Things you'd like to see in 2008.

[Avendin]

There seems to be no value being placed on discovery here. I still remember being super-excited when I became aware of gloves/gauntlets. AR has become a lot easier to explore since I was n00b -- go do it and have fun! Don't just level-level-level until you're out of your depth. For one, you won't be able to score any "points" if you can't track people once you get to that stage.

[Ergorion]

[Ergorion]

[Shughurd]

[Ergorion]

m1co having friends? I didn't think it was possible. and if so, why don't i see them rushing to defend you?

[Wholesale Johnson]

Shughurd is remmennon.

[Mandor]

[Ashr]

I would like to see a compass. This would probably seem retarded to most of the players here, but I have tremendous difficulty moving without it. I spent several hours trying to write one in zmud, but gave up and decided I'd rather not play without having one. What it is is a big ascii compass that shows alongside the roomname, showing the room's exits as compass directions, typically with color-coding for whatever type of exit (open, closed, locked), but it could probably be done in just grey and black, too. It's usually an optional thing as well.

For people like me who can't read, it's a total lifesaver.

Given that I can't play now anyway, it isn't all that important to me, but as soon as I am able again, it will save me countless hours trying to script it in zmud if you could just code it for me, it'd probably be easier to code anyway. There's probably a snippet for it somewhere. Maybe not for ROM, though.

It looks something like this:

[Vertas]

That reminds me of a few characters i've been working on, this ones called the pretentious illiterate... uhhh...I told you...I don't know how to read

[Esura]

How about some lag on a failed flee? That would, overall, result in more deaths and more deaths are exciting. It makes hysteria useful for keeping someone in combat, and it messes up flee/murder a bit. I never liked flee/murder, I always thought it didn't make much sense in the context of a fight.

[Mandor]

[Mahkan]

a permanent walking emote would be cool.

[Stephen2_Aust]

[Mandor]

emote walks east.; hide; snicker.

[Mahkan]

no....
not an actually emote, but rather a customizable walking style


Mandor stumbles in.

Mandor is here.

Mandor stumbles west.

[Mandor]

[Vertas]

There are some different ones, I've noticed some zombies "lumber in" and theres the one where your injured of course...I dunno it sounds like unnecessary work if you ask me.

[Mandor]

well, it would be interesting to see, suppose you have a thief, and they slink into the room, fire giants lurch in, sliths slither in, etc. but we cant have people doing everything they want with it, because you could trick people into thinking you're badly hurt, and causing them to attack you unsanced because they think "easy kill". it also would have to get overridden by a players condition, i.e. limp, crawl.

[Mahkan]

why would that be a bad thing? maybe your character has a limp or maybe it does crawl, its not necessarily a bad thing to let people do that.

besides, i doubt those walking emotes were put into the game to signal to others in the room that that person is close to death and that you should kill them. they were probably added for realism, not just so random guys can take advantage of someone else's work.

[Esivole]

Things for 2008. How about playerbase wipe. followed by reverting to the old AR, approximately the time before Warlords left, when our playerbase was decent and the game was exciting. from that point don't put out hell loads of things that get replaced by down toned/dumb skills/spells. instead add things to add more variety and flavor to the game, then balance overpowered skills/spells correctly. Add more races/classes and combos there of.

not to say everything added recently is horrible, I do like... um, gambled items.... maybe? I guess thats not all that bad, but hell, who wants to run winter when you can wear a non-purging four damage minus a dex item.

The level based equipment is nice, such as restriction on red dragon/stolen rings. however, that is only a step on the ten mile curved road.
Such as the need to limit looting. Seeing a rank fifty full loot low levels is pathetic. and seeing a rank 20 wearing amber sleeves is sickening.

instead of adding a sincerely dumb cabal after removing two others. how about just adding cabals. so keep more choices. not turning things into coiterie. or whatever the hell that nonsense is. (and yes I realize they are still choices, but less poeple want to join a non flagged, boring sounding coiterie compared to a full flagged full fledged cabal)

There is more I am sure, but hell, this should be a good start.