Author: Zubon

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Промоакции для игроков не только в шутерах — воспользуйся промокодом Vavada от наших партнеров и получи бонусы, которые подарят азарт и атмосферу, сравнимую с игровыми победами.

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Buy Abilities Once

Just so we have a single post to refer to this single point:

A modern MMO has skills that scale with level. You acquire the skill once, and its numbers increase with you. If your game has something like Fire Bolt I-VII or Lesser/Moderate/Greater Sudden Strike, it better have come out before 2005.

See City of Heroes (note: 2004) or The Lord of the Rings Onlineâ„¢ for how to do this properly. See Asheron’s Call or World of Warcraft for how to be old school. See Dungeon Runners for an attempt to cut the difference.

Having single skills that scale with level allows you to do reduce some of the harm caused by having levels. See sidekick, mentor, and exemplar systems across various games. Having many levels of skills hides the fact that players are not getting anything new this level while creating hell levels and erratic power curves.

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Brilliant Merchandizing

So brilliant that I am going to help them advertise their product by talking about it: IRL guild tabards. Well, t-shirts, but it cannot be that long until someone actually offers tabards for sale. Merchandise with your guild logo and character information on it: brilliant! Not anything that I would buy, granted, but there must be demand for this product. It can only branch out further.

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Hat tip: WOWVault

Positive Can Be Funny

Have you seen Zero Punctuation for this week? I think it would have been even better without the GTA4 negativity — the Saints Row 2 positivity was great. Plan for the day: mayhem, destruction, violence, whimsy. Yes, that sounds like what many of us are here for.

Happy day in City of Villains: going into a Mayhem Mission with a Fire/Fire Brute. Nothing says “flaming maniac” quite like having boxes explode because you walked by them. I need to level that character someday so I can do the same to cars.

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First-Best/Second-Best, at the Theater and in Open RvR

I have mentioned before that second-best might demand movements further away from first-best. That is, if you cannot get exactly what you want, the next best thing might be something very different rather than something close. You might prefer PB&J to a ham sandwich but prefer ham to jelly alone, so if you have no peanut butter you can improve your situation by moving further from PB&J.

This weekend, the top two US movies were High School Musical 3 and Saw 5. Thought completes itself, including that proviso.

If I might surmise about the preferences of many WAR players, open world RvR at its best is better than scenarios at their best, but scenarios as they are available are better than open world RvR as it is available. If I might surmise about the preferences of many former WAR players returning to WOW, WAR RvR at its best is better than WOW PvE at its best, but WOW PvE as it is available is better than WAR RvR as it is available. For those people, for both, respectively.

Or, if you are a CoW, open RvR rocks.

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The HSM3 note reminds me: I recently learned, through no fault of my own, who the Jonas brothers are (don’t Google it). If reality betrays me like that again, I may never leave my basement.

Public Service Announcement

Halloween is next weekend. You still have time to get a costume other than the Joker. Seriously. The only way you can redeem that one is to play Rock Band with three of the other seven Jokers at the Halloween party.

You could take that idea and turn it into something interesting. The Crow comes to mind, and you need two more dead celebrity superheroes. Then you can make a theme of it. Adding the Rock Band instruments can only help.

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