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One thing that worries me about the Dynamic Lore System
The Dynamic Lore System that they have talked about in the upcoming expansion is an awesome idea. Having a system in which the players and guilds have a real impact on the world and its lore is great. It is something that I have been wanting in an MMO for a long, long time.
BUT......
I am really, really conflicted about it. I really do not want to see quest lines and lore with the names of some of the players I have seen running around in Darkfall. I mean, really, who wants the lore to contain such idiotic names as Pwndthanub, Asshat and Kraven Moorehead? The dynamic lore system should enhance immersion, not totally destroy it and with names like that it will destroy it.
One of Darkfall's biggest failures for me is its lack of immersion as far as the community is concerned. The world is totally immersive and feels like a real world as opposed to the normal "theme-park" style of WoW but the community is the polar opposite. The names I see running around are horrible and just plain moronic. What I wouldn't give to see LotRO's community transported into Darkfall or at least their respect for sensible names.
Now the Dynamic Lore System will exacerbate the problem even more. A feature that should be truly cool, ruined by immature player base.
/sigh
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Its sad really.
Seems like a really minor issue.
oh and INB4 troll flood. THIS IS WHY DF SUX
I am very interested in how this is going to play out. It is a great concept but like the OP said there can be some problems. On;y time will tell.
I don't know how bothered I would be if quest text showed up with some dumb name in it. But I wonder if any of the stupidly named characters will even have a big enough impact to effect lore.
My guess is that they will selectively use this feature whenever they can afford it.
Leading to forum rants sounding something like:
"Hey, how can this nobody Zargon Dergath get his name on the lore for killing the famous dragon on NA1 server and I a server famous alliance leader in EU1 get a generic mention like "a nameless hero" for doing the same thing?
I demand you put my name on the lore Devs! In case you have forgotten it's TheAlmightyC Ock!"
Isn't one of the MAIN reasons the community, and this is an aspect of that?
I really think Aventurine will fix those names for you in a quest. If they managed to make a full MMO, they can change a few letters in a text : )
And seriously, if the names are the main "problem" for you in a player driven game world...then we dont really have any problems.
Somewhat agreed.
Darkfall Travelogues!
"And the great dragon was slain by the hands of the mighty Wtf Roflbbq..."
I cant see anything strange with that... can you?
Then why did they sent an ultimatum to people with "hard-to-read" names couple of months ago? If I recall correctly, it was not even an ultimatum to change the name, but rather delete your toon or be banned. Makes it hard to believe they can/will easily change a few letters in a text if they couldn't/wouldn't set up a proper name changing procedures.
I am the type of player where I like to do everything and anything from time to time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor - pre-WW2 genocide.
they should at least take numbers out of peoples names but you can't stop people wanting to be called leet pwner or chuck norris. surely even on RP servers people have the same names just spelt wrongly.
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I rather see name like pker1456 pwning noobs or stuff like that rather then seing RPers name because that way, you can easly tell the difference if its a player name or lore character name.
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