10-31-2006, 01:47 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-31-2006, 01:54 PM by Brother Laz.)
A couple of lessons I have learned from my mod:
<span style="color:#CCBBBB">1/ People equate 'hard' with 'bad', but don't see anything wrong with 'easy'. In fact, easy is apparently good in a mod because it allows you to 'play the game instead of fight the game'. No, I don't get it either.
<span style="color:#CCBBBB">2/ It is easy to implement rewards that are just a little bit better than your good intentions of balance would require. Then in order to give players more choice, you add some more like them. And before you know it, things spiral out of control and you end up with something like the 'Unity' runeword in Median 2008.
<span style="color:#CCBBBB">3/ People don't want random items, they want one specific item or one specific modifier to farm for. They want to know that they should look for life steal items, or for a Vampire Gaze, or that runewords are the best. Rares are generally seen as 'stupid'.
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LoD may not have been the greatest step forward in terms of balance, but it is exactly what the players want.
<span style="color:#CCBBBB">1/ People equate 'hard' with 'bad', but don't see anything wrong with 'easy'. In fact, easy is apparently good in a mod because it allows you to 'play the game instead of fight the game'. No, I don't get it either.
<span style="color:#CCBBBB">2/ It is easy to implement rewards that are just a little bit better than your good intentions of balance would require. Then in order to give players more choice, you add some more like them. And before you know it, things spiral out of control and you end up with something like the 'Unity' runeword in Median 2008.
<span style="color:#CCBBBB">3/ People don't want random items, they want one specific item or one specific modifier to farm for. They want to know that they should look for life steal items, or for a Vampire Gaze, or that runewords are the best. Rares are generally seen as 'stupid'.
......
LoD may not have been the greatest step forward in terms of balance, but it is exactly what the players want.
Nothing is impossible if you believe in it enough.
Median 2008 mod for Diablo II
<span style="color:gray">New skills, new AIs, new items, new challenges...
06.dec.2006: Median 2008 1.44
Median 2008 mod for Diablo II
<span style="color:gray">New skills, new AIs, new items, new challenges...
06.dec.2006: Median 2008 1.44