What a MMORPG should be...

Anofalye

Hiya all,

I have to much time on hand and figure we can just talk considering folks come from many various games and all, this is not about arguing, just expressing an opinion, most of us are beyond arguing when it come to tastes.  

PvP: Any PvP system should be away from players and no motivation to makle PvP beyond PvP itself should come from it.  All MMORPG are to drastics with PvP, either completely put on the side or a must do.  PvP zones should be useless in non-PvP concerns, zones of PvP should bring PvP uberness, nothing more, nothing less(a PvP player should not be better then a carebear player that spend same time in a non-PvP zone, only better in a PvP zone, the carebear player would not care if the PvP player come in a carebear zone and is equal for same amount of *farming*, but been better make the carebearish zone trivial and useless to do).  PvP should bring PvP uberness, nothing more, nothing less.

Leveling: It should be relatively easy to level up, but there should always more trivial edge to earn with more XP (call them skills, alternate points or whatever), so the casual player can reach whatever they want, while the more hardcore could farm endlessly and always adding trivial edge over trivial edge(which eventually matter).  A player that cant reach his top or that have reach it is a player that have no motivation on this aspect, thereby there need to always be room for more, yet, it cant be expected everyone have time to play 80h a week to level up.

Class or whatever:  Someone that want to solo need to be able to do everything, and the more players you have doing an activity, the more you need specialists(or class) with a unique(and very wanted) edge.

Finally, the basic rule should be: The best at doing anything are the folks doing it a lot.  The time for a PvP player, or a raider, or a soloer owning everyone else in their field(I see each of these in differents MMORPG) is outdatted, the best soloer need to be someone that solo a lot, the best PvP player should be a guy that always do PvP hunting, the best raider a guy that raid and storm stuff at 50+ and the best group member, someone that group a lot. The best tradeskiller should be someone that tradeskill a lot.  Giving a trivial edge to folks from other area is always welcome, as long as 10 hours of another activity never compensate 1 hour of the right activity.