Balls in your court now Haemish, Schild & Co.

[Xanthippe]

It would have to have some sort of farming incorporated into it.

Not farming for loot, but real farming, a la Harvest Moon.

[Stormwaltz]

Project Management.

When you log in, you are given a squad of four followers. If they stay near you, they generate XP sufficient to level you to maximum in twelve months; there are no other sources of XP in the game. However, your followers will wander off in all directions if left unattended. Any follower that strays too far stops producing XP. If he wanders too far, he may decide join another player's squad.

You can tell a follower to return by clicking on him. Each time you click on a follower, his stress level rises. If you click too frequently, he will explode like a baby seal in Warcraft. His death cry, cursing your abuse, will be broadcast to everyone on the server in 36 point red Haemish font.

If a follower explodes, you must quest to find a new one. Not all followers are created equal. They produce XP at varying rates and have a variable "wanderlust." The followers that produce the most XP have greatest tendency to wander.

GMs will hold live events in which they choose random players to rob of XP. Often this will be followed by an exciting quest in which the player must reach an arbitrary level in an arbitrary period of time, or be killed.

[HaemishM]

MMOG: The Revenge?

[AOFanboi]

Not farming for loot, but real farming, a la Harvest Moon.

I guess a DS and PSP Harvest Moon MMO (*drool*) will be the next logical step after Animal Crossing DS will 0wn like mad.

(I use "and" because games in the franchise have been published on both PS1, GCN and GBA. At least. What might ruin a co-production with common servers is that Sony and Nintendo's online services may differ too much to make it feasible.)

[MaceVanHoffen]

That game has mad gameplay polish. I wasn't just talking about graphics.

That's where an engine like this might help.  Gameplay > all.  I mean, it's not like other things don't matter, but if your game has solid, creative, fun gameplay, then gamers tend to be more forgiving about other things.  If it's fun, it'll be played.

If having a decent, publicly-available engine frees a team to think more deeply about gameplay than the current whack-a-foozle-until-ding MMOG's out there, then I'm all for it.

[Tairnyn]

I invision the game to have a two hour character creation process...

Error: Please choose a color for Pimple_059 in quadrant 3F of the right ass cheek to continue.

[WayAbvPar]

I invision the game to have a two hour character creation process...

Error: Please choose a color for Pimple_059 in quadrant 3F of the right ass cheek to continue.

Heh. Hell, just getting colors and looks right in CoH was a long ass process, but that was actually kind of fun.

[Typhon]

GMs will hold live events in which they choose random players to rob of XP. Often this will be followed by an exciting quest in which the player must reach an arbitrary level in an arbitrary period of time, or be killed.

what's wrong with y'all?!, this was teh funny. what, just cause he's a dev you can't give credit? fuckers.