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Author: Albadaran (simondekker [at] hotmail [dot] com) | |||
| Date: 23-Dec-08, 19:56:48 | ||||
| I fully Agree Atton: a game should provide fun, not too hard, not too easy. Personally I hate ANY deathpenalty -no matter if its loosing all items in ROM2, XP in Diablo, 10% temporary off all skills in Guild Wars- dying itself is often punishment enough because the player has lost his quest, needs to get back, let others take the loot, whatever. I've turned deathpenalty off in my NwN setup for Rhun. And when I have time I'll search for a way to play Rom2 like the Arena game, without deathpenalty but with saving the chr. Another thing I like to figure out is to cut off the countdown on leaving the server. As for the Christmas hat: There are some shortcuts. Teng Chí's practice map gives a huge amount of gold and XP if you lure the necro' to the stoning towers -easy, just take the incomming quest- but take care not to enter their fire range. Continue on medium in The Pit -another map for fast xp and gold- than Midnight with its helpful quest npc's. Try out the new 'Tank' you can get there as companion! Horror on good old Sareth for the pods -also easy by simply luring the orcs into the woods. The Horror questmaps are hard this time. I probably cant even do them myself lol. Thats why we need players like BB and Nova ;) |
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Author: Lord Atton (cosmclord [at] yahoo [dot] com) | |||
| Date: 23-Dec-08, 13:00:00 | ||||
| I have had a chance to play on various Hats including the new Christmas Hat. Interesting play. However; there is a find line between FUN and FRUSTRATION! When the game is too tricky the fun goes out the window. This is supposed to be fun not brain surgery. I understand the philsophy of not makeing the game too easy. Also should not be too difficult either. Rom2 has some nasty things when you die you drop all but your money. When money is made too hard to get then the fun goes out the window. Dying in and of itself is not a big problem, but recovering your bag is. In some cases all your hard work to get decent equipment goes out the window too. One reason I prefer Neverwinter Nights 1 over Rage of Mages 2. When you die in NWN you lose some exp and some money but not all. You keep your equipment. That is probably the biggest down side to Rom2. On some maps with a weak chr you will never get your bag back. If we are going to make a Christmas Hat it should be designed with fun in mind and short term play. Not designed for months of play or even weeks. Rom2 get boring fast. That is because it is very limited. NWN1 is way more complex. It is more on a par with WOW and SWG. I salute Simon for take his time to make a interesting Christmas Rom2 Server. Frankly is a long haul to Hard. The other new server is the Anarchy Hat by JultKnight. In contrast it is more like the standard maps and is very easy to advance. yes once you have run all the maps your done. But my philsophy is play and have fun. If you want a deeper better game get NWN1. Lord Atton |
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