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If the Giants can imagine, why can't we?

I found the Massively Interview to be very interesting.  My imagination started wandering.  

Hmm.   rather than having XP to level with, you would get imagination to spend on your character and environment, sort of like an alternative form of currant.   

Perhaps levels would just go away. Perhaps we would wake up some morning to find we're all at the same level with some starting amount of imagination, still in possession of all our stuff and currants.   It wouldn't exactly be like being reset, it's more like some aspect of the game would change dramatically and THAT would start from zero, or some starter number. 

Perhaps your house exists independently of housing blocks, and you choose which housing block you want to place your house in.  

Perhaps...

Posted 12 months ago by WalruZ Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • I got the exact same impression from the article. It sounds very exciting! <3
    Posted 12 months ago by Flowerry Pott Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yeah, it looks like things might get interesting. And I too've hold the same hypothesis that our levels might disappear. Just poof! No more level numbers. They might convert our existing XP, but I think starting from scratch with XP (though keeping everything else like skills and items) is pretty likely. Easier, at least, than working out some kind of conversion.That'd be a pretty drastic change, and one good justification for going back to "Okay, we're in beta and anything might change" state.
    Posted 12 months ago by Kaja Rainbow Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Perhaps the level system will be replaced with a different kind of experience indicator, such as "Newbie" for what would have been levels 0-5, and so on. 

    There is value in being able to determine who might be more experienced when looking for someone to ask a question or help with a quest (and the "give a newbie stuff" quest would have to go away or be overhauled), but probably not as much need to know an exact level number.
    Posted 12 months ago by ✰ Lorelei ✰ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • One possible less drastic change could be to award a certain amount of "imagination" at every level up under the current xp system. In that way, when this change takes place, you find yourself at a level of "imagination" that is dependent on your level.

    But the comments in the interview do seem to point more towards changing the system entirely, and that may ultimately be better
    Posted 12 months ago by Xain Subscriber! | Permalink