Well, I am kind of trying to compile a list of features that people would like to see in an MMORPG. They can be features that already exists in current MMORPGs that you like a lot, or maybe features you wish that existing MMORPGs had in them. I will be replying to my own post with some of my own ideas when i''m not alt-tabbing between GameDev.net and work

* Being able to rent/buy your own house/apartment like in UO.
* Being able to choose different carriers than just warriors and magicians - say like merchants, blacksmiths or bards. Like in UO

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* Being able to rent/buy your own prostitute, not like in UO
* Being able to choose different jobs, male escort, stripper, and hitman, not like in UO

Sounds like you like UO
I have never actually played it, but I really like everything I have heard about it. It seems like the most flexible MMORPG around...maybe i should play it a bit and try to pick up a few ideas.
Some ideas I thought would be cool are:
-being able to disguise yourself, so say if you killed a guard of a castle you could wear his armor and gain access to the castle and stuff like that
-maybe by exploring the world you can discover new cities/civilizations, which would unlock the ability for you to create a character of that civilization

My "wish list" for an MMORPG:

* Being able to produce the game with a budget of less than $10M.
* Being able to create the game with fewer than 50 people (mostly artists).
* Being able to complete the game in less than 2-5 years.
* Being able to release the game to a market that''s not glutted by UO- and EQ-lookalikes.


DavidRM
Samu Games

howabout:

a game that''s not a graphical UI for Circle MUD (like EQ)
a game that''s actually fun to play (unlike UO and EQ)
a game that''s original (unlike most anything since the early 90''s)

wow, the real feedback pours in. what kind of stuff could make an MMORPG more original? A more complex skill system maybe? Or just more flexibility to do what you want so that the game isn''t really bounded? Or maybe a new setting (time/place/etc)?? i''m interested...

-completely customizable avatar appearance
-a house to decorate
-a shop to sell in-game stuff in if you want to be an artisan
-being able to turn off monster encounters in your preferances/options file and not have this hurt your levelling or income
-being able to choose to be immune from pk-ing
-dungeons with puzzles in them
-being able to invent or build things in-game
-private chatrooms that allow cybersex

I think having your own "personal space" would be really cool. You could put trophies from your adventuring here (for example, the head of a really tough monster you dispatched, your Magic Wand of Easter Eggs +4, whatever...) as well as some of your own artwork if you like (you might have pictures of yourself/your family/movie stars on your walls or whatever).

It doesn''t neccesarily have to be a "house", with a normal front door and everything, I mean if there''s 20,000 people in your game then that''s probably a lot of front doors but as long as there''s a way for me to invite my friends there - maybe even hold meetings there or whatever, I''ll be really happy.

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