> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Honeyman [mailto:honeyman@...]
> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 8:25 AM
> To: 'eqbards@onelist.com'
> Subject: RE: [eqbards] Surfing gone
>
>
> From: Ryan Honeyman <honeyman@...>
>
> > As for new graphics for armor, I doubt they'll provide
> different looking
> > armor types except in the expansion. Verant's put in a lot
> of effort to
> > minimize the different "looks" of armor out there and
> basically take the
> > armor that is already in the game, and "colorize" it to
> represent different
> > types. The banded armor for Half Elf is also used for
> "blackened" armor. The
> > "bronze" armor is used for Mithril/Lambent/Plate (probably
> barnacle) and I
> > believe Imbrued.
>
> On this issue, I understand the technical reason why they made so
> few textured armor looks. It all boils down to leather/chain/plate
> with colorization across all races.
>
> My gripe is that once you reach higher levels you should stand out
> with the best armor / weapons in the game. Right now I look like
> a L20 bard, but instead of bronze (orange) plate I have inbrued
> (pee yellow) plate. People say, nice Yk and Fine Steel Morning
> Star? Why do you wield that? Can I buy yer Yk, pls... And I'm
> like dude, get lost, heh... it's not a friggin Ykesha, and this
> 'fine steel ms' would clobber you. hehe.
>
> Verant did a poor job of holding people's interest in the creative
> department. They just continue to reuse the same graphics over and
> over. I mean the Plane of Sky... how embarrassing. They
> took faerie
> graphics and imp graphics (god I'm tired of imps) and just
> scaled them,
> gave them 5k more hp, allow them to hit for 195+ and viola,
> a new area.
> Gimme a break. I'm reluctant to pay 230p to get in and
> 700p to buy keys
> to cross what appears to be the desert of Ro in the air,
> just to meet
> up with some f'ing imp who can kill me by triple attacking
> in the 190s
> in less than 2 seconds. No thanks. hehe.
>
> Plane of Sky is a flop. They are going too far with this
> monkey sink
> bs. Time to go beat up some ice giants now for the cash to hit the
> plane so I can die to find out what goodies are up there, if any.
Lol! Man, I'm just tired of seeing a "goblin" appear in every zone! How many
different colors can they paint these things and their "crack"? :-)
In fairness to Verant, they're trying to create more space and spice things
up without needing to engineer new graphics/creatures/landscapes, etc. I'm
sure all of their top people who would create these have been working on
Kunark. I'm all for more zones/space on the servers. I'm surprised they
don't have some type of air goblin though. :-)
---Windleaf