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Silly pop songs. Even the nights are better...now that we're here together....Even the days are brighter...since I fooooound you! Oh whoa whoa.... Nuff said
It is nice to be able to not take ourselves seriously every so often. We are the community we make, after all :) My the gods help us all.....
Ryan has already made it clear they're going to allow me to log in more than one character from the same account at the same time. Why doesn't anyone tell me these things! kidding..kidding Keep in mind that deception and political intrigue are going to be major facets of this game. What comes to mind when you mention that is organizations like Tony's, which I can understand why he would not want his account name on every character he makes. For deception purposes. My point was that if account names do get shown on our toons, we should not, as a community, penalize people if they are abiding by the rules set forth by goblinworks, even if one of their toons is an evil bandit. But that is not taking into account fun things like espionage and the like. Thinking about it in that respect, barring getting yourself a second account (which with all the back and forth on this thread, I'm still not sure if there is a monetary disadvantage one way or the other), anonimity will be very difficult. So...if they do display account names, then be fair to each other. But if there is a "vote" I would be against having account names shown.
If I may go back for a moment to "meta-rep" and destiny twins… If PfO links our account with our character names, as NWO and other Cryptic/Perfect World games do, I don’t see it as a bad thing if we can remain level headed and reasonable. Say my main is the Dread Pirate Snuffington, who everyone knows will rob you blind and/or assassinate your settlement leader with ease. He gets paid for what he does and he does it very well. However, he does not break any EULA rules. He doesn’t grief, or cause the community any true harm. Say I decide to then make my destiny twin the Great Arch Holy Paladin Trueheart the Brave. Keep in mind that my main may be hated for being an evil character, he is not the undesirable griefer types that we do not want around. I don’t think Trueheart should be penalized for the actions of Snuffington (unless of course Snuffington ventured into the undesirable category, in which case I feel that all the toons of my account should be prosecuted by the full extent of “meta-law”). Thoughts?
I must say, that reading your more in depth response on your recruit application of how you plan to have your character play out was awesome. Very fun idea for a gnome (even though you'll find some in Pax who like Halflings better =P) For all those lurking out there, we just upgraded our community site which can be found at www.paxgaming.com - Stop by and take a look see, you'll be glad you did (^_^)
We're not targeting casual players. That's for games that expect to have millions of players. We're targeting a small number of hard core players who are obsessed with the game.If you mean by hardcore, poopsocking, then I may find the game a little too niche even for my taste. :) I really like the idea of having some extras that are managable via smartphone apps or websites, etc. (Which I know could take away from immersion some). I've been pouring through as much PF material as I can, but at the end of the day I will be more of a casual player by the simple fact that I lack the hours in the day to sit down and play (Being a family man with two kids and all that). Is there such as thing as Hardcore Casual? :)
Stole this quote from the thread on the newest Goblinworks Blog. Thought it might find a home here as well
The "required" role of the Rogue in the party has never been about DPS, it's been about being the trap-monkey. Druids may be able to be shadowy killers, but they will never be able to deal with traps, locks, or picking pockets like a rogue. I'd like to think it's a lil bit of both. Nothing feels better than getting that nice backstab crit on a baddie to look like a BAMF! That being said, your point does help remind me that while this is a MMO, I should get my mind off what is "established" in the Themepark community and bring it back to some PnP roots as well. Good food for thought!
I think the underlaying theme of the "jack of all trades" is while a druid can "backstab" as good as a rogue (if they spend the time to specialize in that area) they will not have the same flavor of play as a rogue. They won't be able to pickpocket, detect traps, etc that a rogue can do. You can probably make the same arguement for the other 3 classes as well. To counter this, I'm hopeful that the Druid will have its own abilities (other than just being able to do a bit of everything) that makes them unique as a class without overpowering the class itself.
Second, I would like to see the 4 aspects of the druid archetype be linked to the four elements rather than 4 archetypes. This would make the druid archetype more unique and have an in-game explanation for this type of character ability set. I think that elemental linkage would be a fine mechanic for allowing precision damage (sneak attack to others) to the Air Aspect, greater hitting/damage to the Earth Aspect, destructive magic to the Fire Aspect, and healing magic to the Water Aspect. While reading this part of your post the images that quickly popped into my mind were less of druid and more of the various nations/benders in Avatar: The Last Airbender, while awesome, don't really ring Druid to me. Though I don't plan on rolling a Druid, I feel that Option #4 would provide the best overall compromise in this discussion. Option #1, as a few have stated already, would appear to make the Druid class too watered down and possibly unfavorable for group mechanics. Option #2 and #3 could be achieved by going with Option #4 and not alienate anyone from their vision of how a Druid should be. As far as balancing the Option #4 Druid I see it two ways. First, it could take the 10 years to attain “capstone” in every aspect, which is certainly a large time commitment, but has the potential to OP the Druid many years down the road. The Second option would be to keep their progression in line with that of the other classes, but make switching in-between aspects something that cannot be done on the fly. This would help to prevent OP and still give the Druid the versatility that is desired by all you Druid lovers out there.
Thanks Nihimon. I was actually wondering about where I could find these lists after I listened to the Gobocast you were apart of. Much appreciated! And yes I'm a Paxian. Currently in the SWTOR realm, but also a Crowforger.
So things seem to be slowing down a bit on our end, how is everyone else doing? So of all the forums and message boards I like to frequent and can't at work (Thank you Big Brother), I just found out that the paizo website is not on that list!!! There will be nothing to stop us this time! I'm trying to catch up on all the boards here now, which is a huge feat aparently. I look forward to reading/responding to the community as this long march to release trudges on! |
