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1. Combat - Vote for combat if you get bored without encounters in every room.
2. Exploration - Vote for exploration if you don't like waypoints or shiny trails.
3. Role-playing - Vote for role-playing if you like interacting with NPC's in open-ended quests.
4. Story - Vote for story if you prefer a linear quest with a well-written story-line.
2. Exploration - Vote for exploration if you don't like waypoints or shiny trails.
3. Role-playing - Vote for role-playing if you like interacting with NPC's in open-ended quests.
4. Story - Vote for story if you prefer a linear quest with a well-written story-line.
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2,3,4!
Foundry Map: From Scratch "Sulfur's Resting Place"
Type: Quest, Story, Open World 1 player
Current State: Version 1.0 Try it with code below.
Short Code: NW-DHN3BHYOT
I'll consider posting some polls in General Discussion later too. As for selecting more than 1 option, I would but I want to restrict people to just choosing what element is most important to them. I feel this will give me better data than if everyone just voted for the last three.
Author: @BardicKnowledge
Q1: Prologue - The Lady and the Worm NW-DPQPJSVTH
Tags: #Challenge, #Story, #Solo, #Group
Everyone would pick that then.. Pick the one that appeals MOST to you, picking one does not necessarily mean you hate the others. I just want to see what element is most important to everyone.
Not everyone likes role playing, exploration or combat, so no I don't think they would.
I don't prefer any of those over each other. I wouldn't want a roleplaying/story quest with little combat similarly to how I wouldn't want a combat heavy quest with no roleplay/story.
So I guess not voting would be my option
If you are trying to get a good idea of what people are after then making multiple options you can see more accurately what is important to people and what isn't. If there's an overwhelming vote for all 4 aspects then you can take from it that all the aspects are important. If people are voting for Combat and Story the most, then RP and Exploration doesn't have to be your priority.
Author: @BardicKnowledge
Q1: Prologue - The Lady and the Worm NW-DPQPJSVTH
Tags: #Challenge, #Story, #Solo, #Group
You may have a point. I feel a lot of people who would get bored if there wasn't an encounter in every room aren't voting for combat. People complained to me about The Catacombs of Dread having rooms with no encounters in them, when they were saying before that they wanted a map that didn't just focus on combat. That's why I urge people to vote for combat if they CAN NOT like a map where you walk through the same room three times without fighting any zombies/orcs for the sake of exploration, role playing, or story.
People just like having something to do, blank rooms with no point are.. well.. pointless. Doesn't necessarily mean it has to be hack n' slash all the time. The right amounts of diaogue, story, combat and exploration can appeal to everyone. If you aren't a big fan of combat, but come across a fight that has real story driven roots, then a player will still enjoy the experience.
It's not one above the other, it's getting that right mix of ingredients to make something great.
There will always be picky players, and honestly it is hard to add too much of one element without taking away from another. That's why I'm straying from the whole "Jack of all Trades" approach and trying to find out just exactly what ingredients people crave most.
Being story-based doesn't mean a quest can't have combat, just that the focus is, or should be, on the storytelling. It's all about the atmosphere.
... so don't try.
Make a quest you are happy with, one that you would like to play, as first of all there will be people just like you who will enjoy it, but most importantly you'll actually enjoy making it! Making a quest for ratings is never a good idea, trying to find out what is popular is arbitrary. Players are picky, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. I like quality and I wont pretend to love a quest and give it a high rating just to make the author feel good. Authors need to earn their ratings, but people are so bothered if their first attempt isn;t an instant success.
We'll all get better with time
Right now you haven't perfected the golden ratio of all the needed elements, but with practice you might.
And therefore I'm not gonna vote, since it would bias the poll.
Siegebreaker - NW-DGDPWV2U5 - story about the ambush, escape and great rescue of the city.
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Sound advice. To be honest, I've played Regular Quest a few dozen times with my TR just because it's fun every time for me, even though the quest is just a minute long I can play a different way every time. Maybe my next map will be sort of a bigger version of it.