Originally Posted by TraceChaos
I like how you're directly refuting everyone by just saying they're wrong. But

I will say this ; there is inf act ONLY one red lizard. The Red Prince is the only one, at all, in the world. Because he's a unique origin character.


Would you talk about medicine with an astronaut? And you ask me if I think they are wrong..hah.
Noone here, including me have the credentials to say how hard (and how easy) is to implement a feature. So don't pull that on me trying to be the victim. Bring solutions to the real professionals, not imaginary problems.

When I say "it's easy" to implement something like this it's because I already played games and I know this is possible. And I'm not talking big games, huge studios like Blizzard, BioWare... I know it's a feature that sure, it takes time to implement, but it's not a game breaking. Thats the base for all this.

They are adding a GM mode.I mean really? That is huge...
It's not a leap from DOS1, it's a space jump foward.
If they ever mentioned they are planning this, would you come here saying:
"nah man..impossible...game doesn't work like that"
thats why they just announced its a work in progress already.

Originally Posted by TraceChaos

Again, there's already a way to have a custom character iny our friends game - join when they're creating. This doesn't even mean you have to tell your friends not to play at all without you, because save files are a thing. One game on their own or with other friends, one with you(and other friends..).

Again, thats a workaround, not a proper feature / solution.

Originally Posted by Raze

Relationships between NPCs and party members are tracked, and dialogue / quest choices and character development can influence each other. Having one new character drop in and make arbitrary choices and actions results in non-trivial consequences for the development of the character that was replaced (what happens they were not present for a key part of their personal quest, etc?)


I get your point Raze, so...what happens to our companions we don't use in the party?
We currently have...4?

Red Lizard /Lohse /Sebbile /Ifan

And you...Wich mean at some point of the game...or most point... of the game you are not bringing one.
Wich is exactly what you are saying...

What happens to the party if Lohse doesn't enter in the elf cavern? Think about it.


Nothing.
But also, nothing bad happens. It's just a situation.

You are worried about npc character development in the campaing when you could have the most rich possible character (a real person) playing? I rather have someone over an scripted NPC. It's much more fun, engaging and rich.

Originally Posted by Raze

equipment; there are also skills, tags and attribute/ability/talent point distributions to consider) or exploits of bringing unlimited gold and potions, etc, into a game.


The game tracks your progress. Your character development, I think you all can agree with me on that?
Wich means if you join a lvl 5 host when you are a lvl 10, it just brings you to the point when you were lvl 5...
Is it bad? Well, you could respec your char then. All the points to a lvl 5 char.
Gear? Tune it down, like the penalty system wich is in the game already.
Is it bad? Go naked in the game, you can buy some gear in order to survive at specific vendors
Is still bad? You are given a gear that scales with level, can't be tradable, when you join the game.

Theres a lot of possibilitys when it comes to this. Bring new ideas.