A Few Points
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 10:08 pm
First of all, love the game. Brings back a lot of great memories.
However, here are some items that I think warrant some attention:
1. You can trade potions to other people in your team. It's very easy to make someone virtually invincible this way by continually buying and trading potions.
2. There's a major bug (at least in .19). If someone is in the game at rollover (and thus has hooks in the game files) then rollover doesn't happen.
3. Someone already mentioned it, but I'll mention it here... With the help of another person, you can get thousands of hitpoints a day. All you have to do is fight the final battle over and over, letting someone else in your team resurrect you each time, and you'll quickly amass a ton of hitpoints.
4. It's impossible to defend yourself from kidnappings. This is especially true if the person doing the kidnapping is 10+ levels below you. I understand not letting powerful characters continually beat on weaker ones, but why not let powerful characters send demons/diseases? Or make it possible to stage a \"raid\" to get your kid back, like in that Arnold Schwazenegger movie? Otherwise you have to pay whatever ransom they set, or set bounties on the person, which becomes more expensive than paying the ransom itself.
5. Female characters can't refuse to be married if they're in love. All the male character has to do is pay the fee, and suddenly BOOM! you're married.
6. A minor, related bug: if you try to marry someone you're not in love with, the game won't let you, but it DOES take your money.
7. The beer thing takes way too long, especially at higher levels when you're stealing like 500 of them. Also, it's way too easy. You can use the club and kill 30 dogs, then get beat on by 10 sons, and never get hurt.
8. When brawling at the bar, the game has 1 of each race attack each turn, even if there are 10 of that race. That doesn't make much sense and makes it easier to beat it by targetting one race, then another, and so on.
9. You can see how many hitpoints, armor points, and weapon points each player in the game has by checking out other gangs. (Unless they're not in a gang, of course. Then you can get their weapon stats from the Weapon Masters list) This takes a lot of the mystery out of PvP combat.
10. You can see just about everything you'd ever want to know about an NPC character in the Hall of Recruiting, which makes it extremely easy to figure out who to target in the Dormitory.
However, here are some items that I think warrant some attention:
1. You can trade potions to other people in your team. It's very easy to make someone virtually invincible this way by continually buying and trading potions.
2. There's a major bug (at least in .19). If someone is in the game at rollover (and thus has hooks in the game files) then rollover doesn't happen.
3. Someone already mentioned it, but I'll mention it here... With the help of another person, you can get thousands of hitpoints a day. All you have to do is fight the final battle over and over, letting someone else in your team resurrect you each time, and you'll quickly amass a ton of hitpoints.
4. It's impossible to defend yourself from kidnappings. This is especially true if the person doing the kidnapping is 10+ levels below you. I understand not letting powerful characters continually beat on weaker ones, but why not let powerful characters send demons/diseases? Or make it possible to stage a \"raid\" to get your kid back, like in that Arnold Schwazenegger movie? Otherwise you have to pay whatever ransom they set, or set bounties on the person, which becomes more expensive than paying the ransom itself.
5. Female characters can't refuse to be married if they're in love. All the male character has to do is pay the fee, and suddenly BOOM! you're married.
6. A minor, related bug: if you try to marry someone you're not in love with, the game won't let you, but it DOES take your money.
7. The beer thing takes way too long, especially at higher levels when you're stealing like 500 of them. Also, it's way too easy. You can use the club and kill 30 dogs, then get beat on by 10 sons, and never get hurt.
8. When brawling at the bar, the game has 1 of each race attack each turn, even if there are 10 of that race. That doesn't make much sense and makes it easier to beat it by targetting one race, then another, and so on.
9. You can see how many hitpoints, armor points, and weapon points each player in the game has by checking out other gangs. (Unless they're not in a gang, of course. Then you can get their weapon stats from the Weapon Masters list) This takes a lot of the mystery out of PvP combat.
10. You can see just about everything you'd ever want to know about an NPC character in the Hall of Recruiting, which makes it extremely easy to figure out who to target in the Dormitory.