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As most of us know, the Battle System is well underway! However, we don't have much information on what the game will be all about, all we know is what they told us last year. We wouldn't want to fill our sticky with discussion about this, so we figured we would go ahead to make a new thread to specifically discuss the following:

Every Massive Multiplayer Online game in existence has its flaws, from Ragnarok Online to World of Warcraft to EVE. Naturally, Gaia's game will have its flaws as well and they will probably be rather annoying. In this thread, we want to discuss what sort of mistakes will probably be made and, more importantly, how you would go ahead to fix these.

To streamline this discussion, we request you to read the information on the frontpage of the BST and go by the situation sketched in there. On top of that, we will assume some other things:

• It will be in Real Time.
  
• It will be in-browser.
  
• The first version will not contain Player vs Player combat.
  
• The first version will not be linked to the Gaia Guild Network.
  
• There will be no interaction with the environment other than what we have already seen in Gaia Towns.

Please remain civil, on-topic and constructive, we will report any posts that fail to comply these basic points.

Serious Lag and botters.

Burning Crimson, oh god, I can already imagine my fierce assassin swirling to his unsuspecting victim! Yeah, the solution is simple, make some decent leg-moving visuals.


Constructive feedback, please. gonk How would you fix these problems?

Would the game still be an MMO, then? Although they wouldn't be missed by the community, it would of course mean less money for Gaia, which is a bad thing. However, we must keep into account that the game must also be fun to play and as we know from almost every RPG in existence, half the fun is getting better, the other half is exciting gameplay. I doubt we can expect much on this field.

heart lolz..so true

1) Why does this matter?
2) No one knows.

While the application flaws have already been brought up, I am expecting a whole other set of problems given Gaia's quick/poor coding for first gen anything. (Cause we gotta throw it out there as fast as possible without test it, right?)

First, monster spawn rate. I believe some fields and areas will be horribly filled with an endless sea of monsters, while others will have almost none. And with that, some areas might become well known for kill one, one spawn instantly, while other areas will become infamous for kill one and wait an hour if your lucky. When the BS is released, I think this imbalance will be the first of many problems.

Next, avitars in general. Either they won't load properly, like when word bump was first released, or they won't load at all. Then there will be the interactive aspect. I think some users will come across glitches that will either have it so they can't kill a monster but it can kill them, or the other way around, which would be nice for that person, but unfair to everyone else.

Then of course there will be the item drops. "Look mom, I killed a slime and it dropped three rares. Oh wait, the admins took them away. Hmmm sounds like Daily Chance all over again."

And last will be my favorite. Because PvP is only a few key stokes away from normal game play, I think the admins will accidentally not code things properly, and this will lead to a massive amount of Player Killing (PKing). Trust me, if they aren't careful, it will happen.

Overall, I am not very optimistic about the BS. Why? Given Gaia's past with coding and not testing completely before release, I am predicting that major coding flaws will bring down the BS faster than you can say Gambino. It's not to say they won't be fixed, but Gaia is also very slow at fixing problems and then letting the community know when something is fixed. I mean, look at the Ink Mixing system, still down. I am hoping for the best, but with Gaia, I am always expecting the worst.