Don't ask for ridiculous things / support the team / you make bunny cry

#10400082962 02/22/2006 07:27 Re: Don't ask for ridiculous things / support the team / you make bunny cry

on the revolutions bonus disc there was talk of interlock dog grooming and i have to say i'm still v disappointed it was never implemented. :robotsad:

i am totally on board with u re: the near impossibility of implementing cars but i do have to say that in a magical world of no developing/resource constraints cars would make a lot more sense than inexplicably hyperjumping from place to place in plain view of crowds of bluepills.

#10400083047 02/22/2006 12:00 Re: Don't ask for ridiculous things / support the team / you make bunny cry

Level cap boredom is one of the reasons I havent been grinding my @ss off night and day to hit 50. Sure there are other reasons to hit 50, but lets face it: PvP is pointless and dull, Pbox's were good....but again old content now. So, I agree, dont raise the level cap beyond 50 and spend the time creating/balancing abilities. Instead, lets spend the resources continually adding new content and goals.

LostProphet wins the thread!!!!!!!!!!

#10400083594 02/23/2006 21:49 Re: Don't ask for ridiculous things / support the team / you make bunny cry

For myself, the only issue I have with the statements made by the OP is that some of the things the community is asking for should have been in the initial release. If Warner would have had more patience while Monolith was developing the game, they may well have been.

Adding melee weapons to the game would be a serious endeavor, requiring dedicated development. The easiest part of that process would be designing the model weapons; after that, you have to lay out melee weapon skill trees, design their separate branches and then begins the laborius work of designing the animations, which is probably the most labor-intensive portion of the process. However, going back to my opening statement; melee weapons should have been in the game from the beginning. Even when I was in the beta, it was strange to see racks of katanas, wakizashis and tantos and find that you couldn't actually use them.

A more robust clothing design system would also be a laborious process, but at a minimum, at least you would not have to actually design and model the clothing from scratch. So the most intensive portion would be mapping the textures and colors for every single piece of clothing and developing the system that allows the player to assign desired attributes. The GUI for that process would be the least difficult portion.

For myself, those two items, while difficult, are not unreasonable requests because they were omissions that should have been in the game at release.

The community in MXO obviously cares about the game. I'd be willing to say that if the tools were in their hands, there are definitely those in the community who would be willing to take on partial development of those two items. At the very least, there are designer/developers in training (like myself) who wouldn't mind having credit for those designs on their resumes and in their portfolios coming out of the gate. Personally, I would take the credit over pay.

The other items I agree are mostly unnecessary embellishment to the game for the exact reasons the OP stated, particularly drivable vehicles and player property.