MMO bros, are you ready for the next Apogea test soon?

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There's gathering up for an event and then there's the devs microdosing estrogen gas throught your power supply that spreads across your entire room through the computer vents that turns you into a limp wristed """""feminine""""" penis sucker

make it so every day there are randomized, server side, invisible factors that determine the efficiency of actions

like for example, your mining actions that gave you 10 exp on one day may only give you 8 exp on the next day, more or less ore, etc. despite being the same level, just because the server-side god of mining was in a bad mood that day

you could extend this to efficacy of healing spells, damage dealt by weapon types, or loot drop rates as well. it would be a glorious and nightmarish clown show of people trying to figure out what the determining factors are

What the jeethell are you talking about, Prandesh?

This game looks like shit

The answer is you have to abandon *everything* that inhibits or discourages ROLEPLAYING.

Can't have roleplaying in video games anymore outside of erping and chatshit because people are fun hating losers

Grim.

what is 'chatshit'?

fpbp

fpbp

Limit the player base exclusively to white people over the age of 35. Ultima Online wasn't good because it was a well designed game, it was good because the player base was mostly actual boomers and some early gen-X nerds. There weren't locust swarms of slavs and other thirdies running amok and taking over every server. Everything that has tried to copy the UO formula just runs into the same issue: Slav cartels take over everything and force everyone else to quit.

Everything that has tried to copy the UO formula just runs into the same issue: Slav cartels take over everything and force everyone else to quit.

Name two games.

Too late, see You will need to play with Teresinha, Coxinha, Bagatinha and GauchoGames if you want an old school MMORPG.

Banning Indians, Chinks, Russians, and Brazilians would be a massive step forward but I firmly believe MMOs can't fully be fixed by any means that currently exist. Even with iron-fisted moderation against gold farmers, sellers, and buyers, someone will find a way to game the system and find some crack to exploit. MMOs are fundamentally flawed.

their is ONE game that properly goes against the grain, but you're not gonna like the answer

Haven and Hearth (Russians and Finns)

Every MMO private server

youll need to ban streamers first

mmo

in 2025

>Haven and Hearth

H&H is by itself "alpha-clan steamroll everyone on the server" kind of a game

In the old days it was just Russians doing that shit. I quit 12 years ago though.

In the old days it was just Russians doing that shit.

Dunno, in my experience it was mostly polaks.

¯_(ツ)_/¯
Just another flavor of subhuman ruining online video games

Subjecting the entire system to RNG is an extreme but viable solution provided the RNG method itself is randomized, ideally on a per-item basis, which changes randomly itself after an arbitrary amount of time. So the very ground underneath the feet of these worthless fucks is unstable.

The problem will then become "what is the minimal performance of XYZ?" Then "is it consistent across classes or types?" And so on. That will slow them down. A meta will eventually emerge but it won't be as exploitable due to its unpredictability.

The question for everyone else will be: can this actually be playable and, God forbid, fun while doing all of that?

ban streamers
ban dataminers
ban discord users

You have to make a game that isnt reliant on damage numbers or killing a big boss to progress, like WoW did with the gear treadmill. Games like Runescape still survive because people just grind skills and do their own thing but can still "progress" in the game, thus eliminating the need for an "optimal" build.

ban discord users

OK but first you have to cease all censorship in the ingame chat. If I can't say nigger without my money being stolen, I'm not using your ingame chat.

Ultima Online

Any of you faggots playing outlands? Is it filled to the brim with subhumans?

Any streamer who averages at least a triple digit view count needs to be banned from streaming the game on standard servers. Every new big MMO needs to be given a dedicated streamer server where they are forced to play on if they want to stream themselves playing the game.

Great idea. Now how are you going to implement and enforce that?

Unironically by taking players choice away. Like making endgame grouping automatic. Or disabling trading. I know it sound antithetical to what MMO genre is but this objectively works for co op games, which MMOs essentially are

disabling trading

Doesn't work. They'll just sell powermining services to pilot your account for you. There is zero solution to tryhards. None. The only winning move is to not play games with them.