sorry but WHAT?

[Chezen]

Well, perhaps anima is a viable alternative to exp loss. Of course, some might say that's too light or too heavy as well. I'm just basing my experiences off FFXI, which may be a grevious error in judgement on my part but FFXI parties are some of the best MMO experiences I've ever had.

It goes to the development team to dissect them and see what made them so glorious. Perhaps death penalties had absolutely nothing to do with their success. It just irks me that I feel nothing when I eat dirt.

Some say dying itself is a deterrant to poor playing. I would disagree, I just flippantly swing at it if I think I have a chance to kill it and die if I don't. I would be much more cautious and therefore more excited if I just barely won (or lost.)

Well... I've had some time to really think about this at this point... Currently I do a lot of solo play, so my points are very hard earned. Not that I mind. But I did once play an mmo where I was part of a group, and it had a really large xp death loss. I was (still am! ) a healer, so between that and the xp loss a teammate would get if I failed, maybe that's why I have a healthy respect for not dying, even if the penelty is no longer there. I was really glad to play games without xp loss, so I never really thought about where my motivations came from. I suppose if someone never had that penalty, they might not ever developed a respect for it.

That doesn't mean that I want a points loss penalty, but maybe I understand better where you are coming from.


Edit; double posted:

I still don't understand why you create a new thread for this. Take your own advice and keep it in already established threads maybe? That way you don't seem like such a hypocrite. Way to "Like!" your own posts btw!

Um, I liked some of her posts. I tend to agree with what she has to say. She just needed to tone down inflamatory comments. Which she is trying to do.