NEW POST BY SLIV!:
This one will be devoted to my hopes and expectations about the game.
To start with I'm really concerned about whole game being voiced. Will the developers manage to keep the dialogues short enough not to bore us, while giving us all the stuff we need to know in hopefully quite limited time. Other thing is how will be all the voicing implemented into the game. With some cut-scenes or kind of realtime dialogues? My worst fear here is that, after several hours/days/weeks of playing I'll do anything to either skip or avoid cut-scenes. By comparison the unavaliability to skip cut-scenes in Assassin's Creed was quite annoying.
Moving on. I wonder how will character developement work. Will it be the same as in other well known MMOs like WoW or Warhammer, or perhaps we'll just obtain new skills and powers through completion of certain quests or even automatically by simple leveling the character. Of course the good old fashioned way of implementing class trainers is fine and i can't say anything bad about it, but I'd like to be surprised by some non-linear solution in this matter.
Finally, not to make this post too long - space combat. I'm really looking forward to this part of gameplay. The only thing we can be sure is that space combat won't be implemented in the release version of the game, but there is quite a big chance that it'll be introduced as the game developes. I'd like to see both 1vs1 spaceship duels and huge fleet encounters. I think that, that could really be something unseen in any other MMO, however I am aware of many difficulties that will arise with creating such innovative gameplay.
I hope that this short post will keep you satisfied, until I return with new thoughts and ideas.
Still I'm the thinker, not the doer.
M: Finally! If only you'd knew how much time it took me to make Sliv write this. Bragging, screaming, even begging! Gods shall reward me for this one day. Now I only have to force him to record another podcast with me soon..
