Vertical progression is one of the fundamental pillars of the RPG genre, while you will find horizontal progression to be the staple of the FPS genre.
To have an RPG with no vertical progression? That's like trying to build an airplane out of stone. Sure you can certainly do that, but what would be the point? It won't function as intended.
You make a point.
That's why I prefer Limited Vertical Combat Power Progression with the possibility of Vertical Progression in other forms of power besides combat power. I also think regression should be possible as well. Because, in real life, it is possible to regress as well as progress.
All I'm saying is, some form of vertical progression must exist in all RPGs. It doesn't have to be a huge disparity. It could be realistic, such as different grades of metal making a weapon stronger or lighter. You start getting huge gaps in vertical progression when developers boost stats. If stats were left out of the equation, other than say, increased strength or stamina from fighting / running or intelligence / wisdom from aging. Then you wouldn't have such huge gaps between players.
Gear progression is good, but Stat progression is what causes problems. However, I know it's fun to acquire new gear that boosts your stats and makes you a lot more powerful than you used to be, but in the end, the results all end up the same aside from gear / stat disparity between new and veteran players.
I think Mordhau or whatever that game is called is more in line with what a more horizontal RPG would work like.
I think there should be limits to magic and divine/infernal power as well. Which means that there will be limits to how greatly an item can be enchanted or blessed. But this also necessitates that an MMORPG be designed so as not to completely center around combat.
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ESO clearly has several forms of progression, eschewing just one of many possible designs.
What ESO has is several different vertical systems not tied to character levels and much smaller power gaps than other MMOs, A lot of that thanks to the full level scaling from level 1 to level 50 CP 160.
I like the system but many hate it because they're not progressing fast enough for their taste. Probably the WOW refugees who still miss WOW
But everything related to combat power is still vertical even if the vertical axis is smaller and progression is more subtle. Leveling the Undaunted skill line by running more dungeons is vertical with the better skills you get from it at the higher tiers of the skill line. Leveling the 2 PvP skill lines independent of character level is the same and so is every guild skill line, weapon and armor lines, etc.
It's a system that gives you more choices about what you can level and how you level those things but it's still very much vertical.
ESO is horizontal with the skills you learn. When you start you know like 2 or 3 basic skills then you unlock and advance the others with use. Unlocking skills is most definitely horizontal, you can play semantics with how their mitigation system works where new characters are better than higher level characters in many regards. Fall Out 76 is similar but I havent played enough to figure out all the nuances there.
Its like the real world and going to school (when you were allowed to go to school). You were getting older ...vertical progression. BUt asyou progressed through scholl you learnednew things. While some were basic,...reading writing and math their advancement was mostly vertical. Bt getting to learn a new language, physics, cheistry, geometry, etc I wouold classify as horizontal. You were taking the BASICS you learned and were advancing and were branching those off into new skills. Same could be said (but not as easily tracked) as 'learning' social queues and HOW to 'live' in society. Those lessons have certainly been tested the past few months.
Aways funny how people pickand choose whatthey want to rail about in regards to MMOs and games ingneral. Used tobe the gear grind, then forever it as the inability or balance PvP, nowitsmostly there are no new MMOMs or any worth getting hyped about these discussions sort of died out.
End of the day its about money and what they can do that is cost effective. With what has happened this year it will be interesting to see if the gaming world suffers from the ecnomic destruction reaped on the globe. Short term i think they have benefited from it since peple have been bored and probably spent more money than they can afford to on games. But once the free ride is over and they have to go back to work to get a check and those jobs aret there that will be interesting.
ESO clearly has several forms of progression, eschewing just one of many possible designs.
What ESO has is several different vertical systems not tied to character levels and much smaller power gaps than other MMOs, A lot of that thanks to the full level scaling from level 1 to level 50 CP 160.
I like the system but many hate it because they're not progressing fast enough for their taste. Probably the WOW refugees who still miss WOW
But everything related to combat power is still vertical even if the vertical axis is smaller and progression is more subtle. Leveling the Undaunted skill line by running more dungeons is vertical with the better skills you get from it at the higher tiers of the skill line. Leveling the 2 PvP skill lines independent of character level is the same and so is every guild skill line, weapon and armor lines, etc.
It's a system that gives you more choices about what you can level and how you level those things but it's still very much vertical.
ESO is horizontal with the skills you learn. When you start you know like 2 or 3 basic skills then you unlock and advance the others with use. Unlocking skills is most definitely horizontal, you can play semantics with how their mitigation system works where new characters are better than higher level characters in many regards. Fall Out 76 is similar but I havent played enough to figure out all the nuances there.
So you have 5 active skills and 5 passive skills in a skill line and you unlock the 1st one by gaining 500 experience in that skill line but you need 10,000,000 XP to unlock number 10, and skills number 8, 9 and 10 are the only ones widely used in any end-game meta build and that's not vertical?
And the new characters are better than higher level characters bit? Fucking priceless. It would take the worst player in the history of ESO to not come up with a better build with 200-400 skill points available vs the 6 or 7 you have at level 10.
LMAO.
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ESO clearly has several forms of progression, eschewing just one of many possible designs.
What ESO has is several different vertical systems not tied to character levels and much smaller power gaps than other MMOs, A lot of that thanks to the full level scaling from level 1 to level 50 CP 160.
I like the system but many hate it because they're not progressing fast enough for their taste. Probably the WOW refugees who still miss WOW
But everything related to combat power is still vertical even if the vertical axis is smaller and progression is more subtle. Leveling the Undaunted skill line by running more dungeons is vertical with the better skills you get from it at the higher tiers of the skill line. Leveling the 2 PvP skill lines independent of character level is the same and so is every guild skill line, weapon and armor lines, etc.
It's a system that gives you more choices about what you can level and how you level those things but it's still very much vertical.
ESO is horizontal with the skills you learn. When you start you know like 2 or 3 basic skills then you unlock and advance the others with use. Unlocking skills is most definitely horizontal, you can play semantics with how their mitigation system works where new characters are better than higher level characters in many regards. Fall Out 76 is similar but I havent played enough to figure out all the nuances there.
So you have 5 active skills and 5 passive skills in a skill line and you unlock the 1st one by gaining 500 experience in that skill line but you need 10,000,000 XP to unlock number 10, and skills number 8, 9 and 10 are the only ones widely used in any end-game meta build and that's not vertical?
And the new characters are better than higher level characters bit? Fucking priceless. It would take the worst player in the history of ESO to not come up with a better build with 200-400 skill points available vs the 6 or 7 you have at level 10.
LMAO.
I didnt say that. I said new toons at level 1 are better at mitigating and doing damage that max level players. It might be 'naked' I dont know. but everyone knows that new players are buffed to high heaven in ESO. What actual factors those are I amnot positive but I am sure some peopel have tried to surmise them somewhere and somehow.
Or all of that coudhave ben scrapped with the CP system. Again not sure. But I remember when they redid everything and got rid of 'level' gates and let you go and start on any map they 'balanced' new characters out at max level versus open world enemies that in most cases made them stronger than maxed out characters in a lot of ways.
I havent sarted a new toon in awhile but even if I did it would still have 600 or so CP tospend, I supose without spending them it could be 'trsted' to see if it were accurate.
But losing the tress for the forest here. ESO has BOTH types of progression (as limited as they are)
ESO clearly has several forms of progression, eschewing just one of many possible designs.
What ESO has is several different vertical systems not tied to character levels and much smaller power gaps than other MMOs, A lot of that thanks to the full level scaling from level 1 to level 50 CP 160.
I like the system but many hate it because they're not progressing fast enough for their taste. Probably the WOW refugees who still miss WOW
But everything related to combat power is still vertical even if the vertical axis is smaller and progression is more subtle. Leveling the Undaunted skill line by running more dungeons is vertical with the better skills you get from it at the higher tiers of the skill line. Leveling the 2 PvP skill lines independent of character level is the same and so is every guild skill line, weapon and armor lines, etc.
It's a system that gives you more choices about what you can level and how you level those things but it's still very much vertical.
ESO is horizontal with the skills you learn. When you start you know like 2 or 3 basic skills then you unlock and advance the others with use. Unlocking skills is most definitely horizontal, you can play semantics with how their mitigation system works where new characters are better than higher level characters in many regards. Fall Out 76 is similar but I havent played enough to figure out all the nuances there.
So you have 5 active skills and 5 passive skills in a skill line and you unlock the 1st one by gaining 500 experience in that skill line but you need 10,000,000 XP to unlock number 10, and skills number 8, 9 and 10 are the only ones widely used in any end-game meta build and that's not vertical?
And the new characters are better than higher level characters bit? Fucking priceless. It would take the worst player in the history of ESO to not come up with a better build with 200-400 skill points available vs the 6 or 7 you have at level 10.
LMAO.
I didnt say that. I said new toons at level 1 are better at mitigating and doing damage that max level players. It might be 'naked' I dont know. but everyone knows that new players are buffed to high heaven in ESO. What actual factors those are I amnot positive but I am sure some peopel have tried to surmise them somewhere and somehow.
Or all of that coudhave ben scrapped with the CP system. Again not sure. But I remember when they redid everything and got rid of 'level' gates and let you go and start on any map they 'balanced' new characters out at max level versus open world enemies that in most cases made them stronger than maxed out characters in a lot of ways.
I havent sarted a new toon in awhile but even if I did it would still have 600 or so CP tospend, I supose without spending them it could be 'trsted' to see if it were accurate.
But losing the tress for the forest here. ESO has BOTH types of progression (as limited as they are)
That is an urban legend. A level 1 character can not mitigate better than a fully leveled character.
Yes they do get an extra buff from level 1 to level 33. It's a hidden buff but I was on the PTR before they hid the numbers, You get 100% of the buff at level 1 and it diminished by 3% per level until it totally falls off at level 34. That is in addition to the buff everyone under CP 160 gets which is also done on a diminishing basis but in that case from level 1 to level 50 CP 160.
That is just the math behind the scaling and it's needed to give low level players without any good active or passive skills a chance.
But in no way shape or form are they mitigating more than anyone who knows how to build their character using the better active and passive skills available to them but nt to the low level character.
There are also twinked low level players same as in WOW and many other games because the CP system applies to all characters in an account. If your main is CP 800 (or whatever the max usable is right now) you can create a level 1 alt and use 800 CP on that level 1 to twink the crap out of it. Now those twinks at low levels can in fact be better than a higher level character on a new account that has no CP passives to play with. It's no different in effect from WOW low level characters decked out in heirloom gear.
But that is the only case where a low level can actually be better than a higher level.
If you compare twink to twink the higher level one wins hands down and if you're comparing new account with no CP to new account with no CP the same applies.
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ESO clearly has several forms of progression, eschewing just one of many possible designs.
What ESO has is several different vertical systems not tied to character levels and much smaller power gaps than other MMOs, A lot of that thanks to the full level scaling from level 1 to level 50 CP 160.
I like the system but many hate it because they're not progressing fast enough for their taste. Probably the WOW refugees who still miss WOW
But everything related to combat power is still vertical even if the vertical axis is smaller and progression is more subtle. Leveling the Undaunted skill line by running more dungeons is vertical with the better skills you get from it at the higher tiers of the skill line. Leveling the 2 PvP skill lines independent of character level is the same and so is every guild skill line, weapon and armor lines, etc.
It's a system that gives you more choices about what you can level and how you level those things but it's still very much vertical.
ESO is horizontal with the skills you learn. When you start you know like 2 or 3 basic skills then you unlock and advance the others with use. Unlocking skills is most definitely horizontal, you can play semantics with how their mitigation system works where new characters are better than higher level characters in many regards. Fall Out 76 is similar but I havent played enough to figure out all the nuances there.
So you have 5 active skills and 5 passive skills in a skill line and you unlock the 1st one by gaining 500 experience in that skill line but you need 10,000,000 XP to unlock number 10, and skills number 8, 9 and 10 are the only ones widely used in any end-game meta build and that's not vertical?
And the new characters are better than higher level characters bit? Fucking priceless. It would take the worst player in the history of ESO to not come up with a better build with 200-400 skill points available vs the 6 or 7 you have at level 10.
LMAO.
I didnt say that. I said new toons at level 1 are better at mitigating and doing damage that max level players. It might be 'naked' I dont know. but everyone knows that new players are buffed to high heaven in ESO. What actual factors those are I amnot positive but I am sure some peopel have tried to surmise them somewhere and somehow.
Or all of that coudhave ben scrapped with the CP system. Again not sure. But I remember when they redid everything and got rid of 'level' gates and let you go and start on any map they 'balanced' new characters out at max level versus open world enemies that in most cases made them stronger than maxed out characters in a lot of ways.
I havent sarted a new toon in awhile but even if I did it would still have 600 or so CP tospend, I supose without spending them it could be 'trsted' to see if it were accurate.
But losing the tress for the forest here. ESO has BOTH types of progression (as limited as they are)
That is an urban legend. A level 1 character can not mitigate better than a fully leveled character.
Yes they do get an extra buff from level 1 to level 33. It's a hidden buff but I was on the PTR before they hid the numbers, You get 100% of the buff at level 1 and it diminished by 3% per level until it totally falls off at level 34. That is in addition to the buff everyone under CP 160 gets which is also done on a diminishing basis but in that case from level 1 to level 50 CP 160.
That is just the math behind the scaling and it's needed to give low level players without any good active or passive skills a chance.
But in no way shape or form are they mitigating more than anyone who knows how to build their character using the better active and passive skills available to them but nt to the low level character.
There are also twinked low level players same as in WOW and many other games because the CP system applies to all characters in an account. If your main is CP 800 (or whatever the max usable is right now) you can create a level 1 alt and use 800 CP on that level 1 to twink the crap out of it. Now those twinks at low levels can in fact be better than a higher level character on a new account that has no CP passives to play with. It's no different in effect from WOW low level characters decked out in heirloom gear.
But that is the only case where a low level can actually be better than a higher level.
If you compare twink to twink the higher level one wins hands down and if you're comparing new account with no CP to new account with no CP the same applies.
so you agree with my ORIGINAL statement that there IS horizontal progression because those new skills players learn as they level up make them stronger than even a twinked out (vertical CP points) character will be.
NEW skills are HORIZONTAL. Leveling them up once you learn them is VERTICAL. Simple question are you 'stronger' before or after you learn them?
People can play the semantics game all they want. Many games have horizontal progression, but even the ones that do do so in a lazy way. ESO included. But they offer more skills than any other game I can think of. As in a single toon can learn X amount of skills available. EVE might be close but I havent played that game in forever so not sure what you can and cant learn there now.
ESO clearly has several forms of progression, eschewing just one of many possible designs.
What ESO has is several different vertical systems not tied to character levels and much smaller power gaps than other MMOs, A lot of that thanks to the full level scaling from level 1 to level 50 CP 160.
I like the system but many hate it because they're not progressing fast enough for their taste. Probably the WOW refugees who still miss WOW
But everything related to combat power is still vertical even if the vertical axis is smaller and progression is more subtle. Leveling the Undaunted skill line by running more dungeons is vertical with the better skills you get from it at the higher tiers of the skill line. Leveling the 2 PvP skill lines independent of character level is the same and so is every guild skill line, weapon and armor lines, etc.
It's a system that gives you more choices about what you can level and how you level those things but it's still very much vertical.
ESO is horizontal with the skills you learn. When you start you know like 2 or 3 basic skills then you unlock and advance the others with use. Unlocking skills is most definitely horizontal, you can play semantics with how their mitigation system works where new characters are better than higher level characters in many regards. Fall Out 76 is similar but I havent played enough to figure out all the nuances there.
So you have 5 active skills and 5 passive skills in a skill line and you unlock the 1st one by gaining 500 experience in that skill line but you need 10,000,000 XP to unlock number 10, and skills number 8, 9 and 10 are the only ones widely used in any end-game meta build and that's not vertical?
And the new characters are better than higher level characters bit? Fucking priceless. It would take the worst player in the history of ESO to not come up with a better build with 200-400 skill points available vs the 6 or 7 you have at level 10.
LMAO.
I didnt say that. I said new toons at level 1 are better at mitigating and doing damage that max level players. It might be 'naked' I dont know. but everyone knows that new players are buffed to high heaven in ESO. What actual factors those are I amnot positive but I am sure some peopel have tried to surmise them somewhere and somehow.
Or all of that coudhave ben scrapped with the CP system. Again not sure. But I remember when they redid everything and got rid of 'level' gates and let you go and start on any map they 'balanced' new characters out at max level versus open world enemies that in most cases made them stronger than maxed out characters in a lot of ways.
I havent sarted a new toon in awhile but even if I did it would still have 600 or so CP tospend, I supose without spending them it could be 'trsted' to see if it were accurate.
But losing the tress for the forest here. ESO has BOTH types of progression (as limited as they are)
That is an urban legend. A level 1 character can not mitigate better than a fully leveled character.
Yes they do get an extra buff from level 1 to level 33. It's a hidden buff but I was on the PTR before they hid the numbers, You get 100% of the buff at level 1 and it diminished by 3% per level until it totally falls off at level 34. That is in addition to the buff everyone under CP 160 gets which is also done on a diminishing basis but in that case from level 1 to level 50 CP 160.
That is just the math behind the scaling and it's needed to give low level players without any good active or passive skills a chance.
But in no way shape or form are they mitigating more than anyone who knows how to build their character using the better active and passive skills available to them but nt to the low level character.
There are also twinked low level players same as in WOW and many other games because the CP system applies to all characters in an account. If your main is CP 800 (or whatever the max usable is right now) you can create a level 1 alt and use 800 CP on that level 1 to twink the crap out of it. Now those twinks at low levels can in fact be better than a higher level character on a new account that has no CP passives to play with. It's no different in effect from WOW low level characters decked out in heirloom gear.
But that is the only case where a low level can actually be better than a higher level.
If you compare twink to twink the higher level one wins hands down and if you're comparing new account with no CP to new account with no CP the same applies.
so you agree with my ORIGINAL statement that there IS horizontal progression because those new skills players learn as they level up make them stronger than even a twinked out (vertical CP points) character will be.
NEW skills are HORIZONTAL. Leveling them up once you learn them is VERTICAL. Simple question are you 'stronger' before or after you learn them?
People can play the semantics game all they want. Many games have horizontal progression, but even the ones that do do so in a lazy way. ESO included. But they offer more skills than any other game I can think of. As in a single toon can learn X amount of skills available. EVE might be close but I havent played that game in forever so not sure what you can and cant learn there now.
It has trivial horizontal game play elements in that you can abandon progressing vertically in one skill line like say 2HD weapons and you can start leveling Dual Wielding instead and go through the dual wielding vertical progression.
Getting back to my original post in this thread that type of horizontal game play that some call progression is very similar to just rolling a different class in games that have everything class locked. You level a Warlock in WOW and then you put that down and level a Mage... you just went horizontal with your game play but not your progression. The only difference in ESO is that you can do it by rolling a new class OR by just picking up a new skill line to level that isn't class specific.
The word progression to me implies vertical whether it's done by by small bits or large amounts. If you want to say that ESO has horizontal game play elements I would agree but all of its progression is vertical,
You can call it semantics all you want but words matter,
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ESO clearly has several forms of progression, eschewing just one of many possible designs.
What ESO has is several different vertical systems not tied to character levels and much smaller power gaps than other MMOs, A lot of that thanks to the full level scaling from level 1 to level 50 CP 160.
I like the system but many hate it because they're not progressing fast enough for their taste. Probably the WOW refugees who still miss WOW
But everything related to combat power is still vertical even if the vertical axis is smaller and progression is more subtle. Leveling the Undaunted skill line by running more dungeons is vertical with the better skills you get from it at the higher tiers of the skill line. Leveling the 2 PvP skill lines independent of character level is the same and so is every guild skill line, weapon and armor lines, etc.
It's a system that gives you more choices about what you can level and how you level those things but it's still very much vertical.
ESO is horizontal with the skills you learn. When you start you know like 2 or 3 basic skills then you unlock and advance the others with use. Unlocking skills is most definitely horizontal, you can play semantics with how their mitigation system works where new characters are better than higher level characters in many regards. Fall Out 76 is similar but I havent played enough to figure out all the nuances there.
So you have 5 active skills and 5 passive skills in a skill line and you unlock the 1st one by gaining 500 experience in that skill line but you need 10,000,000 XP to unlock number 10, and skills number 8, 9 and 10 are the only ones widely used in any end-game meta build and that's not vertical?
And the new characters are better than higher level characters bit? Fucking priceless. It would take the worst player in the history of ESO to not come up with a better build with 200-400 skill points available vs the 6 or 7 you have at level 10.
LMAO.
I didnt say that. I said new toons at level 1 are better at mitigating and doing damage that max level players. It might be 'naked' I dont know. but everyone knows that new players are buffed to high heaven in ESO. What actual factors those are I amnot positive but I am sure some peopel have tried to surmise them somewhere and somehow.
Or all of that coudhave ben scrapped with the CP system. Again not sure. But I remember when they redid everything and got rid of 'level' gates and let you go and start on any map they 'balanced' new characters out at max level versus open world enemies that in most cases made them stronger than maxed out characters in a lot of ways.
I havent sarted a new toon in awhile but even if I did it would still have 600 or so CP tospend, I supose without spending them it could be 'trsted' to see if it were accurate.
But losing the tress for the forest here. ESO has BOTH types of progression (as limited as they are)
That is an urban legend. A level 1 character can not mitigate better than a fully leveled character.
Yes they do get an extra buff from level 1 to level 33. It's a hidden buff but I was on the PTR before they hid the numbers, You get 100% of the buff at level 1 and it diminished by 3% per level until it totally falls off at level 34. That is in addition to the buff everyone under CP 160 gets which is also done on a diminishing basis but in that case from level 1 to level 50 CP 160.
That is just the math behind the scaling and it's needed to give low level players without any good active or passive skills a chance.
But in no way shape or form are they mitigating more than anyone who knows how to build their character using the better active and passive skills available to them but nt to the low level character.
There are also twinked low level players same as in WOW and many other games because the CP system applies to all characters in an account. If your main is CP 800 (or whatever the max usable is right now) you can create a level 1 alt and use 800 CP on that level 1 to twink the crap out of it. Now those twinks at low levels can in fact be better than a higher level character on a new account that has no CP passives to play with. It's no different in effect from WOW low level characters decked out in heirloom gear.
But that is the only case where a low level can actually be better than a higher level.
If you compare twink to twink the higher level one wins hands down and if you're comparing new account with no CP to new account with no CP the same applies.
so you agree with my ORIGINAL statement that there IS horizontal progression because those new skills players learn as they level up make them stronger than even a twinked out (vertical CP points) character will be.
NEW skills are HORIZONTAL. Leveling them up once you learn them is VERTICAL. Simple question are you 'stronger' before or after you learn them?
People can play the semantics game all they want. Many games have horizontal progression, but even the ones that do do so in a lazy way. ESO included. But they offer more skills than any other game I can think of. As in a single toon can learn X amount of skills available. EVE might be close but I havent played that game in forever so not sure what you can and cant learn there now.
EVE had 403 skills back in 2014, there's more now but no one seems to bother counting these days.
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Horizontal progression does have vertical progression. The horizontal progression is baseline for the character.
If you think about it as building. Vertical progression is like a 100 floor tower. You climb the tower and decorate a room on each with gear and abilities. If you are on the 100th floor you really aren't hanging out with the person on the first. Just those on the same floor in adjacent rooms.
Horizontal progression is like a rancher. While you don't have 100 rooms you have one house you decorate with gear and abilities. Everyone in the neighborhood can interact no problem because they are all on the same level.
Games are inherently number based so possibilities are limitless. You can still have content locked by gear but it doesn't have to make it power based. Maybe you need to get material from fire drakes to craft fire resistant gear to allow you to enter lava zone. The only thing horizontal prevents is your one shotting low level creatures. It's not that big of a deal as people make it out to be but at the same time gets rid of the level treadmill a lot of people hate.
Horizontal progression does have vertical progression. The horizontal progression is baseline for the character.
If you think about it as building. Vertical progression is like a 100 floor tower. You climb the tower and decorate a room on each with gear and abilities. If you are on the 100th floor you really aren't hanging out with the person on the first. Just those on the same floor in adjacent rooms.
Horizontal progression is like a rancher. While you don't have 100 rooms you have one house you decorate with gear and abilities. Everyone in the neighborhood can interact no problem because they are all on the same level.
Games are inherently number based so possibilities are limitless. You can still have content locked by gear but it doesn't have to make it power based. Maybe you need to get material from fire drakes to craft fire resistant gear to allow you to enter lava zone. The only thing horizontal prevents is your one shotting low level creatures. It's not that big of a deal as people make it out to be but at the same time gets rid of the level treadmill a lot of people hate.
So... the "level treadmill" is replaced by... what? It's just another treadmill, just without character advancement, either by attributes, skills/spells, or gear. You know... "numbers."
So you get that fire drake material to open up a new zone. You finish that zone and then what? A frost drake for an Ice zone? Then an iron golem for an iron zone? Still looks like a treadmill to me, without the advantage of noticeable character development.
Am I missing something here?
I mean, if players really want this, it should happen. I just can't see myself playing this game for very long, if at all.
- Al
Personally the only modern MMORPG trend that annoys me is the idea that MMOs need to be designed in a way to attract people who don't actually like MMOs. Which to me makes about as much sense as someone trying to figure out a way to get vegetarians to eat at their steakhouse. - FARGIN_WAR
Horizontal progression does have vertical progression. The horizontal progression is baseline for the character.
If you think about it as building. Vertical progression is like a 100 floor tower. You climb the tower and decorate a room on each with gear and abilities. If you are on the 100th floor you really aren't hanging out with the person on the first. Just those on the same floor in adjacent rooms.
Horizontal progression is like a rancher. While you don't have 100 rooms you have one house you decorate with gear and abilities. Everyone in the neighborhood can interact no problem because they are all on the same level.
Games are inherently number based so possibilities are limitless. You can still have content locked by gear but it doesn't have to make it power based. Maybe you need to get material from fire drakes to craft fire resistant gear to allow you to enter lava zone. The only thing horizontal prevents is your one shotting low level creatures. It's not that big of a deal as people make it out to be but at the same time gets rid of the level treadmill a lot of people hate.
So... the "level treadmill" is replaced by... what? It's just another treadmill, just without character advancement, either by attributes, skills/spells, or gear. You know... "numbers."
So you get that fire drake material to open up a new zone. You finish that zone and then what? A frost drake for an Ice zone? Then an iron golem for an iron zone? Still looks like a treadmill to me, without the advantage of noticeable character development.
Am I missing something here?
I mean, if players really want this, it should happen. I just can't see myself playing this game for very long, if at all.
The reason you do that is because you don't want one part of game to affect another part of the game.
There may be people that don't want to do the zone at all to get fire resistant gear. But they can still pvp in equal footing with other players.
Horizontal progression does have vertical progression. The horizontal progression is baseline for the character.
If you think about it as building. Vertical progression is like a 100 floor tower. You climb the tower and decorate a room on each with gear and abilities. If you are on the 100th floor you really aren't hanging out with the person on the first. Just those on the same floor in adjacent rooms.
Horizontal progression is like a rancher. While you don't have 100 rooms you have one house you decorate with gear and abilities. Everyone in the neighborhood can interact no problem because they are all on the same level.
Games are inherently number based so possibilities are limitless. You can still have content locked by gear but it doesn't have to make it power based. Maybe you need to get material from fire drakes to craft fire resistant gear to allow you to enter lava zone. The only thing horizontal prevents is your one shotting low level creatures. It's not that big of a deal as people make it out to be but at the same time gets rid of the level treadmill a lot of people hate.
So... the "level treadmill" is replaced by... what? It's just another treadmill, just without character advancement, either by attributes, skills/spells, or gear. You know... "numbers."
So you get that fire drake material to open up a new zone. You finish that zone and then what? A frost drake for an Ice zone? Then an iron golem for an iron zone? Still looks like a treadmill to me, without the advantage of noticeable character development.
Am I missing something here?
I mean, if players really want this, it should happen. I just can't see myself playing this game for very long, if at all.
The reason you do that is because you don't want one part of game to affect another part of the game.
There may be people that don't want to do the zone at all to get fire resistant gear. But they can still pvp in equal footing with other players.
But wouldn’t that be ‘pick your progress?’ Which would still be vertical only split up in pieces where you are able to pick the piece you like.
/Cheers, Lahnmir
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'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
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There's a place for both systems although I greatly prefer vertical progression. I do enjoy hopping back into GW2 sometimes and my ascended gear that I crafted years ago is still the best gear, but I also get bored pretty quickly; and while I can't fully attribute that to the lack of gear/leveling progression, it's a large part of it for me.
Horizontal progression does have vertical progression. The horizontal progression is baseline for the character.
If you think about it as building. Vertical progression is like a 100 floor tower. You climb the tower and decorate a room on each with gear and abilities. If you are on the 100th floor you really aren't hanging out with the person on the first. Just those on the same floor in adjacent rooms.
Horizontal progression is like a rancher. While you don't have 100 rooms you have one house you decorate with gear and abilities. Everyone in the neighborhood can interact no problem because they are all on the same level.
Games are inherently number based so possibilities are limitless. You can still have content locked by gear but it doesn't have to make it power based. Maybe you need to get material from fire drakes to craft fire resistant gear to allow you to enter lava zone. The only thing horizontal prevents is your one shotting low level creatures. It's not that big of a deal as people make it out to be but at the same time gets rid of the level treadmill a lot of people hate.
So... the "level treadmill" is replaced by... what? It's just another treadmill, just without character advancement, either by attributes, skills/spells, or gear. You know... "numbers."
So you get that fire drake material to open up a new zone. You finish that zone and then what? A frost drake for an Ice zone? Then an iron golem for an iron zone? Still looks like a treadmill to me, without the advantage of noticeable character development.
Am I missing something here?
I mean, if players really want this, it should happen. I just can't see myself playing this game for very long, if at all.
Again, that is an example. There are many ways to do it. In that why my first sentence I said there are limitless ways to do things. But to expand on that idea it is more about getting items that make a difference in gameplay. It could be wings to fight in an air realm, sled or ski in a snow realm or any numerous things that help you adapt to changing challenges.
If levels introduced more and more tactics to deal with maybe it would worth it. But level 1-50 it's the same type quest, same generic NPCs with different skins and the same power differences between NPCs and yourself. The only thing keeping players going is stacking numbers with gear or new number moving abilities. If you like that achievement repeated from 2004 sure. It's tired mechanic to me.
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I think there should be limits to magic and divine/infernal power as well. Which means that there will be limits to how greatly an item can be enchanted or blessed. But this also necessitates that an MMORPG be designed so as not to completely center around combat.
Its like the real world and going to school (when you were allowed to go to school). You were getting older ...vertical progression. BUt asyou progressed through scholl you learnednew things. While some were basic,...reading writing and math their advancement was mostly vertical. Bt getting to learn a new language, physics, cheistry, geometry, etc I wouold classify as horizontal. You were taking the BASICS you learned and were advancing and were branching those off into new skills. Same could be said (but not as easily tracked) as 'learning' social queues and HOW to 'live' in society. Those lessons have certainly been tested the past few months.
Aways funny how people pickand choose whatthey want to rail about in regards to MMOs and games ingneral. Used tobe the gear grind, then forever it as the inability or balance PvP, nowitsmostly there are no new MMOMs or any worth getting hyped about these discussions sort of died out.
End of the day its about money and what they can do that is cost effective. With what has happened this year it will be interesting to see if the gaming world suffers from the ecnomic destruction reaped on the globe. Short term i think they have benefited from it since peple have been bored and probably spent more money than they can afford to on games. But once the free ride is over and they have to go back to work to get a check and those jobs aret there that will be interesting.
And the new characters are better than higher level characters bit? Fucking priceless. It would take the worst player in the history of ESO to not come up with a better build with 200-400 skill points available vs the 6 or 7 you have at level 10.
LMAO.
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Or all of that coudhave ben scrapped with the CP system. Again not sure. But I remember when they redid everything and got rid of 'level' gates and let you go and start on any map they 'balanced' new characters out at max level versus open world enemies that in most cases made them stronger than maxed out characters in a lot of ways.
I havent sarted a new toon in awhile but even if I did it would still have 600 or so CP tospend, I supose without spending them it could be 'trsted' to see if it were accurate.
But losing the tress for the forest here. ESO has BOTH types of progression (as limited as they are)
Yes they do get an extra buff from level 1 to level 33. It's a hidden buff but I was on the PTR before they hid the numbers, You get 100% of the buff at level 1 and it diminished by 3% per level until it totally falls off at level 34. That is in addition to the buff everyone under CP 160 gets which is also done on a diminishing basis but in that case from level 1 to level 50 CP 160.
That is just the math behind the scaling and it's needed to give low level players without any good active or passive skills a chance.
But in no way shape or form are they mitigating more than anyone who knows how to build their character using the better active and passive skills available to them but nt to the low level character.
There are also twinked low level players same as in WOW and many other games because the CP system applies to all characters in an account. If your main is CP 800 (or whatever the max usable is right now) you can create a level 1 alt and use 800 CP on that level 1 to twink the crap out of it. Now those twinks at low levels can in fact be better than a higher level character on a new account that has no CP passives to play with. It's no different in effect from WOW low level characters decked out in heirloom gear.
But that is the only case where a low level can actually be better than a higher level.
If you compare twink to twink the higher level one wins hands down and if you're comparing new account with no CP to new account with no CP the same applies.
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NEW skills are HORIZONTAL. Leveling them up once you learn them is VERTICAL. Simple question are you 'stronger' before or after you learn them?
People can play the semantics game all they want. Many games have horizontal progression, but even the ones that do do so in a lazy way. ESO included. But they offer more skills than any other game I can think of. As in a single toon can learn X amount of skills available. EVE might be close but I havent played that game in forever so not sure what you can and cant learn there now.
Getting back to my original post in this thread that type of horizontal game play that some call progression is very similar to just rolling a different class in games that have everything class locked. You level a Warlock in WOW and then you put that down and level a Mage... you just went horizontal with your game play but not your progression. The only difference in ESO is that you can do it by rolling a new class OR by just picking up a new skill line to level that isn't class specific.
The word progression to me implies vertical whether it's done by by small bits or large amounts. If you want to say that ESO has horizontal game play elements I would agree but all of its progression is vertical,
You can call it semantics all you want but words matter,
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If you think about it as building. Vertical progression is like a 100 floor tower. You climb the tower and decorate a room on each with gear and abilities. If you are on the 100th floor you really aren't hanging out with the person on the first. Just those on the same floor in adjacent rooms.
Horizontal progression is like a rancher. While you don't have 100 rooms you have one house you decorate with gear and abilities. Everyone in the neighborhood can interact no problem because they are all on the same level.
Games are inherently number based so possibilities are limitless. You can still have content locked by gear but it doesn't have to make it power based. Maybe you need to get material from fire drakes to craft fire resistant gear to allow you to enter lava zone. The only thing horizontal prevents is your one shotting low level creatures. It's not that big of a deal as people make it out to be but at the same time gets rid of the level treadmill a lot of people hate.
- Al
Personally the only modern MMORPG trend that annoys me is the idea that MMOs need to be designed in a way to attract people who don't actually like MMOs. Which to me makes about as much sense as someone trying to figure out a way to get vegetarians to eat at their steakhouse.- FARGIN_WAR
There may be people that don't want to do the zone at all to get fire resistant gear. But they can still pvp in equal footing with other players.
/Cheers,
Lahnmir
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
If levels introduced more and more tactics to deal with maybe it would worth it. But level 1-50 it's the same type quest, same generic NPCs with different skins and the same power differences between NPCs and yourself. The only thing keeping players going is stacking numbers with gear or new number moving abilities. If you like that achievement repeated from 2004 sure. It's tired mechanic to me.