Class Base Stat Listings

On the character creation screen, could you put the stats each class starts with in the discriptions? would be a bit tedious for you but it would be a great benefit to new players, or rather people who have played a little bit who are making new chars.

[doctor-warlord]

yeah that sounds like a good idea

I approve, especially when people start paying for accounts, they should be allowed to see stats before they pick their class so they know what they're getting into.

Then again, I'm assuming everyone will start with a free account and be able to "upgrade" it from there so everyone will have a chance to play around with the classes. The worst you'll end up doing is wasting the name you really wanted on a class you decided wasn't for you.

Still, I'd think it would make it a little bit more inviting to get people in the game and paying for it if stats were available.

Then on the other hand again, if they're a new player, is seeing the stats going to help them much if they don't know what they mean? Then you have to make sure you put in mouseovers for all the stats describing them.

That's as far as I'd go though.
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[doctor-warlord]

well it could show a description page where stats are explained before you go to class selection page that would solve the problem of explaining the stats if they get show on the page you choose class on

just some numbers in the rollover screen would be good. we should make a fan site or something with stat explinations jeff can shove a link to on char creation much like the class guides beatofficer wrote in early rwk. be good for the new players

[doug]

like the char stats u get for rwk a bit like the plus and minus and stuff
and what bonus

yeh tht be an idea though

Again maybe this is something we can do on an unofficial help site to help get things rolling, thats if jeff doesnt do it on char creation. hopefully he will.

[Glitchless]

it's too much info for the new players to take in, you'll have to list it somewhere here on the forums for advanced users.

Im not convinced it is i mean maybe when your talking new as in 1st time on the site type but they are just gonna go for the one with the coolest name/symbol its more for the 2nd r 3rd day when they decide to be a little more tactfull about char building. you could say some of the descriptions are a bit over the top too, its nice to add a little lore or whatever but for example when i started i picked rouge coz of what it mentions about sneak attacks and **** not that it has anything to do with the game. if there were stats and stuff listed i would have taken more time to read up on what they all do etc. thats just me and i guess i dont represent the vast majority of players.

In a related topic you think you could give us some hosting for a kind of player ran help site thing? just some basic char building infos and stuff be good for everyone and with a www.nodiatis.com/whatever URL make it a bit official just be alot tydier than the forums etc

While we're on the topic of character creation, though, I always thought some of the games that put a bunch of mysterious questions in their character creation were so cool! And how you answered the questions would alter your character's stats (though it wasn't immediately apparently how everything added up).

The game off the top of my head that did this was Ogre Battle for the SNES, but I've seen it in at least one MMO also (unforunately the character creation part of that game was the ONLY thing that stuck out about it for me because the name escapes me).

[doug]

anyway of us doing tht quickly jeff ?

without having to make a char of every class ?

or what

[doctor-warlord]

yeah it would take a long time to make a char of every class