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Hey guys!
I'm really interested in the game since you can actually make your own content and that seems very interesting to be able to make our own story, however, what kind of flexibility and complexity can we expect at launch?
I don't mind scripting if there's also some pre-scriped content and a good tutorial, as long as there's a lot of triggers we can control!
Also, will there be a place in the game to look for most popular or recent player content, or on the website? I don't see people using only the forum to browse through missions etc...
How will the rewards balance be controled? Player strength vs monsters strength? Cause you could as well just box a big guy and shoot arrows at it all night long eh!
I'm really interested in the game since you can actually make your own content and that seems very interesting to be able to make our own story, however, what kind of flexibility and complexity can we expect at launch?
I don't mind scripting if there's also some pre-scriped content and a good tutorial, as long as there's a lot of triggers we can control!
Also, will there be a place in the game to look for most popular or recent player content, or on the website? I don't see people using only the forum to browse through missions etc...
How will the rewards balance be controled? Player strength vs monsters strength? Cause you could as well just box a big guy and shoot arrows at it all night long eh!
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Not sure if there will be much in the way of scripting the way it was done with NwN. I think the closest thing to it will be how the NwN tools let us set things up with wizzards. The toolset would generate the relevant scripts for us based on a series of preset choices we could make while working with the wizzard. But even that lowe-level event customization will lend itself to some pretty interesting content. And if Cryptic makes it a point to keep expanding upon our wizzard choices, what we can do as time goes on will be pretty impressive.
If it is anything like Star Trek Online, there will at least be a drop-down menu for selecting user-generated quests. Personally, I would prefer that a bulletin board hanging on the wall in taverns would be a better way to go about it for the setting. In the world of Star Trek, you can just talk to someone over the sub-space radio and accept a mission. But for something like this, an actual personal visit to a location to check and see what tasks are posted that need a hero to perform would fit the setting better.
In fact, how many of you DMs out there started your modules in a tavern where your players' characters either meet up or stopped off on their shared journey to wherever? The Taverns in NwO should be the meeting hubs for players. And so a bulletin board listing player-generated quests would be a very useful tool.
Oh, the UGC menu could just be brought up from the interface as well, but it should be grayed out unless you are in an area that has a bulletin board present. The board itself would automatically bring the menu up, so there is the environmental interaction and the interface option.
Cryptic will be controlling reward payouts. I would figure that at best, Foundry quest loot tables will be limited to common loot only. And really, that wouldn't be such a bad thing. It should be official quests that pay out the good stuff.
One thing that could be done to put some measure of control over loot in player hands would be Foundry rules for treasure. Like maybe limiting us to maybe 3 treasure chests in our missions. There could be a rule that prevents us from putting them close together, so we have to spread them out in our maps. Also, depending on what loot level we set the chest for it would require that we put some sort of monsters of equal level guarding it. By making the chest themselves impossible to place in close proximity thus requiring more than one room, and enemies to fight, it becomes less exploitable.
Placement of treasure chest should be optional, but if you place one, the Foundry should require that you place all of them. Oh, and treasure chests should not be placeable within a certain distance from or in lign of sight of the player spawn point, thus preventing treasure grab quests where you have one room and one chest and a few monsters and players can just run in, grab loot and win then do someone else's loot grab.
The Foundry should give us the freedom to do simple dungeon crawls, but there should be some built-in guidelines that prevent or reduce blatant reward exploiting.
The wannabe moderator has spoken...
Dang it! That's about the 100th time someone has stated that same thing!! Next time... use the search button and then simply reference someone to that link!!
Thanks but you don't need to be harsh, they should just pin the topic at the top!
Seriously ... would you mind stop playing forum police and just stop trolling people. If something inappropriate comes up, I am sure Stormshade will take care of it. Until then, why don't you leave the rest of us alone and post whatever we want, as long as it is within rules.
From my point of view, your continued posting negatively about people, that come here is bordering on harrassment.
Vires Animi
By making many same-topics threads users, including me, are forced to discuss the same thing in different topics, going through spam and offtopic of repeated arguments.
I'm not posting negatively about people, I do not call them stupid or something. I just write to use search button and check if there are any other topics before making a one, is that negative?
Moreover, Viresanimi, CaptianQuirk, every user has that right in the "Report Post" button. So no, it's not wanna-be-moderator, but user right. I can simply report topics, instead of posting the list of topics, if you want. Fine by me. The end.
If something is not to your liking, report it. Let the moderators do their job.
Certainly you see the irony here...
FYI, condescension is a negative attack.
Sorry, but I do believe that one should act when one sees something bad, not "It's not my business" saying when you see somebody breaking the law, or in this case rules. I'm not so much into "being cool" when it means ignoring uncomfortable situations.
And if you think a repeat topic is "bad" then I suggest growing some thicker skin, because real life is going to magnify that 100 fold.
Oh, no one called you a bad person, but obviously, you think people are doing "bad" things. So very, very "bad."
Maybe you will eventually realize that you are causing more problems than you are solving...
<---- someone that never uses Report but that should.
Yes, yes, jharii just stick to semantics when you can't find an argument, seriously... shall we start here a political discussion concerning Greece and how there the unlawfulness turned out, or some other countries? I think not. Ignore Topic.
As from here on out, I think I'll just give myself a personal vacation from you, since I really won't miss anything but you telling people what they should and should not post.
Let's simmer down a little here. Remember that it's my job to moderate the forums. I'm also fairly certain that after doing so for 2 years professionally (plus a few more for kicks), I'm pretty good at it.
The best way for those of you who wish to help me out, to do so, is to use that handy little report post button.
I'll make the call from there. This goes for everybody BTW, not just some of you, or one of you, but all of you.
To the OP, I'm sorry your topic got horribly derailed, as mentioned however, there's a couple of other ongoing conversations regarding this.
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Thanks,
Stormshade