Best posts made by EvolGrinZ

I'm sure I would like PvP a lot more if there wasn't so much toxicity and salt around it.

@roccandil said in Preventing Bots in Arboreus:

@evolgrinz said in Preventing Bots in Arboreus:

@roccandil said in Preventing Bots in Arboreus:

If I ever design a game, I've decided I'll do everything I can to balance it around the mechanic that player's toons are -always- skilling up, regardless of whether or not the players are actually on, and thus organically bypass the bot issue.

So you mean something like EVE-Online uses. Where you train skills even when you are not online?
Something like that would be nice.

I peeked at EVE Online once, and decided it would take -way- too much dedication to play it. If they use that kind of system, though, that makes me happy, since EVE seems to be one of the most successful sandbox MMOs.

Yeah EVE-Online (aka spreadsheet simulator) takes a lot to play. I played it for 5 years total and after 2 years I was still learning new things about the game and mechanics. But the skill system is great especially when they introduced the ability to queue skills.

Testing games is one of my biggest hobbies, the amount of time spent on testing this game will mainly depend on how many other games I am testing. It will also depend on the testing window of this game and the other games.
When you enjoy playing the game, it does get easier to put more time into testing it. But I can put in anything between 1 hour and 7 hours a day.

Another way I found interesting and only seen it in 2 games thus far.
You can set up a little stall yourself and you get put into a shop mode. You can place up to a several amount of items into your stall and set prices for them.
Other players can walk around and look at each shop and buy items directly.
This is fun for the shop owner as they need to do research about the prices other people are selling the items for. And as buying, it feels like walking over a market, searching for the best deal.

Perhaps an idea for Fractured to have it that you will be invulnerable when in shop mode. Also have it take a little bit of time to set up shop mode, or that you can only set up shop in certain places in a city, so it can't be used as a way to avoid combat.

A nice little cabin in the middle of the woods, preferably next to a stream with a little waterfall. That would be my dream location

If a game is good, people will play it no matter what payment model is used.