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yes, If you think about this it may help a bit. Say you want to be king... Who will build your castle? A Carpenter. Who will built his blue prints? An Architect.

King needs a: Carpenter to build Castles
Carpenter needs a: Architect to build designs
Architect needs a: Merchant to get brushes
Merchant needs: farmer, fisherman, wood cutters, etc to get items.

This is just a small thing.
Only carpenters can build things, farmers farm, cooks cook, wood cutters to gather wood, theives steal, etc. Everyone is important and all have differant things to do. But everyone can fight. That is why I created the stat points and stat levels.

There could always be the guilds of people who are working together.

Example - Merchant guild, Architect guild, Carpentry guild.  Each of them would have a members who work together on jobs and then send the supplies to the architects, then they work on it before passing it on to the carpenters, who complete the work. 

I have seen it done before.  It does take time, but the work is efficient and they usually offer discouts ;)

There are also groups that may combine merchants, architects, and carpenters, calling themselves maybe "The Builders Guild" or something fancy.  Their job would be building things of course.  Each part of their group would gather the resources needed and make a building. 

so the skills would be kind of like runescape? (don't flame me here)

I mean, every skill has it's use, and it all helps combat in a certain way and there's plenty of skills to level.

i think it shud be at least 3 skills...

The reason Im trying to limit people to one skill is because I want to make this so you need everyone. If you want someone to work for you to help you get stuff then you can do it that way. I know on runescape you can do everything by your self and that the thing I hate about it. Its not a team game. I like games where you work together

Well thats something I will have to think about. Ok because you guys want to do a little of everything this is what I will do. There will be skill levels for each skill. So a farmer may be able to cook a little but not as good as a cook. A cook can farm but not as good as a farmer. This means a cook can only cook the best of the food.

I will knit a sweater while I wait...

/sarcasm

Will there be RPing? :)

any one have more ideas

never

*punches Okam's nose

"If is was, they would let me beta-test!"

THERE'S A FREAKIN BETA SIGNUP LINK ON THE HOMEPAGE!

*falls over

"Sorry..."

what sthe link to it

is your mmo made yet?

l im checking it out, i  liked some of the ideas so i hope this is good :D

   Ok, it looks interesting, I thought you had a bigger-budget type of game in mind.  But it's very cool that you actually made a game at all  :D     anyways good luck with it.

http://www.nowhere-else.org/rpg/

http://www.kingdomwarz.com/RPG/nbase.php

almost exactly the same -.-

Hmmm... my friend is one of the creators of Nowhere else and beyond... wonder if he knows about that...

    I can name lots of MMO's with few-no bots. MMO's screw up in lots of other places way before they screw up there. 

   Runescape had so many bots it was ridiculous last time I was there, maybe they fixed that?

yeah Runescape is much much better now....u barely see any bots these days...to be honest, i havent seen a single bot for like the last 3-4 months..

How's that?

I won't bother explaining that demonslayer... it'd take me 2 pages...

and PvP worlds suck, drops are lame and too many pjers.

so you talked 2 pages long about the perfect MMO.

than you copied a game, which isn't very good. And wrote YOUR name as the creator of the game..

lame dude... lame...

If you are planning to make your own game, I'd suggest you start with very small one and grow it up gradually. I've seen so many software projects fail because of trying to make it perfect and big the first time (or first iteration). Won't happen and you will fail if you think you can... unless you have A LOT of resources and can take risk and know what you are doing.

Do few days of research on backgrounds of similar projects, search from google "why software projects fail", read about agile methodologies like Scrum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(development)) and check other methodologies as well (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_development_philosophies).

I was actually once planning to start creating my own VU like game and still might at some point. But I would start by creating first a possibility to move "pieces in a board" or armies in a map. Then see about creating maybe two races that fight each other and when that is actually working... start to build up more features in it.

Deliver fast, deliver early, iterate, and grow the software gradually. Make it work the first week, and not after "you have it all done". Test it all the time and get feedback.