Can’t wait for that aspect of MMOs again!

Good point. Yeah ashes seems like it’s going to be a very community oriented game. From what you know of the Riot MMO, do you think they’re leaning more theme park or sandbox?

@@TheCopiumClinic No idea, other than I think they go safe and go Themepark as that is what most AAA studios do

Thanks dude! Glad you like it so far.

Yeah agreed

Whatever server asmonbald is on is the one Im not going to be on

Well said. I don't prefer a system like you described, but I can understand how people do. In high school I made unexpected friendships because I saw the same strangers over and over again until we finally spoke. Working in a big city, I hardly ever see the same person twice.

He's a legend

Thanks man, glad you liked it.

Good point. I could see that being viable in massive worlds or universes. What are your thoughts on how they could achieve something like a mega server in an MMO like Ashes?

@@TheCopiumClinic I think we're still too far from that hardware-tech-wise. There have been some interesting developments though, like AoC's own texture combining for the large scale battles and another over-ambitious space mmo that didn't work out so well, Dual Universe. They're small steps in the right direction though, as long they keep on working on it to push progress, we should get there sooner or later. From a social planning perspective, if the tech is there to support it... I'd go for a multi-nation kind of setup. Those nations don't need to be at war like in WoW, but you definitely want some kind of separation/division which "may or may not" prompt conflict, politics, trading or any other kind of interaction more significant than just simply talking to another player. Maybe have certain resources unique to one area but required by another area for activating some kind of lucrative event. The twist is that only those in who's area this McGuffin resource appears can access it but it can be looted from them by anyone. Does the group that wants it kill for it or trade for it? I also think that a sort of dynamic sizing would be required to some degree. While there should be a lot of free space to roam around in, the world should've feel empty but let's say a certain threshold is reached then a game system triggers a "newly found province/island". Should the player base shrink to a certain threshold then another game system triggers and one random (or more) of a number of prepared areas suddenly become uninhabitable for some story driven reason. This could be woven in as predicates for the game events like in the last livestream, just one a much larger scale .

In a single-server game with millions of players, you could hide or vanish very easily after doing something sketchy.

@@TheCopiumClinic It might not have millions of players, but EVE Online is one big server and people can't hide there. Even in the real world people can't hide, look at the amount of infamous Karens you see on KZfaq 😁