Going off the subject that hes a noob and everything, if you look at some of his \'original\' ideas there just copies from various games,

the reputation bar is just like dransik (as said above)and the seperate experience for different wepons is just like dragon raja.

Crimson

Hey Hey,      

Why dont I take those beta accounts off your hands Kiern...?:D:D

No seriously if your in some closed beta and don\'t use the accounts at all I\'d be very thankful if you let me have one of them because i dont mind downloading the things and im in real need of a game right now, (I\'m only half way through downloading Dragon Raja)

Crimson

*Silently nods his head agreeing with Chlerval*

 *Looks thoughtful and ponders over a world in which Link has friends*


*Shivers*

Hey link it is possible to run a game free forever, look at runescape for instance, it was free for absoloute ages because they had sponsors. Sponsors are the key, get a few up on your site and youve got the server cost right there. The only reason they went p2p is because they hired new people to give the game tons more updates and make a bit of dosh for themselves. Planeshift could possibly be a free game forever (I hope so) if they find enough sponsors or some other sort of money to provide for the servers. As for people to update the game, I dont think they woul need them because if this game is free and its going to be as big as they say it is I\'m sure people wouldnt mind having updates spread out months at a time or even half a year.

Crimson

Originally posted by Grey
You cannot steal something that someone is wearing. It must be in a pouch. And I\'ve never heard of someone stealing something as large as a sword or a piece of armor from someone, its just too big.

What do you think that the thieves are gonna steal then? Food Maybe a magic potion or 2? Do you really think those items are worth getting your stealing levels to a ridiculously high lvl? Most of what a person carries is what he is wearing or even if he is not wearing it is still armour. Say a really high lvl black smith just finished making some amazing armour, hows a thief going to feel when they steal from them and all they get is a cheap hammer to bash the metal with?

The best thing a thief could get would be a sum of cash but most people keep their money in the bank for safekeeping against such things happening, I don\'t know about you but I wouldn\'t want to risk my chars life on the slim chance of getting some money or at the best a magic potion.

I know this game is meant to be realistic but if they did include player stealing you would have to be aloud to steal some larger items or thieves just wouldnt be able to make a living.

Crimson

I think we have a dress up gamer here, y dont you go look for a barbie rpg :D

I have a few things to say about the things in this board (forgive me if i sound dumb or i\'m totally off the mark). From my point of view this is what the Dev team is having concerning stealing and PvP.

Well for PvP there is going to be a dueling \'anywhere\' system which of course both players have to agree to which is of course no good to deal with thieves cause they just wont agree.
There will also be guild wars which im guessing means if you belong to a guild and ur at agreeded war with another guild you can openly attack them. There is also going to be an arena (or more then one im not to sure how many) where people can go into and fight. Many people think that this arena will not compare to PvP anywhere, I disagree. Being an arena doesnt just mean a circlur object which players can fight in, it may be a large walled off forest or a huge mountain trail. People could not just stumble into the arena and get pked they would have to make a councious decision to go in through the arena \'gates\' to fight. This system would mean that the people who want to Pk can do so with each other where as the people who dont want to dont have to.

 I personally like the way RS has dealt with Pking, they have made the \'wilderness\' which is where you can Pk but all other areas are non pking zones. I\'m not a huge fan of open pking because this game has so many more skills from what i\'ve heard. For instance if im a miner/smither and ive just taken an hour to get myself a whole pack of steel bars and some noobie dude whos played for a day comes over and Pks me and loots me im gonna be a bit ****** off. I\'m sure many people agree with this because not everyone takes fighting as their main skill.

This brings us onto the skill of Thievery. I do not think that open player thievery will be in operation because of a number of reasons:

1. Once someone has stolen from you there is absoloutley nothing you can do about it, no way you can get ur item back. Even if the \'gods\' decide to give you money to cover the cost of the item (which i doubt would happen) I\'d still want my armour or wep that he stole off me rather then some cash.

2. Unlike PvP which some people can contain themselves with because they can fight monsters instead of people, stealing is one of those things thieves will want to do on actual people all the time. With the amount of people playing this game (there will be alot) thieves would have an easier time stealing from people then finding an npc and stealing off it. Another thing that would inspire this would be that thieves could get better items off people then off npcs.

So there you go my long and very drawn out opinion...(waits for flame):D:D