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Originally Posted by Conscio
This is just my opinion as I don't believe that it is possible to objectively define what Dodian is, but I don't think that this sneak peek is very Dodian-like.
What I think Dodian is, is a product of its time:
- A limited choice of armors that we wanted in our childhoods (god armor, whip, etc)
- Leveraged limited server technology to create unique content designs. An example of this is spawning NPCs in patterns as they cannot move around.
- Charming nostalgia over functionality. Dodian always had a client that looked close to the 317-459 era that it came from even when its competitors adopted 474+ game frames.
I worry that this sneak peek will lead to a modern looking server with Dodian inspired content, that will just play awkwardly as the two are contradictory.
Furthermore, I apologize that this may be undermining your hard work. I know that your intentions are with the community and that you're putting more effort into preserving Dodian than anybody else.
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I mostly agree with you on these things. However, we've seen time and time again that we can never successfully make a remake of Dodian. So why not take what Dodian had, and try to do the best out of it? Hopefully we can sustain a decent playerbase over a longer duration of time than we have in the past.
I will just put Dodian content into this source, then the plan is to polish it and make it more modern. I will do my best to keep the Dodian feel to this.
Either this is a hit and miss, or we succeed. Either way I'm having fun developing it.
It's no secret that Dodian's design was very bad. In 2019 it's even worse, because the standards have been growing. So that's what I'm trying to do. Dodian's concept is good, and I believe that without doing drastic changes that takes away the nostalgia, we can still make this better fitted for 2019.
Now it's up to time to tell whether we will succeed or not. I'm being hopeful! Either way, I'm having fun developing this, so if it fails, it fails, I at least enjoyed the time I spent working on it.
Lastly; about those items in the sneak peak, they were just random items I spawned, that may or may not be introduced.