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BTW, the screen shots they have are old ones from the beta, using the skeleton graphics engine. They have stated that they know the graphics suck and had not implemented the new engine at the time those were taken.

* No levelling treadmill

There are no character levels in Roma Victor. None. Instead there's the huge, diverse skill tree that we've already mentioned. There are no level-based restrictions by design or consequence like you'll find in most MMORPG's. You won't be forced to find people of a similar level in order to play in a group and you won't be restricted to certain types of encounter. Of course this also means that you won't be trying to catch up with friends that have played more than you (and therefore 'levelled' faster), or indeed trying to slow your own development and/or 'level up' your friends so that they can come and hunt with you again. Character development in Roma Victor is much more like real life.

* No camping

There are no fixed regular spawns, no uber loot drops and no reasons to find yourself having to sit at a certain location waiting for hours on end for your group's turn to kill something and loot it. The world is dynamic and varied and NPC's have their own 'lives'. If you run into some bandits on the road between Eboracum and Londinium then that's because those bandits are 'working the road' and they'll be doing so until killed, captured (and usually sold) or chased off. If a group of barbarians should find themselves at a Roman villa, are confident that there isn't sufficient Roman support nearby and raze the villa to the ground, taking what loot they can, then that villa has been razed. Someone (NPC or player) would have to repair the ruin, renovate and reoccupy it before they'd be able to consider raiding it again.

Hair grows when you're not online and you'll have to get it cut if you want to keep it short. Like most things, with the right tool and the right skill someone can perform an essential service for the community.

Unfortunately due to technical limitations, hair length will only be visible in certain steps or stages but if you let your character go ungroomed then it might end up pretty hairy - depending on your character's ethnic origins.

Female characters have less problems than males in this respect - they don't grow beards and women with long hair are socially acceptable throughout the 'known' world. I guess that's part of the trade-off for having some slight physical limitations during character creation. There are interesting parallels with real life here, which I don't really want to touch with a barge pole. But when we're recreating the competitive and social dynamics of the world as close to historical circumstances as we can, we can't avoid bumping into a few.

Anyway along with dirt, hair growth is actually a surprisingly substantial part of existence in 180A.D. When was the last time you had your hair cut?

-KFR

P.S. If you're offline for a month, you've been away for quite a while and you'll certainly want to at least freshen up.

These look good to me.

Yes, been keeping an eye on this for a while now. Seems almost too good to be true. I wonder if this little company can pull it off.

If they don't make graphics a priority, it will get easier (I hope)

That's a catch-22. If they don't, the game will lose a lot of it's appeal, but then maybe I'm just shallow

That's a catch-22. If they don't, the game will lose a lot of it's appeal, but then maybe I'm just shallow

Doh! Those idease are almost copied verbatim from our game development forum!!! We must have a mole in our midsts!

Convenient that Mole has only posted there once and said he hoped to post again soon...

Wanted List
Any player character that kills a member of your guild (including NPC's hired by your guild) will be placed upon your guild's Wanted List. NPC's hired by your guild will be extremely aggressive towards characters on its Wanted List. Also characters on your guild's Wanted List will be highlighted as such when inspected by player members of your guild. Characters remain on your Wanted List until killed by one of your guild or manually removed by someone belonging to one of the top two ranks within that guild.

Note that players can be placed on their own guild's Wanted List and if they are killed by a member of their own guild, their killer does not then become wanted.

Now this is funny....

These are the fruits of a dev team that has a logical though process, listens to its fans, and has no abortion of a licensing agreement with a washed up director.