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PART TWO - MMOPRG input - Endgame

Chief_Kirbydorf

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Fez said:
A bulletin board would be useful, but I don't know how you'll handle the inevitable abuse of it.

Try to keep the game feeling brutal. I don't want to float through fairy lands when it's supposed to be a gritty every-man-for-himself PA type world.

Oh yeah, try to keep this kind of crap out of your game too. There are too many games that revolve around this already.
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ROFLOL.

My eyes! The goggles do nothing!
 

Balor

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Abyse in a way?
It's rather easy to track people who abuses it, anyway, since the messages will carry signature of one who created it... and administer some swift punishement :twisted:.
 

Sol Invictus

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You really need to have an in-game forum system with built-in support for clan and faction discussion. When you create a clan a forum should be created for them, accessible via the in-game bulletin board system.

How to handle the abuse? Just have a couple of moderators and the ability for players to report posts. If anyone abuses the forum or the report abuse feature, just suspend their accounts for a given period of time depending on their offense.

Please don't have 'in-game jail time', though. That fucking sucks. Nobody wants to play a game where they have to stay logged on just to get out of jail. That's also hell for people on dial-up and people who have to pay by the hour. That would very well be a death sentence for their account and cause them to quit.
 

Fez

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The bulletin board I was thinking of was an ingame one, similar to real life, Ex. One where people could pin notices on for bounty or selling. A good forum is very important too.

Jail time? That would be shit. Why pay for a game when you can't play it? It's almost as bad as what Ex described. No jail. At all. Pointless.

If someone has broken the rules though hacking or scamming, then they should just get banned.
 

DarkSign

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City of Heroes has a jail system that works...as an alternative to dying. Your already established group helps break you out. Im definitely thinking of adding this feature.

One part breakout the other part people helping to break you out. Could be fun.

But no extended jail times that make you wait around to play.
 
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