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How would you feel if you can have whichever skill you want, for a price?
iLikeImperfection
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In my game, I wish to have a lot of elements such as fire, water, earth etc., choose among them and use them to your advantage. However, if you want them all you'd have to have certain item/s. How would you all feel about that?
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Originally posted by laokoko
"if you want to be a game designer, you should sell your house and fund your game. Since if you won't even fund your own game, no one will".
Yeah, I got that impression too.
I guess it comes down to either player preference or Pay to Win. I'm "all for" having more options as long as it isn't any type of unfair advantage. I don't care for the whole PtW thing myself, but I'm sure there are plenty who are.
To each 'is own.
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What kind of items?
Personally I like elements in a situation where monsters can be aligned with one element, I have access to all the elements, and the tactics of the battle involve choosing a spell of the correct anti-element to use against the monster's element. I don't like elemental stances, and I really don't like spells attached to weapons or clothing.
It is the way you said it (for a price). Makes it sound like I would have to pay money for skills.
Originally posted by laokoko
"if you want to be a game designer, you should sell your house and fund your game. Since if you won't even fund your own game, no one will".
You need to give more information than that.
If you mean, if you have a lightning based weapon you gain lightning based melee attacks, then it isn't a new idea. I believe Asherons Call 1 was the first MMO that did that, and it was a great feature. But if you want to do it right and make in meaningful then you need to give mobs in game weaknesses and strengths to those elements.
Then again, if you mean you need a lightning wand to cast lightning based spells, that isn't a new idea either. A game in very late beta that is still under NDA is doing that and it is a bad feature. I really hate games that place spell casters in such limited rolls as Fire only, or Ice only at any one time. Magic should be free form.
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If you're talking about a F2P cash shop game it would make me feel like I would throw up on my keyboard.
lol, just read a post up that you meant in game money, It would pretty much be like buying a skill in any other game.
Anything that shakes up this stale mmo world is fine by me. Just make it sci fi
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Originally posted by laokoko
"if you want to be a game designer, you should sell your house and fund your game. Since if you won't even fund your own game, no one will".
In terms of PvP, I feel it would be easily taken advantage of, whether it be in cash shop or with in game currency (i.e. gold sellers paradise) If your game is strictly a dunngeon running PvE game then I think it could work well.
I can appreciate the fact that you are trying to think outside the box, but i wouldn't recommend this one. You would be putting your game in a niche market and limiting your potential for a huge playerbase. However if it is a game to get your company up and running you don't need a huge playerbase, just a dedicated one. You can target a larger demographic with your companies following games.
Items meaning like, um, certain objects that unlock your potential of learning another skill. I'm still coming up with names and alternatives.
I see, am I putting my ideas at risk here? Haha, I didn't notice.
Can anyone help me think of questions that doesn't put my game being copied? Um, I don't know what else to ask, haha. I only wanted someone to give me opinions about game mechanics and skills. I'm focusing on them you see.
Also, I know that I may or may not intentionally use stuff other MMORPGs have done before. I'm aware of that. But is this worth the risk? Am I being foolish? I dunno, ahahah.
Anyone making an MMO already has plenty of ideas, they have no reason to copy yours. Heck I will give them mine if they want some, just to see mine get produced. Also, currently your ideas sounds similar to the way Wizard 101 does elements, so it's not ground-breakingly original, meaning they'd be more likely to copy the same ideas from Wizard 101 than you. It's also not a problem for your idea to be a bit similar to an existing one, since the details are going to be different.
I'd call your items "consumable tuition items" assuming that you pay them to an NPC to learn whatever spell. Sounds like a good boss drop for a dungeon.
But not the titles most people talk about, so I can honestly say that I may not have much experience like some other people do, ahaha.
No offense intended at all here, but, I do not think someone who has only played two MMOs has enough experience with MMOs to design one. Maybe you should consider spending like 3 days each playing several MMOs that have free trials. Playing for only a few days won't give you a true understanding of how an MMO works past its newbie levels, but it would at least help you build a mental map of all the basic minds of MMOs and how features are mixed and matched between them. Or maybe you should consider joining one of the many MMO-making projects currently happening, so you can work with a more experienced designer.
Not having a lot of experience with mmos may also help them be more original also. If you get caught up in what everyone else is doing, you will probably make something that is like what is popular and not original.
I know nothing is probably going to be all original, but saying it could work both ways.