Would you rather...

[JackWhisper]

Okay what about a mechanic where you theoretically could be killed at any moment if someone was sufficiently lucky. Such as open rolls?

[LNet]-You: "HEY JERIL"
[LNet]-You: "How do you honestly feel about... OPEN ROLLS???"
[LNet]-GSIV:Jeril: "I WILL CUT A HOLE IN YOUR STOMACH AND FUCK IT AS THE LIFE BLEEDS FROM YOUR EYES"

[Latrinsorm]

Okay what about a mechanic where you theoretically could be killed at any moment if someone was sufficiently lucky. Such as open rolls?

I strongly dislike all versions of open rolls, positive and negative.

[Peppwyn]

Only reason I would go open rolls is to allow for 'really lucky' events ... such as a level 5 getting a hit on a level 20? I am thinking of allowing combat to have open rolls in both offense and defense ... that way you could be really lucky and get a hit, or be really unlucky and miss. What do you not like about open roll systems?

[Latrinsorm]

When Aragorn faced 1000 orcs, he was never hit. If we're talking like a level 5 doing 2 damage that doesn't mean anything, that doesn't bother me, but if it doesn't matter why bother implementing it?

[Peppwyn]

If you had 100 level 5s ... that might kill you

[lichyen]

I think I can speak for Astray when I say Guild Wars 2.

Technically Guild Wars 2 is "Buy-to-play" starting at $39.99 or cheaper on a steam sale. But the box price is a part of the revenue stream, where as Gemstone has no box price. This guarantees that for each new person playing the company is guaranteed a certain amount of revenue. That said, I'm not sure what benefit the current system has, other than to give established players something to explore. As it currently stands, I don't see how a "long term" MuD such as gemstone can offer this model in a better way without a new instance to quell the complaints of imbalance (which would defeat any purpose of bringing new players into existing instances). I think the point was to give people a taste so they'll reactivate characters, it worked on me!

[Gelston]

If you had 100 level 5s ... that might kill you

Spike Thorn use to guarantee to hit for 2 damage or so. Theoretically you could kill anyone in the game if you got 100 rangers around. No one ever did this though, that I saw, and this was back when GS had over 1000 people on all the time.

[lichyen]

Spike Thorn use to guarantee to hit for 2 damage or so. Theoretically you could kill anyone in the game if you got 100 rangers around. No one ever did this though, that I saw, and this was back when GS had over 1000 people on all the time.

Heh hopefully you'd leave after the first 20 showed up.... Too many rangers in one place..

[Fallen]

Or just e-wave.

[Peppwyn]

Started poking around this project again if anyone is interested.