http://www.mmorpg.com/showFeature.cfm/feature/8358/Shards-Shards-Giving-Power-to-the-Player.html
This looks like a dream come true
Are there any screenshots of it?
Sounds promising.
Live demo will be shown at PAX
Sounds promising, but I'll keep my expectations grounded. Unless you can control every detail of individual shards (DM client essentially) it will fall far short of expectations. But it is something I'll keep an eye on for the future.
If you can basically run your own shard of the game without oversight/restrictions of the game developers it might work. If not, meh.
Good news, but I'm a bit skeptical. I wonder if they'll allow you to moderate your "shards"... such as banning players and the sort. Even if does allow the use of a toolset and DMing, then there'll be the matter of whether the gameplay's actually good and conducive to RP...
Quote from: ShadowCharlatan;379864Just want to register my extreme scepticism about this and also how I look forward to my brain flooding with ecstasies of schadenfreud if/when this turns out to be a disappointment like every other "next NWN".
I can remember when NWN2 was supposed to be the next NWN.
FYI when EFU was being developed people thought we were crazy because everyone was getting ready for NWN to die off as NWN 2 was about to be released.
It did say you could modify the game's code and write your own ruleset which sounds promising.
Wild Card, way to keep your eyes on the future of multiplayer RPGs.
However, I'm also extremely skeptical. Much of my reasoning echoes what is said above. Something I'll add is that a game with thousands or millions of subscribers is unlikely to maintain the quality standards of a small and dedicated following on a server of hundreds. The quality of the DMs (including programmers and level designers) and players on EFU is what really makes it shine. If you took the EFU DM and player base and threw it into a crow of thousands who gave less of a fuck, you'd lose the density of quality. Mark me elitist ;)
What I would love to see (or do) is a Kickstarter to buy the source code of NWN and make it GPL (or some other open-source license). Huge performance improvements could be made, basic programming data structures could be added to NWScript (fucking, where are my arrays?), mechanics changes could be easily implemented, upgrades to graphics, bug fixes for new Operating Systems, you name it.
Some more interviews from other sites with the developers
http://stratics.com/interviews/shards-online-qa-with-citadel-studios/
http://www.polygon.com/2014/3/29/5559608/shards-citadel-studios
http://shoost.co/2014/03/14/what-is-shards-online-an-interview-with-ceo-derek-brinkmann/
Looks pretty darn promising. As soon as forums get set up over there I reccomend we establish a presence so that hopefully we will be able to have a say in how it develops having lots of experience as a community of being a player run shard.
Quote from: Siren;379906Good news, but I'm a bit skeptical. I wonder if they'll allow you to moderate your "shards"... such as banning players and the sort. Even if does allow the use of a toolset and DMing, then there'll be the matter of whether the gameplay's actually good and conducive to RP...
Yes, got this answer from a developer himself yesterday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QshQ-_pKq0w PAX East highlights; glad they mentioned Neverwinter shows that they were definitely inspired by it
Would EFU ever consider moving to a new platform under the right circumstances? I know it seems like a waste given the enormous number of man hours put into scripting and development to run on nwn, but the engine certainly has its problems and continues to show more of its age every year.
As for "the next nwn" I won't hold my breath until I see it. Ultimately what nwn did was awesome for the consumer and not very profitable for the investors. Such price models are mostly extinct.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1468280928/shards-online-a-customizable-sandbox-mmorpg
Official Kickstarter Campaign up with screenshots and a shit ton of info. Would definitely check it out and consider supporting this since it has a lot of potential
This actually looks like it could be quite good, if it lives up to the spirit of the video.
I think its the NWN community best hope at the moment. $50 to get acess to the beta though I think the early modder program needs a bit more. Would be good if one of EFU's skilled builders decided to blaze the trail *hint hint*
So it's a revamped Ultima Online. I should had guessed by the name.
I would give up ideas of nwn community, as such freedom as they explain and what nwn folk would hope to, isn't about to happen. What we speak of is something that is held on servers not on any shard owners command. It is still mmo, which does not come together well with something like nwn has, with free content and server control, scripts and function access to the actual engine - I would not really give any expectations for such to happen as it simply isn't viable business in these days. This game also is not such, and no, it doesn't compare.
I disagree; with what I am reading it has a high degree of customization and even says you will be able to use their scripting engine not to mention invent whole custom rulesets. Furthermore with the kickstarter depending on what level you opt you may have some very real say when it comes to how this game develops. I would at least recommend donating enough so you get acess to the backer forums which in turn will give you some input.
NWN community still exists...
But will Shards have kinky kingdom? Ugh...it probably will.
http://www.twitch.tv/shardsonline/c/4256536
First live stream of the pre alpha; long loading times sadly but hopefully someone will put it on youtube sooner or later.
If you know anything about game development, they already got business plan and a huge project plan put together. That is what they are presenting to kickstarter backers as you see.
They will not be remaking it. Not saying there's anything wrong with the game, but I would not put false hope on anything that would be like old style persistent PW and nwn style control. It simply is not possible with the system they are showing.
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/1082/view/news/read/31188/Shards-Playable-Build-to-be-Released-to-Backers-Soon.html
Definitely an opportunity to take advantage of if you want an early peek for sure
This game looks like Runescape. Yes, I went there.
Honestly, this looks terrible. In my opinion.
Wild Card, your last eleven posts can be found in this thread promoting this game. Have you been paid to do it?
You are not playing here on EFU and you are not here trying to get a few friends to check out something new and cool -- you are aggressively trying to smack an unfinished game at everyone's attention. Knock off the propaganda.
how much are they paying you/where do i send my resume
My apologies to the EFU community for overstepping my bounds on this issue.
i remember being so afraid of nwn 2 coming out and you know the transition etc so scared and i had hoped oh hope so bad that it would be crap... and it was...and we stayed on nwn hurray