Game Design Decisions

[Linulo]

The devs do an awesome job and put countless hours of work in Planeshift. There are people in the dev team that know a lot more about MMORPGs than most of the players do. Still they ask for our ideas to integrate into Planeshift.

In the early stages the Planeshift team comes up with a new version and people go \"wow!\" but as the game matures there will be players that would like things slightly different than the devs make it, leading me to 3 questions:

1) Will there be polls about important game design decisions like the kind of PvP that will be featured?

2) Will the code of the game be clean and modular enough for developers to implement ideas different from the current Planeshift roadmap?

3) If so, can something be done against too many different versions of Planeshift splitting up the community? (I guess the answer ist: every good shard will have it\'s own.)

[elscouta]

Originally posted by Linulo
1) Will there be polls about important game design decisions like the kind of PvP that will be featured?

There was about PvP. Looks at PvP forums. And this forum is done for that.

2) Will the code of the game be clean and modular enough for developers to implement ideas different from the current Planeshift roadmap?

Planeshift devellopement is very organized. I *doubt* a patch will be accepted if he lacks a comment/bad indent

3) If so, can something be done against too many different versions of Planeshift splitting up the community? (I guess the answer ist: every good shard will have it\'s own.)

Art is copyrighted to avoid that (like desing ideas)

[Linulo]

Thanks for your answers, elscouta.

Originally posted by elscouta
Looks at PvP forums. And this forum is done for that.

I could neither find a forum designated to PvP nor an \"official\" PvP thread in the forums. Could you please give me a hint where I should look?

Art is copyrighted to avoid that (like desing ideas)

I read the Planeshift License and understand why things are handeled that way. Once PS has matured into a competitive MMORPG, I would love to see different flavours of the game with the same models and items. Very unlikely with the current license. Well, maybe it\'s better this way.

[Axsyrus]

Originally posted by Linulo
Thanks for your answers, elscouta.

Originally posted by elscouta
Looks at PvP forums. And this forum is done for that.

I could neither find a forum designated to PvP nor an \"official\" PvP thread in the forums. Could you please give me a hint where I should look?

it\'s a subforum of the wishlist forums:
Wish List
Sub-Forums: PvP,PK and Thieving

Originally posted by Linulo

Art is copyrighted to avoid that (like desing ideas)

I read the Planeshift License and understand why things are handeled that way. Once PS has matured into a competitive MMORPG, I would love to see different flavours of the game with the same models and items. Very unlikely with the current license. Well, maybe it\'s better this way.

there will probably be different servers with different rules in the future, as a PK server, a server without unrealistic elements like /tell, etc.

[Linulo]

Originally posted by Axsyrus
it\'s a subforum of the wishlist forums:

Thanks. Somehow I managed to miss it the first times.

there will probably be different servers with different rules in the future, as a PK server, a server without unrealistic elements like /tell, etc.

That would be great . What I would like most: A Server with combat between different factions and without combat within a faction. Call me a Hack\'n\'Slay guy (I don\'t consider myself being one) but PvM, Quests and consensual PvP in arenas would not satisfy me. That said I\'m going to read the PvP board now .