Hi.
I must confess due to training with my guide dog I missed the aniversary and
indeed Christmas and Halloween specials, ---- annoying I know but I have
been waiting to get a dog for over two years.
One thought that does occur to me regarding grouped specials, is maybe for
those special events give an option to solo players to join groups of npcs.
Sort of like if there is a nasty invasion, the king either recruites groups
of adventurers to go and stop it, or solo adventurers to lead groups of his
royal guard, royal mages etc against the threat.
Obviously human groups will be more flexible and probably stronger, but this
way solo players stil have the opportunity.
I've recently been playing a lot of the old Eamon text rpgs, sinse a new
convertion of the windows Eamon deluxe program (with a special vi access
mode), is just being developed. There, though the adventures themselves are
all single player, you frequently get companions to help you out in combat,
and sometimes perform other functions when specially programmed to, ----
indeed some of the tougher adventures I found myself just using the heal
spell to keep companions alive and the blast spell to damage enemies, while
they did the actual melee fighting, hence my idea for Alter.
NEcros can already have minians to help, but when group areas are already
scaled to take into account that groups of players will contain necromancers
anyway, the advantage can balance out, or so I've found in areas like the
blackwater hollows, ---- which I'm going to level up a bit before tackling,
even though I should! be the right level for it now.
I imagine hard line group players won't like this sinse they'll want special
advantages to playing in groups, --- -but for those who are! solo players I
think the bennifits could outway the harm, and obfviously a group composed
of human characters is probably going to be better, or at least much more
flexible, than a group composed of one solo player and a bunch of monsters.
When i first tried Alteraeon, I looked forward to grouping, but in practice
I found I liked it less than I thought. Being dragged around by the folo
command without time to read descriptions, and people taking far less regen
time than me and so getting annoyed.
Of course, I'm probably not the best designed character for grouping anyway,
but still if I found grouping more to my taste I probably would've trained
group abilities a bit more.
Just personal preference of course, I know some people love grouping, ----
and that's fine, indeed it's one of the strengths of alteraeon that group
and! solo players are very much supported by the game, I'm just suggesting a
miner rebalance to insure that support in future specials.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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