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The Secret Life Of MMOG Characters
An article at Gamasutra pines for MMOG characters to have their own lives. Specifically, the author wishes that over a very long period of time xp would accrue for parked characters. From the article: "Here's what I'd like to see: instead of Vanille Ice and all the millions of unused characters sitting on their collective tookuses, why not imagine that each day they venture forth and do some low-level crime fighting (orc slaying, etc.) just to, you know, 'stay in shape'. Now this workout wouldn't actually happen in any way visible to players logged on, but these characters would earn nominal amounts of experience each day. And in three months time, presto, a new level."
It'd be funnier if they *didn't* work out, and grew a bit broader around the midsection as a result.
What would be nice is if MMORPG gamers had their own lives.
Just what I want to see when I login: When I pop into the zone, I'm in my house... but I'm not alone. There's a level 93 quadruple-classed Ninja/Executioner/Assassin/Brawler named "Chok Norissss" giving me a red-assed beatdown! As I lay there bleeding to death, Chok explains himself... Apparently, while I was logged out for a few days, my toon decided that he would go pork Chok's in-game life partner, repeatedly...
Long Live Sig Vicious.
Blasphemy! What respectable WoW citizen would do such a thing?
The ones who cycle thier different characters so they're never playing a character who isn't rested.
*looks innocently around*
Whoever that kind of person may be.
Online I'm a busty, easy, cleric maiden giving freely of her body to any adventurer she comes across. Offline I live in my dad's basement on welfare and am posting this to Slashdot. It's funny because it's true!
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If your characters actually collected "grass," this would quickly become the most popular game in the WORLD.
Just because you sold your soul to the devil that needn't make you a teetotaler. --The Devil and Daniel Webster
I'm sure it would be. Instead of playing WoW for what feels like about four hours and then looking at the clock and realizing 16 hours actually went by, it would work the other way around.
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I ran it in Wine on Linux, and got the same framerate as Windows users, and I didn't even have to pay for Cedega! Progress Quest rocks, because it gets rids of that unnecessary tedium when playing a low (or even high) level character in an MMORPG (the single-player mode is equally exciting, as well). I am addicted and have this game running for days on end!
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