{"id":5390,"date":"2017-02-19T10:30:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T16:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/?p=5390"},"modified":"2017-02-19T10:31:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T16:31:26","slug":"designing-virtual-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/?p=5390","title":{"rendered":"Designing Virtual Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was talking about reading this book the other day, and that I had emailed the author about how the designers of Lineage 2 could have taken some real lessons from it. \u00a0It got me thinking of all the things that were bad or poorly redesigned, and gosh there were a lot.<\/p>\n

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You could go years without ever getting an item that dropped from a mob, that you could equip. \u00a0Past the early levels (1-10) the chance you would get ANY weapon or armor drop was next to nil, and it being correct for \u00a0your class in the odd event it did happen, was extremely slim as well.<\/p>\n

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There was no rhyme or reason in the gearing system. \u00a0Weapons weren’t pinned for certain classes so you’d get stupid combinations like a mage using dual-swords or a bow.<\/p>\n

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Normal quests were not worth doing, for items, exp, or money, with maybe 2 exceptions or “well I’ll be in this area anyway”. \u00a0They didn’t give any worthwhile exp (it was often the same as killing 2 mobs), never gave worthwhile items to equip, and often gave less money than it cost to complete the quest. In some cases, the MORE items you turned in, the LESS money per item \u00a0you got!<\/p>\n

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The game wasn’t designed in such a way to deter scams, and the GMs did not care if people WERE scamming. \u00a0I can’t find my example images at this time, but here are a few common scams based of game problems.<\/p>\n

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  1. \u00a0The game font made a lowercase L and an uppercase I look exactly the same. \u00a0For example Ellie looked the same as EIIie or ElIie. \u00a0Exactly the same. \u00a0 People would create a character of someone and message their friends and clannies and ask them to see a weapon or armor. \u00a0They would then never give it back.<\/li>\n
  2. Lower level items often looked exactly like higher level items. \u00a0A grade crystals looked exactly like worthless Soul Ore (if I remember right) with a difference in price or something like 2,000 vs 10. People would set up sell shops with the cheap stuff labeled with the good stuffs name.<\/li>\n
  3. That leads me to Sell Shops. \u00a0You could type whatever you wanted in your store name to fool people. \u00a0“Selling spiritshots cheap!” the store could say. \u00a0You open the store with “sell” in your head and see shots at 10a! Wow what a deal! \u00a0You pick to buy as much as possible and.. “you just sold 5,000 spiritshots”. \u00a0Wait, what? \u00a0Oops, it was a BUY store labeled as a SELL store and you just sold all your stuff for super cheap. \u00a0Oops. \u00a0One would say “just pay attention” I would say “design \u00a0your dumb game better” or severely punish people trying this tactic.<\/li>\n
  4. Dwarven craft shops had a problem where the cost to craft an item wasn’t visible in the window past a certain numbers of characters. \u00a0You could see 1,000 for example, but not the renaming ,000. \u00a0A craft would oops, cost 1 million adena instead of 1,000.<\/li>\n
  5. And finally (for right now) you would probably never see any of the high level content. \u00a0The requirements to kill ANY of the major raid bosses were so such it was likely to never happen. \u00a0It was designed for 200+ people, which on the NA servers, was never going to happen.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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