Originally posted by derwoodly
I do not think I have all the answers, more than anything I enjoy the debate.  My personal feelings is that games like EQ are going in the wrong dirrection, and games like WoW are going in the right dirrection.

Could you explain in deeper detail, what you mean with
1. \"WoW\" is going into the right direction
and
2. Whereas EQ is not?

Originally posted by jorrit
That\'s perhaps the best solution. If you are in attack with someone (NPC or not) then you will not be immune from them.

You have the skills: Make that afk-char transparent. That tells something...

You are a keen-eyed one. Well done, and thank you!

Originally posted by Kixie
This thread is filled with so many stereotypes, it brings me joy to know the true closemindedness of some people (even some of the pro-femine gamer movement)

You mean the type of men we call \"Emanz\" in german?
Met such a person some years ago. Two friends of mine - both female - were talking at a party, while I was busy stuffing pizza into me. One of the girls made an anti-women joke, the other girl laughed. Then the man sneered angrily at them, and told them to stop telling discriminating anti-woman jokes.

I\'m sure that guy won\'t ever talk to us again, but it took at least five minutes before the two girls and me were able to stop laughing - silly me nearly choked on some /PIZZA.

Originally posted by Merak
But, to prevent too fast progression, there was only one tick by skill by adventure. In a continuous system like PS\'s one, how can this period be implemented ? When shall occur the skill improvement ? There\'s a risk of too fast progression.

This skill-system will not be implemented in PS, as it needs a pure skill-based system, whereas PS is a XP/class-based system.

Moreover, as for most games, there is no way to loss a skill little by little because you haven\'t used it for long... And what about a bicycle-effect : if you don\'t do something for long, you loss little by little corresponding skill, but also you regain it faster when you learn it again..? So CoC possess interesting ideas, but is not a solution in itself.

But it would be a start. With a server-based system, adding the \"skill-degradation\" would be a breeze. But this would also require ageing characters, which would mean perma-death. etc.
But PS is very D&Dish, compared to CoC or RQ, so I wouldn\'t even ask for such elaborate ideas, before the foundation of the game is more realistic (that is: No XP/classes/alignments, and all that fancy stuff from the Gary Gygax school of never-ending hitpoints).

...and from the miniatures front:

http://www.larryleadhead.org/c08.html

Originally posted by Socrates Demise
I finished my final project for may image manipulation class and felt it turned out rather well - so I thought I would share it with everyone here.  

Let me know what you think.

The first one is creepy - you missed the subject with the title, but it is really good by artistical and technical aspects.

Two and four are a bit too pathetic for my taste, but they carry home their message. \"anger\" is good in the visual composition, transitions etc., while \"despair\" is a bit week in this aspect.

Three is a really difficult subject for visualisation, so I\'m not surprised it is failing by its subject. It is also not convincing by its visual composition, and the selection of the font.

If I had to do the same work, I would not have been able to reach the level of \"anger\", and \"love\" is beyond my grasp - please accept my critics as admiration, because I compare you to the best things I\'ve seen... :-)

And for inspirations:
Look for the pics on http://ths.demoscene.org/start.html
I really liked \"waiting\" by razorback - look at it to compare it with \"despair\".

Originally posted by Moogie
I like http://www.machall.com and http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com.

Machall is my favourite because Ian McConville is a brilliant artist, and a Moogle fanatic.

I only say /pizza...

http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com./?t=archives&date=2005-02-21