My 2 Cents...

[cybin]

Here are my questions....

Will there be any kind of trading between different countries/cities? Am I able to make profit by delivering goods from one city to another? When traveling around I would like to see that there are different goods available. Or will there be trading posts spread over the world to make goods available worldwide?

What about the trading skills, will there be any unique items to produce? AFAIK most trading skills are somewhat worthless because you can get better items by killing some bosses. Except alchemy and stuff. But as you told that someone can't be a master blacksmith and master swordmanship too, I guess that there will be some great armor or weapons you won't get elsewhere.

Will there be soul bound items?

Did you think about audio chat? I would like to have an audio chat built-in. Not a group based chat, but an environmental one that I can talk to surrounding players. My idea is to have certain volume level that fades by distance. Of course, that will take a huge amount of bandwith, but I think it's worth it. You will have a great deal of immersion.

Will there be any teleportation spells, or do I need to travel by feed or mount? I would welcome traveling around as long as there are good stories told in the small villages. I would like small places with storylines that advance by doing certain quests, instead of 'deliver this', 'kill that', 'get that item' by several peoples.

What about ingame movie sequences? The storytelling is one of the last feature current MMORPGs take care of. AFAIK only Final Fantasy XI have a different storytelling at least for the missions. I want to see short movies while I'm advancing in a storyline. It's far more fun to see acting people than reading one questscroll after another.

That's my two cents. Please bear with me when these questions already has been asked.

best regard,
cybin

[ccoa]

Originally Posted by cybin

Here are my questions....

Will there be any kind of trading between different countries/cities? Am I able to make profit by delivering goods from one city to another? When traveling around I would like to see that there are different goods available. Or will there be trading posts spread over the world to make goods available worldwide?

Not sure on this one, but I really hope so. Sort of like an EVE-like trading system would be really nice along with a black market and contraband would be amazing.

Originally Posted by cybin

What about the trading skills, will there be any unique items to produce? AFAIK most trading skills are somewhat worthless because you can get better items by killing some bosses. Except alchemy and stuff. But as you told that someone can't be a master blacksmith and master swordmanship too, I guess that there will be some great armor or weapons you won't get elsewhere.

Yes. Crafters will more than likely be the basis of aquiring weapons and armors since they can produce cheap and effective equipment in mass since most people will lose their loot in a fight due to full loot.

Originally Posted by cybin

Will there be soul bound items?

No.

Originally Posted by cybin

Did you think about audio chat? I would like to have an audio chat built-in. Not a group based chat, but an environmental one that I can talk to surrounding players. My idea is to have certain volume level that fades by distance. Of course, that will take a huge amount of bandwith, but I think it's worth it. You will have a great deal of immersion.

Not sure about this one, even if it is in most people will resort to using their 3rd party voice chat like Ventrillo or Team Speak.

Originally Posted by cybin

Will there be any teleportation spells, or do I need to travel by feed or mount? I would welcome traveling around as long as there are good stories told in the small villages. I would like small places with storylines that advance by doing certain quests, instead of 'deliver this', 'kill that', 'get that item' by several peoples.

As far as we know, yes there will be some sort of teleportation system but it won't be very easy to teleport from place to place. And no mining a resource then teleporting back to safety.

Originally Posted by cybin

What about ingame movie sequences? The storytelling is one of the last feature current MMORPGs take care of. AFAIK only Final Fantasy XI have a different storytelling at least for the missions. I want to see short movies while I'm advancing in a storyline. It's far more fun to see acting people than reading one questscroll after another.

Not sure about this either, but I too like the idea of movie sequences. Maybe only for special quests like the once in a server quests invlolving killing that epic monster that doesn't respawn.

Originally Posted by cybin

That's my two cents. Please bear with me when these questions already has been asked.

best regard,
cybin

This could help enlighten you on some other things that you might be curious about, though not all of it is final and could possibly be misread/interpreted.