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I really like the navigation map idea though.
I'm not sure about the streets that appear automatically just by walking over the same place... this should be a thing the user should actively be able to do.
But not sure what the reward for building a road would be.. Maybe you would loose less food and water when walking on a road then walking on grass/sand/etc

Tim Buckley of Ctrl-Alt-Del had some neat ideas about this once. One thought he had which really appealed to me was how you wanted your character to "level". In the traditional sense like WoW would be one obvious path, the only difference being you would beef up as you leveled. A 70 Warrior and a 10 Warrior should be distinguishable from each other in their skivvies; the former should be much better built. You should be able to know a 70 just by looking at him, not his number.

A second path could be a crafter. You can already do this to a certain extent in WoW, but there should be some option to be a merchant and producer, with a market in the game to be able to sell and make profit through. Higher levels would mean more skill in craftmanship and product, and again, you should be able to tell a high level by looking at them, be it their general attire or a high quality belt/cape/weapon made for show.

Third path could be political. Gain reputation and be able to influence world matters. This might seem too powerful unless there were some way for the wealthy merchant to fund an opposition, and of course the followers of the first path could just raise arms and try to kill you. I would love for the world to be conquerable; have major cities designed to withstand an attack honestly but not be invincible (one may get taken over a month for example; it would be a big deal), to have rulers that didn't respawn. This would have to be overseen by GM's who could keep the flow of power from being too unbalanced - not much fun when your race and faction gets overthrown and you never leave your cave or forest - but it would be mad fun to say you were part of the army that threw down the mighty city of such-and-such in the legendary battle of this-and-that.

This could cause problems...imagine ten guilds banding together and conquering the world. Pay the tax or die.

I would like to keep GM's out of it. I say let things get unbalanced and when the discontent with the rulers is great enough the players should be able to revolt and overthrow the rulers by outsmarting them. It should be possible to assassinate people, such acts would not require massive armies, only a small dedicated group.

As for roads, I think people should build them manually by choosing where to place the road and using sand and stone as resources. A proper road doesn't just form, all you get from people walking the same path is a muddy mess or stomped dirt.

I want to play it a year ago, so that by now I'd be an experienced player who knew what he was doing and could be really enjoying the game.

Audric:
Yeah that sounds better than all the road crap i came up with. But still, you'd have a few sedentary communities if you had things like mines, good farmland, etc. People would congregate around these natural resources and it would add to the gameplay to let them build up towns.

Someone please make this game. Cantr II sounded good until I saw "text-based" and "slow".

Sorry, that name's already taken.

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There is the possibility of having too much realism. It can take away from the fun.

You could also have a strongbox in your house where you could keep a few bare essentials.

Orly? I haven't seen any... I've only seen MMOGFG (GrindFest)

This would be the first true 3D MMORPG AFAIK.

Oh, someone judged Cantr for being textbased and slow. The text is arranged in menus so it's not textbased as in a chatlike interface only. As for slow, when you play 15 characters simultaneously and stuff happens on all of them, you'll be begging for more minutes.

You don't have to be logged in for your Cantr chars to keep working, you only have to check in on the a few times now and then, it's almost like a forum.

Well, the main differences is that Cantr is interactive. You can communicate with other chars and choose what to do and where to go. You even make up your own quests/religions/state of mind for your characters.

OK, so I was thinking of how things can be discovered and created and having that knowledge sharable.

1) Language is already developed
2) There is an ability everyone has called Experiment
3) When you experiment, you supply different materials to experiment with
4) Once you get the right combination of materials, things are invented and you now know how to make them
5) If you wish to share your knowledge you can write it on a scroll and others can consume the scroll and now they know it, without having to experiment.
6) Experimenting consumes the resources you are using

An example of this may be a spear.

Experimenting with a type of rock, stick, and rope would produce a spear. Once you experiment with that combo, you now know the mats to create a spear.

This could be done with raw materials to create other materials that are need for the final product. ie. smelt metals to create a sword, which would need a anvil and hammer which again need certain mats to create.

The cool thing about this I think is that different things will be created in different tribes that are located in different areas and have access to different materials. So finding another tribe would most likely mean learning what kind of stuff they can make if they choose to share that knowledge.

After quite a short period of time, everyone will know everything. Maybe some other tribe member, can't learn how to do this, so that they would trade?

Ricky, you're descriptions are so close to the images I've had for something like this (as someone said earlier, "we've all had this thought, differing slightly in how it would be presented").

There's nothing wrong with jotting ideas down and start arranging some thoughts into a bit more organized lists. Obviously, this would be a long project, so having it all documented would definitely come in handy as the project comes to life. For long projects and ideas I've had, I started up a wiki for myself so I can add to it whenever I have an idea, splitting it into sections of random brain babble to formatted, in-depth descriptions.

Once you get to a certain point, you take what you got and scale it down to only 10%, give it a name like "OverWorld". Then, make "OverWorld II" and then III and so on and so forth. Perhaps by the time you get to "Overworld X", it'll have everything you originally wrote in the wiki with a decent following of fans.