[crossfire] races, classes, and play style

[Mark Wedel]

  Having played guild wars a lot, and aside from the pvp combat aspect, another 
thing to do after completing the quests is to get titles.

  There are around 30-40 titles.  For some titles, just completing all the 
quests will get you pretty close to maxing it out (most titles have different 
levels as you accomplish things).

  There is a mix of different titles - some you get a decent way along just by 
doing the main quests.  Some more track progress - for example, one needs keys 
of varying value to open treasure chests (which themselves are fairly rare), and 
one title tracks how many 'high end' treasure chests you have opened

  Another corresponds to complete exploration of the campaign, another related 
to killing certain things in certain areas, etc.

  While most of these are really just grinding things out (going to map and 
killing things), it at least provides some progress indicator.

  In a sense, one reason many folks try to max out exp in crossfire I think is 
because it is the only real indicator of progress.

  Having alternative titles like this may provide something else for players to 
focus on.  I imagine one could track all sorts of things in crossfire via plugins.

  Off the top of my head, one could have an alchemist type title track, which 
instead of just recording amount of exp in the alchemy skill, tracks instead the 
number of different alchemy formulas the character has successfully made.

  One could also have something like 'artifact finder' which tracks the number 
of unique artifacts the character has had (this would likely require some work 
to note what is a unique artifact).

  Now granted, these may just be titles that result in players slogging through 
dungeons, but it is up to the players if they want to do that.