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Stratics Central has previewed A Tale in the Desert, the cooperative MMORPG that is currently in beta. Here's a bit:
One of the first things people find out about ATITD is that there is no fighting. Thats right...no fighting, but how do we level? You don't, ATITD is skill based, vaguely similer to UO. This allows for a battle of wits not seen in MMORPGs up to now. To beat down your opponant, not literally, you could try to ruin his business as a trader, by under bidding him to his customers or by over bidding him to his suppliers. Or you could pass a law in the game that ruins his livelihood.
Which is normally the second thing people find out about ATITD, that players can make laws that actually effect the gameplay, the land & the fiction for everyone. You write a petition, which has to be signed by a set amount of people, you can then hand it in at the University of Leadership, which calls all people in the land to vote on the law. If the law has a two third's majority in favour of the law, it gets passed. The GMs actually change the gameworld as needed to make the law fact. The clever thing about this is, is that it is self regulating, if a law manages to get through that turns out to be detrimental to the people, then someone can try to pass a counter-law. Which allows for a real battle of wits in trying to phrase your petitions very cleverly to try to get things through. A good example of this happenned in the beta this week. It was announced by the Scientists of a University that the Statue of Octec had a chamber underneath it that may contain information that could aid with the science of Automation. So a Huge stationary battering ram was built to demolish it. However Someone got a law passed which prevented the Statue being demolished to access the chamber, by claiming that there might be another way to access the chamber and it was prudent to wait. Then someone else got a counter law passed that said that the Progression of Science was hindered by the previous law, and that if this law was passed the Statue of Octec could be demolished. Both laws sounded quite reasonable, and both laws were passed. The legal system is something that will be very interesting to watch in ATITD. |
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A Tale in the Desert Preview at Stratics
