So I was listening to a few podcasts to make the torture of work pass by and I heard the most interesting thing. Leveling is not going to be similar to any other MMO out there, well none that I have ever heard of doing this sort of thing. Yes, you gain levels and from the sound of it the level cap is set at 40. The deal is you don’t gain any new powers that make you so uber you can 1-shot a low level mob. They actually said in the podcast that if a level 40 and level 1 player equipped with the same items went head-to-head, they would have the same chance at hitting the other person by removeing “artifical misses” from the combat system. Very interesting, I can’t wait to see how it works.

It seems that a good portion of the game and this also means the combat system will revolve around itemization. I guess this gets the casual players involved in the game. I know first hand how frustrating some games can get, especially when your game time is limited. So not only will combat be mainly item based but you will be able to solo most of the game. The podcast even said you will be able to solo instance some areas but in order to fully enjoy the content a group is advised.

Podcast – Developer Q & A – Episode 2 and Developer Q & A – Episode 4

As more an more information is being released or atlest theorized I am getting more excited abotu this game. Today I choose to start at the beginning of it all. We are going to go over classes and factions. The factions it seems will be more tune to the PvP servers, but we will go over them anyway.

Classes or Archetypes:

• Humans – Archaeologist, Commando, Scientist and Soldier
• Non-Human – Asgards, Goa’uld and Jaffa

I will go into further detail about each Archetype as infor is being released by CME. We do know that each archetype will have 3 specilization trees. We don’t knwo if they will be like the spec trees in other MMOs

Good guys vs Bad guys:

• Union (Good Guys) : Stargate Union (Humans), Free Jaffa and the Asgard
• Praxis (Bad Guys) : OP-Core (Humans), Fundamenatlist Jaffa and the Goa’uld.

For more information see Archetypes and Factions articles at Stargate Worlds Wiki.

I wanted to do a follow-up on my last post about the game. More information has come out and it has answered some of my questions. So I hope this will answer some of the questions you have about the game as well.

What kind of servers will there be?

The game will have both PvE and PvP servers. There will be nothing special about the PvE servers. From the way it sounds the PvP servers will have PvP enabled zones but outside of those zones there is no PvP. Kris Klug says, that as of launch the PvP world(s) will be setup this way. After launch there will be an episode released that bring full scale PvP, contested cities/zones and battlegrounds to the worlds.

Transportation

There are various modes of transportation in the game. Everything from dialing a Stargate (“chappa’ai”) to travelling on a ship. The ‘gates will be active for the 38 minute cycle just like in the show. However, each person or group will be able to travel to the location they wish regardless of which address activated the gate. Also, ‘gate address will be aquired through missions and completeing story arcs. You won’t be able to teach other people the new address but you will be able to dial it for them.

That is all I am going to say for right now, so stay turned as I find out more information.