I support trading period, there's no assumption there.So, you’re saying people shouldn’t make assumptions about knocking/diss’ng trading when you just admitted to making an assumption yourself, in support of it?
Also, how can both game mechanics and the “social aspect of playing” become segregated within a MMORPG game? Can ye have one without the other?
Most people aren't making assumptions about trading, they are either yes or no pretty cleanly with ideas how it would go. The assumptions I point out have to do with social and personal concepts and conditioning that my looting effects what you get in loot and me getting something easier than you ruins the game for you. Well, sorry to burst peoples ego bubbles, but what they think about their own personal achievements doesn't have a cats fur ball to do with my game.
And yes, I do feel social/community/guild is a separate part from the technical/mechanical aspects of tlopo. They both coexist as a whole of the game. But what one does socially, even in groups who are looting has zero impact on what I find and when. A persons 'feelings' does not change a loot drop. A person like Warmonk, who enjoys/used to enjoy looting, who also likes to work on the why something drops and makes guides to share because he wants to isn't trying order you to do his theories. He just likes putting that stuff out there.
A person telling people and me that trading will ruin it for them and other people is just nonsense to me and I can't take it intellectually serious.
People attack me because they can't separate the two. It's like you're building your map and you are just making sure waypoints work correctly and doors open the right way. You aren't thinking if you should make it a blue door because 3 people said that's what they want. That is the social parts that come later during beta testing. Whether I put flower pots by the door is not a pure technical issue, but an esthetic one. If someone later said they don't like the look of that flower pot even though its not in the way, that's personal not functional.
People commenting trading will ruin it for them is purely personal not game functional. I have not seen in any trade thread yet, a real technical, game function reason for not putting trade in the game. None that hold up for a few seconds to logic.
GL