I don't mind the idea of high skill leveling, but for you as a gm/player and the other gm/player it's hard to see why you guys wouldn't just instant level your skills. You could say you wouldn't do that but it would be hard to tell, if you gave yourself items/money/levels people would notice, but if you level your skills most wouldn't notice. Kind of a put off imho.
Edit: Since i'm here also i'm assuming there will be a gameshop, also assume that you and the other gm/player won't be allowed to purchase items from it?
Ive always said from the beginning i will be a player/gm and theres only 1 other person that will be the same, ive known him for more than 20 years.
It would be VERY easy to give myself kit, skills, spawn bosses.... but then i wouldnt spend the last 6 months getting this ready, advertising it, finding a server host, paying for the server to be put online for others to enjoy who share the same values as me.
I want to play this game how i remember it, HARD, and hoping for that one good drop! okay maybe a few good drops!
This server will never be corrupted by money, ive said this so many times before, i ran heroesEU and was offered alot of money to level a player to the top level of current players and give said player a good kit. ofcourse i never took it. it wont happen on any of my servers EVER.
I despise the thought of a player PAYING for levels and kit, it should be earnt and it will be earnt.
If knowing im a player and a GM puts players off, thats understandable but also their loss. its the server i want to play on and its the server i will be playing on.
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The gameshop will be very basic, infact there are only two items in it atm... a VanityPetMirror (so you can rename your vanitypet) and an item that stops your vanitypets stamina from decreasing for 24hours.... There are so many other things i want to get right before i even look at the gameshop.
The servers not being made to make money, in fact im thinking of scrapping the gameshop all together. the only thing that puts me off is knowing that its going to cost me to pay for a dedicated server monthly off my own back.. it would be nice to have the cost covered but at the same time i dont want to make money from players.. im not rich and have bills like everyone.... so the GameShop is still under discussion (mainly with myself lol)
If there was a GameShop then the items available will not be of a huge importance to gameplay and not many people will buy GG unless there doing it to support the server rather than buying the items in it. So if there is a gameshop then yes i would be entitled to its contents, but i would limit myself to say... i dunno a fiver a month....
there are no EXP or game changing items in the gameshop, never will be.
could do gems... but would NEVER do orbs.
again its not high on my list atm