Dear friends, please support petition to nerf event rewards in ‘Soloist’ mode:
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Also wanna add that I won’t play/stream TomeNET till this cheeze would be nerfed.
xxdeadmonkxxrecently wrote a comment under my stream that ‘black background makes you feel very special in roguelike games, more fantazy than in common graphical RPGs’. It’s gaved an idea to me: what if in certain character states (like ‘stun‘ or ‘hallucination’) game would make your window screen colors inverse – like a negative in photogaphy.
It wont blink, like at this picture – this state would just appear right after you got in certain state and would stay the same till it would be lifted – so it would’t be irritating,
It would make game pretty unusual in such state 😀
The problem of TomeNET ladder: there is only top 100 players and most of entries are from 2012-2014 years. “Noteworthy Occurances” also don’t give any sutisfaction when you get there – because they are not permanent. TomeNET ladder are not newbie friendly and focused at ‘elitism’ atmosphere. But ladder should motivate players, and especially new players – give them feeling that they could achieve something and be inscribed to the history of the game. Continue reading
Hiho! I’ve just started to play MAngband (Multiplayer Angband) – https://mangband.org
Recently this game had a birthday – 20 years!
It’s got new website, relay between game and Discord (https://discord.gg/U5B65Rh) and also updates comming soon. Gameplay feels very oldschool and I enjoyed it! My video stream:
As the most often question considering MAngband is ‘how roguelike could be played online, if it’s turn-based??’, I would answer it right away hehe: Continue reading
I play UO from 1999 and pretty enjoyed LoA during open beta. It certanly feels like ‘enchanced’ UO, close to UO 2 as we wanted it. There are some minor problems with UI and other tiny stuff which certanly could be improved in time..
The only one real problem: I’ve tried to get out of guarded zones to find a PvP fight and… failed. This ‘safe’ zones are way too big. They should end 50 meters from town borders, or even less (like it was in UO). Either way it doesn’t feel like sandbox experience, no danger, no real emotions.. no UO feeeling.
I hope devs could consider to change this concept.
Problem:
It is possible to get an OOD-item at lvl 1 by participating in regular events (dungeon keeper & etc) while in “soloist” mode.
Events give solid possibility to get endgame OOD-item from the start. As main feature of ‘Soloist’ mode – traditional roguelike experience when every character have to start from zero and without cheezing later on, such powerful rewards doesn’t fit to ‘Soloist’. In this events you could get !endgame! items, like +10 mana staff or +25/+25 bow from the start (level 1) what just ruins soloist mode idea. Continue reading
I’ve made video (you could find it below) about top 5 current problems in MUDs gamedesign. As my English could be hard to understand sometimes, I’ve also made short summary of stuff which I said in my video: Continue reading
TomeNET is open-source MMORPG-roguelike based at Tolkien lore. Some people call it real-time game, but actually it’s fast-paced turn-based game.
Why TomeNET is one of the best MMORPGs around? Continue reading
1) I tried to make some exploration in open-world, cause new server had all dungeons in random places. Actually it’s pretty fun to make such explorations, it feels very like playing Dwarf Fortress (where new world procedurelly generated every time). Just imagine it: MULTIPLAYER Dwarf Fortress 
People from all over the internet would come to play something like this. Smart procedure generation of open-world – it’s ingenious TomeNET feature.. Right now it’s kinda underestimated and unknown by most of players, but it could become one of main features at RPG-server and should be advanced far beyond! Continue reading
UPDATE: this idea already in-game!
At IDDC and RPG-server, when you just start to play – it’s could be pretty useful to be able to throw weapons and potions to enemies. Sometimes I got several daggers and other blades in my inventory, but I’m not able to throw them in battle; cause I have to ‘prompt’ directions manually and it’s not a case when you fight with bunch of angry orcs
Suggestion:
add macro to throw items to target closest monster.
Algorythm:
First you have to assign new key in Macro Wizard to throw items to the closest monster. Example: you assign it to F1 key. Then:
1) you push ‘F1’ key
2) game asks you which item do you wish to throw
3) you choose an item (a-z)
4) this item thrown to the closest enemy automatically
Also maybe add possibility to fast throw (to the closest enemies) items which were inscribed in certain way.
Actually I’m huge fan of throwing stuff in roguelike games; previous ideas about throwing-skill: https://tomenet.eu/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=902
Devs just estabilished RPG-server and I’ve made test-stream there (in Russian) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmxsxnOjCWw
Impressions:
1) It’s awesome to have a chance to play without cheezing. Thanks to devs for giving such opportunity!
1) Are there any MUD around where developers fights VS unnatural scripted style of gameplay? So players would play manually, without need to AFK-macro. At least have anti-afk capcha?
2) I wonder are there any MUD which have such gameplay, which prevent (or at least make it not so effective) players from using scripts? So player to be effective has to push hotkeys (ex: F1-F12) MANUALLY… So it would be like player-human would win VS player-scripter on trigger-steroids
p.s. I feel myself like a robot in fantazy world with all this macro-industry around me.. WTF.. Not fun.
p.p.s. Maybe it’s all this scripts – what made *some* people to move to WoW-like games from MUDs, cause at WoW you have to do all by your hands (WoW bots are a joke and any mediocre player play better); and AFAIS in MUDs you need just to write good triggers/scripts to be successful 🙁 I enjoy playing text-based game, read all rooms descriptions, to live in this magic atmosphere.. but all this scripting religion really killing me.
Currently I play MUDs and I was inspired a lot by playing them.
Actually TomeNET could be called roguelike-MUD MMORPG, cause there is game message windows and it’s possible to give players a lot of stuff to read there.
Idea:
1) Add new option in-game – to show ‘expanded’ descriptions of location which triggers when you come at certain place.
2) MUD approach to NPC: TomeNET doesn’t need to show NPC on tiles as ‘@’ or ‘t’ symbols. They could be just shown in message window, like in MUDs. Example: Continue reading
I’ve read a thread at reddit today: Why Isn’t WildStar more successful?
My answer: The same reason why VR not popular in MMORPG – it’s hurts to play it a lot, you got dizzy. WildStar arcade combat was amazing in concept, but in reality it made people sick after a while of playing this game. I felt tired after playing this game for hour or too. So I (and a lot of other players) dropped it even before reaching lvl 20.
Crafting system could be very good implementation in TomeNET.. Currently I got problem with my hand and I can’t play in fast-paced mode to dual-hand/explore dungeons. But in TomeNET – exploring dungeons is the only thing to do atm. It would be fun to have an alternative gameplay, to be able to spend the time in favorite game even if you can’t run around with numpad 😥
It would be fun to have skill-based gathering system – so you could fishing or gather ore… Sometimes run from dangerous things. Move this ore to town, sell it or craft from it.
It has to be less effective (in terms of time/gain) system, less rewarding than killing monsters.. but more safer (so you don’t need to react too fast, or would be able to do it.. erm.. with one hand, sorry for my egocentrism)
Nowadays a lot of players having thiefs characters and it’s quite profitable and _very_ safe way to get income in the game. The only problem about stealing – it’s doesn’t give RPGish feeling of progress. If there, for example, would be skill-based system, it would be much more interesting. EX: if you attempt to steal an item, there is a chance that you would gain 0.1 skill point out from 100 (like in Ultima Online or other skill based games).
