size of overworlds

[Crono]

Originally Posted by Crow

I wonder what it is you're trying to say

quality > quantity

[Tricxta]

Originally Posted by Crono

quality > quantity

In some cases but would you rather play an old server like the old classic with stacks of quests and activities or thor's classic(in its current state)?

[Crono]

Originally Posted by Tricxta

In some cases but would you rather play an old server like the old classic with stacks of quests and activities or thor's classic(in its current state)?

atlantis

didnt mind playing classic in 2006/2007, where there was little to do but pk/spar/events. i dont care for quests and think they're highly overrated.

[ffcmike]

Originally Posted by Tricxta

In some cases but would you rather play an old server like the old classic with stacks of quests and activities or thor's classic(in its current state)?

Graal Development is a completely different environment now to what it was then.

Back then practically anyone out of what was a larger amount of people could fairly easily contribute to a servers content by being able to work offline and use and use a lot of built-in resources without many problems, and thus there was a lot of content but most of it was fairly simple or basic.

As Graal has become more of a Development platform the capabilities have clearly moved forward but sadly they have become more exclusive to what seems to be an elite (scripters). So quite clearly updates now are generally far better than they were then but nowhere near as frequent, and perhaps for other servers less streamlined due to the larger time gaps.

If you think about it, the current and old versions of the server are largely geared towards the circumstances of the time. If you were to swap them around to the opposite time period I don't think either would be received well.

[Crono]

Originally Posted by callimuc

And one of the most loved that´s why everyone plays it. Otherwise no one would play it. Kind of goes to:

people dont play zodiac because of its horrible overworld, lol.

[callimuc]

Originally Posted by Crono

people dont play zodiac because of its horrible overworld, lol.

Ok maybe I expressed it wrong. What I wanted to say is that even through a horrible overworld, people don´t say that this server is horrible and won´t play it. So it´s not only the overworld making a server good

[Crono]

Originally Posted by callimuc

Ok maybe I expressed it wrong. What I wanted to say is that even through a horrible overworld, people don´t say that this server is horrible and won´t play it. So it´s not only the overworld making a server good

it means people don't care about levels

[Spark910]

Small is nice

Things like forest areas etc don't need to be on the main overworld nor do various islands, they can have their own maps with some sort of link to justify it such as travelling by boat to arrive at the island (a lot of worlds prefer instead to make you swim or have bridges connecting them) or perhaps going into a cave system and then arriving back outside in a forest.

This way the actual travel around the overworld itself to the various access points to these other areas is quick allowing people to easily meet up without having to run for ages.

Big worlds can be fun if there's effective transport (such as 2001 and the train) but then I think the trains themselves were infrequent and the drasine's entertainment value wore off after a while. A more-frequent train would have been a lot more enjoyable - such as every 2-3 minutes!

But then I don't want to support the big overworld argument as it takes too much time to level it all and distracts from content the players will appreciate more - such as using that time to think up and develop quests and other interactive things.

[Crow]

Originally Posted by crono

quality > quantity

<3

[callimuc]

Originally Posted by skillmaster19

Zodiac has the largest map and 50% of it isn't even finished.

And one of the most loved that´s why everyone plays it. Otherwise no one would play it. Kind of goes to:

Originally Posted by Crono

quality > quantity