My Thoughts on Starting

Created 30 days ago
by HfxTenor

Gamer, Singer, Trainer, Storyteller, and all-around swell cat.

 

Been playing WoD since the original VtM came out back in 1990, though I've been into rpg's since the D&D red-box in Grade.

 

First book I ever read: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe (yes, I have the hots for sinister female leads thanks to this novel)

 

Favourite Movie: The Sound of Music

 

Favourite Computer Game: Any adventure game by Sierra On-Line, particularly the Gabriel Knight series.

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So...I’ve been deliberating about how I should go about crafting my very first blog on the site. What’s going to be the best way to introduce readers to the magical wonderland that is the mind of HfxTenor?

Well, my primary job is to talk about the MMO. So why not kill two licks with one stake? If this is my beginning blog, how about I talk about how the beginning of the MMO might play out? I like it. Let’s do this. The door to my mind is opening...The woods are lovely, dark and deep...join me, won’t you?

• Wobblehd 20 days ago
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  So Nigama, you say that PC's will do the embracing. Is that from CCP? Did they say that? I actually meant chinese farmers. That would rock for making RL cash. I am sure you have researched this a ton, but is that opinion? Everyone and their dog said it was NWoD and a day/night cycle, before CCP said otherwise. Just curious.
  
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• Amenat 28 days ago
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  I think it should be more like this: there are a small amount of preprogrammed NPC vampires of every clan; which are hidden but found through one or two NPC's. Through hunting down and various deals in the 'underground' can a player find a vampire npc to turn them. At first anyway. Players should have the ability to turn other players but it must be worked out before hand according to the rules. This is just a suggestion. I like the thought of deciding which cities to enter into but the world would be laggy if you had too many at one time.
  
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  • Amenat 28 days ago
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    My thinking is that if you did the above you must hide them in a matching area. Have a choice of clan and symbols or something you can follow and find. 1:10 times you go into one of the hinted places(nosferatu in sewers; malks near madhouses w/e ect) but I think you shouldn't need a princes permission and you are free to pick your own alias.
    
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• Radical 29 days ago
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  I'm guessing the first wave of kindred will be embraced by STCs, that is Storyteller characters Which are in fact like PCs except driven by the developers of the game. Using STCs was highly successful in Asheron's Call during the years when it was still a popular MMORPG, where the two main god-like figures in the story were unleashed on the game world while there Avatars were controlled directly by the GMs during story-related events..
  
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• Wobblehd 29 days ago
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  Great start to your blog Hfx. I have been curious of this myself. So PC's do the embracing? Chinese hackers better get in on that racket....little cash, your a vampire, whats not to love. Matter of fact, they can likely make a ton of cash. Starting city, oh boy. So in EQ1 in the cold hard old days, I had to level up so I could port to get an RL friend from Freeport to Qeynos. It was sad really. I am guessing travel will not be so tough, at least I hope so. I see no point in this game if I can't play with my friends. And obviously we need to be in the same place. There are gonna be vampires from hell to breakfast no matter what they do, so the population is no big deal. Just like the hot zones in other games, they will move as this is more like a free market type deal. If you have to cross a few continents and spend a few days to get to the sweet spot.....they will. Whether the Dev's want that or not. The population will sort itself out. We had better be able to choose our clan. You will meet the stupidest ever Malk, if I have to play one. That is a headache I choose not to deal with. It reminds me of the Malk cartoons I have seen, back when the know it alls decided this game was NWoD. I fail to find anything wrong with a city full of Brujahs, but, hey, to each their own.
  
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• Rick Gentle 30 days ago
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  Many, many questions, the answers to which I am eagerly looking forward to (and especially, official confirmation on). As a Gangrel, I sympathize with the deep, dark woods of your psyche, and now my cat-like curiosity is piqued.
  
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• Ivarov 30 days ago
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  What Nigama said. An additional guess is, in a beta of some sorts we would start in a more themeparked experience and then at the re-start everyone would reboot the stats but then start as the "first" PC kindred. I would like that option at least. And then those PC would be where the following embraces start off. I dont have the solution to any kind of problems that such method could bring, but I am pretty sure if they want to make it TRULY 'PLAYER DRIVEN', such would be a nice start. The less themeparked, the more I'll enjoy. All honesty. I dont want to play WoW/SWtOR/DDO in a WoD setting. Cheers!
  
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• Legion 30 days ago
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  Mmmmmmmhmmm.....(multiple chaps-licking) we can almost tasssssste it. Great start by the way! Looking forward to more.
  
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• Nigama 30 days ago
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  "Will we be given a choice of city in which to begin play? Or will existing population numbers dictate where we begin the game? " Don't know. I'd think they'd auto place you wherever the lowest pop density is, but that's just a guess. "Do we start as mortals and get to play our way through our own brief Prelude?" Yes. "If so, do we get to choose whether or not to be Embraced at all?" Yes. In fact, if you wish, you can remain mortal for ever. "Will the Embrace come at the hands of an NPC, or another Player? " Another player. "If an NPC, will we be given a choice of which Clan into which we become baptized in blood?" You will be embraced by a PC, but you will also be given a choice of which Clan you wish to be "baptized in blood" by. "Or will the experience be much darker and remove that choice from us?" They've indicated that if someone wants to leave their embrace up to random chance, then whatever clan embraces them embraces them. Let the cards fall where they may... "Will that NPC that’s been our best friend and greatest inspiration for the past several hours of gameplay suddenly pounce, revealing gleaming white fangs that slowly glide through the flesh of our throat, similar to the controversial pseudo-non-consensual opening scene of Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines?" No. "Or will we have to actively seek out Player-Kindred in-game and convince them we’re worth breaking the Masquerade for? Maybe we get to set our top 3 choices for Clan, somewhere in our Preferences, and the game assigns and alerts an appropriate potential sire?" At the very least, the latter, but very likely some mixture of both. "Do we begin as fledgling Kindred right from the start? If so, will we be given a choice of Clan? Will it be randomly assigned based on current in-game populations? After all, who wants a city full of nothing but Brujah? (Not likely, but a possibility) If we get robbed of our Prelude, will we get to script our own creation myth via some form of Character History tool? Will the game and players be able to view that written character bio and take it into account?" You will start as a mortal. I do not know how deep or intensive your "Prelude" will be, but I'd imagine it would mostly take the form of a tutorial. That's just guessing, tho. "If we start as mortals, does that infer that NPC Kindred will exist in the game? After all, if everyone starts as a mortal, who does the Embracing?" NPC Kindred will be in the game as part of the Themepark content, mostly to reinforce the game's settings, plot, and teach basic skills. I believe they will allow several players to simply become vampires, but they may do that via NPCs or they may just do it and then those Kindred will populate the rest of us. That's just a guess, as well, tho. Nigama
  
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