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[41] The Torque MMO Kit can be used to create massive multiplayer online roleplaying games and is intended for indie developers who can t afford or don t want to pay for expensive engines. And your success or failure will decide whether your beloved capital will be gutted, and its citizens slaughtered and then finally burned to the ground, or whether that fate will befall your enemies instead. Five minutes later, I was able to group repetitive tasks into two categories: Sports Watching paint dry In general, most sports are extremely repetitive. - posted by Tobold @ 12:01 AM Permanent Link (4) comments Links to this post Friday, September 28, 2007 Dethroning WoW Yahoo wrote up a list of the next ten major MMORPGs to be released and declared them all contenders for dethroning World of Warcraft. blog On the other side it was sad to see the closest thing World of Warcraft had to a non-instanced dungeon turned into a solo encounter. As well, pictures can be viewed via a virtual picture frame. If I did the daily heroic for a month, or got into Karazhan raids every week for two months, I could gather 150 badges of justice. blog People are already complaining about the bad customer service they get from games they pay $15 a month for, imagine how much less a game company with play-for-free browser games is investing in customer support. blog Guild Wars has been likened to collectible card games such as Magic: the Gathering because of the way skills are used in gameplay. I m talking about the point where one player wins over another player because he uses an addon the other player didn t install.
As another example, in many older MMORPGs the fastest way to progress was simply by killing the same monsters over and over again, and as this is still common in the genre all MMORPG players know the process as "grinding". So how is a tank supposed to protect the less well-armored classes? The best you can implement is a kind of buff that redirects damage from the protected target to the tank, and even that is far from ideal. blog Solution: First, if you are a male, you should take some pen ile enchancement pills. If cross-server battlegrounds can work, then why not cross-server dungeons? You d need to put up the same restrictions on trading, but otherwise it should be possible. Thus the number of hours to 60 has been significantly shortened. An other problem is that every guild that disbands hurts the whole PvE scene, as all PvE guilds are connected. Don t believe a word of it, from no-one. I mean come on, nobody wears the same clothes day in and day out in real life, why the heck to we have to in a game?! And puh-leaze, don t those devs know that it s the height of embarrassment to be seen wearing the same clothes as someone else, especially if they were of the opposite sex? That s one of the most basic things that annoys me in most MMOs. - posted by Tobold @ 9:52 AM Permanent Link (14) comments Links to this post Feedback needed on blog layout You might not even have noticed it, but the blog post titles should have changed color, indicating that they are now clickable hyperlinks. Personally I m not using my mobile phone all that much, and am not sure I d want to spend big bucks on an Android phone. Most of the gameplay is balanced around a party of eight level 20 players sporting items with maximum stats. blog 3 adding content to the old world was an exception, normally Blizzard adds content mostly to whatever the current level cap is, as it is there where most of the players are. In this book, it s the ability to make your character look any way you want them to, accomplished by adding a clothing layer that serves no statistical purpose, but allows players to have their characters look any way that they see fit.