Newish? Browser Based MMOG, Nexus War

[Righ]

While you typed that, I was killing your text avatar.

[HaemishM]

Ganker.

[Cheddar]

You ain't hardcore til you play in TEXT.

I challenge thee.

http://www.gameszoo.org/rezork/rezork1.html

[tkinnun0]

Who the fuck is this guy?  Lemme tell you buddy, I am fucking HARDCORE.  You are talking to someone that is currently playing UO.  RAR!

Oh, come on, certainly you can provide better critisism than "need to be able to play more daily" after 12 minutes of game play (or is it 14 minutes now). I'm sure people would like to hear it.

[Cheddar]

Oh, come on, certainly you can provide better critisism than "need to be able to play more daily" after 12 minutes of game play (or is it 14 minutes now). I'm sure people would like to hear it.

Actually I have provided nothing useful to this post.  At all.  At least critize that!  Where is your review Mr. Smarty Pants?

[Signe]

Yes, be careful.  Cheddar is very hardcore... all wrapped up in a pretty pink package.  (with ribbons)

[Cheddar]

Yes, be careful.  Cheddar is very hardcore... all wrapped up in a pretty pink package.  (with ribbons)

<snicker> So says Feet. </snicker>

[Signe]

Don't call me that, Cheese Wiz!  I'm more hardcorer than you are!

[Falconeer]

Nice new avatar, Feet :)

[Samwise]

Years from now, newbies will ask why we call Signe "Feet", and nobody will remember.

[Signe]

You're all dead to me.  I live in a forum of dead people.  Fucking zombies, that's you lot, that is.

[schild]

You're all dead to me. I live in a forum of dead people. Fucking zombies, that's you lot, that is.

Text based zombies though, not real zombies. Think of it as a newish browser based MMOG.

[tkinnun0]

Actually I have provided nothing useful to this post.  At all.  At least critize that!  Where is your review Mr. Smarty Pants?

I'm not here for reviews. I'm here for the stupidity and hypocrisy.

[schild]

Actually I have provided nothing useful to this post. At all. At least critize that! Where is your review Mr. Smarty Pants?

I'm not here for reviews. I'm here for the stupidity and hypocrisy.

CLEVER. VERY CLEVER.

[WindupAtheist]

I give this thread two thumbs up just for solidifying Signe's nickname in the face of her changed avatar.  Oh yes, she can change it to whatever she likes, but Feet she shall remain!

[stray]

Da Vinci liked feet.

[HaemishM]

Da Vinci liked feet.

So does Tarantino.

[Cheddar]

Da Vinci liked feet.

So does Tarantino.

<snicker>

[stray]

Haha

[WindupAtheist]

But he does not know why.

[Der Helm]

You ain't hardcore til you play in TEXT.

I thought, that was what we are doing here ?

[Surlyboi]

Not to bring this back on topic, but I kinda like it. It's a gankfest like none I've ever seen this side of Trammel, but hell...it's a text gankfest.

And yeah, feet is feet forever.

[jorm]

Hi.  This is my game.

Thought I'd say hi and see if there were any questions I could answer.

[Samwise]

I was going to ask when it was going to be back online, but it looks like it already is.  Yay!

[Broughden]

I was going to ask when it was going to be back online, but it looks like it already is.  Yay!

You  in IRC chat Sam?

[jorm]

I was going to ask when it was going to be back online, but it looks like it already is.  Yay!

Yeah.  Been having a . . .few. . . scaling problems.  Right now, it's running smooth.  But right now, it's one a.m PST.

[schild]

Hm. I didn't last long in KoL. Dunno my length for here, but it's something to do at work.

[Xilren's Twin]

Hi.  This is my game.

Thought I'd say hi and see if there were any questions I could answer.

More of an abstract question than gameplay, but what is your vision of how people will play this game?  Loggin once a day, or have people log in 5 minute sputs continously throughout the day?  I guess Im trying to understand what market you are targetting with this better.

BTW, the weapon breakage seems rather .... high.

Xilren

[Signe]

Hi.  This is my game.

Thought I'd say hi and see if there were any questions I could answer.

What are you wearing?

[Surlyboi]

Ignore Feet, she's...feet.

As I stated above Jorm, I dig your game and have donated to it. (In an unofficial capacity, of course). It is a bit of a gankers' paradise, but I think that's kind of what you wanted, no? It's like Ragnarok on crack.

[jorm]

More of an abstract question than gameplay, but what is your vision of how people will play this game?  Loggin once a day, or have people log in 5 minute sputs continously throughout the day?  I guess Im trying to understand what market you are targetting with this better.

This is an interesting question, and one I've not been asked (which kind of surprises me).  I knew going into this that the "currency" is going to be "time" - in this case, action points.  That's what I'm "selling" (err, giving away).  So, with that in mind, what you'll *always* have are three distinct player styles:

1) The ones who savor each AP and log in throughout the day to get maximum benefit
2) The ones who prefer an orgy of AP expense, and log in twice a day to blow 50 at once
3) (The largest group) who log in 4 or 5 times a day and blow 20-30 AP at once.

Playstyle is actually independant of how "hardcore" someone is about the game (e.g., heavily involved in metagame/forum activity), and that's difficult to measure (even though NW has "official" forums, most metagame appears to take place outside of there - either using the ingame faction mail system or external forums).

The answer is that I expect people's activity to change over the course of the existence of a character, but that I don't expect or am focused towards specific play styles.  The reason why I expect things to change over time is the death penalty:  1 AP per character level.  Since you can be (reasonably) assured of being dead whenever you log in, as you get "older" it becomes advantageous to let as many AP charge up as possible.  This is actually the reason as to why higher level characters can store more AP than lower level ones - to offset their death penalty, if they have one.

Crafters, readers, lockpickers, engineers - they tend to be "blow it all at once."   Most healers and combat characters are in the last group - 3-4 times a day.  The *dedicated* combat characters comprise the bulk of the first group (and these guys level the fastest for two reasons:  1) targets come to them [they play like trapdoor spiders] and 2) they are often likely to interrupt people attacking them, and thus have death reduced).

I don't know if I've answered your question, however, as the answer is kind of vague.  I want to support "casuals" who do drive by playing but honestly the bulk of my work goes into supporting community building and identity (which isn't so 'drive by').

BTW, the weapon breakage seems rather .... high.

Several reasons for this, but primarily it is that weapon breakage is the primary penalty for death before level 10.

In alpha, for several months, people "corpsified" and all their gear was left there (and available to be looted by other characters or themselves).  It was. . . a serious kick to new players, so that got tossed out and weapon quality was introduced.

I keep the number as high as it is to artificially regulate the amount of broken weaponry and armor so that crafters and repairers have a steady supply of stuff to work with.

[jorm]

What are you wearing?

Whatever you want me to.

Edit: ack!  there doesn't seem to be a "double post" button.

[Samwise]

RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE!

Just spotted this on the official forums.  Coming soon: micropayments for in-game pieces of flair, like custom titles. 

It's sort of like Broughden's idea, except not at all shitty -- none of the things you can buy will affect game balance in any way (Jorm is very clear on this point).  Be interesting to see how popular the perks end up being.