Recent content by Sisca

Exactly! I often see people use the "special servers" system when they want something that's different from what the majority of the game is about. Special PvP servers, special RP servers, special time servers. Then you get people that will want a RP enforced, full time PvP server that runs on...

I know there is a UI mod for both EQ and WoW that allows you to interface with your media player to play your own music. I'm pretty sure EQ2 has a similar UI mod. I don't know that any game will ever come with their own built in player and controls since dev time can be much better spent than...

There will be instanced areas, yes, but they'll mainly be for quest areas. There will be plenty of world to just run around in and run into players as well as monsters. People seem to see instanced and think the whole world is going to be instanced, like Guild Wars. If you check some of the...

One of my favorites was in EQ. I was running around Field of Bone in Kunark with levitate on, I manged to levitate up to the top of the tower for the entrance to Kaesora but there was no real top there so I floated down...and down....and down until I ended up underneat the ground of Field of...

Let me start by saying these are just my ideas, my vision of a perfect world, and whether or not any of them end up in HJ is going to be left for you to discover later :). First of all the only reason players should feel that something is required is because it's fun to do. So, yeah, some raids...

I've never really enjoyed crafting in most MMO's but I do enjoy woodworking in the real world. Of all the crafting systems I've seen implemented the one that did the best to try and mimic actual crafting was the system in EQ2 (before the recent changes) but that one was probably the most tedious...

I find this amusing since one of the biggest complaints in the WoW beta was the fact that the servers were real time with no day/night cycle. Of course to counter the fact that most of their players would be playing in the dark all the time they made night time not that much darker than day...

I honestly haven't seen hundreds of people say no to tiered pricing. I have seen a few good handfuls, but hundreds is a little assumptive. So slightly off subject, I'm totally freaking tired. [/b] You probably won't see "hundreds" either. Unless you post a question about it on say the WoW...

Actually the world lore has to come before the design, at least in my opinion. How am I supposed to build a world if I don't know its history, its creatures or its people and factions? Some of the details are being written as we're designing the areas but we have to have the basics to give us a...

I just want to point out that EvE may only have 1 server but they have tons of zones. Every time you make a jump you're changing zones. They're also only running about 20,000 concurrent users max so they can get away with keeping everyone on one server. If they were running the million or so...

I have a rough idea of how something could be done that wouldn't require a massive amount of onsite time. I'll have to check into some details and smooth it out but once I do I'll propose it to Steph or one of the other designers. The thing is it won't happen any time soon no matter what...

1 - Can't really comment on that since I'm not in that game so it's hard to judge why the world might seem small. As others have said they may only have a limited part of their total world open during beta or it could be the whole PvP issue is forcing everyone into a smaller part of the world...

I have a lot of fond memories of EQ, and in many ways no MMO will ever be able to equal it because it was the first time you were able to experience the combination of great graphics and interacting with real people. Of those I'd say my two favorites were my first run from Freeport to Qeynos as...

Sadly, I don't think we can implement a system that will completely prevent that. I mean I see people sitting around selling stuff all the time in WoW when there's a perfectly good auction house system. Same thing in EQ2 on there it's even worse since people spam the trade channel with stuff...

I think what most people are missing here is you're talking about a MAX group size. If that is set at say 4 then you're limited to at most 4 people in the group. If a fifth friend logs on they can't play your reindeer games. Personally, I'd like to see the max size set to 8 to 10. This is...