Curiosity...

[Karnyboy]

Why has the MMO standard been no ladders in these games?

I can only think of two games where I experienced ladders Tera and Age of Conan, and even THAT was thinned out pretty well.....



Why? Why can we not climb a ladder!?!?!?

[Adrian74]

We can always climb the dunes of Sagoli dessert, It's something....

[cotti]

That would be actually interesting, since a good bunch of players always try to climb everywhere, but nearly impossible to do so. Besides the fact they have higher priorities, ladders would require new animations for each race and some extra work with hitboxes, which in turn could lead to new bugs being added - some of them of the good kind, like the glorious emote glitch from 2.0, some of the bad kind - which would bring an unknown amount of time to readjust the game engine.

Not really feasible, but it doesn't hurt to dream.

[Karnyboy]

But it's just a ladder.... do hit boxes and all that matter that much? You're just climbing it to get from Point A to Point B....you just need a command to activate the animation and away you go....CLIMB!

[Seif]

That would be actually interesting, since a good bunch of players always try to climb everywhere, but nearly impossible to do so. Besides the fact they have higher priorities, ladders would require new animations for each race and some extra work with hitboxes, which in turn could lead to new bugs being added - some of them of the good kind, like the glorious emote glitch from 2.0, some of the bad kind - which would bring an unknown amount of time to readjust the game engine.

Not really feasible, but it doesn't hurt to dream.

There are plenty of shared animations between the races so I don't quite get your argument.

I think the bigger question is what fun activities can you do with ladders if any. I'd rather see movement towards swimming petitions.

[Karnyboy]

There are plenty of shared animations between the races so I don't quite get your argument.

I think the bigger question is what fun activities can you do with ladders if any. I'd rather see movement towards swimming petitions.

While this may nto be trail blazing, but I'd prefer ladders over swimming, it's been done enough that I don't miss it if it were here or not. I haven't seen climbing ladders enough to miss it or take it for granted. lol

[mbncd]

I'm just tired of the ridiculous spirals you have to climb to get up any tall building. Gimme a ladder any day over that dizzying frustrating experience.

[BloodPact]

Why has the MMO standard been no ladders in these games?

I can only think of two games where I experienced ladders Tera and Age of Conan, and even THAT was thinned out pretty well.....



Why? Why can we not climb a ladder!?!?!?

FFXI had ladders, very few, but they were there. The one the comes to mind right now is the ladder in the Phomiuna Aqueducts dungeon. There was no character animation for climbing ladders, though, once you got close enough, your character would go into first person mode until you reached the top if I remember correctly.

[SpookyGhost]

If you believe hard enough, you can climb anything.

[Bluevann]

In FFXI's Phomiuna Aqueducts you could climb ladders. It transported you from one end to the other through a Resident Evil-style 1st person view cutscene. Good times!