bigcountry23
10-16-2009, 01:30 PM
Many many many years ago, the EQ team had a brilliant idea on Test. It was called project M. With Project M, you could press a button on the Character select screen (aptly labled Project M) and you would randomly spawn in the game world as a monster. You had no controll on what or where you spawned as, but you were a Mob.
The idea they were testing was adding a 3rd faction to the game, controlled mobs.
I enjoyed this experiment much, whether as an Orc Pawn in Crushbone, or a Madman in the Oasis. It was interesting to see things from the mob's perspective, and you could actually level up a mob so you could have a lvl 6 or 7 orc pawn if you dedicated the time (which could really cause some trouble).
Unfortunatly, the idea never made it off test and was eventually removed from there, but the idea was popular enough to be modified and added to a later expansion.
My question is, if a server was willing to do this (a project M style, where a player could take control of random mobs) would it be possible? Is anyone currently doing this.
The idea they were testing was adding a 3rd faction to the game, controlled mobs.
I enjoyed this experiment much, whether as an Orc Pawn in Crushbone, or a Madman in the Oasis. It was interesting to see things from the mob's perspective, and you could actually level up a mob so you could have a lvl 6 or 7 orc pawn if you dedicated the time (which could really cause some trouble).
Unfortunatly, the idea never made it off test and was eventually removed from there, but the idea was popular enough to be modified and added to a later expansion.
My question is, if a server was willing to do this (a project M style, where a player could take control of random mobs) would it be possible? Is anyone currently doing this.