Cripey wrote on Feb 24^th, 2020 at 5:35pm:

Self heal penalties in reaper does nothing good to the game but hurt few classes that are already not even the "top tier".

Cripey wrote on Feb 24^th, 2020 at 5:35pm:


I know how to self heal, the issue is taking it to the next level, you know to where it is actually useful in Reaper above R3.  Requires you sock puppets to drag my sorry worthless fucking cleric for anything other than healing through a couple hundred quests earning RXP and more importantly the appropriate gear on an alt.  All the while listening to the sorry ass Warlock with 564 HP bitching he can't stay alive and the Troll wannabe screaming Healz I need more Healz.   Con still isn't a f'ing dump stat for either of you a'hole.   
Real Fun.   Let me stick a finger in my left eye too.   

Rose-tinted Goggles wrote on Feb 27^th, 2020 at 11:14am:

To be fair, Pathfinder crippled itself with non-consensual PvP early on. Nobody (except elitist pricks) wants to play a game where elitist pricks can gank noobs who can't escape, and GW's answer was "well, stay in town". They crashed and burned because they were insufferable ass holes, not because a small indie MMORPG is a bad idea.

The stellar performance of the second OwlCat game on Kickstarter ( https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/owlcatgames/pathfinder-wrath-of-the-righteo... ) proves there is still demand for games requiring longer attention span than Candy Crush, and that they can be crowd funded. They're sitting on $1.3m with nearly 2 weeks still to go.

A player made game could be great, but SSG would be crazy to release anything to players, and fans would be crazy to invest significant work in a project that would be a prime target for a copyright take down.

I'm not saying a player made game is a bad idea, just that basing it on reverse engineering DDO is too risky. A new game based on OGL rules using an off the shelf engine like Godot or Unreal would stand a much better chance of success. Those threads used to pop up on the mother boards periodically and get flamed out by fanbois afraid of losing their captive playmates to a game where they can't give Cordo a rimjob to secure preferential treatment.

I think it would be a popular thread if you started a thought experiment about a player made game. It might even help some future organizer trying to put such a project together.

Rose-tinted Goggles wrote on Feb 27^th, 2020 at 11:14am:

We dont need all of it, we just need to nuke the fucking power creep from orbit.

+22 stat shit is retarded, but turdbin is never going to solve it.

Rose-tinted Goggles wrote on Feb 27^th, 2020 at 5:26pm:


I agree and since there's no rumor ( beyond the normal ones ) of DDO impending death, I can safely assume that DDO 2.0 will not happen.

After all I was in the middle of the Iron Crown Enterprise axing just before the release of the Lord of the Rings movies so that Tolkien Enterprise ( aka Middle Earth Enterprise, aka Saul Zaentz [ which by the way has no tie with the Tolkien Familly and JRRT Estate ] ) could cut the license in small chunks [ ICE basically had a very open license... the only thing they couldn't do was computer games for all the rest it was open bar ] that brought back more money.
( and especially since ICE had also cut a deal with Christopher Tolkien so they could use more than just The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. )