It may be a MMO about planet colonization, but we dare you to look at the title of Planet Calypso and not imagine a neverending Jamaican party resort. In any case, the Planet Calypso team is pleased as punch to announce its 2010|2 update, which includes a whopping 80 new missions. You may recall that the 2010|1 update introduced the mission system back in February of this year.
20 of these new missions are dedicated to the mysterious Cyclops volcano (which also appeared with the 2010|1 update), with the remaining 60 devoted to the "Iron Challenge" of finding and exterminating the local critters. The latter is done, to quote the patch notes, "in order to raise awareness of firearms issues."
The 2010|2 update comes with a few other additions, as well as a trunk full of bug fixes. You can read the full patch notes over at the Planet Calypso site.
Reader Comments (3)
Posted: Apr 23rd 2010 7:11PM Loki1 said
naturally i disagree with this decision.
Quests may introduce you to some cool storyline, but most of the time they babysit you.
Also in an MMO story never matters, unless you FORCE the players to care(and thats hard to do). Players will go thru these quests, as usual, only to gain XP and new gear. I have no idea how this game works, but the trend is that of easy XP and easy gear, and skip thru useless text.
Instead, if you want to provide a central story, a theme, make it generic, dynamic, persistant, and just give few hints as to how unveil more pieces.
Quests may introduce you to some cool storyline, but most of the time they babysit you.
Also in an MMO story never matters, unless you FORCE the players to care(and thats hard to do). Players will go thru these quests, as usual, only to gain XP and new gear. I have no idea how this game works, but the trend is that of easy XP and easy gear, and skip thru useless text.
Instead, if you want to provide a central story, a theme, make it generic, dynamic, persistant, and just give few hints as to how unveil more pieces.
Posted: Apr 24th 2010 3:13AM whateveryousay said
To be fair, whether or not the story matters is all opinion. I know a few people that would love to string you up for saying it doesn't matter. I'm not one of them, of course, as I usually just skim through text in my mmo games; but i've seen the dedication from the people that live by the lore and progression of what's actually going on around them. I have to say, i'm actually quite jealous of them. I wish I could care that much about the walls of text that sit between me and my quest rewards.
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