Originally posted by Kanoth That 40 is just from one board remember. There's still Cilurnum, Hoch, Hurn, Erring, and the mines. Not to mention little settlements people have started in un-named boards. I'm wondering what our population is myself. I'd like to get a concrete number, i'll see if I can come back with one.
Can you tell us any more about the plans for the new UI? If not details, at least general goals etc....
"The man who exchanges Liberty for Iconic classes is a fool deserving of neither." - Me and Ben Franklin
Obviously we're looking for a more user friendly UI. The current one is user unfriendly to alot of people. I've gotten used to it because I've been using it for a couple years now, but new players have a very tough time with it.
There are alot of / commands used in RV. One of the things were looking at is a command drop down. Also likely to see the backgrounds become transparent (a setting the player can make). My big pet peve is word wrapping, that's going to be fixed so words arent cut off.
Really we're taking alot of advice off the forums. There's a thread in the features and Balance forum that we're reading regularly when new ideas are put in. You'll likely see most of those ideas put into the new UI. You may want to head over there and read up, if you think of something, by all means, add it.
Originally posted by Kanoth Obviously we're looking for a more user friendly UI. The current one is user unfriendly to alot of people. I've gotten used to it because I've been using it for a couple years now, but new players have a very tough time with it. There are alot of / commands used in RV. One of the things were looking at is a command drop down. Also likely to see the backgrounds become transparent (a setting the player can make). My big pet peve is word wrapping, that's going to be fixed so words arent cut off. Really we're taking alot of advice off the forums. There's a thread in the features and Balance forum that we're reading regularly when new ideas are put in. You'll likely see most of those ideas put into the new UI. You may want to head over there and read up, if you think of something, by all means, add it.
Im afraid im not nearly bright enough to figure out how to make it better, but Im glad to hear you guys are working on making it more user friendly. ( I just realized how that sounded, and i didnt mean it that way)
In my own humble opinion, improving this will do wonders for making the game more accessible (god i hate that word).....
thanks for ur response.
"The man who exchanges Liberty for Iconic classes is a fool deserving of neither." - Me and Ben Franklin
Originally posted by Blurr Well.. 1- No free trial 2- The graphics look poor 3- Nothing really new/innovative/unique Now granted I havent tried the game (see number 1), but like I said, it doesn't appear that they're doing anything particularly new or innovative. This means i"m not willing to shell out the money for an account key having never played the game. It's not like it's hard to do, Guild Wars has free trials, and they have no monthly fee either. I wish I could say it's a good game, but they want you to hand over the cash before you even play it, so no go for me.
So you're talking and giving your opinion on something you know nothing about??? You should go into politics!
Graphics are second to the more mature gamers.... The kind of haxxzzor kiddies that are turned off by Roma Victor's graphics is exactly the kind of kiddies we wouldn't want in the game anyway. I can't imagine anything worse that walking into the Coliseum to see a roman named L337_PNER shouting "Gimme a sword of Vanq" or something similar!
SOE knows what you like... You don't! And don't forget... I am forcing you to read this!
Originally posted by duncan_922 Originally posted by Blurr Well.. 1- No free trial 2- The graphics look poor 3- Nothing really new/innovative/unique Now granted I havent tried the game (see number 1), but like I said, it doesn't appear that they're doing anything particularly new or innovative. This means i"m not willing to shell out the money for an account key having never played the game. It's not like it's hard to do, Guild Wars has free trials, and they have no monthly fee either. I wish I could say it's a good game, but they want you to hand over the cash before you even play it, so no go for me.
So you're talking and giving your opinion on something you know nothing about??? You should go into politics!
Graphics are second to the more mature gamers.... The kind of haxxzzor kiddies that are turned off by Roma Victor's graphics is exactly the kind of kiddies we wouldn't want in the game anyway. I can't imagine anything worse that walking into the Coliseum to see a roman named L337_PNER shouting "Gimme a sword of Vanq" or something similar!
Don't confuse mature game with sub par
Still i noticed you rarely been on the "bashing" of SWG nge recently(cough another sub par game) so at least a few are happy just like the few left in SWG nge are happy(even though SWG still probably has 20+times the numbers of RV).
Originally posted by hercules Originally posted by duncan_922 Originally posted by Blurr Well.. 1- No free trial 2- The graphics look poor 3- Nothing really new/innovative/unique Now granted I havent tried the game (see number 1), but like I said, it doesn't appear that they're doing anything particularly new or innovative. This means i"m not willing to shell out the money for an account key having never played the game. It's not like it's hard to do, Guild Wars has free trials, and they have no monthly fee either. I wish I could say it's a good game, but they want you to hand over the cash before you even play it, so no go for me.
So you're talking and giving your opinion on something you know nothing about??? You should go into politics!
Graphics are second to the more mature gamers.... The kind of haxxzzor kiddies that are turned off by Roma Victor's graphics is exactly the kind of kiddies we wouldn't want in the game anyway. I can't imagine anything worse that walking into the Coliseum to see a roman named L337_PNER shouting "Gimme a sword of Vanq" or something similar!
Don't confuse mature game with sub par
Still i noticed you rarely been on the "bashing" of SWG nge recently(cough another sub par game) so at least a few are happy just like the few left in SWG nge are happy(even though SWG still probably has 20+times the numbers of RV).
But still ranked higher than the NGE despite the hatefest by people who thought the game was something it wasnt. Duncan hit it right on the head...this game isnt for the kiddie crowd that the big companies are catering too these days. This is a much more 'authentic' and for some, rewarding experence.
Face it, man, you(and several other haters that post here) are pissed off cuz the game didnt lead you around by the nose and give you a little quest book to keep track of your accomplishments. As I said before, several other games have gotten bad marks here at first because of haters. I have every confidence that this game will move up in the ratings once the children move on.
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"The man who exchanges Liberty for Iconic classes is a fool deserving of neither." - Me and Ben Franklin
Obviously we're looking for a more user friendly UI. The current one is user unfriendly to alot of people. I've gotten used to it because I've been using it for a couple years now, but new players have a very tough time with it.
There are alot of / commands used in RV. One of the things were looking at is a command drop down. Also likely to see the backgrounds become transparent (a setting the player can make). My big pet peve is word wrapping, that's going to be fixed so words arent cut off.
Really we're taking alot of advice off the forums. There's a thread in the features and Balance forum that we're reading regularly when new ideas are put in. You'll likely see most of those ideas put into the new UI. You may want to head over there and read up, if you think of something, by all means, add it.
"Rome wasn't coded in a day"
- Kanoth
Im afraid im not nearly bright enough to figure out how to make it better, but Im glad to hear you guys are working on making it more user friendly. ( I just realized how that sounded, and i didnt mean it that way)
In my own humble opinion, improving this will do wonders for making the game more accessible (god i hate that word).....
thanks for ur response.
"The man who exchanges Liberty for Iconic classes is a fool deserving of neither." - Me and Ben Franklin
Graphics are second to the more mature gamers.... The kind of haxxzzor kiddies that are turned off by Roma Victor's graphics is exactly the kind of kiddies we wouldn't want in the game anyway. I can't imagine anything worse that walking into the Coliseum to see a roman named L337_PNER shouting "Gimme a sword of Vanq" or something similar!
SOE knows what you like... You don't!
And don't forget... I am forcing you to read this!
Graphics are second to the more mature gamers.... The kind of haxxzzor kiddies that are turned off by Roma Victor's graphics is exactly the kind of kiddies we wouldn't want in the game anyway. I can't imagine anything worse that walking into the Coliseum to see a roman named L337_PNER shouting "Gimme a sword of Vanq" or something similar!
Don't confuse mature game with sub par
Still i noticed you rarely been on the "bashing" of SWG nge recently(cough another sub par game) so at least a few are happy just like the few left in SWG nge are happy(even though SWG still probably has 20+times the numbers of RV).
Graphics are second to the more mature gamers.... The kind of haxxzzor kiddies that are turned off by Roma Victor's graphics is exactly the kind of kiddies we wouldn't want in the game anyway. I can't imagine anything worse that walking into the Coliseum to see a roman named L337_PNER shouting "Gimme a sword of Vanq" or something similar!
Don't confuse mature game with sub par
Still i noticed you rarely been on the "bashing" of SWG nge recently(cough another sub par game) so at least a few are happy just like the few left in SWG nge are happy(even though SWG still probably has 20+times the numbers of RV).
But still ranked higher than the NGE despite the hatefest by people who thought the game was something it wasnt. Duncan hit it right on the head...this game isnt for the kiddie crowd that the big companies are catering too these days. This is a much more 'authentic' and for some, rewarding experence.
Well if you wanna go by ratings SWG has 2455 ppl that ranked it and is 6.3 just 0.1 less then RV which only had 117 ppl review it.
So its pretty close and while SWG had maybe 250k and lose 125k thats a lot of "pissed off" clients.
Its debateable if RV even sold 5k copies in total since launch .
And fact www.tibia.com is actually higher rated then RV its nothing to really look at for RV.
Also i cannot think of any mmorpg that did not have a few k ppl hang on to it no matter what.DnL still has devoted fans.
So yeah i guess the rest of us find RV to be in a terrible state and the few k(if that at best) are the mature ones and everyone else is a kid.