That's because technically they're not the same vote; they have—for some reason—Americanised 'recognisable'.
How dare they Americanise my words! Strike all such votes from the tally-they are null and void!
But if you do null them then fantasy will win.
Voting closes officially at 6pm GMT on Friday. It will probably slow down long before then, but I want to be fair. Give myself a couple of hours to make a post that fits the votes while giving everyone else enough time to avoid a last minute scramble.
Hey, I just fixed your spelling is all! The American Way is the only way, after all.
If you don't like classes got any examples of MMOS I might know. I'm not a huge fan of the genre but Runescape is the only example I can think of.To get some discussion going, who besides me has come up with a design for an MMO before? (MMO design is one of my hobbies and I come up with a new one every few years.) Or perhaps you have participated in a team MMO design process? What was that design like?
Me, I'm a player who likes soloing, quests, scalable instanced dungeons, and 'sandpark' games with plenty of sim-like gameplay (e.g. growing crops and raising/breeding pet monsters). And I like games where appearance customization happens within the game and incorporated into the plot and faction relationships, rather than all at the beginning, so I favor appearance customizations as quest rewards or craftable costume pieces. I don't like classes, guilds, or raids, so those weren't a big part of my last MMO design, WildWright. I chose a standard 'grinder' type of leveling for that design, but more recently I've favored systems which don't have XP but instead the player directly earns stat and skill points. I found the most interesting and challenging parts of the design to be the NPC factions, the crafting system, and the combat system. The most innovative part of the design was probably the property ownership system, where a player temporarily places their property into a suburb around an NPC city or between PvE areas in order to use crafting facilities on the property. This property is actually a pocket dimension which travels with the player, and is packed back into the player's pocket when not in use.
The way I imagine a good classless skill system working is by reference to Dofus. Dofus has a pool of skills per class which players can purchase with skill points; what I imagine is simply having all the skills in the game together in the same pool. In fact the result would be somewhat like Skyrim, where there's no real restriction on how you combine skill trees, and you can be a stealth archer mage thief swordsman enchanter if you want to, but for efficiency players would mostly choose to specialize in 2 or 3 areas. Not too different from Path of Exile's Skill tree, aside from the fact that Dofus doesn't have a tree structure. I'm not sure I like the gem system in Path of Exile though. They are somewhat like the materia system in FF7, which I mostly like, and somewhat like the skill macro system in Ryzom, which I also mostly like, but I'd have to study how they work in more depth to be sure.
As I said, the exact specifics of the world you pick will be decided later on by you guys, including tech level. You might go standard western medieval, bronze age like Tyranny, 11th century chinese tech, Eberron level magitech with flying trains, or a wild west fantasy like Alloy of Law. Fantasy covers a lot of ground.
Specific questions about mechanics, types of character, leveling, how VR interacts with it and others, will be discussed further in the game's development. Of course it will be left in the end up to the voters.
Sounds good, though adding more options means more work until our VR is fully functional. Although if the vote stays the same, we'll have an AI helping us so....
depends on the actual implementation, but yeah psionics is something out of the common ken and thus basically the magic of the sci-fi world. I.e., any technology sufficiently advanced...
