... "And so it happened. After over 200 messages, the OtherWorld- group has been formed (but not organized , and joy is to come for all the RPG fans. The story is about to begin"... OtherWorld was formed about couple of weeks ago, and this team is creating network based MUD- stylish graphical RPG game, that is open source project and 100% free for everyone. Project has been going on actually REALLY fast, and it is unbelieveble that Novalis has already made, both, Client and Server of the game WITH INTERNET SUPPORT (Is it really ready ?). Lately, we have been discussing about the new / recycled ideas that this game would contain, and we have pretty nice list... for example, there is war going on between lightness and darkness, and this involves players differently than normal MUDs. Players can create REAL history that will be written, and powerful characters can involve how the whole system works (meaning, they can even assign armies... just an nice idea). Now, I would like to hear anykind of features that you would like to see in RPG''s. Technical information: Game runs "realtime", when it still is turnbased with refresh rate of 12/sec OR SO. Game is tilebased, but it is more accurate than MUDs (that usually involve large areas at one time), and so the player can see the area as he would see it, not with scaling at outwoods. Original idea was to connect "unlimited worlds" between each other, and this idea has been changing for putting portals that actually teleport players between main areas on this world, or send them to another dimension. Game "playground" is unlimited, because it is generated with servers randomizer, and every object (wall, sword, player, orc) is actually just stored on server, and every modified ground area is also stored on server. This means that if player builds own altar in middle of woods, the information of this tile is saved on the server, and so the actual original playground doesn''t take any space, but the modified areas and/or objects only take some space. Client will be open source (probably), and so everyone should be able to create their own clients, or just modify the old one. So... new weird/extreme/cool ideas for RPG''s

... Come on

Ideas! What would you like to see in online RPG''s, that you have probably never seen ?

I have suggested two features before: Gameworld will provide BIG WARS between races / sides (light & dark of course , like Asheron''s Call... it might be cool.

Another one is pretty unique: Players could adopt newbie players, and newbie players lastname changes to adopters name, and so he becomes his son
Also, if player dies old enough, he can continue to play as his old characters son/daughter, with same lastname.

Castle / House / Town building has been under designing for a while... but no-one in our team seems to know how this might be possible to create... Should users ask for own castle from server-sysops, or could they build it by themselves ? how ? Reminding that these features are going for over 100 player online-rpg.

We are already creating (I think ?) a GOD-CLIENT, that is completly "management client", that can be used to control ... well... everything
User can move AI''s, maybe even armies, from point to point, make them to do things, and so on. This feature can be used to make some special situtations (Asheron''s Call''s "Assault of the Shadows" for an example).

Gandalf: http://www.egroups.com/group/OtherWorldRing

You have to register to get access, but hey, it''s not big thing to do

I''m wondering how the Ultima Online handles this castle thing, because I have heard that people can buy their own land, and build own communities in Ultima Online...

Well, about Pkilling:
We have came to idea, that Pkilling is really BAD thing to do (don''t even try it, or your character might get under a meteor that fall from middle of nowhere EXCEPT when you are killing players that are in another alignment... I have written pretty much stuff about this thing, and you can find old messages from the longer topic... It''s pretty complicated and long thing to explain.

You may want to make provisions on how many people can build houses or castlesm if indeed they grant security and power (as I believe they should). I might suggest a system where only groups of people can build houses or castles, so you have to convince (pay/threaten/seduce) a group in order to get one built. It''d be fascinating to have an organization of players who play carpenters, building castles and homes for maney. Creating, rather than destroying as is so common in online projects.