Cool. Might be fun for a month or so.
Tera
Game » consists of 5 releases. Released Jan 25, 2011
TERA: The Exiled Realm of Arborea is a free-to-play, action-style MMORPG, developed by Bluehole Studios in South Korea using Unreal Engine 3. It was localized for English audiences by En Masse Entertainment of Seattle.
Tera E3 Trailer
No one outside of the RP servers is going to use this political system at all.
EDIT: Finished the video and they didn't really show me any action. I just saw some dudes running around, a couple explosions and a dude stabbing the camera.
@RLLink: looks interesting, but i run with the definition of an MMO as: A large world where most stuff takes place in, but can have a few little instances, and can have lots of players online at the same time. By that definition, I have yet to find an action MMO, when I do find one I will love it. But I don't see that day coming any time soon.
I actually remember this kind of system from Aika online, but Aika was more like entering this giant war zone between clans to get into power, and then the stuff happens after that(Raising/dropping prices, etc.)
This may or may not be a better way to handle that, I'll just wait until it comes out.
So this just means whoever has the most friends will be in charge and will never lose it. Good job fucking up a game before its even out.
@The_Laughing_Man said:
So this just means whoever has the most friends will be in charge and will never lose it. Good job fucking up a game before its even out.
No, because if they do something retarded and piss off the whole server then they will get kicked out. Who cares if its the same person as long as they are doing good.
Sooner or later someone will just have enough following and it will end badly. Unless they can limit how long you can stay in office. That could balance it out.@The_Laughing_Man said:
So this just means whoever has the most friends will be in charge and will never lose it. Good job fucking up a game before its even out.No, because if they do something retarded and piss off the whole server then they will get kicked out. Who cares if its the same person as long as they are doing good.
@The_Laughing_Man said:
@Jeffsekai said:Sooner or later someone will just have enough following and it will end badly. Unless they can limit how long you can stay in office. That could balance it out.@The_Laughing_Man said:
So this just means whoever has the most friends will be in charge and will never lose it. Good job fucking up a game before its even out.No, because if they do something retarded and piss off the whole server then they will get kicked out. Who cares if its the same person as long as they are doing good.
Have you ever played an MMO? No one ever becomes friends with every single person on the server or even close to 10%. They might be friends with the 20 people that post on the realm forums but that's it.
Ive played MMOs where guilds have 100s of people@The_Laughing_Man said:
@Jeffsekai said:Sooner or later someone will just have enough following and it will end badly. Unless they can limit how long you can stay in office. That could balance it out.@The_Laughing_Man said:
So this just means whoever has the most friends will be in charge and will never lose it. Good job fucking up a game before its even out.No, because if they do something retarded and piss off the whole server then they will get kicked out. Who cares if its the same person as long as they are doing good.
Have you ever played an MMO? No one ever becomes friends with every single person on the server or even close to 10%. They might be friends with the 20 people that post on the realm forums but that's it.
@JoeH said:
But my issue is what if they just stay in power and no one else has a fair chance to try to get that spot?@The_Laughing_Man: I think having a system where someone can take over a province by have a bunch of guild mates support them is bloody brilliant. So much more interesting than a normal MMO where everything is balanced to hell.
seems pretty cool, but the politics system doesn't do much for me... but that is just because I am not a fan of politics too much.
I hate political systems in MMOs. They inevitably turn into popularity contests and/or people finding out how to game the system. It just feels like they're adding a feature that doesn't need to exist and in fact seems like it'll do more harm than good. It's like they're forcing the whole 'building a community' aspect of the game onto the players.
There's a reason I don't talk to most of the players I see in MMOs. It's because I don't like most of the players. I don't want anyone in that group of people having any sort of power over my character or my gaming experience just because they're more popular than the next guy i.e. they spam trade chat all day. Just leave me the fuck alone.
Give me a server without this political bullshit please. If the game is that good, it should be able to stand on it's own without it.
@Jeffsekai said:
I really wish this was free like GW2, looks so much better.
Plastic/generic looking fantasy of Tera vs. hand painted and painstakingly crafted art by some of the best artists in the gaming industry to-date (Daniel Dociu, Kekai Kotaki, Richard Anderson to name a few) of Guild Wars 2?
Not even a competition. :)
They would need to have a in-depth player commerce system to go with the political one for this to work well. If regular player's don't have an impact on a province besides voting for it's leader. No one would care about the political system besides the people who want to be rulers.
This game has BAMs in it. … Really.
I actually think the political system looks cool, so long as there is content available for the people in jail. If they just can't use their characters for a while, that's a horrible idea, but if there are prison 'zones' that you can quest through in order to get out (and learn some new skills along the way), then that could be awesome.
Don't you know that F2P games usually have a higher player base and make more money? Plus, the next big MMO will be Guild Wars 2.Another MMO destined to get a pop the first year then fall into the F2P section where nobody plays it.
Wake me up when a good MMO releases, AKA the next blizzard MMO.
although the game was kind of bad and i never got very into it, i thought aika online's political system was really cool in practice.
your realm leader would be able to send messages to everybody interested in order to coordinate attacks on artifacts that grant realm-wide passive bonuses but are currently owned and being defended by another realm, and such.
if this system has a similar level of power, and ends up being as involved as it appears to be, it could be really cool. TERA is definitely shaping up to be the mmo i play between aion and gw2
@Styl3s said:F2P is the only kind of MMO I play...Don't you know that F2P games usually have a higher player base and make more money? Plus, the next big MMO will be Guild Wars 2.Another MMO destined to get a pop the first year then fall into the F2P section where nobody plays it.
Wake me up when a good MMO releases, AKA the next blizzard MMO.
I am at once both relieved and disappointed.
No one outside of the RP servers is going to use this political system at all.I really liked it in RFO, and it had nothing at all to do with roleplaying. It can't really be abused since if it does, people will just kick out whoever's in charge and elect who they feel is better.
The funnest aspect was how they were able to make players wanted (which I believe is in Tera as well), where the leader can basically put a bounty on someone's head and everyone can attack them openly. It's probably the most fluid and organic anti-griefer/jerk system I've ever seen in an mmo. And again, if the leader abused it, he simply wouldn't be leader ever again.
@Troncek said:You don't know that, both games aren't out yet. But as for animation wise Tera > GW2. I've never understood the hype behind Guild Wars 2, I mean it looks cool but I don't know the animations in GW 2 seem off somehow, especially walking. And I can't stand silly stuff like that. I would love to see what this game turns out to be, definitely gonna try it out day 1. (same for GW 2)True story.GW2 > Tera
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