What Kind of MMO do you desire?
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I'm still holding out for The Secret World. Even if the gameplay find itself lacking, the subject matter alone should keep me interested for quite some time.
Star Wars... basically TOR, but toss almost every MMO standard it adopted out the window in favor of Star Wars D20.
-No more hit points. Vitality/wound system.
-No more in combat/out of combat malarkey. Your vitality regeneration is your vitality regeneration. You can rest or use stims to speed it up trying to rest in combat is a very bad idea, but you're free to try. Wound regeneration isn't a thing, you require medical attention at that point.
-No more magical stat boosters on equipment, just better/more efficient/more accurate output on higher grade weapons. Most equipment choices would involve different weapon applications, not levels of power.
-have servers with TOR's current death system in place, but also servers with a by-the-SWD20-book, perma-death possible incapacitation system. That's where I'd be playing.
-A really crappy homemade speeder consisting of a weak-ish repulsorlift strapped to a chair can hit 90kph and fly over treetops in Star Wars lore. TOR's speeders would be more accurately represented by tauntauns and other similar domesticated mounts. Make one or the other happen.
-Also, you can't keep a speeder or domesticated animal in your datapad... but such things do fit on light freighter-sized ships. Food for thought.
I realize my idea would dry up servers full of gamers who can't stand a little inconvenient internal consistency in gaming... but this is about dreams.
-No more hit points. Vitality/wound system.
-No more in combat/out of combat malarkey. Your vitality regeneration is your vitality regeneration. You can rest or use stims to speed it up trying to rest in combat is a very bad idea, but you're free to try. Wound regeneration isn't a thing, you require medical attention at that point.
-No more magical stat boosters on equipment, just better/more efficient/more accurate output on higher grade weapons. Most equipment choices would involve different weapon applications, not levels of power.
-have servers with TOR's current death system in place, but also servers with a by-the-SWD20-book, perma-death possible incapacitation system. That's where I'd be playing.
-A really crappy homemade speeder consisting of a weak-ish repulsorlift strapped to a chair can hit 90kph and fly over treetops in Star Wars lore. TOR's speeders would be more accurately represented by tauntauns and other similar domesticated mounts. Make one or the other happen.
-Also, you can't keep a speeder or domesticated animal in your datapad... but such things do fit on light freighter-sized ships. Food for thought.
I realize my idea would dry up servers full of gamers who can't stand a little inconvenient internal consistency in gaming... but this is about dreams.
There was Jumpgate Evolution [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumpgate_Evolution] but something, somewhere, went very bad. Such a shame as the game was quite far advanced too, hardly vapourware... there's just no alternative out there. Love this thread on the forums; http://us.jumpgateevolution.com/forums/read.php?5,5120,page=3 including the following from a (former?) employeetacotrainwreck said:
Some big developer buy the IP and project, it will sell!
Oh, for sure. I sort of left that out. I wouldn't mind some small sub plots centered around towns and such, maybe a civil war or something, monsters attacking a town, etc. I want there to be at least an NPC environment to interact with, but the idea of a main plot line for MMOs is lame to me. I'm really tired of it, actually.WanderingFool said:
An idea I've always liked that I've seen batted around a few times is the idea of being able to "spy" on people. It would be awesome if you could train the ability to listen in on whispers or read other people's mail and such. That would certainly add a cool element into PvP between guilds, especially if there was any kinda of system for controlling parts of the world or keeps. Of course, the entire concept of spying is only really viable if everyone is limited to one character per server.
EVE: Casual Edition
- Losing your ship/clone has less impact, no corp backstabbing/bank-ninjaing (I realize that basically takes away the whole idea of what EVE is, but that's why i've never gotten into it)
- With the controls/ability to actually fly your ship instead of merely ordering destinations.
- Tied with the above, more involved varied quests then just "go there, shoot that dude" and "carry cargo from A to B"
WoW: Burning Crusade/Wrath of the Lich King
- Well, I don't want a content re-hash, but almost everything about those expansions was great gameplay and story wise. Then cata came along like a wrecking ball and destroyed all that was fun about WoW.
- Great Villains, a healthy plethora of raid content, challenging while still offering stuff for casual players, amazing single player zones and quests, etc etc. Cata came along and offered about half the content for the same price... And the content that was offered was 90% re-hashed vanilla stuff, and ruined a lot of the abilities and synergies that made raiding fun.
Guild Wars 2
- Well, at least I hope so. Must always wait until something is out before it can be fully judged. /crosses fingers.
- Losing your ship/clone has less impact, no corp backstabbing/bank-ninjaing (I realize that basically takes away the whole idea of what EVE is, but that's why i've never gotten into it)
- With the controls/ability to actually fly your ship instead of merely ordering destinations.
- Tied with the above, more involved varied quests then just "go there, shoot that dude" and "carry cargo from A to B"
WoW: Burning Crusade/Wrath of the Lich King
- Well, I don't want a content re-hash, but almost everything about those expansions was great gameplay and story wise. Then cata came along like a wrecking ball and destroyed all that was fun about WoW.
- Great Villains, a healthy plethora of raid content, challenging while still offering stuff for casual players, amazing single player zones and quests, etc etc. Cata came along and offered about half the content for the same price... And the content that was offered was 90% re-hashed vanilla stuff, and ruined a lot of the abilities and synergies that made raiding fun.
Guild Wars 2
- Well, at least I hope so. Must always wait until something is out before it can be fully judged. /crosses fingers.
My idea of the perfect MMO is heavily influenced by the first one I ever played: Star Wars Galaxies. In short, sandbox as opposed to theme park, lots of gameplay options open to the player that aren't related to combat (PVE, PVP, end-game raids, even crafting are all combat or for the purpose of getting an edge in combat), and lots of character customization options. Not just during character creation either I mean, I don't want everyone of the same class to be wearing the same armor by the end game. Star Wars Galaxies had a really interesting system where you could get clothing of various styles of varying worth depending on aesthetics and I guess crafting requirements alone with no stat increases whatsoever. The way that armor and clothing worked compared to modern MMOs is something like Morrowind vs Skyrim and Oblivion, which allowed for some really unique looking characters.
I like SWTOR so far, most of the problems are the same ones that existed with WoW.
It would be impossible to ever create a proper online version of Final Fantasy Tactics, but a game that let you be one soldier using a similar class system and dark Middle Ages setting/plot would work for me- I'm also a fan of the books of Bernard Cornwell, some of which are similarly cuthroat and brutal. When you're in a party of four or five players you'd typically run into groups of five enemies of various classes or monsters who work together, just like you're supposed to do. Though it wouldn't do to use the same names and costumes, analogous classes with different names should be included for:
Knight
Monk
White Mage
Black Mage
Thief
Red Mage
Gambler
Geomancer
Summoner (Huge but slow area spells)
Oracle (Status Ailments)
Dancer (Gradual stat decreases that affect enemies no matter where they are)
Bard (Gradual stat increases that affect allies no matter where they are)
Time Mage
Basically I want a lot more strategy in my MMORPG. Working it into real-time isn't easy, but no one but me would put up with turn-based.
It would be impossible to ever create a proper online version of Final Fantasy Tactics, but a game that let you be one soldier using a similar class system and dark Middle Ages setting/plot would work for me- I'm also a fan of the books of Bernard Cornwell, some of which are similarly cuthroat and brutal. When you're in a party of four or five players you'd typically run into groups of five enemies of various classes or monsters who work together, just like you're supposed to do. Though it wouldn't do to use the same names and costumes, analogous classes with different names should be included for:
Knight
Monk
White Mage
Black Mage
Thief
Red Mage
Gambler
Geomancer
Summoner (Huge but slow area spells)
Oracle (Status Ailments)
Dancer (Gradual stat decreases that affect enemies no matter where they are)
Bard (Gradual stat increases that affect allies no matter where they are)
Time Mage
Basically I want a lot more strategy in my MMORPG. Working it into real-time isn't easy, but no one but me would put up with turn-based.
I'd like something set in the far future so it has cool technology, but the people have regressed and don't really understand it. With fanatical religions based around gods who are all too real on hellish planets set across the galaxy. Maybe you'd be able to play as someone who likes to investigate, someone who likes to inquire, you might say an Inquisitor. Or maybe you want to be a marine, but in space, they could call that character something cool, like I don't know, a Space Marine.
If Adidas become responsible for this not happening, I will hunt them down.
If Adidas become responsible for this not happening, I will hunt them down.
Why, the very MMO I desire is in production right now.
It's called Infinity universe. It's freaking sexy, but still in very early stages.
It's called Infinity universe. It's freaking sexy, but still in very early stages.
I was going to say "none because I don't like MMOs" then run away while giggling to myself then I realized I always associate the letters 'MMO' with 'RPG' so, that being said here's my ideal MMO:
You chose at the very beginning which you like more, Red or Blue. After that you're assigned the color-coded planet of your choice. After that you're dropped into a ship and sent to the other planet in hopes of destroying it. Or you can stay at your desired planet to protect it from the hundreds of thousands of player-controls ships coming your way to destroy your planet. So there we have it: You can paint it up to resemble Star Wars and add in Star Destroyers to destroy if you want it to make money but what I'm basically looking for is a multiplayer version of the Battlefront 2 Space Combat bits only where the player cap per team is in the quadruple digits.
You chose at the very beginning which you like more, Red or Blue. After that you're assigned the color-coded planet of your choice. After that you're dropped into a ship and sent to the other planet in hopes of destroying it. Or you can stay at your desired planet to protect it from the hundreds of thousands of player-controls ships coming your way to destroy your planet. So there we have it: You can paint it up to resemble Star Wars and add in Star Destroyers to destroy if you want it to make money but what I'm basically looking for is a multiplayer version of the Battlefront 2 Space Combat bits only where the player cap per team is in the quadruple digits.