06-02-2009, 12:14 PM
Slamz Wrote:Diggles Wrote:I did like the D&D/RPG'ish thing with Mount&Blade where you picked your background and that influenced your starting skills/attributes (to some degree)I would want to do something like that as well.
Like if you can have a total of 1000 skill points, why not start out new characters with 500 skill points already assigned, based on a "starting class"? This doesn't lock you into anything but if you start off as a "swordman", maybe you start with 5 ranks of basic swordfighting, 4 ranks of basic armor wearing, 2 ranks of medic, 0 ranks of magic, etc.
That way everyone can hit the ground running with a degree of ability in something-or-another but they still have a lot of room to customize and specialize from there.
(Also similar to what EVE does.)
I don't think that's a good idea. In any system such as that, you'll always end up with a certain base class that needed to be picked in order to have a character with the best something. And if that occurs, you end up with guilds that are misconfigured with too many Xs and not enough Ys. From there, you have players that either take the time to reconfigure (if its low enough, not months) or quit.
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