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Free 3D MMORPG Planeshift Ported To Mac OS X
superfebs writes "While Planeshift, the free (yes, as in Freedom, who cares otherwise) 3D MMORPG, is moving towards the 0.3 version, which will provide combat (read: flows of fresh blood), the current release has been ported to Mac OS X. Now more people can enjoy going around in a fantasy world chatting with others and collecting crystals. Oh, beta testers are needed."
Exactly, Planeshift is currently in the "tech demo" stage. It's not even a beta, people! The current "Planeshift community" is made up of people who have made some friends around the game, and enjoy hanging out and flaming each other, and having nonexistant wars with nonexistant guilds.
Your avatar should get tired and have to sleep, and also periodically eat or else see your stats go down. If you don't eat for long enough, you die. Also I hope the game world has temperature, and the heat or cold effects your performance as well. Additionally your character should have to go to the bathroom at least once a day. Every now and then sickness should set in. Any crystals you collect should be subject to a tax. And your hair should grow and you must clip your fingernails periodically. And if you don't shower you stink, and your charisma stat goes down -1 every day. Eventually your character can get cancer and die. Plus you have to maintain good dental hygene or your teeth fall out and then ou can't speak correctly. And you can have sex and then babies that you have to dote over and not do any adventuring or crystal-collecting until they are old enough to stay at home alone, or you have to hire a babysitter. And cats that piss on your clothing that merchants won't buy because its so smelly. And bouts of gas along with some serious farting. And once a month female characters won't be controlled and their stats are re-rolled once every 30 seconds. And I want to see perma-death, meaning that once you die the game uninstalls itself. And you can get drunk and have a hangover. And lightsabers.
Anyway, those are just some of the things I think you should put into your game.
And the Windows players?
- All their armor is beige, except for three mercenary blacksmiths who forged it to look like Alien/Doom/Sailor Moon armor.
- Their armor works against every convcievable weapon and can be worn even by the poorest of warriors but . . .
- It has a tendency to turn blue at inopportune moments, such as when trying to hide, or fighting a dragon, or standing in the middle of a field doing nothing in particular and . . .
- The really good warriors who wear it spend little time actually fighting, rather they end up endlessly repairing holes that the armor's designers knew about months ago but refused to fix until 40% of the wearers were dead.
I don't think you deserved a troll though. I thought it was funny, and I am a Mac die-hard (even through the Mac's own beige days).Do not touch -Willie