Stop the cloud cycle? Remove the weather effects? These kind of numb-minded proposals infuriate me. Let's see what else can I remember - oh yeah: Remove all doors(!), Make night look like day (Oh, Turbine actually listened to the idiots and implemented that one), Give wands a Melee D modifier (sigh)...Remove this spell research, it's too hard...on and on ad infinitum.
You know, there are these really neat games that you can run on an old dusty 486 system, called MUD's...I think that is exactly what you are asking for.
I LOVED the old nighttime in Dereth when it was BLACK - and even better, back when you couldn't see monsters on radar - that was incrdibly exciting!
I miss the rain! Where is the rain? Oh yeah, people complained that it caused lag...have to cater to anyone who whines.
Removing all of the original concepts and design features of the game is just part of the long and well-established dumbing down process. Sorry if I sound bitter. All of these changes have changed the player base, driven out 99% of the old gaurd of hardcore, old school players, and replaced the ranks with fresh-faced youths who are very vocal in their ignorance. You know, the under-20 PK types who want instant gratification, can't produce a readable sentence, and have not seen any part of Dereth outside the 3 or 4 max-XP dungeons, the Marketplace, and the PK Arena.
OK I feel better now. Until I log in again.
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Chazcon - Aluvian swordsman
You say, "FOR THE VITAE!"
Ru tells you, "CHAZ!"
Simply Red tells you, "I am SO not recovering your body!"
-- Good times.
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