kashius wrote:(Before you say content is an ambiguous and non-descriptive term I mean things like: Meaningful rewards for quests/mission, dungeons, group/guild tasks, non copy pasted raids, meaningful fame system/faction rewards for PvP...My list could go on. Not saying that is absolutely what the game needs, but that is some of the 'content' I'd like to see.)
Yay, someone who actually says what they mean by content!
Rewards for quests/Missions: Standard 'missions' reward with moolah, albeit not very much moolah because the economy seems to have ballooned out in an unexpected fashion. However, regular missions do also reward with fame. I view these as 'everyday' tasks that shouldn't really be uber loot.
We have had a mission reward for the huge kitin invasion in the past, albeit one where you had to break your wrist to get it with all the clicking.
Events up until now haven't seemed to have been rewarded with anything but fun, however, the last event we attended, the birthday ball with the murder, was rewarded with 4million dappers and some kitin larvae. That's a positive step to me and it makes much more sense to reward special, one off events positively rather than repeatable missions.
Otherwise we have the rites, which also fit the context of the game far better than 'quests'. These are rites of passage, hero quests of a type that reveal special knowledge to us. The reward is the lore in the encylopaedia and the new ability or boost we get from completing it.
So, I think that's already covered and everyone should be able to, at least, do ency missions for two races, if not all four. That's quite a bit to do.
Dungeons: Dungeons don't really fit the Ryzom style or background from what I can see. At least, not yet. If we ever wander the land and find the wreckage of our old cities then perhaps exploring the ruins and VERY rarely finding the odd artefact would be justified but instanced dungeons would really take away from the living world of Atys. I think, I HOPE that you'll have to wait for R2 for such content and I still hold out hope we _won't_ get dungeons.
Group/Guild tasks would be nice but they seem to mainly be coming with outposts.
Raids - we've had a few, and they've been a bit different to cut and paste ones.
Problem with fame for PvP is its so abusable if one isn't careful, it looks like they'll be linking it to conflict areas or events, so that's not so bad.
everything for everybody. If you are a hardcore PvP player or if you are 100% into RP or if you are inbetween, you will get it there. Assumed they can keep their promiseses. The chances are high, cause they allready cancelled their release in may to put 6 month more into the development.
