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What can replace grinding?

Discussion in 'MMORPG' started by Chanceux, Jan 23, 2012.

  1. Chanceux

    Chanceux Big Brute The Pit

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    I open this topic in addition to the Ogre's one. Now that it has been asked wether or not grinding is good I wanted to ask actually 2 questions :

    What is grinding for?
    - Making xp
    - find money
    - find stuff
    .... (to be updated with your answers)

    What can replace grinding?
    - Trade for money
    - exploration
    - less monsters, longer fights with more strategy (actually could lead to another topic :s )
    .... (to be updated with your answers)
     
  2. Joker

    Joker Ogre Hall of Fame Ogre Veteran

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    Grinding is to make sure you don't complete the game in 1 day. If you did why would you pay to keep playing?

    What could replace grinding? The only thing I know is a huge number of quests.
     
  3. sasuke2490

    sasuke2490 Clubbed

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    huge number of quests is basically kill 10 (insert things here) or bring 10 (insert items here) and come back. Then there are courier quests. So grinding will probably always be here. The game just has to be immersive. The devs should use users to help make their cinematics and voice casts for quests and stuff to make it more immersive.
     
  4. Drama

    Drama Clubbed with The Big Club

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    simple...music =p
     
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    ogreman

    ogreman Ogre In Charge Staff Member GameOgre Admin

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    Trading can make a game a lot of fun if it is done right. One of the best examples of that for me is the Realm Online. Trading was fun because there were rare items and all the players were on one server.
     
  6. quinn

    quinn Starcatcher Ogre Veteran

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    Skill based gameplay. Splashfighters manages to do it quite nicely.
    Or just more gameplay and plot in general, for most RPGs.
     
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    ogreman

    ogreman Ogre In Charge Staff Member GameOgre Admin

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    What keeps you returning to a skill-based game like Splashfighters, Quinn?
     
  8. Drama

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    Realm of the mad gods on the other hand *shiver* trading *vomit*

    so unorganized.
     
  9. MMOWiz

    MMOWiz Ogre Extraordinaire Ogre Veteran

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    have you been scammed when trading there?
     
  10. I would say that more gameplay variety such as more different monsters and non-repetitive quests can replace grinding. Fighting the same monster and doing the same quests is very grindy.
     
  11. IvanBooster

    IvanBooster Brute New Ogre

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    New quests and areas in my opinion are much more interesting
     
  12. StormJayne

    StormJayne Big Brute New Ogre

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    looking for in game grills... for some sparks.
     
  13. Rex

    Rex Ogre Legend Ogre Veteran

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    Daily quests that can only be completed once per day, but I'm not sure I'd enjoy the waiting process to get the reward.
     
  14. Blasphy

    Blasphy Emperor Ogre Veteran
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    Maybe do some daily quest.
     

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