Ahoy! If'n ye parrrrchase thee limited arrrrdition pirate persarrrna and ship in a bottle mount, matey.
Players: "Can we have ship-to-ship combat?" Designers: "No, we have ship-to-ship combat at home." Ship-to-ship combat at home:
Nah we aint getting ship to ship. That takes years, decades with this engine. If its EQ3 and modern engine, very possible not within a year, within quarter. Someone who UE5 for fun, they already ship steering and everything down. 1 month SOLO coding. "EQ, they lack dev's, the team is to small, yada yada yada" hold my beer. SOLO ship steering, geometry, wind, and everything, done. UE5 did 90% of the work, 5% just put the pieces together, 5% was asking chatgpt. Meanwhile EQ, they would need 5 extra years, its very complex to do on an old engine. Without those dev's who were craving just to work on weather and all the fancy stuff. Those hardcore dev's gone. "we will wind, weather, all of the nice soon" Karanas do have weather they did make progress. Something better than nothing. However, those guys are gone. long gone. Voice AI, done. EQ years decades. Good engine, within the quarter it'll be done. People already got EQ in VR. EQ EQ, Meanwhile, 64 bit, UI engine upgrade. This is why old games where they let community go ham. Starcraft Used Map Settings Quake1, all those Quakeworld maps That is reason why those games exploded. Games today, no touching. Wait 2 years for the UI upgrades. Doesn't matter if someone else SOLO does it in like within a quarter This is why other games better wikis and what not https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/API:Main Go ahead make fancy stuff. EQ https://www.reddit.com/r/everquest/comments/n9p0fn/everquest_api/?rdt=40653 https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq/index.php?threads/everquest-1-api-key.288187/ No, no touchy. Do stuff the hard way, output file and yada yada EQ in their dreams they wish they could do this https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Event_timers EQ in their dreams they wish 10 years later, there LFG system would still popping. GW2, find the meta zone, find the biggest squad, join. Easy join. Easy doing 54+, 100+ people stuff