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Need a Runescape-like game, but better!
Masterookoo
Member Posts: 11
Hey everyone!
One of my first and favorite MMO's ever was Runescape. I started playing a year or two before they added the Grand Exchange (i'd give a more accurate date, but i'm not really positive when I really started playing) and I fell in love with a number of RS's features. As such, i'm looking for a game with most if not all of these features.
-Large-scale open PvP or RvR
-A decent sized Roleplaying community
-No classes or levels, with a skill system instead
-Decent graphics (not a big deal, but would be prefered)
-Player housing (not a needed feature but would be fun to have)
If anyone knows a game like this, please let me know!
Respond please!
-masterookoo
-P.S. I know Darkfall has some of these features, but it crashes my computer and internet so I am unable to play it.
Someone once said that dwarves are short, hairy, smelly drunks. @!$# them!!!!!!
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If you choose to live in the Wild server Wurm Online has all those features.
Anyone can kill anyone in the Wild but it is mainly divided into a war between three kingdoms. The Whitelight kingdoms of Mol Rehan and Jen Kellon, and the Horde of the Summoned. If you go with a Whitelight kingdom you will take penalties for causing too much greif for members of your kingdom. The Blacklighters can go around robbing, and killing eachother as the please though you may find the wild a very harsh place to live with no allies.
I mainly kept to myself and only associated with the people settled near me so Im not sure if you will meet many roleplayers. I myself was a roleplayer though, and it seems like the kind of game a lot of roleplayers might enjoy.
Graphics are... meh. Id say they are somewhere between N64 and the original Xbox, though much closer to the original Xbox. Nothing remarkable but graphics level doesn't take much away from the scenery, the animations are very lacking though and character customization is non existant beyond it showing whatever tool or weapon you are weilding. It doesn't even show armour and all you can do to change your appearence is type /gofemale if you don't want to be male.
Player housing not only exists but you can do it at any point and its almost nessicary if you want to go very far. Don't look to your wallet for how many coins you will have either. In order to build a house you should first find a plot of land with some of the more nessicary resources nearby. Then use your shovel to flatten the area you intend to build. Chop down a tree, chop it into logs, then saw it into planks. Then either find an existing mine with a source of iron or prospect a face of open rock for iron then tunnel down in, mine the iron, put it into a fire or prefferable a forge, give it some time to melt into a lump and use it on an anvil to create large nails. Finally take 20 planks per tile of wall, and 1 unit of large nails and a mallet. Use the mallet on the ground to plan the building or have a freind do it since it takes a decent ammount of construction to plan a good sized building and you want atleast a 2x2 which takes 12 construction. (One level for each floor tile and each wall tile) Use the mallet on the wall of the unfinished building. To nail up each plank individually. Finally you will have a house which you can fill with storage bins, a bed that gives you rested XP, chests and barrels to hold your tools and weapons. An oven. Whatever your heart desires. And belive it or not this is the short version on how to build a house.
Luckily with such a detailed economy you have access to carts and ships. Of course you will probbably end up building those from scratch as well.
Overall for Wurm if you like a well done economy Id rate it as a 9 out of 10 and there is not a single game I've ever played worth of 10 points. Wurm is by far the best I've ever played for economy.
The reasons I'm not still playing it are:
Very poor combat. 2 out of 10, only worse I can think of is Runescape.
Complete lack of character customization. You can't even see that armour you just spent the last few hours working on.
And the main reason I quit, too much upkeep is required. Buildings and fences rot over time, so its hard to just give up that game for a month and go play whatever or do whatever in real life like you can in other games, you will comeback to find your buildings falling appart or completly gone if they were not on a deed which you have to pay (Though not very much depending on its size) to upkeep. Also animals you keep require grooming and farm feilds require tending on prettymuch a daily basis, so these are also very hard to upkeep.
Well I did take a look at Wurm after reading your post (just to say I tried
) and to be honest I wanted to gouge my eyes out it was so bad XD. If anyone has another game lemme know, and PLEASE have it be one that has at least the most mediocre customization
Someone once said that dwarves are short, hairy, smelly drunks. @!$# them!!!!!!
There aren't any games out there with so many features as RuneScape. 2 new games have the features you are asking for, but both of them need more polish. Craft of Gods has everything you need and it launched like 2 weeks ago, still buggy but hopefully it won't be a bad game. Other one is Xsyon, again has everything you need on the feature list, but the game is in beta, launch is promised on 15th of August but it may be delayed again.
Wurm would be a great game if its graphic weren't much worse than RS'
Mortal Online, Ryzom, EVE Online, UO.
Ashen Empires, is 2D, but have all and alot more :P
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You love runescape, but Wurm's graphics turn you off? Making zero sense here, and Wurm's environements are great, only the models/animations suck, and that's saying a lot more than what I could for Runescape. The simple fact here is that you are missing out on an amazing game after glancing at the cover, Wurm's incredible and is basically what all UO vets have been looking for, yet avoiding.
How anyone cas say RS looks better is beyond me, but people will say/think whatever they need to in order to rationalize something. It should be completely obvious what *looks better*, and in many regards it *plays better* too.
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Look- the fact is that I like being able to customize a character *shrug*. When everyone looks the same it gets a bit dull.
Someone once said that dwarves are short, hairy, smelly drunks. @!$# them!!!!!!