Power to the Players

Shamino · 2006-02-13T15:58:25

I've played two large MMO's in my gaming career, I spent about 3 years in Ultima Online and 3 years in Shadowbane. In the beginning, Ultima Online was player driven, there was tons of content sure, but the whole system was based on the fact that players will police themselves. It was good, but the developers finally caved to all the whiny little brats complaining they get pk'd, and invented a policed facet, and soon they all turned that way. Shadowbane was the next MMO, I believe this MMO was directly targeted at the UO population that hated this idea of policing players. They did a great job, and still are. The Idea is this: In a system of PURELY open PVP, can you trust players to keep the game playable? My answer would be yes, you just have to incorporate the right features. After 6 years of playing MMO's trying to accomplish this task, I believe I could design the perfect player driven community. Features NEEDED: PURELY Open PVP Guild System City building system tied to guilds Things to fight over (resources, land, kingdoms) Reasons to not fight (NOT RESTRICTIONS!) Now lets start the splainin! Purely open PVP, why? We want Johnny to be able to kill Bobby if he pisses him off. We want joe to be able to claim his bad guy spawn by force. Guild System, why? You need to unite players who have a common goal, be it survival, money, pure unadulterated pvp, etc.. City System, huh? Players need something to do in their guild, besides just, being in a guild. If guilds need a common goal, what better than to pull resources together and build a freakin huge stronghold? Things to fight over, like what? Lets see, what If I were to tell you, that after a month of building your city, it could be threatened by the douche bag down the street (guild of 200 people).. Yes, thats right, your creations can be destroyed! How about resources, your guild needs resources, so does his guild, you have to either work it out, or fight to the death to control resource deposits! And howabout this, Your name on the world map? YOUR kingdom, your guild! Theres your daily dose of e-peen right there. Now finally, you need reasons to not bash each others brains in. Well, I already gave you one huge reason not to fight, you could lose your guild city (which btw, took millions of gold and a month to build!)... Lets talk about the more personal level, what is stopping you from bashing bobbies brains out because he is at your spawn? Well, on a physical level, nothing, but think about politics. Bobby is in Bobnation guild, of 500 bobs! You are in your guild, of 500 people! Do you really want to start a war? Or worse, get booted from your guild for causing international conflict! That is it, player driven MMO. It works, believe me.

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Started by Shamino February 12, 2006 12:28 PM

20 comments, last by Shamino 19 years ago

Ezbez

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February 13, 2006 02:27 PM

Quote:
Original post by Shamino AI believe I could design the perfect player driven community.

Yes you did state that it is the way to make an MMO(at least one that is player driven).

I didn't exactly *state* that it was impossible, but I did *imply* it. A game implemented as described above, would in all probablility not prevent PVP from overwhelming the game.

Oh, Shamino, if you can't be bothered to write down support for your ideas, I am surprised that you are designing an MMO since they require alot more work than typing up the rationale for a post.

Shamino

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February 13, 2006 03:58 PM

Player driven goes hand in hand with pvp..

A game where you kill monsters to level up is not player driven.

A game where you pvp because it is just what you do, is not player driven.

What I stated above is player driven, and maybe not perfect, but I don't feel like explaining anymore :d

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