05-04-2004, 03:43 PM
Hi,
Yeah, I've seen that post. Makes me wonder if a conversation along these lines took place a few months ago:
Dev1, "I've got this idea for a totally obnoxious and useless forced rest system. While you play, your avatar gets tired and while you're offline it rests. For some reason that I'll never explain, that will influence not your strength and agility, but the XP you get from killing mobs."
Dev2, "That sucks, no one will put up with it. Everybody 'will moan to high heaven."
Dev1, "Oh yes, they will. First we'll implement it a lot worse requiring all the rest to be in one eight hour period. And we'll have bugs so that that eight hours can be up to a couple of days real time. People will hate that. Then we can back off to what I really wanted in the first place and everyone will be so relieved they'll love it."
Dev2, "Oh. You're so smart. Want to help me introduce forced PvP?"
Then again, I might be overestimating the developer's cleverness :)
--Pete
Yeah, I've seen that post. Makes me wonder if a conversation along these lines took place a few months ago:
Dev1, "I've got this idea for a totally obnoxious and useless forced rest system. While you play, your avatar gets tired and while you're offline it rests. For some reason that I'll never explain, that will influence not your strength and agility, but the XP you get from killing mobs."
Dev2, "That sucks, no one will put up with it. Everybody 'will moan to high heaven."
Dev1, "Oh yes, they will. First we'll implement it a lot worse requiring all the rest to be in one eight hour period. And we'll have bugs so that that eight hours can be up to a couple of days real time. People will hate that. Then we can back off to what I really wanted in the first place and everyone will be so relieved they'll love it."
Dev2, "Oh. You're so smart. Want to help me introduce forced PvP?"
Then again, I might be overestimating the developer's cleverness :)
--Pete
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