This would require skeletal animation and advanced physics. The first was introduced by Halflife i think, the second is steadily developed.

I don\'t know if the Crystal Engine supports skeletal animation?

I agree with paxx, such a system would favor roleplaying. I like the Fallout approach. For becoming stronger, you had to make some surgical improvements, which took a lot of time (weeks in-game time, you had 90 days for the main quest). You only became better in skills like shooting or stealing.

My opinion as always: More power to the players!

I think Planeshift is a big chance to make things different and better. One point is the NPC part. It would be truly amazing to have a world, where players carry the allday tasks, where a whole city can exist without any NPC. Ok but there are problems.

How could we get the players to do that? players don\'t know such a system, so they will behave like in any other MMORPG. This is the task of the current small community! Build up a functional newbie introduction system to lead them into such a world. The beginning of a system, where the Players give quests to other players is the hardest point. How could this get running? Why should a guild hire another player or guild to do a job?

Why should the players do it? Is it bad to force them to do boring jobs like merchants? I think there should be at least one City, which works like a typical MMORPG city, so at least this one will work. The others will struggle in the beginning, but hopefully become superior later.

Now another point. player will have to be more efficient than NPCs. They must have a chance to be better. More profit and nicer for other PCs. Perhaps this will even lead to a point where the devs can remove the NPCs. Players always could do a job better than any NPC, so we should at least give them the chance to do it.

Hiring NPC for adventures is against a role playing community in my eyes. On the other hand it would be nice to have some guards for your house, what would be a pretty boring job for a player ...

I didn\'t thought of in-fight movements.

UT dodging is a nice example for a long, but not high jump, i wanted to say. With Counterstrike, i\'d hate to see people jumping around in the streets all the time, as they did in the first seconds in Counterstrike, before any enemy contact. If Jumping slows you down, you don\'t do it all the time.

Paxx added some important arguments ...

I think the main problem is the jumping high issue. Jumpers can avoid fighting by jumping in balconies and roof tops. This is pretty annoying for the sword fighters.

As the Olypmic vs Matrix jumping, i think more about the Halflife way, where you can jump rather realistic and with the jump pack you can jump over a pretty distance, but only as high as before. This style would fit for some races i think. The dodging in UT is also a nice concept.

If i think about the jumping around in CounterStrike, i think they found a good solution now. After a jump you are stopped for one second or less.

The precise jumping to a point ability is also a nice suggestion. It would help in dungeons and similir wierd places, but it is rather annoying in a fight.

I like Thynetts calculations, they are already very useable, but don\'t mix jumping with falling damage

drukes idea as also good to prevent crazy jumping around just for training issues. If you can only get 1 skill point per minute/hour (depending on max number) only people who really use jumping will get good at it.