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MMORPGdot: Dragon Empires Q&A Concerning Combat and the World
Concerning the World MMORPGdot - What can you tell us about the background setting and story of Dragon Empires? When can we expect the story (written by Piers Anthony?) to be released?
The original Piers' story is unlikely to be released as it simply gives away too much information about the world all at once. We're having quite a lot of fun releasing information slowly through our various stories and diaries and letting the readers put the main story together from the various pieces.
MMORPGdot - How large will the Dragon Empires world be, compared to other current mmorpg's? What ways of transportation will be available for the players, and will we be able to ride a dragon? *g* Finally, will there be a map (or radar) window?
It is bigger than most out right now at around 580sq/miles. I don't think you need to go much more than that unless you are having many thousand players logged in at any one time. If it gets much bigger you'd never meet anyone! Players will mostly have to run places with some limited teleporting as well. Players can also use dungeons as dangerous, but fun, shortcuts. And no dragon riding! Our dragons don't go in for that sort of deameaning activity.
We will have a map, but currently there are no plans for a radar window. It makes the whole exploring thing quite mechanical we feel and takes away the sense of surprise and wonder you can get when you find a cool new place.
MMORPGdot - To what extent will the storyline and GM events affect the players and their activities? Do you expect the majority of the events to come from the player community itself (like Mythic does), or from the GM's?
We will have to see how the community shapes up and what people enjoy. I hope we will have a good mix of GM events, player events and GM supported player events. We definitely plan for events to be an important part of the duties of our GMs and volunteers.
MMORPGdot - Can everyone just build a house wherever they like or only in the cities? To what extent can people customize their own houses and will there be castles for guilds?
You can't place a house just anywhere, we'd soon run out of space in the world. Only clan leaders can expand cities and they do that by using a building or object deed at various available preset points. This way we can expand a city and yet still have the city fit additions fit existing buildings. Thus, if you place a building in a bird empire city it will have platforms and staircases automatically attached as needed.
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