Q. Other than your console or PC, what is the piece of hardware you can't live without? (Answer!)
Q. What sort of tools (calculators, builders, spreadsheets, etc.) do you use to plan your characters? (Answer!)
A. Tools? You gotta be joking, i play for fun
Q. If you made your own game, what would it be like? (Answer!)
Q. What are your most memorable achievements in a game? (Answer!)
A. Ryzom was the first mmorpg where i ever maxed a charater, at least in a few skills. But i cherish my "Kitin Mass Murderer" title above all others, because some very good friends grinded like hell to get the tokens required for me, and presented them to me as a gift! (Hey Ted and Vhailor and Cecil :)
Q. When you are not playing games, what do you do for fun? (Answer!)
A. cycling. photographing, hiking. wasting time with stuff like this here.
Q. What are your thoughts on roleplaying in games? (Answer!)
A. a bit of rp is fun every now and then. But i'm an ooc player mostly. But i enjoy the company of roleplayers in game!
Q. Have you ever had a romantic encounter with someone you met in a game? (Answer!)
Q. If you could meet any game developer, who would it be? (Answer!)
A. i'd like to meet a few of the people who masterminded Ryzom to find out which way they intended the game to take, had it been a bigger success.<br>And i'd like to pummel some blizzard staff for not showing any interest to make their game less haunted by gold farmers and gankers.
Q. What experience do you have beta-testing games? (Answer!)
A. i was in some betas... but its for me just a way to find out whether i like the basic idea of a game.
Q. What do your characters and avatars usually look like? (Answer!)
A. whatever i'm in the mood for at creation time. Non-human, if possible.
Q. How do you feel about selling virtual items for real money? (Do NOT advertise RMT services!) (Answer!)
A. selling? are you joking? i play for fun, don't intend to make a job out of it. If i have gear i don't need, i usually give it away to friends or guildies. If the game mechanics allow it.<br>I don't have a better idea to get game economics running, but i dislike the concept of soulbound gear.
Q. What is the most overlooked or misunderstood game? (Answer!)
Q. If you could cancel any online game, which would it be? (Answer!)
A. everything with an item shop
Q. Why do you join guilds or clans? (Answer!)
A. meet friends, have a nice chat while grinding, help each other
Q. What is your first computer or video gaming memory? (Answer!)
A. pong on a console, then, after a break, C64 games, most notably Elite, the Bards tale, Wastelands (best non-online rpg ever!), EOS... those games could keep me awake all night long :)
Q. How do you feel about playing characters of the opposite sex? (Answer!)
A. I'm indifferent. In games where having alts is feasible, i usually have chars of both sexes. By incidence, both my mains on the two games i stuck were male, but that wasn't an explicit decision of mine, at least not a conscious one :)
Q. What are the specs on your gaming rig? (Answer!)
A. lot of hp, but nothing oversized
Q. What is the most memorable flamewar you can remember? (Answer!)
A. me, Ciridemarr and Numaa on boss stealing. In ryzom, you had enemies you loved to hate :)</p><p >Also Guthgor against about anyone on the server was fun to watch and to participate.
Q. Where did you get your gaming names from? (Answer!)
A. whatever crosses my mind when i look at the char i just created and sounds ok with the game lore
A. in WoW i use carbonite quest and auctioneer mainly. Arguably, the quest helper spoils some of the fun in discovering things on your own, but what's the point in it when there's already more Wikis and helper websites out there than a yubo has lice...
Q. Have you ever had a memorable real-life meeting with other gamers? (Answer!)
A. nope, unless you count MSN chatting outside game as such
Q. Do your quiz results on GamerDNA reflect your personality, and if not, what did it get wrong? (Answer!)
A. i feel it didnt very much, but that might be due to the fact that what i like to do in a game varies a lot, depeding on my mood (and the game ofc)
A. Yes, and I have a microphone
Q. In real life, are you male or female? (Answer!)
Q. What are your favorite tabletop (RPG, board, miniatures, etc.) games? (Answer!)
Q. Do you feel relationships within games are meaningful? (Answer!)
Q. If you could bring any book, movie or comic to life in a game, which would you choose? (Answer!)
A. I'm not a huge fan of the novel and i'm a bit tired of popular books/movies being recycled as MMOs, but i feel "Dune" might be something many people would enjoy to play.<br>Stanislw Lem's novels ("Eden", "the invincible") could also be a good model for one. Even taking "the cyberiad" might make an intersting starting point, but i figure i might be the only one playing that :)</p><p >also, a western or samurai movie-like mmo might be interesting.
