Tales From the Tavern: Volume VIII

There’s been a lot of activity in the past week on the Nerfbat Forums. Lots of great discussion about MMO design and other tangentially related topics. We’re now up to 3083 posts and 270 members. Here are just a few threads that caught my interest recently, but there were too many new ones to try to list them all.

• Why Don’t MMOs Have Climbing?: Why do so few massively multiplayer games have climbing? Is it technical, does it cause too many other issues, is it hard to implement? Started by MindTwist
• “Travel” Gear: Do you like the idea of being able to override the visual look of the gear your avatar is wearing? What problems does it cause? Started by Nybling
• Dice: Why isn’t more information exposed or visually displayed on a screen about calculations going on under-the-hood. Would it be cool to see dice rolls on the screen as you fight? Started by waldo
• Classes Not Seen ‘Til Now: What classes would you like to see? Has every class been done, or is there still room for a completely new class idea? Started by temp
• Poll: Average Retention for MMOs: How long, on average, do you play an MMO? Started by Draegan

I’ll stop there because, as I said, there were just too many discussions to list them all. Among them are threads on gambling in games, the setting/genre for MMOs, what “Diku” means, and more. Head on over to the Nerfbat Forums to participate in the massively multiplayer online game discussion.