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I have to ask if you read the blogs before you came here?

No. You sound like it was an obligation!

Anyway, I just wanted to create conversation, I'm sorry if my post was a pain and useless.

Edited to add :

I just read : Butchers, Bakers and Candlestick Makers posted by Ryan Dancey on Wednesday, April 11, 2012. WOW :)

I like the idea. But at first, when you start of as a poor peon in the kingdom, you should gather your ressources by yourself and then, maybe, when you are rich, you can employ people to do this in your stead

Now, I'm just a gamer, I don't program or know anything about producing a MMO. One thing I would love to see in game when thinking about gathering ressources for crafting or trading is dynamic or drastic change in the area where the gathering is done. I don't like when from out of nowhere some random rock spawn, you hit it with your pickaxe, 3 hit, it desapears and you collected a ton of Iron.

Wood should be chopped from forest.

Metal and rock should be mined with a pickaxe.

I think that Ultima Online was bang on when it came to gathering ressources. It was made from area, not from icons that you would click on the ground. There was NO tracker for ressources!

Anyway, just my two cents

Having the ability for goblinworks employees log in as some sort of big nasty monster sounds *amazing*. You *thought* you were going to clear that dungeon....until Mr Dancey trots up behind you with a Bugbear Barbarian and wipes you out. The unexpected can be fun, and I bet the employees would get a kick out of it as well.

Exactly my point! :)

I love running pen and paper games as GM. What I love about it : Throwing fast balls to players that were under the impression that their plan was perfect and everything is under control! Now, the goal is not to let the game become impossible, but just to "break" the now famous website that will walk you through any quests.

"How to beat that Giant Troll, do this, but be carefull because he sometimes gets help from his Giant serpent pet....."

Or, could you imagine a player guild, well installed in an area, dominating the ground and being the master of their own universe...until... from nowhere they receive a warning to not perform any hunting or illegal activities since this GM led Theives guild is now "in control" of the area. Consequences could be terrible...

:)

Settler/Pioneer. I would go the farthest that I can go, establsih myself in a remote area and try to become prosper while exploiting the surrondings. Then, of course, I would rightfully claim that area as my kingdom and rule over the squirels population....

I've been playing MMO since Ultima Online. I tried them all (well, the most popular and some unknown. MMO tries to recreate in some way tabletop RPG. The AI tries to recreate what a GM would usually throw at you in a pen and paper game. What if what is really missing is some human interaction? Let me explain.

I know that PFO is really looking to involve players to a point that they create their own adventure and interaction, and that is awesome. I think we could push that farther with GM interacting not only to "unstuck" us but also to push a person or a guild to do some action. Just like some goblinwork employee, logging in as a king or regent of some area of the game where a guild has established themselves pretty hard. He appears wit his royal guards (AI) or what not and have some good GM vs Players interaction!

I know this could be heavy, but at the end of the day, once the system is online and working, there is so many writters working for Gobliwork that would like to play for sure! :)

Anyway, that kind of interaction existed in games like Ultima Online and I tought it was great at the time. Since that period, in-game GM are only inclined to to some custummer service task and I find it lame.

Cheers!

Disclaimer : English is not my first language so sorry in advance for any grammar or syntax mistakes!

Hello gents!

I'm Mathieu Dallaire, French Canadian, father of 2, military officer in RL. I'm a 250$ backer and proud of it!

I'm not a great player so I'm looking to join that very ELITE 250$ Club in order to get a LOT of priviledge and spit on the lower classes....

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And more seriously, I'm just here for the fun guys! Well met all! :)