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By: Gameldar

Gameldar — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:00:44 +0000

I seem to remember a mud back in the day that tied everything you said into a reputation system with the npcs. Your influence would affect if they would serve you or adjusted the cost of goods. The problem was people worked out the keywords and would run around spamming them. Players are clever and eventually work these things out.

That said it would be fun to have something like that where you don’t know the numbers! The main mud I used to play (Xyllomer) you never had any numbers associated with things just appropriate texts so you could make very loose comparisons and that was it.

By: ursiheil

ursiheil — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:48:51 +0000

Omg… implement the social karma system now!

I can already see the lfr kicks for saying naughty things.

Especially if you can get some human interaction at random to police the use of alt spellings and l33t speak. Also sarcasim… although some bear I know might be in trouble if we punished sarcasim.

Oh, and bacon, just cause.

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:33:54 +0000

Plus, you need to do more to set off DeGei, last weeks Group Quest episode was awesome and hilarious both. It’s refreshing to hear someone get so worked up and passionate about something, even if it was a topic as touchy as sexism in WoW raids and Mogu female designs. And even if he started frothing at the mouth and barking, and kept Guldan from being able to get a word in edgewise. That was good entertainment, right there.

I said set off… now I must think he’s da bomb! Or A bomb.

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:30:29 +0000

Isn’t it recursive that I write a post that you will talk about on a podcast I love to listen to?

It feels… cannibalistic.

By: Hasteur

Hasteur — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:27:02 +0000

Lol… I know I’ve offered Tsulong bacon, extra coins, orphan souls, and other forms of payment to give me that 10% drop Sha-spell-sword. After getting it last week my interest in running any of the 5.0 LFR content has gone down to near zero.

Oh and this article’s going on the community stack for GroupQuest on sunday.

By: Theodoxus

Theodoxus — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:17:07 +0000

I was one of those players convinced there were tricks to getting better drops. Kept a stack of rabbit paws (the gray items) to influence better drops on grinding kills. Didn’t really matter that it didn’t work – it SEEMED to work, and that was good enough for me.

I’m still convinced to this day that frost lotus bonus from regular flower picks in Northrend are more likely in a specific zone on a certain day. Just the other day, leveling up alchemy on my monk, I was flying around Stormpeaks and got 11 Frost Lotus in a row – but not a single one in any other zone. Way back in the day, when LK was current, I found more often than not that farming flowers in Zul’Drak would produce more FL, but if a guildie announced finding one in another zone, I’d fly over and pick… Sometimes it didn’t work though… it might (because Blizzard is an evil genius) be that they’re player specific for the day too.

Even if I’m not doing much, I’ll still fly out to Kun Lai to grab some LuckyDos off the ground. And I love me some Luck Potions.

Someone in the dev crew thinks the way we do, and has some influence on getting them in game. For that, I’m forever thankful.

By: Tesh

Tesh — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:39:10 +0000

I dunno… I think they should hire you. :)

I found this to be especially poignant: “It would give me the illusion that I could somehow influence my fate.”

We’re playing games, not watching movies. We *should* be able to influence our fate. I, for one, *really* don’t like random drops. I know, I know, it’s perfect for Skinner slot machines, but it just rubs me the wrong way.

…and I’m pretty sure they have reams of data about player behavior. I’d love to peruse their databases.