Um, not raising the level cap would be a really, really bad idea. High level
characters would leave in droves for Asheron's Call, Middle Earth, whatever
else is out there.
Part of the fun, and the addictive factor, of RPG's is the illusion of
growth: every day you get stronger, more powerful, able to to places you
were not able to before -- cf. the Plane of Fear discussion -- and
successfully kill critters that you would have run in terror from a few
levels before.
If characters stop growing, a lot of the fun of the game is gone. I hit the
level cap in Balder's Gate about midway through Chapter 4...and lost
interest in the game a few days later. Haven't finished it, probably won't
ever.
I am not sure why Verant would NOT want to raise the level cap.
I imagine there might be ways to fake it. For example, besides items that
raise stats, there might be items that raised one's Offensive or Defensive
or weapons capabilities beyond their caps at level 50, making you
effectively a level 55 or 60 or higher character, even though you are still
nominally level 50. Hm. That might be interesting.
Still, I think Verant has to do something to allow players to increase their
capabilities beyond 50, and to provide challenging places for them to go to
exercise those capabilities, if they want to retain their player base.
== Gilead, dwarven cleric of Fennin Ro
-----Original Message-----
From: Azor <
jmaynus@...>
To:
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Date: Friday, August 06, 1999 1:37 PM
Subject: [EQ-Clerics] Expansion Pak
>From: "Azor" <jmaynus@...>
>
>For those dying for the upcoming expansion pak the bad news is, it won't be
>out before Christmas BUT March 16th, 2000. On EQVault today they had a
post
>from a guy that went to Gen-Con and he said it wouldn't be out till
>3-16-2000.
>Speaking of the pak many ppl keep saying they are adding more lvls for us,
>Brad himself has stated before they didn't know if we would be getting more
>lvls. He said they saw no real reason to give us more lvls. A bit later
he
>said something about if they did it might be from Lvl 50-60. I think 50 is
>cool for now but if they do give us more I think it should be at least 75.
>As I was writing this I read more on EQVault they guy said Verant is
>thinking of raising the lvl cap to 55 or so. Gee a whole 5 lvls!!
>
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>Azor
>Lvl 18 Human Cleric of the Rathe
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