I had this same discussion with someone from Mythic in this thread from July '06. RJCox used to be Richard from Mythic.
www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/post/837531#837531
What's up with the MOB AI? Where's the challenge? I'm sick of this whole 'I'll just stand here and guard this blade of grass while you kill my friend" bullshit.
I think we need to make a distinction between PvP and RvR.
In (DAOC)PvP you kill your enemy for Realm Points. More Realm Points means more abilities, better titles, more personal glory. It pretty much comes down to 'I killed for your Points'.
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Richard
Thanks for your response.
We have a form of Zone Control in DAOC presently, and while we don't have Capitol City seige, we have Keep and Relic Keep seige, and these aspects of RvR are largely ignored because that isn't the most effective w…
Mythic said you can PvP from the start, so who knows. You had just better hope those 20 newbies didn't get a quest to go kill 1 newbie from the other side.
The problem with your post is that you are comparing what WOW is today with what WAR will be 1-1.5 years from now (6 months after release). WOW could put out 1or 2 major expansions before WAR is released that fixes or improves their endgame/PVP prob…
In a PvE-only game there is little point in soloing. In a game with both PvE and PvP a player might choose to solo the PvE part to get to the PvP part. If you want to fight against human intelligence then you are going to have to play a MMO of some …
Agreed. To Mythic's credit though, they have to get feedback from somewhere, and with low populations of Pendragon and feedback forms that were mostly of "my class can't kill everyone" variety, they didn't have alot of options. Another point in Myth…