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for default action if instead of attempting to double click the broker at the risk of missing and examining the countertop i mouse over the broker until the icon changes and then and push f i m very unlikely to miss and thus everything works perfectly that said if there s an option for double click for default action when the default action is neither attack target nor examine furniture i d be happy to hear about it learning the ropes the fact is learning the basics of an mmorpg is pretty hard i remember having a conversation with riannon relatively early on in my eq2 career to the effect of i m moving very slowly instead of running and it s not because i pushed either the x or the c key what wrong key did i press sadly i don t remember what the answer was so for all i know i m going to need to ask again sometime if you re lucky people will bail you out when you warp into an unexpectedly hostile star system or whatever but for the most part we learn by doing it s usually possible to figure out how things work to some minimal level in order to play the game but you won t try things that don t occur to you for example i have no idea what would prompt someone to think f for default action perhaps it s merely close to the traditional wasd movement keys i don t know for that matter i ve hit level 61 in eq2 without ever playing in a group which could be a problem if i ever try to attempt it then again it s not exactly as if throwing a massive manual at the player before they ve even tried the game is going to help them learn there s a reason why free realms user interface accessibility gets so much praise you actually don t need to read a book to figure out how it works meanwhile a more demanding game is going to require more options and more commands so going with extremely simple isn t always going to be an option in conclusion hard user interface design is hard posted by green armadillo at 4 09 pm 3 comments labels eq2 pvd thursday may 28 2009 the persistent reward is a lie the central tenet in most of the major mmorpg s these days is that time investment improves your persistent character the persistence not unlike the cake is a lie mmorpg s change all the time whether through balance tweaks addition of new content or player behavior a handful of extreme cases the closing of ac2 and tabula rasa or the complete redesign of star wars galaxies are notorious precisely because they drive home the truth that everything we have in an online game is far more temporary and fragile than we would like to believe in the last few weeks we have seen an unusual number of significant mid expansion balance changes that affect the value of incentive rewards that players have already obtained perhaps the changes are necessary but that will come as little confort to players who already obtained the rewards and are now about to discover just how temporary they were a brief rundown wow jewelcrafters will have their profession specific gems nerfed in the next major content patch because the current versions are superior to other professions self only perks personally i narrowly avoided getting burned by this one as the gems were so good that i had been considering switching my own profession choices to get them eq2 is nerfing procs after finding that the current versions produced more damage and healing than intended in the wake of problems with players exploiting city of heroes shiny new mission architect feature the developers are removing kill badges that players had created custom missions to farm as blizzard discovered in their failed attempt to reset pvp honor pre wrath reducing the value of player rewards currencies by inflation is far more acceptable than taking the rewards away outright this puts the developers in a tough spot when they launch content and discover that they screwed up consumer confidence in mmorpg incentives eric at elder game took a look at the cities of heroes situation and writes that players aren t sure which content is safe to play since the only policy is that the gm who banned you was correct if paragon wants them to be the potential effects he describes on the game millions in support costs and a constant need for developers to band aid the architect system instead of creating new content sound troubling however if the lack of a policy actually undermines player confidence in the whole reward structure of mmorpg s time invested leading to improvements to your persistent character that would be more of a doomsday scenario many raiding guilds already run into trouble at the end of an expansion cycle when players decide that they re uninclined to invest a large amount of time and effort into raiding for gear that will be reset in a few weeks the last thing developers need is for players to start making that kind of meta game decision are they going to nerf this mid expansion year round posted by green armadillo at 3 28 pm 5 comments labels coh eq2 pvd pve wow tuesday may 26 2009 confessions of an eq2 non achiever i have a bit of a confession to make i have been doing trivial grey quests in eq2 in wow i tend to try and push the envelope whether it s min maxing my gear with pages of gear analysis attempting to solo old group instance or trying to tackle small group quests on my own i m happy to seek out a challenge by contrast in eq2 i find myself chasing after whatever content seems the most interesting even if it is below or way below my level case in point the newly revised lavastorm with the sootfoot goblin questline which i decided to run through even though half of it was already grey to me at the time i started then i went through and tackled the bloodline chronicles a long storyline that pits players against vampires intended for groups in the late 30 s which had been grey for at least half a dozen levels from there it was on to some largely non combat quests on the isle of mara by the time i was done with all of this i was left to decide whether to skip the entire desert of flames expansion after having hit level 60 without using any of its content too much experience revisited back in february shortly after i started playing eq2 i wrote that i was concerned that i was going to outlevel and miss content due to the game s recently quickened exp curve my concern seems somewhat justified the easy solution to my current situation would be to argue that content that s more than 5 levels below your character should not award significant amounts of experience at the current pace hacking away at easier content offers almost as much experience as the toughest stuff your character can handle while requiring far less in terms of preparation gear and min maxing for example obtaining the good quality mastercrafted gear is rarely worthwhile in an environment where i can expect to outlevel the gear almost as soon as i can pay for it then again that still doesn t explain why i m spending time on quests that have gone completely grey this is the hand crafted axe i had been using as a mainhand weapon until i got an impressive upgrade for finishing the new questline in the lavastorm experiencing content rather than challenging it in the end strangely enough challenge does not seem to be a big part of the game for me working for monks under siege by pirates incredibly stupid goblins and occasionally inept vampire hunters has allowed me to explore norrath and learn about the people living there combat is part of the game and i do like a tough fight every so often but i find myself enjoying the non combat quests and the ones where the combat is trivial due to my level as much as the most difficult trials maybe i should care that the exp curve isn t in the right place but somehow it doesn t matter to me as much as i thought it would i m doing the content that interests me and leaving the rest for future alts rather than worrying about trying to squeeze in as many aa points as possible on my first character the incentives say that this is the wrong choice i m supposed to be level locking and tackling as much content as possible so that my character gets the maximum number of alternate advancement points rather than spreading the quest completions between two alts this is the approach i took with lotro s deed system but i m not and i don t regret it perhaps some of it is that i don t plan on raiding i ve already come to terms with the concept that lyriana is probably never going to see her mythical epic weapon unless i let stargrace have a few minutes at the keyboard this means that i m free from needing to worry about whether i have enough aa s and dps to satisfy a group indeed i still have yet to actually do anything in a group at level 60 then again i don t really raid full time in wow or lotro and i put much more effort into min maxing both games eq2 offers interesting plotlines non combat and crafting quests and conversations with questgivers that encourage me to actually read the quest text i guess these things have added up to shift my attitude towards the game given that i signed up looking for a change of pace that isn t a bad thing i even went to the bother of casting lyriana s dark elf illusion spell for this conversation with a pirate there was no reason why i had to it just felt right to put on a more evil looking appearance especially since i d just been slaughtering his men as my normal fae self posted by green armadillo at 8 25 pm 3 comments labels alt philosophy eq2 pvd pve friday may 22 2009 everybody s working on the weekend i suppose this would have been more appropriate for july 4th but it s still funny soe has rolled out a double exp weekend including crafting exp since that area has been a bit of a struggle for me i m pretty happy with this development though i wish they d announced it sooner so i could have saved more tradeskill vitality for the occasion i burned through a level in about 20 minutes flat this afternoon which is a good thing given that lyriana gained two adventuring levels in the last day and a half i can see pros and cons to this sort of event many players myself included travel on holiday weekends and might not get to take advantage also there s a real question of whether i want more bonus exp given that my adventuring level is advancing just fine with the boosts i already have there is an option to disable bonus exp which i may temporarily activate though i m not sure exactly what it applies to then again i suppose a little perk or two can be a good thing especially since the bonuses run through tuesday hope all your cookouts are free from bits of exploded fae posted by green armadillo at 5 33 pm 0 comments labels eq2 pvd pve thursday may 21 2009 people watching at soe yesterday s eq2 producer s letter announced the departure of producer bruce ferguson from the game explaining the move ferguson says only i m moving on within soe to another position meanwhile tipa s daily blogroll documents another soe personnel shuffle if i m following things correctly eq1 s producer left for a mystery project eq1 then appropriated vanguard s producer and vanguard players found out that they no longer had a producer from reading the eq forums oops all of this seems to mirror moves blizzard is making as work on mystery project 4 ramps up in irvine as i said at the time your best people need to be on board well ahead of launch if they re really going to have the opportunity to improve the game apparently the timing was right for soe s mystery project as well tipa is pulling for eq3 but i m not convinced if they call the game eq3 or set it in norrath without calling it eq3 there are going to be the following camps of people a may or may not have ever played any eq games but associate the brand with mandatory grouping harsh death penalities and mob grind fests of old school eq1 and won t play the new game as a result b liked those aspects of eq1 and sign up to play the new game only to leave in disgust when it turns out not to be a flashback to 1999 c like one or both of the current games and show up primarily on the strength of the brand name but cancel their current subscriptions in the process fragmenting the eq playerbase between a total of three games d show up for the eq brand name but with no preconceived notions and without cannibalizing the existing games subscriptions unless soe can be certain that group d substantially outweighs the other three groups combined they re better off leaving the name eq3 in the wine cellar to age a few more years and going with a new ip at least that s my guess we ll see what happens when they re ready to pop the cork on whatever it is they re brewing up in san diego posted by green armadillo at 7 55 am 6 comments labels business models eq2 wednesday may 20 2009 yet again with the travel timesinks the last time i posted about eq2 crafting loredena suggested that i look into the tradeskill instances added in the most recent expansion this seemed like a nice way to break up the crafting grind so lyriana set off to the moors of ykesha to get started the moors are a level 75 80 zone and lyriana is in her low 50 s this would seem to be a problem and eq2 goes to some lengths to allow level characters to progress to the maximum crafting level so they needed a solution the solution they came up with was to have the npc offer to teleport players on to their next destination corpse hopping is not an option as eq2 players are revived back at the nearest graveyard after death where to begin among my various complaints about this arrangement upon accepting the questgiver s teleport i was sent to the other side of a zone i have never been in before where the next questgiver was located a zone with mobs that one shot me the moment they aggro there is a network of balloon transport npcs who will send you to other stations of course i had no idea what the station for the town that i had started in was called since i had not visited the balloon station before being teleported across the zone after looking it up and watching my character spend several minutes floating there i discovered that the station is located outside the main town of the zone and getting back into town requires that i complete a quest a quest that starts in the town that i was stuck outside of at this point i had to resort to my dirge s evacuate ability which teleported me to the closest graveyard the one inside the town thankfully having gotten the basics of travel around the zone down it was time to actually start working on the quests though the game permits me to accept and complete these quests doing so requires materials harvested from the highest level harvesting zones this is sensible because the moors are such a high level zone unfortunately i cannot harvest in the moors due to my low level this meant that i had to teleport out of the zone to my guild hall and do the crafting in the guild hall using the guild harvest supply box getting back to the moors themselves requires a teleport hope you 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