Curious about what people want...

[vector212]

Well... I was wondering... do we want a really neat action rpg with good leveling elements in it? (Like... everquest) or are we going to go for more of a game based on RPing and crafting (like... A Tale In The Desert). I\'m not sure if it\'s really possable to have both as they are totally different styles of game desgin... and hard to be balanced. If this question has already been asked... can I have the link to the thread?

[Kuiper7986]

it\'s not impossible, just combine the two together. Of course it\'d take longer.

[Natrina]

Well, we (I think we do, don\'t we?) are more Role Play then Hack \'n\' Slash, as it has been told and I have no doubts Planeshift will kick A Tale In The Desert\' ass in RP and crafting

[The Spork Witch]

I, for one, will drop this game in an instant if it goes hack \'n\' slash.

[Thardin]

If I wanted hack\'n\'slash, I\'d play Diablo.

[Draklar]

wrong thread.
Anyway, the main point of Planeshift is to give some great roleplaying environment and it is aimed at the roleplayers.
Most of people here will prefer the real roleplaying, but just wait for next releases and you\'ll see flood of powergmers.

[Dalec]

Power gaming is near impossible to eliminate. As long as it takes time to find imrpove your character, power gaming will exist. If you ask me, it\'s pointless. It doesn\'t  prove anything to anyone, except perhaps that you have way too much time on your hands. I suppose some people love power gaming, but I feel that it can easily ruin an online game. It seems like as soon as new content comes out, people automatically have it all figured out. Thats boring, I would rather RP with some friends and slowly uncover new content in a relaxed and fun fassion. But Power gamers will always be there, pushing the devs to make more content rather than making current content better.

[karakth]

Like Draklar said, we don\'t have that many powergamers atm because there\'s not really any competition in the world. once competition starts, they will come.

I myself am for Roleplaying DnD style rather than mindless hack n\' slash, and hopefully CB will provide functions to ignore powergamers.

We still have to remember that it\'s their fun as much as it is our fun, though. Let them powergame, just not in my face.

Another thing, RPG communities tend to form extremes, the pure RPers and the Powergamers. The pure RPers end up spending their entire gametime in taverns sharing stories and playing out dramas which would make Days of Our Lives seem insignificant, while the powergamers spend all their gametime on the crusade against MOBs.

I like to fall in the middle, having a group of good characters adventuring together and fighting monsters, sharing tales around a fire and saving each other\'s lives. I hope this\'ll be available in PS.

[slabertooch]

I would have to agree with Karath, there has to be a happy medium somewhere here.  If ps goes power gamer, I will be gone in an instant.  Don\'t get me wrong I love the game but I don\'t feel like listening to some kid go on about how uber l337 he is.  Hack and slash has NO rpg elements to it at all, it\'s just mindless fantasy.  I personally would enjoy ps with no combat at all, but that side of the spectrum also wouldn\'t be true to rpgs.

[Ikarsik]

no way RP only !!!!

super uber l337 Power leveling all the way!    Super PKer on the loose!

[DepthBlade]

The majority of us might not want Hack n Slash, but there will still be those players who bring in the trend...I don\'t think it is something controlable, you can say ROLEPLAY ONLY! That won\'t stop some people from doing it anyway

[slabertooch]

I agree with that but I think that the dev should put in certain roadblocks to slowdown the powerlevers.  Yes there will always be those kind of people, but why reward them?

[karakth]

Hmm but then it\'s about understanding the term roleplay. I\'m not going to go into this because it\'s been discussed before. Anyway, Hack n\' Slash makes up 40% of RPing IMHO. What\'s funner, spending the day in a tavern recreating Days of Our Lives, or bashing through a bunch of monsters with a good group of RPers, watching your characters grow closer by saving each other\'s lives over and over?

We are playing a game, after all. It needs monster-bashing elements.

As for a system to stop power gamers, it will be implemented in CB, in the form of the option to refuse duels as well  as the /ignore function. Leeter people might as well not exist.

Besides, we, the people who joined PS now, at its early stage, have  the \"respect\" and people who join in later versions of PS will look for respect from us. It is up to us to make sure that PS doesn\'t become power-gamer heaven, by not giving these powergamers the \"You\'re cool by me\" respect.

The worst thing that can be done to any human being is to ignore them completely.

[Draklar]

Originally posted by karakth
Anyway, Hack n\' Slash makes up 40% of RPing IMHO. What\'s funner, spending the day in a tavern recreating Days of Our Lives, or bashing through a bunch of monsters with a good group of RPers, watching your characters grow closer by saving each other\'s lives over and over?

I don\'t see much rp in hack&slash. I understand hunting monsters from time to time. That can give some rp.
But hack&slash? It\'s just bashing monsters... nothing else.
And what\'s more fun depends on a person. Myself, after pure h&s for whole day, I\'d probably give it up for another week, while I\'d find it enjoyable to spend all day on just roleplaying.

[Thardin]

What I would like, besides hanging around in the tavern is practicing my art. Which will be making bows.
Maybe an archery competition could be organized after a while. I like that kind of thing.
And well, I have to check the strenght of my bows and arrows by killing monsters, maybe. I should know what quality I sell.