My question for you is how would your idea work regarding levels since there will be no levels in the game ?

I think levels are must-haves for MMORPG.
Anyway, skills are gonna increase, won\'t they ?

Yes, great.

It\'s going the same way the msg I posted on \"Templated Generated Quests\" in that other tread, with kinda scripting, but you\'re adding better interface.

Nice one.

Well, let\'s say slapping\'d require skils in dexterity and melee.

If you get slapped but don\'t want to face, you get some popularity maluses, whereas the slapper gets popularity bunses ...

kinda \"honor\" you\'ll need to defend

I think I got what\'s your idea.
Or at least something that\'s going your way, Davis ...

You mean about randomly generated quests that could be assignated only once : If I come and talk to Rinna (for instance), she might be asking me : \"Would you be nice enough to do this (Y/N)\"

If you answer yes, you get the job, and if anybody else come then, she won\'t be asking them anything (but maybe another randomly generated quest, that has nothing to do in particular with the previous task).

If you answer no, then she\'ll ask the next player she\'ll talk to.

But my get the job\'s totaly due to hasard, as X could have taken it just before me ... In fact, the NPC would get some status : \"Aaa ! I got a job for the next player I meet\". (with quest icon over it\'s head maybe)

Then, nothing prevents you when you got the job to ask that LVL14 magician who\'s a friend of yours to give a hand. If you get rewarded, he might be interested in ...

Of course, results of the quests (completing it or not) might interfeere with future quests and/or environement. Well, if you can\'t prevent that building from beeing destroyed, no NPC\'ll be asking anyone to go there for any reason ... (but rebuild it or so maybe)

Well you can also judiciately do with fading.

If you take as an example Settlers 4, there\'re only 3 themes : World, Fight, Sea.
When you get to fight, the music perfectly fades to fighting music, and when battle\'s over (or if you move screen away from battle), then it\'s fading back to the former one.

Of course, that game ain\'t a reference, but it\'s a way to get the music sound like it\'s dynamic but with a quite lighter implementation.

Or what about giving a X money bonus to the one who\'d capture a PK ? (dead or alive, on your conveniance) That\'d become a great motivation for others ... You shurely get the whole community and even that f**** Lvl38 Barabarian That-Won\'t-Miss-U-In-A-3-Miles-Square-Aera.

Well, it\'s becoming much harder when the PK actually IS that f**** Barbarian, but I think the whole community\'ll get a chance against him. Eeer, when the top 50 most powerfull chars become united to be THE PK team, we\'ll get trouble, but there\'ll be admins, won\'t it ?

But Dieing from \"dumb\" animals or some bizzare random death like falling from a building or height, or being impaled by a death trap should be different.

Uuuh, even in a magic full-filled world, I don\'t see any difference for a human to be killed by a player or a rat, or a stupid cooking accident ...

There\'s also an alternative :
One server with PK, PVP, ... and one server without

Well yes, you could say for instance you have to cast a spell that\'ll put the monster\'s soul in a selected crystal/gem when defeated ... kinda \"souldrain\"

And have some gems/crystals that will autocast that spell on monsters curently in loading.

Some monsters could require a certain level of that spell to be \"souldrained\", level that will improve with souldrain and monster invoking experience (and get bonuses if you practice that magic way at a high enough level)

Could also say that the soul\'s only drained to the crystal/gem it was last linked to by the last \"souldrain\" spell cast. So when some1\'s fighting, you can steal it\'s opponement\'s soul by  casting \"souldrain\" just before it\'s killed  :]  

Uuuh, sry, I missed this one ...