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I figured out what this sandbox needs.
General Chat, One of the most missed things when grinding on mining nodes and wacking on wood, I miss general chat like in Everquest 2 general chat, where everyone could talk about stuff. When your grinding alone, its hard to not want to do other things, like watching Netflix or thinking of other things that might be fun. If there was a global chat we could all talk to each other and bounce ideas off and give us something more to think about other then real life stuff while "zoning out", wacking on wood or mining.
Sandboxs need strong social networks I think, and not the kind in most games where they try to have people meet for only one thing or another. I don't like excuses to interact with another player, I want a real purpose to interact with other players for long periods of time, where it takes 20 mins or longer of being with other group memebers, at which point it starts to get people over the shyness that comes with breaking the ice.
I can remember back to the days of early games where you had to group with players and actually hang out for 1 hour or all day, and every one of you would benefit with xp, or something. If we had group mining maybe or group wood wacking, I think it would be a lot more fun then just standing by yourself wacking on stuff with no social interaction. I would like to see casual player interactions of this level that benefit everyone who groups together in this kind of manner.
Hate when games think getting an enchant is a reason to start a friendship, while it does happen, most times it never results in a long time friendship because theres nothing you two can do together to feel a journey with that other person. Do you guys kinda know what I mean? Something that says, hey if you all group together, your going to be really rewarded.
Hell even two person parties being rewarded twice as much as playing solo would be enough for two people to team up that don't know each other also. Gotta have a clear benefit to grouping up with strangers, and give them a journey to want to hang out everyday with each other.
One great example would be logging on in the morning and running around and run into someone, ask them "you got someone to mine with?" If they say no, then team up with them and go on an adventure with them, chating and getting to know each other.
Next day. When you log on, Person you met is not on, so you find another person and ask them "you got someone to mine with" they say no and off you two go to mine together ect.
Bottom line: All sandboxs need strong social networks thtat can bring strangers together for long durations and daily. At the very least some sort of global chat like EQ2 has.
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What happens when you log off your characters????.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFQhfhnjYMk
Dark Age of Camelot
A lot of good things coming looks like. I don't mind waiting on social interactions till the final stages, but that chat sure would be nice right now. I'm sure its coming soon, I see they got /joinchannel 1-4 already, just cant talk in it yet.
Wow this is great, I just read also on the forums that they are going to have grouping for mining, I"M so PSYCHED NOW! woot. and chat is coming also in PHASE ONE! This is going to be great. Its like they read my mind all ready.
Type /join General
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This and and keep in mind OP there are two tabs ATM, one for chat and one for loot. They also highlight when there is a new entry.
Yeah and that's been there since day one so I'm not sure the OP is even in the alpha. The grouping and chat plans for the future have been well publicised too.