- Number of bears killed
- What monster class has done the most damage to you
- What monster you have killed the most
- Your favourite weapon
- Number of Dungeons completed successfully/unsuccessfully
- Number of treasure chests opened
I think viewable statistics on a guild charter for each member would also be very cool to have. Here are some examples:
- Number of hours online since joining the guild
- Number of guild battles won/lost
- Number of raids participated in
- Gold donated to the guild
- Quest assists you have provided to buddies
The greatest area for viewable statistics would be in the realm of PvP. WoW already shines in this area, providing PvP players with an easily readable list of who's doing the most damage/healing/kills/flag captures etc on the battleground. Sadly, Guild Wars, which is renown for it's PvP doesn't have anything of the sort. It would be great if the game had a reward system for the player who finished top of the PvP list. For example the player who finishes top could receive double honor/faction points or get a special token that could be traded in for elite PvP gear.
Viewable statistics are the kind of polish that would make any MMORPG that little bit better. It's not a new concept, I remember being able to view stats about my character in Baldur's Gate. I just hope to see more of it in MMORPGs in the future.
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You referred to raids and how nice it would be if you could tell how much dmg/healing everyone is doing. Nowadays you can download mods for the game that will tell you this stuff, so there isn't a desperate need to add it to the game.
I don't quite understand what you mean when you say it will add polish, certainly it would be very interesting, but it could quite easily bog down the game. For instance if you press tab in a raid it brings up all the dmg/healing stats, wouldn't you have to change it when your soloing?
And if the game provided an entire list of statistics about the various creatures you have killed and your favorite weapon while it would give a sense of achievement I don't feel that it would offer much else. You don't really need to be told what your favorite weapon is or the spell you use most often.
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'I'm talking about the millions of tiny statistics generated from performing actions in an RPG world'
I don't feel that millions of statistics would add a whole lot to the game, and definitely not polish.
Saying all this I agree that mmorpgs need to provide you with more personal achievement stats, such as the most damage you did will a melee weapon, but its vital that they would have to pick and choose which stats to show, otherwise it would be overwhelming.
chappo said: "I don't quite understand what you mean when you say it will add polish". Showing and gathering statistics wouldn't really be necessary, but I think that it could make a good game better. Hence the 'polish'.
Some of the examples I gave weren't particularly good (i.e. fav weapon), and I understand that some WoW mods allow you to view raid stats, but it would still be nice to have it built into the core of the MMORPG. Imagine playing WoW without the raid and PvP stats they have. It would be just that little bit worse off.
The exact stats that people want to know most, would depend on the game, but I definitely think PvP statistics are a necessity.
The upcoming Warhammer Age of Reckoning has got a very nice statistics/story function that is called "the Book of Knowledge". Keeps track of your number of kills of all possible sorts of monsters and gives you cool titles and XP-rewards at certain amounts. It also remembers all the quests you have ever done, and similar. Have a look at this video for a quick guiding to it:
http://www.tentonhammer.com/node/29517
Awesome!! I knew that the Tomb of Knowledge was going to be cool, but I didn't exactly how cool. Cheers heaps for the link Mellon.
My pleasure really.
I had the opportunity to play WAR for a couple of hours during Dreamhack. The ToK is at least as awesome as the video makes it out to be. Now I'm just trying to preach the word to everyone so I'll have plenty of people to play with :-)
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