Best posts made by EvolGrinZ

I will start off as a beast and when I get more familiar I will make a demon and walk the path to become an angel.

The best way to prevent bots is to just not make it profitable to bot.
For instance, killing and farming in the same spot over and over in a certain timeframe will give diminishing returns.

But you can never get rid of bots completely, there will always be those people who want the shinies while not doing anything for it.

Toxic community and pay 2 win (lootboxes).

P2W means that there are items in the cash shop that are better than you can find in-game and the only way to get them is to pay real money.
Buying cosmetics with real money, selling them for in-game money and then buying gear with that is not P2W. It's just taking a shortcut, because you can do just the same by putting more time in and farm in-game currency to get the same item without having to pay any real money.

So no cosmetics only cash shop with perhaps some convenience items will never be P2W.

For me, the most important thing in an MMO is the community.
For instance, was giving GW2 a go when it went free to play and there I was, complete noob, just out of the tutorial and there was a max level guy right there. Started talking to me and ran with me doing stuff gave me some goodies to get started and giving me some tips and tricks etc.
It made me feel good and kept playing and noticed most of the community in the game is very friendly and racked up about 2000 hours in the game so far and still going strong.

On the other side. I tried DOTA2 and when joining a game, I immediately let them know I was new to the game. I was cursed at, for being a noob and not knowing how to play etc. I tried 2 more games and exactly the same thing happened. So I logged off and uninstalled that game and never looked at it ever again.

1st rule of NDA, you don't talk about NDA.

Being a game tester isn't always fun. You are basically working as a QA for the developers. Writing detailed bug reports on stuff you find, checking maps for gaps, glitches etc. basically doing things other than plainly playing the game in order to find the rare bugs in the game.
Especially for alpha games, as a tester you will focus more on the core of the game. Balance skills and other minor tweaks isn't the place for alpha, those can easily be fixed in beta. For an alpha testing the most important is to get the backbone for the game ready and preferably bug free as that would be a lot harder to fix later on, without having to wipe progress.

I myself really enjoy this kind of work, but it certainly not for everyone.

I usually play light armor classes, and light armor (robes) just look better on female character so I usually end up playing female characters. But I am never pretending to be female myself while playing a female character.

And besides, most MMORPG's your camera view is behind your character and when running around for hours, I'd rather look at a nice female ass than a male ass.

Here's an idea I had for a feature in the game.
Players who played EVE-Online will know it and it's called contracts.
An in game feature that allows you to set up a contracts. For instance you are shop keeper and you have precious materials that need to be moved, you can put up a contract. In the contract you can fill in the collateral value that the contract owner pays up front and will get it back when the contract is completed, to make sure the courier doesn't just run off with your goods. You will also have to fill in an expiration date. If the courier fails to deliver the goods in time, the collateral value will be paid out to you.And also fill in the pay out for a completed contract.

This could even be used to hire mercenaries to help defend you on the road, or help to take over a town or whatnot.

Another good option would be to have a rating system added.
At the end of a contract both sides will choose a simple positive or negative rating (or maybe a 1-5 star rating), so others can see how reliable others are.

The developers are saying the cash shop will only feature cosmetics and quality of life stuff and no p2w elements.
The game will be more pay to progress faster.

I don't drink any pop, ever.
I only drink water or tea and occasionally whisky.

If people want to spy, there is always a way.
Get a 2nd account or maybe even pay someone to spy for you.

In EVE you can have 3 characters on 1 account, you can only train skills on 1 of them a time. I actually had a 2nd character that I used to spy on other alliances. Spend some time training it, to make it look like a legit character. And it worked nice, found out where the alliance we were in war with was hiding their titan and when it was poorly defended and we destroyed it.

I think it adds nice stuff to a game, where you can never fully trust anyone.

@rofus said in Discord Store 90/10 Starting 2019:

Steam has plenty of services but they aren't that popular as far as I know. Personally I don't even open Steam nowadays that often but I have Discord running all the time (PC and mobile app). Discord has all the basic stuff I need so their store is a nice addition.

There is Steam Workshop, one of the best services Steam offers, next to the reviews.

Price isn't always everything. You can buy a margarita pizza, because it's cheaper than all the other pizza's, but it's a plain empty pizza without anything. I'd rather spend some more on a pizza and get something like a meat lovers pizza or for some a pineapple pizza.
Also, the amount of people you reach with your platform is also very important.
You might make more per sale with the epic of discord store, but if by going there exclusively and end up selling only half or even less than you would have done on Steam, there isn't much of a change in total revenue.

It would be a mistake to accept the exclusivity Epic is doing to try to compete with Steam. As a developer your best bet is to put your game on all 3 stores. Then you reach as much players as possible and you will get the biggest number of sales for your game.

And by the way, don't expect games to be cheaper on Epic and Discord, just because they ask less %.

I always see the Lich as an evil being.
So maybe humans should have 2 options.
If a human turns evil it can become a Lich, but if the human turns good they can become a Satyr (for male) or Nymph (for female).

I am quiet by nature. I only say something if I think it adds something to a conversation/discussion.
In real life, I am not much different either.

The game is pre-alpha. They have other things to worry about right now than balance skills and abilities.

Why is something sent by car called a shipment, but something sent by ship called cargo?

If possible, I would like to make some sort of shadow priest, what enables me to heal when I do damage.
If not, I would probably go necromancer/summoner.

It must suck to be an air conditioner repairman.
You spend your day working in buildings that have no air conditioning and when it's fixed and finally cool, you leave.

@dragomok said in Character Creation:

@evolgrinz said in Character Creation:

If not, I would probably go necromancer/summoner.

Are you the kind necromancer/summoner that floods the screen with a ludicrous number of minions, or are you the kind that summons a different heavy-weight Murder Machine for different circumstances?

(Now I'm wondering what limit is there going to be on the number of summons...)

Kinda depends on the situation and limits in the game.
But usually like to flood the area with minions if I am taking care of random trash, but like to pick a select few strong ones if I am fighting a strong boss type.
But Diablo 2 Necromancer aka Zoomancer was my favorite kind of necromancer ever.