Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Faille Certainly, but take the case of mentoring. I know some people at Sigil was interested in having something similar to mentoring implemented into Vanguard. I'm sure they would love to see how it was implemented in EQ2, what mistakes were made and corrected, and basically have a better idea for how it might be applicable to use in Vanguard, if they do decide they want it.
Will this new partnership be open to such sharing of ideas, or you both be kept very seperate in this respect? |
It's not like they need some special business arangement to borrow design-level things from EQ2; EQ2 sure didn't when they took mentoring from CoH. Any idiot can look at what other games are doing, see what they did wrong (thx stupidly obvious shit like weapon procs not being scaled down), and put together their own version. Hey Brad, what about armor sets? ZOMG Brilliant!! You might as well ask if they're going to have conference calls about the concept of levels. Stuff like Smed mentioned, like the patching system or the billing system (usually handled by the publisher), or datamining tools (handled by the dev house engineering and design teams), are stuff that is obvious to share, since it's not part of the core tech that the game actually runs on, but is tremendously helpful in shaving off a solid amount of dev time on the engineering side.
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Smed As for gameplay stuff.. it's precisely because of the gameplay that we're interested in Vanguard. Like the old saying goes "If it ain't broke.. don't fix it". I realize I'm setting myself up nicely by saying that, but hey.. it applies. |
Is this the place where I'm supposed to ask if racial xp penalties are still in EQ1?
