[CF List] race, profession, guild & titles

[Kimmo Hoikka]

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      You start then as "non profession" (or adventurer, but i don't like this
     
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      name).
     
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      After to join a guild, you are then a "black warrior", "priest of gorokh"
     
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      (instead of
     
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      only a follower of gorokh when you join his religion), "paladin of crown"
     
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      "archmages of bla"
     
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      and so on.
     
     
I really liked the guild system in Omega. Every player can choose the guilds to
join and then get the guild quests to advance in the guild and when you get
better status on guild you are given better bonuses.

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      Different guilds can provide different status, spells, skills. etc. etc.
     
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      This concept is very often used by muds and even helps in single as in multi
     
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      player
     
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      gaming.
     
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      Nice is, that you can build of a tree system of guilds. Means you must be a
     
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      "warrior" of level 25
     
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      or higher and you must bring a demonslayer sword (means solved demon tower
     
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      quest) to join the
     
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      "paladin of light" guild. And so on. Other guilds can only be entered at the
     
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      ends of other quests.
     
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      Imagine the guildmaster of guild at the end of the ancient pupland quest...
     
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      guilds don't must be so different, is fun enough to run around as "XXX the
     
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      paladin of light".
     
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      This bring me to titles. I prefer to delete the title change cmd for
     
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      players. So, players only
     
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      get "real" titles in the game. Means a Lord then is really a lord and so on
     
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      = "Lord xxx the paladin of light". Don't underestimate this, it gives
     
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      playing a real nice note.
     
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      Guild then often comes with a message board, etc. etc.
     
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      Things like (player)guildmaster, etc. is part of the cummunity, apart of the
     
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      technical parts.
     
     
The title system in Omega works well also. You have different titles for guilds
and it really makes the playing interesting since you can almost never achieve
the perfect char. Either you consentrate on one guild and become the master of
that guild or you join different ones and end up beeing mediocre on each (or
perhaps the champion of all after years and years of playing).

One problem in crossfire nowadays is that you can so easily get to 110 level and
have the three most important skills >100 and it only takes a few months of
play. After that you tend to loose interest, start another char or go play
something else. I think that a mud (such as crossfire) should provide years and
years or achieving and improving for the real addicts (like me ;)

Kimmo Hoikka
     
     Kimmo at Hoikka.com