Travel

Downfall · Post by **Downfall** » Sun Aug 15, 2004 12:49 am

how about, instead of ports ...Boats! you go to your city port and pay for a ticket to where-ever and your there

WillPower · Post by **WillPower** » Sun Aug 15, 2004 1:19 am

i like - specially with the if the faction is hostile to you etc. you cant use...
The only problem is what about those who were unforunate enough to be hostile to their own faction... no more travelling and no way to get back to neutral with your faction.

I mean for CLAD its hard cuz you cant use alot of area effectin spells while defending because it might kill a guard then you got NC hostile to you... not purposeful but still happenning. Then you are exiled FOREVER... there is no option to earn back your status as neutral. So you get screwed for travel too? Kinda sucks.

LadyCheron · Post by **LadyCheron** » Sun Aug 15, 2004 8:39 am

Downfall wrote:how about, instead of ports ...Boats! you go to your city port and pay for a ticket to where-ever and your there

That's actually in the plans for future development. And not just to the islands - boats between cities.

Quiett · Post by **Quiett** » Sun Aug 15, 2004 9:01 am

Heh, I tried playing on a Diff server for a couple of days. ALFA to be exact. You think it's hard moving around here? you're not allowed to run on that server. Play like that for a while, and you won't mind running around as much

ATI · Post by **ATI** » Sun Aug 15, 2004 3:12 pm

servers like that are lame. I don't want to get excited over teh ability to run. ALFA sounds like a crap fest.

sorry, NS4 pwnzvALFA anyday. (ooh look I found a +1 longsword...thank god im lvl 20 to use it!)

satantrik · Post by **satantrik** » Sun Aug 15, 2004 4:15 pm

Having to spend a week in real life walking to another town in-game is the reason I uninstalled FFXI: Online and tossed in the trash compactor!!

ATI · Post by **ATI** » Sun Aug 15, 2004 4:32 pm

I have a friend who plays that game all day and night...and he can't break good lvls or items. Trash is all you can call games like that. Thank you GOD for NS4

kgb · Post by **kgb** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 2:22 am

I like the system in NS3 where u could by a "caravan" token in avendell that allowed travel from there to NS City and vice versa. Also there was the ship in NS that took you to the Highlands.

I think it would make travelling the world as a low-level character less dangerous and more interesting allowing you to tackle different low-level areas rather than the same ol' same ol' area ad nauseum in your starting city.

There would be a fee that would make it not too prohibitive but not free either.

It could be scaled in much the same way as item restrictions are done so as to let higher level characters travel to more remote locations.

So lvls:

1-4 major cities (faction aligned / avendell etc)
5-8 a few extra destinations
9-12 a few more so on and so on.

It also saves the poor sod who is a mule and crawls his way back to town to id and sell those 4 or 5 suits of 50lb full plate!

At the moment if a low level character wants to leave their starting city their only options is to ask someone to "escort" them there for a fee and not a lot of low characters have huge reserves of money or they make a run with as many invis powders/ptns they can muster.

Some thoughts

Cheers

KGB

Spura · Post by **Spura** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 6:41 am

I hate it when developers of MMORPGs get anti-diablo complex. There are always people around who play the game all day, get the best stuff, solo everything and find ton of shortcuts and exploits and then in MMORPGs the devs see that and make progression a shitload slower and good items rarer and harder to get. Same with that stupid no running NWN server. "Oh noes, if we let ppl run they will level faster and actually kill stuff and then they will powergame". Like diablo 2 gambling. They make the % of getting something useful 10 times smaller each patch, just so it takes longer to get geared up. Thank god for NWN.