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Its pretty much some useless thing that you run, and see if you can get more time put into it than others. Most people do it just to look at the Statistics and compare with everyone else out there.

ProgressQuest is worse and better at the same time. It does not eat up all your CPU cycles like d.net does, but it has no purpose what so ever.

http://www.progressquest.com

Just as addictive, but fully automated.

So Diablo II has finally come around! I've been playing ProgressQuest for several months now, mostly because you don't have to deal with all the tedious "click-and-kill" that Diablo (and EverQuest, and DAoC, etc) saddle you with. Looks like those guys over at Blizzard have finally learned what Grumdrig has known for a while -- people just want to see their character grow!

nobody but my double wookie hunter strangler
DalerMehndi

thus freeing the user from the tedium of playing with ... er ... for ... himself

Why bother playing at all? I gave up playing mud for Progress Quest

Nobody can beat my level 66 battle finch!

thus freeing the user from the tedium of playing with ... er ... for ... himself

Why bother playing at all? I gave up playing mud for Progress Quest

Nobody can beat my level 66 battle finch!

... which, among other things, has embedded a Javascript engine within Diablo II to facilitate the creation of AI "bots" which can play the game on their own, "thus freeing the user from the tedium of playing with ... er ... for ... himself," he says."

All you need is... Progress Quest

Screw nethack. Get progress quest instead, its soo much more efficient... Well it is until you find the secret 3d mode when your character reaches level 125... or so...

Of course the only reason I don't reboot is because I am running ProgressQuest all the time and I don't want to lose my place. My charater, Captain Dingleberry is currently ranked 196 out of 39600 players. I was pissed when that guy rebooted my PC and I come back 2 days later to discover that ProgressQuest had been shut down.

Of course the only reason I don't reboot is because I am running ProgressQuest all the time and I don't want to lose my place. My charater, Captain Dingleberry is currently ranked 196 out of 39600 players. I was pissed when that guy rebooted my PC and I come back 2 days later to discover that ProgressQuest had been shut down.

ProgressQuest

Quoth the Info page:

Progress Quest follows reverently in the footsteps of recent smash hit online worlds, but is careful to streamline the more tedious aspects of those offerings. Players will still have the satisfaction of building their character from a ninety-pound level 1 teenager, to an incredibly puissant, magically imbued warrior, well able to snuff out the lives of a barnload of bugbears without need of so much as a lunch break. Yet, gone are the tedious micromanagement and other frustrations common to that older generation of RPG's.

Clearly you don't have to pay to get a leveled character here. All you do is wait, while dedicated 1% of your CPU resources to the PQ Daemon.

That's what we call Progress Quest. To win, one must never play.

Bah, go one better. Play ProgressQuest! No time spent training the computer, it already knows!! Save hours each day!!! (Re)learn the basics, like personal hygiene!!!! Master the appropriate use of punctuation!!!!!

OK, I'm done now.

SablKnight

Amd you thought Progress Quest was just a *joke*...

try Progress Quest!

When will Wine support Progress Quest? It is truly the best RPG ever made!

Why do you want a game that plays for you to watch when you can be playing and competing on your own level?

Two words: potty break.

Two more: Progress Quest.

.. play progress quest instead.

Most offline RPGs don't require you to waste time doing simple repetitive tasks before you get to do anything fun. Some do, and I generally don't play any of those games. Final Fantasy is fun immediately. Everquest and it's kind just want to taunt you with the fact that you are not and never will be able to even distract other players in combat, NOT because they are more skilled, NOT because they are smarter than you, but because they have a magic, game defined number that you can only get by playing ProgressQuest.

And yes, it does mean it is a bad game. The game encourages people to do mindless repetive tasks. People waste time doing these tasks, instead of doing something productive or creative, or even just playing a game that would improve their reflexes or intelligence instead. Thus, the world is an inferior place because of EverQuest, and that makes it a bad game.

But really, I only scream at companies making games like this out of love. I think massively multiplayer, persistent games have incredible potential. Yes, they will always have massive time commitments (will they always intentionally inflate their commitments with bizzarre relics from the gaming past as "experience points"?), but they have the potential to create entire societies purely for entertainment. MMOGs should be the genre of gaming showing the most innovation, so it hurts me so damn much to see them showing THE LEAST. Why is it we see nothing but endless improvements on a very antisocial game about killing monster after monster, selling what you find killing them, buying weapons, and killing more monsters?

So I'm really, really excited about any MM game coming down the pike that will show everyone, once and for all, that YES, IT'S POSSIBLE TO MAKE AN ONLINE GAME ABOUT MORE THAN KILLING LOTS OF STUFF TO GAIN LEVELS TO KILL MORE STUFF! Holy crap, it may even be possible to make a massively multiplayer online game where violence never happens!

And maybe, maybe, by appealing to a different demographic, these companies will learn that time commitments are a neccessary evil, not a feature.

The other cool part is if I forget to switch back to the game, my character just keeps pluggin' away, on some sort of strange magickal "autopilot", which liberates me from having to pay attention that often.

Also, it's all online, and you can compete against up to 65,536 other players simultaneously. Can't beat that! Can you? Can you?!?

Bah, both of those are NOTHING compared to my dream. I actually had a dream of Progressquest of all things! I know, there is nothing to dream about! God damn stupid progressbars!

I'm addicted to progressquest.
I have to play it 24/7.I play it when I'm not even at my computer.I play it while I sleep.
I need help.

me > all of you suckers! muhahahahaha

my char

HA! My Enchanted Motorcycle Runeloremaster OWNS YOU!!! My character Bah to all!

Of course, I haven't had it running for about 5 days... so I've lost about 700 places in the standings.. Bleh. :P

Progress Quest IS the future of MMORPGs -- and it's here now.

Seriously, I've been playing this thing for weeks now. Every waking moment -- I'm at the point where I even feel like I play it in my sleep.

And here it is:

Progress Quest

Its not too addictive and it doesn't use up too much time.

You know, I would help out with all this distributed computing stuff, but my spare CPU cycles are all taken up running multiple instances of Progress Quest.

The Next genereation of RPG is already at hand Progressquest! A great deal easier to play and 10 times more fun!

I'd say it's quite a bit more addictive than RTCW at least, although Progress Quest has them both beat hands down when it comes to graphics and gameplay.

Plus, it's multiplayer.

A don't miss for the /. community.

The future of MPORPGs is here.

Progress Quest

-ElvisGrbac