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Originally Posted by Ukerric  Steampunk make a wonderful milieu for a MMO. You don't have the problem of the "too" high tech which requires your designers to make contrived explanations of exactly why your hero isn't firing spraying bursts of high penetrating uranium-coated projectiles (or whatever has a higher killrate than that). |
Actually the high tech that is more problematic in modern/future MMOG settings is stuff like cars, airplanes, trains, space ships, etc. You either (a) have to implement them, or (b) have some valid reason why they don't exist, or (c) players wonder why the fuck lightspeed travel exists yet players walk everywhere like cavemen.
That's why a post-apocalyptic setting like Fallout would make a great MMOG world, since low-tech and high-tech can mingle yet there is a valid reason why you can't get on the subway.
