Well, since this is the Seed RP community, I doubt you'll get many answers other than:
"for the RP"

Any reason for people to do anything in game like repairing, should be IC: to restore the Tower, for instance.
Getting rich is the kind of thing people only do on the short term, it's not a good goal to have in a game, and certainly not a good thing to base a game on.

Yeah... story is everything, basically.

Last edited by Norah (2007-02-07 19:03:33)

It was for RP and because i wanted to know the end of the story. To me seed was like a book where you are the hero.
When you create a character in a game, you usually kill monster, earn item, make some quest.. If you create a new one 2 month after, it will be the same monster, same quest.. same story. Seed was a daily surprise.

Well, in fact i's like to explain myself better but my english is too bad

Oh you mean, in a game everything should have an effect on everything else?
I'm already thinking of how I can make the game as complex as possible.

Let me give an example: (it may sound stupid ^^)
In a game there are 3 objects. 3 Computers. Computer A is standing on the coordinates 0/0 Computer B is standing on 10/0 and Computer C is standing on 67/58.
If these Computers work together on <anything>, then Computer A and B can work good together, because they (normally) don't have such a high ping, like Computer A and C.

Okay.. that's an example. Is it that what you mean with "everything (here: distance) should have an effect on everything (and so on the story)"?

Or do you only mean things like "I've killed that monster named 'Gragh Boss', so why can other players kill it too?".

Or both? Or neither one nor the other thing?

Another exemple can be esme's tree. Esme tought that the tower had not enough green so she wanted to make a tree grow, AD and runestone accepted and we finally had this:

The game was changed, the history too.

You just make it heard in the game.
Usually yes, the GMs pass it on to the devs.
We had a GM team of live actor NPCs.
Those are indispensable.

Yes, and it was realistic.
If you wanted to build that Chimbot robot, for example, you had to make the plans for each robit part, submit them for approval, and also be able to gather the needed resources in the game, or it wouldn't happen.

Roleplaying...being part of the story that was going on. Being able to have an effect on the story is what made seed very interresting imo... No other (computer)game I have played has had this aspect

It's all been said already. There were three big things in Seed that made me come back. The roleplay - being a major part of the gameplay, the plot - evolving and being pushed forward by player characters' actions, and the style - I guess it was the most stylish MMOG I ever played.

Awww, thanks Feelix!

I played Seed because of the RP. Because you had little control of events, so you always have to come up with a reaction or a solution to the situation. So it was having a story develop all around you and being part of that story that was important. And in my case trying to manipulate things to go the way Esme wanted them to!

As for the tree, I guess I can possibly answer that reasonably well being both player and GM. I don't know how the idea started, but Esme was certainly very vocal about wanting more green in the Tower. Whether the Devs or GMs picked up on it first, I'm not sure, but due to their huge ingame presence I would guess the latter. When I became a GM I discovered that the Devs had a tree ready and the next step was to encourage the community to want and plant a tree. This involved much RP, encouraging players to think about how they could create a tree and even why they would want one - yes I remember the lack of interest from some characters keenly! To be honest there were some nervewracking times for me, and we came close to not getting it there as this was player driven. We (GMs and Devs) may have wanted it badly, but if players had ridiculed the whole idea it simply would not have happened. Thanks to everyone taking part and then Quanto stepping in at the last minute to dedicate his marvellous machines to the sole job of creating it, Esme's Tree was born and saw the light of day. I honestly had tears in my eyes when I saw it

Such things are not complicated programming, but they are intensive in organisation. Maybe having a situation that has two solutions, and the solution that is used is dependent on the way your players interact with the item. The thing I loved about Seed was that some things happened only once. As Norah has already stated, doing the same quests over and over becomes boring so to have a change from time to time is good. In Seed we had repetative elements that were a means to an end. Like in real life, you work to get money, generally repeating set tasks. But what you do next can often have a permanent change, say you buy that book you want. You're not going to buy it twice are you? (Blatenetly ignores the stack of books that she's accidently bougth twice!)

Esme

forum necrofiliac!

anywho, my reason can only be that my boss made me a very traumatic period in my life

/me pokes Mecha