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this is my first post so there might already be somethin like this in the forum but why dont black isle make a permanent online world for the forgotten realms like a everquest and ultima online kinda thing.id certainly play it

 

I certainly wouldn't play it.

Why? Because Black Isle has too simplifistic game saves - easy to break and edit. And that results in CHEATING. I don't like to play with overriden rules of the game. So I never play online.
You don't understand me? Try to break saved games from Sierra's "Return to Krondor". It is coded and that game can't be cheated in that manner. Too bad that game doesn't cover online playing.

All in all, when Black Isle makes online sequence that forbids cheating online - count me in. When will that happen? How things stand today - that will happen NEVER.

 

Extremist: Wouldn't it be as simple as storing the characters online? All the MMORPGs seem to do that, so there's no reason Black Isle wouldn't be able to...

 

i doubt you could ever make the infinity engine have this sort of capability, and as Extremist says, it is rediculously easy to fiddle with the files from the game, thus getting cheaters all over the place. It happens on GSA already, so i doubt it would be any better doing it that way.

i hate online gaming because of all the damned cheaters that are around, it's damned rediculous!

 

but they could use the NWN engineor is that the same?

 

no, there will be dungeon masters around, prolly banning the people that cheat from the servers...

 

Anyway, cheaters can be avoided. It just takes recognition of patterns and a little extra effort.

 

capstones right just try your best to avoid them


by the way, welcome

 

You could go for the Diablo 2 closed Battle net system, where you don't have access to your own saves because they are on the server. Editing them would be difficult.

 

Yeah, the closed realms system gets rid of much of the direct cheating. There are still ways of abusing the client/server interaction but its more limited and difficult. Of course, the price you pay is the server security related lag issues and some game play issues that arise from "cheat fixes". Still, Blizzard did a fairly decent job of controlling cheating, especially considering how many players seem to want to cheat.

Aloha
Vormaerin

 

Thanks for the welcome but this is kinda turnin away fro the original topic:would you play a forgotten realms persistent world a la ever quest or UO if there wos an effective player storage system?

 

hell yah (pardon any offenses made to over-offensive people) id play it and ask around and look around til i found some place to cheat and then help advertise those cheats to hep bring down the entire thing so its crowded with cheaters (sorry im a baaaad person)

 

If it gave me a chance to run right at Elminster, weapon in hand, screaming "Have at thee!", then sure, I'd play it.

 

I'd give it an online blask isle game server a chance if it wasn't a pay service. freakin everquest anyways

 

personally id go lookin for minsc and that guy from BG1 kivan,i wonder wot happened to him?

 

Kivan now lives under my bed, second door on the right.

Personally I think only hack & slash RPGs like Diablo, RTS games and 1st person action games are worth playing on the internet. Storylines like those in Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale binds you, and if you start, you will have to complete the whole game together with the same person you started out with. For the next great online game communities, wait for Blizzard's Warcraft 3 and World of Warcraft.

 

no i meant a game based in the forgotten realms,not about the BG story! you could go anywhere and do anything(including burying elminster)and wots with the new title?whats wrong wiv"idea"eh?EH???