the same as well.

EDIT: Oh yea, make a button on screen available for purchasing P99 Bucks. The button should take up at least 15% of the visible area. May as well throw in ads in game as well, unless of course you make a purchase each month.

this is a great idea i wish i thought of it

[Arkaan]

Originally Posted by harnold [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

this is a great idea i wish i thought of it

IKR? But you know, all of these pixels really aren't event necessary. If the point is going to be whoever pays the most money wins, why not just a simple website stating who the winner is. No need for the game at all, since it would just be a side point.

[Yumyums Inmahtumtums]

Station cash or gtfo

[Daldaen]

Random resists yes and no.

A green mob full resisting a spell is dumb. So is getting hit for full at 255 resist.

I'd prefer for a happy medium. Having a fixed value-resist ratio would be too calculated and boring. Useful if you were trying to make a decent PVP game. But no one cares about PvP.

Instead if over 200 resist you can take a 0-50% hit, if over 100 you take a 25-75% hit, etc.

[Daldaen]

Oh and get rid of the base chance to fail things that you've mastered.

Gates shouldn't collapse at max level.
Trivial subcombines shouldn't fail at max tradeskill
Green cons shouldn't resist spells