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Stop feeding the trolls.

Remember, with an additional measurable "karma" bulb,
there will be 4 bulbs all together, including vitae, mana and morale,
as Mickey proposed.
This might make the players chase after some digital points they can count,
instead of having fun.

It would be fun if the player would be allowed to add a sledgehammer to his
jewelers toolkit and when he uses it, the game returns:
"You smashed the gem into millions of pieces!!! Are you crazy?!?"
And then later on there would be some secret end-game potion recipe
that requires gem powder...

Working with others is a good idea, but to a certain extent.
Certain actions like lifting something heavy or tugging a rope
would require teamwork, but not solitary perception crafting.
I do not get jingles and happy motivating vibes when im trying
to concentrate and there is someone breathing into my neck.
Im sure all of us have tried not to think about how the person
sitting behind us in the class is basically staring down our
necks all the time. Ooh,look! He has a pimple, and its HUGE.

A sledgehammer does get jewels cut faster.

P.S. no real jeweler will chisel their diamonds, since
striking action creates fractures. Precious gems should be
cut with a fine saw, faceted on a turning wheel and polished.

Although you are correct that too much tool separation will
make obtaining crafting tools too laborious, which is no.1
game killer. Perhaps there should be toolkits for each crafting
skills. They would contain all the necessary items and the player
would be able to assemble them as they please, making possible
to assemble toolkits with different quality levels, eg "Master Jeweler Toolkit".

P.S. dont you think its funny that there is "jew" in "jewelry"?

I usually go for DPS (Damage Per Second) class.

I want bedliner armor in modern world. It's better than Daemon.

I think the north and south poles should be blocked/voided and east/west connected other wise the whole thing should be wrapped.

How come east/west are more special than north/south?
If you connect east and west, how come you can't connect north/south?

On a spherical object, such as a physical real-world planet, all poles are "connected".
You said yourself that you wanted an open, dynamical sandbox world.
Blocked north/south don't seem quite open to me.
Is it really that difficult to wrap all game world edges into the opposite edge?

Preferring the cylindrical model is like saying that i can travel from London to Peking and
around the world in eastward direction back to London again, while I can't take off with
a plane from London to Antarctica and around the world in southward direction back to
London, because there is some magical barrier splitting Antarctica in the middle.

Or, how about eliminate Character Level entirely?
What is the char level required for?
To increase character stats (str, dex), im assuming.

Some other smart people already suggested in some other
thread to eliminate char stats all together and implement
them as skills.

Training at the gym and lifting heavy weights increases str,
shooting a bow increases dex.
You wouldn't need character level anymore and skill points
would be awarded by performing the actions that are governed
by their respective skills.

As for the char count per an account, since the limited 1 char option
per account has been used to prevent player abuse, there is really
no need to limit char numbers, if it is possible to prevent the player
from interacting with his other characters and their land and items.

If you (mickey) code the server to hide all relevant character items
for same IP/MAC address multi account logins, the player is unable to
transfer items between characters and this makes multi accounts pointless.

Items dropped on the ground and traded by other players should be also
hidden for accounts logging in from same IP. This should also apply to
5 characters per account. The player is allowed to have multiple characters,
but the chars won't be able to interact with each other.

The player can't also drop something and login with another account, because
the server remembers dropped item previous owners and references them with
new login IP-s and MAC addresses. If there is a match, the items are hidden
for the matching IP and the ground tile or chest will appear empty.

To avoid ground tile item collisions, it should be possible to put many items on
the same tile. Those other players who are not affiliated with the dropped items
see all of the dropped items. Those who are multi-accounting see only the items
that belong to other human players, not to their other accounts.

This also means, that when another player picks up an item to trade it between
other player characters to circùmvent the cheat protection, the "Complete Trade"
button is gray and it is impossible for a second player to be the middleman in this cheat.

I like "crotch" better.

Full virtual 2D sphere gives the best open and unlimited globe world illusion.
You can literally go around in circles as you please and circùmvent the globe,
as you can do in real life.

Besides, this configuration provides the best gameplay experience.
It would be weird, if it would be implemented in some limited form as suggested
in previous posts.
It would make me ask: Why can't I walk from one side to the other?

All such limitations are well defined in the book "Game Architecture and Design"
as one of the biggest pitfalls game devs tend to make.
Yes, I am reading actual literature on game development.