Monday 2 March 2015

Quick Question: Non Combat Excitement

[Added to my MMO Design folder.]


Short post this time. I've just got three questions for you all.

1) In MMOs, what non-combat related activity excites you most and why?
2) In non-MMOs, what non-combat related activity excites you most and why?
3) In real life, what non-combat related activity excites you most and why?

Thanks for replying! :)

4 comments:

  1. 1) housing. Daoc had the right idea with guild housing. Always had company.

    2) exploring. Levek/world designers put a lot of fun things in fun places but you have to look!

    3) being active - between sports and gym I do 6 days a week.

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  2. 1)Social activities that scale from solo to group
    2)Crafting and Housing
    3)social activity that includes working out or going to dog park or going to a bar

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  3. 1. Probably collecting.
    2. I don't play non-MMOs.
    3. I love the way you imply that I may have "combat-related" activities in real life with which to make the contrast! Apart from that, the question is too broad to answer meaningfully. If I had to pick one out of the myriad possibilities I guess I'd say travel.

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  4. 1. Questing, or rather, the story behind the questing. (Yeah, I like SWTOR. Does it show?)
    2. Building. I play Civ style games a lot (Civ IV is probably my favorite of the genre), so the building/ruling an empire is nice.
    3. Napping, because that means that work around the house and/or schlepping kids around is done for the day. (Yeah, I'm a wuss.) But outside of that, I'd have to say it's a toss-up between reading, pencil-and-paper RPGs, board games, listening to music/concerts.

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