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What's the most OFF-THE-WALL feature you would add to your MMO.
SkillCosby
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Regardless of how far fetched / stupid / crazy it is, what feature would you add to your MMO?
Examples: Age requirement of 30, total nudity and sexuality, decapitation / limb removal, character potty breaks, characer weight loss / gain, etc.
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Free-form environment interaction.
Example & Context:
-Imagine playing Aliens Online and you're a Colonial Marine in a broken down factory with 9 other marines. You chose the "engineer" skill-tree line in your Free-form skill system (ala: SWG) because you like building things. You, as an engineer, take your plasma cutter and CUT a 5x5 piece of reinforced steel OFF THE WALL right next to you. You repeat this until you're able to weld & construct a barricade complete with DIY Sentry Smart-Gun turret to round out said spikey-wall-of-doom barricade that you built in REAL TIME from your environment with tools/skills created by the developers for you to modify & truly INTERACT with your environment that you go into.
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Slavery!
Think about it. It's the ultimate ownage.
If you defeat another player in PVP and they're just knocked out instead of killed there should be a chance to enslave this opponent.
You could use your new slave for your own player owned farm, and ofcourse the new slave would have chances to escape,or be liberated etc.. etc..
The enslaved player would have to use an alt until there slave character was freed.
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I would say total nudity and sexuality because it would be great to eliminate children from gameworld, but I really don't think it's off-the-wall.
How about stumbling. A random roll that if it fails your toon trips and falls flat on their face.
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I get banned in the forums for games I love, so lets see if I do better in the forums for games I hate.
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Nice troll, Slavery is one of the largest taboos in the online world. Think of something else please >_>
The Theory of Conservative Conservation of Ignorant Stupidity:
Having a different opinion must mean you're a troll.
Heh , the ability to trade in you earned EXP at Max Level for HP / MP / various stats.
This would give End Game a whole new meaning , and I know of only 2 MMO's still open since the 90's that have this feature.
Nexus : The Kingdom of the winds
Dark ages
Shattered Galaxy
Funny how all 3 of them are originaly by Nexon.
Having HP / MP based skills would be sweet also. Would make being a healer fun again and the ability to hunt with mature / intelligent fighters.
Also by doing this , you eliminate the need on having to put money and tons of ressources on plusing your equipements since most of the skills will be HP/MP based. So more time grinding and looting and boss killing. :P
I would like to experience some real-time instrument plugins.
My characer purchases an in-game guitar. This unlocks the option for me to plug in my real guitar and play for anyone within my radius. This, as well as the ability to remove my helmet and use it as a tip hat, would be SWEET.
The ability to import your own faces.
I recently got a 3DS and it has this cool game called "Face Raiders." To play it you have to take a picture of somebody's face or something else entirely with the camera and then fight that person or thing as a bunch of little face minions. I put Morgan Freeman and Stephen Colbert in the game for laughs. It would be hilarious to see what people would do with a feature like that in an MMO... or really disturbing.
Genetics. Monsters stats and appearance are procedurally calculated from a genome rather than just raw stats and arts. New generations of monsters spawn by replicating and mutating "successful" existing monsters (where success is definited by a fuzzy formula that's a mix of survival, appeal to players, minimizing use of computer resources ,etc).
You eliminate the children, but paradoxically the level of immaturity will increase.
Pointless magic.
I want to be a sweet magician with all of the standard magic, but magic that doesn't do sheeat.
Like in real like if I was a magician it'd be sweet to take a flower and turn it into a potato, and eat it.. Or take a small mob thats just a nothing and turn it into a tree..
I dunno, non combat magic.
And in this said MMO you could have hundred and hundreds of these "worthless spells" and it could take forever to get them all...so it'd be sweet to have certain spells.. and not everyone would have all of them.
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A cool mustache tool where it actually takes time to grow and shape your mustache. Then every month they could give out prizes and have everyone vote on their favorite mustache.
HC p0rn with a 100ft naked Pamela Anderson (or somebody sexy instead) as a world boss. Imagine the raids...
A really sweet feature would be Hole Digging. An ability where you can dig a hole in the ground and sit in it.
So what would this mean and what kind of impact would that have. Let me explain :
Imagine that you have trained your Hole Digging to level 4, amazing things could happen, but lets start by looking at some of the levels that could be introduced.
Level 1 : You can dig a hole in almost any kind of soil. It's a small hole, but you will be able to hide loot in it or hide a foot.
Level 2 : You can dig a hole in almost any kind of soil. It's a medium sized hole and will hold body-sized items.
Level 3 : You can dig a hole in all types of soil and some rock. You can now hide Yourself in your hole with your loot.
Level 4 : You can dig a hole in all types of soil/rock. You can now sit in it and scream/curse at ppl close to your hole without being spotted.
Level 5 : You can just look at the ground and a hole appears. Once you are in that hole you don't want to leave due to its comfort. (Guilds can be managed from within the hole).
Hole Digging could and should be the next big feature.
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Ostrich breeding.
I used to play MMOs like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee.
....and every player is an ostrich?
A minigame to water plants in cities and your own house. If players play minigame a lot in some location, the place will become filled with all kinds of life and look really cool. If none plays the game, the plants and small animals will die and the place will look dull.
To be serious for a second (It can be hard in these grimm times) it would be a nice idea. We just need more games with player housing. I could easily imagine myself watering plants and trimming roses. (Then my wife could go and hunt for dinner ). Although it might be considered vanity, it would be nice if mmo's were not all about showing off the newest metal hat with feathers from an extinct bird.
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I want a round world. The map would have triangular tiles, and be in the shape of an icosahedron. The areas near the vertices would be impassible. When you got near the border between two triangles, it would internally fold up so that you could pass seamlessly from one to the other.
And then you could have a sun shining as the planet turned, so that it's always day in some places and night in others.
Real artificial intelligence.
Somebody, somewhere has better skills as you have, more experience as you have, is smarter than you, has more friends as you do and can stay online longer. Just pray he's not out to get you.
I want to be a dungeon master of the NPC's, unleash hoards on unsuspecting players!
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How about a game where you gained levels by totally avoiding combat. PvP healing! Think of the possibilities
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having kids.. you could mate two of your characters or with someone else to create an offspring NPC. Then depending on how you and the other person treat it it grows into a good or evil role in the game, maybe even a super boss if you raise it certain ways. Of course they would have to have limited lifespans, to prevent the world getting too overpopulated, but while it is alive it could become a super buff giver, super merchant, super boss, etc that other players could interact with or it could just go out and become an NPC adventurer. Whatever it chooses it remains a part of your character that lives on in game after you log.