Comments on: EQ2: The Court of Innovation http://westkarana.com/index.php/2006/11/21/eq2-the-court-of-innovation/ A blog about EverQuest, EverQuest II and MMORPGs in general Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:59:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tipa http://westkarana.com/index.php/2006/11/21/eq2-the-court-of-innovation/comment-page-1/#comment-1712 Tipa Wed, 22 Nov 2006 18:26:36 +0000 http://westkarana.com/?p=411#comment-1712 Well, I only have a few hours to play each night, and not every night at that. So outlining goals is a good thing to assure you don't get stuck. For instance, I will always choose to raid if that is a choice. I will choose to get AAs for Dina (just hit 51) over tradeskilling. Dorah is my main tradeskiller, but right now I have made it more a priority to get max ally for the Court of the Coin in Maj'dul just because I haven't "done" Maj'dul and all its quests yet and she's at a good level to do them all (and last night she hit kindly and gained court access; by this morning I had her halfway through warmly through doing one +5000 faction quest and turning in a lot of tokens from tears grifter quests and killing blades.) My guild wants me to finish jewelcraft (67/70) and do tailoring (45/70). With SO MUCH TO DO (and I'm not even in a raid guild!), I really DO need to schedule my time so that I still have a chance to just kick back and have fun. Not to say that everything isn't fun! Just reading about everything I want to do makes me exhausted! Contrast that with WoW, where the only things left to do were things that bored me. Or EQ1, where all I do is raid (and I REALLY need to do more EQ1 updates; making fast progression through the Demiplane and that should be worth a post or two.) Well, I only have a few hours to play each night, and not every night at that. So outlining goals is a good thing to assure you don’t get stuck. For instance, I will always choose to raid if that is a choice. I will choose to get AAs for Dina (just hit 51) over tradeskilling. Dorah is my main tradeskiller, but right now I have made it more a priority to get max ally for the Court of the Coin in Maj’dul just because I haven’t “done” Maj’dul and all its quests yet and she’s at a good level to do them all (and last night she hit kindly and gained court access; by this morning I had her halfway through warmly through doing one +5000 faction quest and turning in a lot of tokens from tears grifter quests and killing blades.) My guild wants me to finish jewelcraft (67/70) and do tailoring (45/70). With SO MUCH TO DO (and I’m not even in a raid guild!), I really DO need to schedule my time so that I still have a chance to just kick back and have fun. Not to say that everything isn’t fun!

Just reading about everything I want to do makes me exhausted! Contrast that with WoW, where the only things left to do were things that bored me. Or EQ1, where all I do is raid (and I REALLY need to do more EQ1 updates; making fast progression through the Demiplane and that should be worth a post or two.)

]]> By: MrrX http://westkarana.com/index.php/2006/11/21/eq2-the-court-of-innovation/comment-page-1/#comment-1711 MrrX Wed, 22 Nov 2006 18:10:16 +0000 http://westkarana.com/?p=411#comment-1711 That's the thing about writing out character goals - you just about never follow them. At the same time, it seems weird to just create a bunch of characters and pretend the others don't exist while you work on one of them. At the moment I've settled on a broad-brush approach to goals with each character and avoided any lengthy descriptions that I'm going to regret because I changed my mind. It's hard to write up goals that are also fun. That’s the thing about writing out character goals – you just about never follow them. At the same time, it seems weird to just create a bunch of characters and pretend the others don’t exist while you work on one of them.

At the moment I’ve settled on a broad-brush approach to goals with each character and avoided any lengthy descriptions that I’m going to regret because I changed my mind. It’s hard to write up goals that are also fun.

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