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If SL were an RPG...

Eggy Lippmann
Wiktator
Join date: 1 May 2003
Posts: 7,939
12-30-2005 13:15
What would be the classes? Do you think it's balanced?
Is there something in SL that is too powerful and needs to be "nerfed"?
Torley Linden
Enlightenment!
Join date: 15 Sep 2004
Posts: 16,530
12-30-2005 13:17
Eggy, we've already well-established what a LAST BOSS you are. (Remember that time on Stage 4?)
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Obic Malaprop
Registered User
Join date: 19 Sep 2005
Posts: 122
12-30-2005 13:21
OMG Furries aew SOOO overpowered. I mean I have a goth/clubber at lvl 37 with a particle effects +7 and this lvl 29 furry one shotted me.

I swear is ll doesn't fix this right now I'm leaving, and my whole guild will leave too.....
Maylin Murakami
MeatMogul
Join date: 24 Sep 2005
Posts: 179
12-30-2005 13:21
King dwellnor gets infinite hp :p
Eggy Lippmann
Wiktator
Join date: 1 May 2003
Posts: 7,939
12-30-2005 13:21
From: Torley Torgeson
Eggy, we've already well-established what a LAST BOSS you are. (Remember that time on Stage 4?)

Torley, I'm afraid that since then LL has added so many patches to the game I've become quite inoffensive :)
Taco Rubio
also quite creepy
Join date: 15 Feb 2004
Posts: 3,349
12-30-2005 13:27
prolly a 7.

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Logan Bauer
Inept Adept
Join date: 13 Jun 2004
Posts: 2,237
12-30-2005 13:36
It's those powergaming Hippo's that need to be nerfed. :mad: :p
Aliasi Stonebender
Return of Catbread
Join date: 30 Jan 2005
Posts: 1,858
12-30-2005 13:46
SL would be a skill and point based system, like GURPS or Hero, rather than class-based like D&D.

However, for certain arbitrary applications, you would be forced to treat your character as if you were playing with a class-based system.
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Yumi Murakami
DoIt!AttachTheEarOfACat!
Join date: 27 Sep 2005
Posts: 6,860
12-30-2005 13:49
Yea, dang it. I spend a while grinding on Scripter to buy a few social levels, and then suddenly someone tells me that the Clothes Designer gets a class ability that lets them duplicate any social class, at any level, for free. I mean, someone must have been looking the wrong way when they came up with that one.

The system where money rewards for a class become harder to get the more people join that class (because "the easy stuff is already done";) desperately needs to be reconsidered. I've seen whole theme guilds go under when people were forced to cross-class because the main class was saturated and didn't pay off any more.

The reward scale for the Newbie Helper is totally out of whack. The higher levels can boost someone else's XP gain rate by up to 10x but they don't get anything for using it on people? That's ridiculous.

Anyone know what level you have to be to start getting profit from the Land Manager? I tried a few levels of it but I'm still losing overall on it. I'll keep it, though, because the Local Community ability is fantastic - now I have a bunch of cool people around me I see every day.
Obic Malaprop
Registered User
Join date: 19 Sep 2005
Posts: 122
12-30-2005 13:53
From: Yumi Murakami


Anyone know what level you have to be to start getting profit from the Land Manager? I tried a few levels of it but I'm still losing overall on it. I'll keep it, though, because the Local Community ability is fantastic - now I have a bunch of cool people around me I see every day.



You can't get profit until you unlock the "baron" power at lvl 67
Chip Midnight
ate my baby!
Join date: 1 May 2003
Posts: 10,231
12-30-2005 13:55
From: Eggy Lippmann
What would be the classes?


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Cheated.

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Oh wait, you meant character classes. Never mind :D

As for what needs to be nerfed. I'd have to go with my access to snack foods.
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Enabran Templar
Capitalist Pig
Join date: 26 Aug 2004
Posts: 4,506
12-30-2005 14:23
We were joking about this very subject awhile back in #secondlife.

In the middle of the conversation, I threw this chart together in OmniGraffle. It's far from complete -- I got bored with it. :)

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MJ Hathor
Purple Butterfly
Join date: 17 Mar 2005
Posts: 901
12-30-2005 14:33
Nice chart enabran :) Based off that chart, I would say that I fall into the Human/Explorer/Consumer/Nuetral Category :p

MJ
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splat1 Edison
Registerd Nut
Join date: 6 Sep 2004
Posts: 353
12-30-2005 15:03
lvl 60 furry, creator, creative, FIC
Special attack, mind games.
special note, tend to try and take over the grid if left with money.
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Burke Prefect
Cafe Owner, Superhero
Join date: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 2,785
12-30-2005 15:22
I'd be a Lvl 60 Rogue.
I already spawncamp noobs... to help them of course.
I don't hesitate to PvP someone who's acting higher than their skill level.
And when I'm bored. I draw aggro by posting in the forums.
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Edav Roark
Bounty Hunter
Join date: 4 Sep 2003
Posts: 569
12-30-2005 21:23
The number of forum posts would be our Experience Points.

Crap, I better get to leveling :D
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Foolish Frost
Grand Technomancer
Join date: 7 Mar 2005
Posts: 1,433
12-31-2005 17:30
I would be the Great and Powerful Wizard of Oz! Pay no attention to the man behind the prims! Now bow before me in supplication and adoration!

BOW!

...

please?

...

Aw, C'mon! Bow!

:(

I'm not feeling the love here...
Zippity Neutra
What'd I miss?
Join date: 29 Sep 2004
Posts: 191
12-31-2005 17:52
From: Foolish Frost
Now bow before me in supplication and adoration!

I'll bow, but only so I can tie your prim shoes together. :D
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