Ryzom

I dunno grind mobs in Ryzom or go to WoW and grind quests of "kill 60 boars and bring back their tails to me and I will give you some fluffy dice", I think of Ryzom as "cutting out the middleman" :D If you played wow for more than a month you'd know that isnt what the game is about. Im not gonna go ...

dakhound wrote:still keep coming back to whinge about it tho dont you

Touché

Im gonna add the counter point to this post in a rather blunt way. Ryzoms a sack of poo. Why? well if i log in i can do the following: Grind and er... yeeaap.. Thats it. Exploration : been there, done that. cant explore when ive seen everything already.. PvP : lol? Get real, Fear Crystal enchant ...

I've done quest based story line in LotrO. I must say I love the books and the team there worked incredibly hard to cover every little detail of the story and add other epical lines which never contradicted the main story. Maybe I am weird: I got bored to death. While I still respect the huge work ...

Nope .

I did figure out one thing about the spawned mobs not following a route. On the first invocation, the mob spawns, and follows the route into the NPC's that will kill him. Then he respawns, and does not follow the route. The problem is that if the mob is killed before the route is finished, he won't ...

every time you use a basic component to do something other than its most simple objective you are entering the realm of "programing everything yourself from scratch" Yes, you can create storage systems for items, counters for mobs killed, counters for hand ins that spawn guards, patrols that ...

you can do all that using dialogues xD

It just takes some careful planning.

Also takes a LOT of time...

Actually, that's not entirely true. The idea is that two threads can be run on the same core at once so when there is an available cycle, if the first thread is idle, the second can execute and the cycle wont be wasted. They cant both execute at the same time. Its really got nothing to do with ...

final60 wrote:So do you think an entirely player driven and interactive virtual world is possible and sustainable?

Not in this game.