Letter from the Producer Live Part IX (10/19/2013)

[arus2001]

I'll never really get excited about "zone building" until the players can do more with it than just aesthetics and storage. Neverwinter bucked that trend a bit with the ability to make your own quests/campaigns, but the game suffers from, well, the rest of the game. Rift's dimensions had potential, but it just went the vanity fluff route, too.

[Kuishen]

I'll never really get excited about "zone building" until the players can do more with it than just aesthetics and storage. Neverwinter bucked that trend a bit with the ability to make your own quests/campaigns, but the game suffers from, well, the rest of the game. Rift's dimensions had potential, but it just went the vanity fluff route, too.

That was the other thing.

In SWG you could have player made cities with their own tax rates that went to the creator of the city (I'm pretty sure it worked like that? It's been a long time) and you needed permission to own land in that city. I'm pretty sure there were other benefits too but I can't remember, probably starports and the like. Granted I don't expect anything like that with this game, but it's sad to see that nobody else has really touched upon the massive amount of aesthetic customization that was present in that game, or the space pvp. God the space pvp.

[Datonare]

Rift has recently branched off with their dimensions that allow players to create their own battlegrounds and rule sets. Something like that, or similar to moblin maze mongers (with obviously more direct control) would be really cool

[arus2001]

I just look at it to give the endgamers who bitch about having nothing to do if you had players capable of creating uber-hard dungeons of their own. Sure, you'd have oodles of trash settings out there, but the good ones would be good and you'd have people feeding off each other for inspiration.

[Draylo]

That was the other thing.

In SWG you could have player made cities with their own tax rates that went to the creator of the city (I'm pretty sure it worked like that? It's been a long time) and you needed permission to own land in that city. I'm pretty sure there were other benefits too but I can't remember, probably starports and the like. Granted I don't expect anything like that with this game, but it's sad to see that nobody else has really touched upon the massive amount of aesthetic customization that was present in that game, or the space pvp. God the space pvp.

Yeah I miss SWG lol, decorating my house was one of the most memorable moments lol.

[Kincard]

People pretty much made this same exact joke right before the game launched, but it still makes me laugh every time:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...ps63523d61.jpg

[Kuishen]

Yeah I miss SWG lol, decorating my house was one of the most memorable moments lol.

I've been watching SWGEmu for a while now and they're still chugging along. Large updates are fairly slow, but comparatively and with what they've got to work with it's really good stuff. I'm hoping that they'll be able to move into beta sometime in 2014, or at the very least add Jump to Lightspeed sometime next year cause that's what I care about most, I'll start playing it once that stuff is implemented. I need to get my KSE Firespray back and pwn some rebel scum.

To stay on topic though, one of the main things I'm hoping XIV does right is the pvp. I never really cared about pvp until I played GW2 and I started having fun with it for a while until balance issues started becoming rampant. If they can make pvp rewarding and interesting enough it would keep my interest in XIV, at least for another few months.

[Eldelphia]

God the space pvp.

http://www.swtor.com/galactic-starfighter

[Kuishen]

Not even close.

12v12 lol

[Lucavi]

The PVP looked like ass based on -movement- in the vids, but I'm just hoping that it was because they stupidly used a fixed camera so everything looked stiff. We'll find out when we get there, I suppose.

[Seravi Edalborez]

I am fully expecting people to just circle strafe around mages (and thus nobody plays mages). I am also fully expecting everyone to gravitate to BRD and just annoy the fuck out of everyone by (example) throwing 4 sets of Windbite+Venomous on one guy, kite forever (Shadowbind [rotation] optional), rinse repeat until everyone is rolling 4BRD or 3BRD 1healer meat shield, or some variation.

So in short a complete mess unless they really thought this through (doubtful) but ultimately a mess I'll still sort of care about because it's something to break the monotony.

[Elcura]

Didn't they say there were going to be PVP skills (or skillsets?) I wouldn't focus too much energy on thinking about what PVP will be like with PVE skills.

[Hyan]

Didn't they say there were going to be PVP skills (or skillsets?) I wouldn't focus too much energy on thinking about what PVP will be like with PVE skills.

Yeah it seems different enough. Doesn't mean it won't be broken as fuck but can't really say yet.

[Seravi Edalborez]

I assume that's just stuff like, I dunno, "break out of 1 CC debuff" with some 60s cooldown and things of that nature. Assuming it's only that based on the pvp video still having normal PvE skills visually. It's certainly possible they'd make different effects for PvP but I don't expect that much of a change.

Still "assuming" on my part. Maybe they'll surprise everyone yet.

[Lucavi]

Here's a better question: Why the fuck is Holmgang PVE when every boss is immune to it?

[Raldo]

Here's a better question: Why the fuck is Holmgang PVE when every boss is immune to it?

They are? I think I've only ever used it... once. I haven't done Coil yet, but I've never found an appropriate time to use it.

[Kuishen]

That's because there isn't one.

[Seravi Edalborez]

Can bind WP 2nd boss with it (but if you're going supersonic speed you're a PLD).
Can bind Garuda with it (what's the point)

I've got nothing. Think the dumbest part of the move is that it still binds you even if the target is immune.

[Elcura]

I've only used it on Titan to see if I would still get moved by landslide.

I did. Not far, but certainly far enough that I was out of range so I couldn't attack anymore. I expect some PVE skills are PVP skills in actuality, stuff that BLM looks like it is, but I also expect that things will change enough that PVP is more balanced than it seems from a PVE perspective.

I mean it's easy to see how stupid PVP would be in that regard.

[ArchDizzle]

The PVP looked like ass based on -movement- in the vids, but I'm just hoping that it was because they stupidly used a fixed camera so everything looked stiff. We'll find out when we get there, I suppose.

To be fair in the stupidest way possible. SE is horrible at putting out gameplay trailers for this game, removing the UI and giving shitty cinematic camera angles and first person views make it look like shit. Not to say it wont be shit anyway. The 2 dps 1 healer 1 tank setup they show in the video better not be required when using DutyFinder.