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Synopsis of day to day goals in first gen games ?
delete5230
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Instead of my rants, I would like to humble myself and say "I don't know".
I think this question would benefit many NOT familiar with day to day life in a first generation game like Everquest 1 and if Pantheon is truly a modern replica.
The best way to describe "my interpretation" is their are no REAL formal quest, but personal achievements where others have a common interest. Like taking down that giant orc, or raiding that blood elf camp for loot and experience. Groups are sought by player driven ideas. Someone can sit back and say I want to investigate that ghost town to the south, I think I'll get five others.
In other words, here is a world. Do what ever you like !
I keep waiting for V Realms to announce structured game play advice on how to play. Well their may not be any (revelation). By not being a first generation player, I'm still trying to wrap my head around this style.
If this is what it's like, its what I want !
Enough of "my interpretations"...… Can someone familiar with First Generation experience please explain day-to-day life ?
Can you tell some average day stories ?...… I really really like stories
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I think this question would benefit many NOT familiar with day to day life in a first generation game like Everquest 1 and if Pantheon is truly a modern replica.
The best way to describe "my interpretation" is their are no REAL formal quest, but personal achievements where others have a common interest. Like taking down that giant orc, or raiding that blood elf camp for loot and experience. Groups are sought by player driven ideas. Someone can sit back and say I want to investigate that ghost town to the south, I think I'll get five others.
In other words, here is a world. Do what ever you like !
I keep waiting for V Realms to announce structured game play advice on how to play. Well their may not be any (revelation). By not being a first generation player, I'm still trying to wrap my head around this style.
If this is what it's like, its what I want !
Enough of "my interpretations"...… Can someone familiar with First Generation experience please explain day-to-day life ?
Can you tell some average day stories ?...… I really really like stories
) 
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I would log in and see what my friends and guildmates were doing. That could be:
a. zone wall xp grouping;
b. dungeon running or camping;
c. helping someone with some part of their epic;
d. pursuing a "race mob," meaning a rare spawn that you had to rush to get to before others did;
e. occasionally raiding; or
f. rarely, someone would need help with one of the bigger non-epic quests.
If there wasn't anything I could join with friends and guildies that night, then I would try to get in on a PUG somewhere.
Failing that, or if I just didn't have much time, I would either solo a little or scout around for trade skill mats (and possibly work on my trade skills).
Or I would brouse what might be for sale by player merchants.
Or I would head out into some place I had never been and just see what was there (very carefully).
Sometimes my guild had roleplay events or in game get togethers.
Sometimes we went as a series of groups to zones we had never experienced before.
EQ1, EQ2, SWG, SWTOR, GW, GW2 CoH, CoV, FFXI, WoW, CO, War,TSW and a slew of free trials and beta tests
Well, this weekend I spent a fair amount of time farming tradeskill goods, so I could improve my tailoring, so I could make better bags.
Did not need a quest telling me to do so, it was simply a goal I set for myself.
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
Benjamin Franklin
However with Pantheon I'll get that chance and be on the same learning level as everyone else, I wouldn't be behind the eight ball and so far behind the majority of players.
Mystical, try getting that feeling with FF14....and at level 6 !!!!!
Me too, in L1, L2, DAOC, SB, WOW and others.
Wasn't until I joined EVE in 2007 I first broke that cycle.
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Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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It's a nice feeling when people say:
"see Delete5230 the bag maker"
"see Delete5230 he collects a lot of material"
So I have to ask, is this really grinding when your REALLY building strength with your server ?
I miss mmorpgs…… To slowly build a reputation and a name for yourself even if it takes months.
With games like BDO,ESO,FF14....You'll always be a big fat nothing !
This is what you get with mega-server technology. Advanced technology, my ass.
For example, you gathered up a few orc belts, then later you can find which NPC will reward you for them.
Here is the experience.
No bouncing balls.
No detailed information on play outside of the manuals specifics in basic functional interaction.
You are dropped into a world to which you have to completely translate to your own understanding.
What do you do?
You explore, and each step of play is simply that...
It is a trial and error in discovery. Sometimes you end up getting killed over and over again. You run into many bad circumstances. You run into too powerful of mobs, or confusing areas where you get lost, etc and if you die, you may not be able to find your way back. It is a process of fascination and wonder, learning and reflection.
In such a process, you will likely run into others suffering the same fate, the same hardship and frustration. Through such you may choose to join forces to overcome such encounters, increasing your odd of success.
This the most basic aspect of community based game play. Games that do not achieve this level of difficulty and frustration in play do not provide the proper building blocks to which a strong community can be established.
Yes, there was the infamous face in the tome thing, but the only break came at level 29 with Clarity. Clarity 2 came at 52nd level in the Kunark expansion. The level 16 Breeze spell came later, I *think* it was with the Luclin expansion along with the level 60 KEI spell, the one spell that subverted the game's prior philosophy about mana regeneration.
So, if you were 12th level waiting to go into Blackburrow, realistically, there wasn't much of a chance that a 29th level enchanter was going to wander by.
Logic, my dear, merely enables one to be wrong with great authority.
EQ was very much like a AD&D experience. It really left the player on its own and forced them to think, and seek for their survival. The story of the game wasn't a pre-made directed movie, but a mystery to which the player was left to discover and evolve through play, at their own pace and skill.
I really think that is why games like EQ seem to have a strong sense of remembrance for many as it wasn't simply a childhood nostalgia experience (many of us were well beyond being children when we first played EQ), rather it was the culmination of mechanics that provided wonder, fear, and encouraged imagination and hope to which games today don't foster but simply provide immediate remedies for.
Anyway, good points!
EQ1, EQ2, SWG, SWTOR, GW, GW2 CoH, CoV, FFXI, WoW, CO, War,TSW and a slew of free trials and beta tests