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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

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!