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Grumpy Old Fart · 12-14-2007, 06:55 PM

1) Do not *EVER*, fucking *EVER EVER EVER* make that god damned "You have been afflicted by Dazed." a part of any MMORPG ever again. Ever. We all fucking hate it. Some douchebag higher-level dev at Blizzard that was one of those power-mad 15 year old D&D DMs that liked killing his players to get a hard-on insists on this stupid thing being kept in the game, even though I'm sure every other employee there hates his guts (I know the Blizzard forum mods do a "/sigh, yes we know it's fucking stupid, but this dev will take his toys and go home if we remove Dazed from the game" every time it's posted about).

2) Do copy the Vanguard spellcasting sytems, with mana usage, channeling, ability to cast while moving (at a reduced rate), etc. If you use anything even approaching the horrid DAoC spell-casting system, we'll trash your game on every game forum ever made until it dies.

3) Copy and improve the Vanguard diplomacy system.

4) Do not use the retarded, simplistic, lazy-assed system of "98% of all mobs in the world are auto-aggro on players" shit that WoW has. And for those mobs that would naturally be aggro to players, don't make it another retarded, simplistic, lazy-assed system basing aggro distance solely on level difference between the NPC and PC.

5) Do use the queueing of hotkey commands that EQ2 has.

6) Do not have any "auto-invisible", non-spellcaster classes in your game. "Stealth" can be implemented a lot better these days than allowing some "rogue" class to just go *POOF* in the middle of a grassy field at high noon.

7) No crowd control spells in PvP that last longer than about 10 seconds. Obviously, having your character mezzed/stunned in DAoC RvR for 2 minutes at a time was a key factor in them losing tens of thousands of subscribers. So, don't do it.

8) Spend a lot of time making sure the 87% of your playerbase that wants to make mangina characters will be happy. This includes hot-looking faces, hair, animated boob bouncing, etc. This one is important. I mean, look at Lineage 2. What does it offer other than DE boob bounce and HE panty shots? That's right, nothing.

12-14-2007, 06:55 PM	#9 (permalink)
Grumpy Old Fart You fucking kids get off my lawn! Join Date: May 2007 Location: North Dakota Posts: 651	1) Do not EVER, fucking EVER EVER EVER make that god damned "You have been afflicted by Dazed." a part of any MMORPG ever again. Ever. We all fucking hate it. Some douchebag higher-level dev at Blizzard that was one of those power-mad 15 year old D&D DMs that liked killing his players to get a hard-on insists on this stupid thing being kept in the game, even though I'm sure every other employee there hates his guts (I know the Blizzard forum mods do a "/sigh, yes we know it's fucking stupid, but this dev will take his toys and go home if we remove Dazed from the game" every time it's posted about). 2) Do copy the Vanguard spellcasting sytems, with mana usage, channeling, ability to cast while moving (at a reduced rate), etc. If you use anything even approaching the horrid DAoC spell-casting system, we'll trash your game on every game forum ever made until it dies. 3) Copy and improve the Vanguard diplomacy system. 4) Do not use the retarded, simplistic, lazy-assed system of "98% of all mobs in the world are auto-aggro on players" shit that WoW has. And for those mobs that would naturally be aggro to players, don't make it another retarded, simplistic, lazy-assed system basing aggro distance solely on level difference between the NPC and PC. 5) Do use the queueing of hotkey commands that EQ2 has. 6) Do not have any "auto-invisible", non-spellcaster classes in your game. "Stealth" can be implemented a lot better these days than allowing some "rogue" class to just go POOF in the middle of a grassy field at high noon. 7) No crowd control spells in PvP that last longer than about 10 seconds. Obviously, having your character mezzed/stunned in DAoC RvR for 2 minutes at a time was a key factor in them losing tens of thousands of subscribers. So, don't do it. 8) Spend a lot of time making sure the 87% of your playerbase that wants to make mangina characters will be happy. This includes hot-looking faces, hair, animated boob bouncing, etc. This one is important. I mean, look at Lineage 2. What does it offer other than DE boob bounce and HE panty shots? That's right, nothing.