Project M

[ForeverLost]

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November 7, 2001
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** Project M Implemented **

Tonight we have patched something to the PvP servers that many players
have been waiting for. The ability to play that gnoll, orc, or the cute
and fuzzy rat. On your character select screen you will notice another
button in the upper right part of your screen called "Monster".
Clicking this button will randomly place you in a low-level NPC in a
random zone. You will be given full control of the creature to do with
it what you like. You may hunt and kill other creatures. You may even
attack other players.

Some things to remember when playing your own personal monster (NPC).

-You will not be able to interact with players or NPC's other than
moving and hitting attack.
-You cannot speak, trade, sell, or do anything else that a player can
do.
-You will spawn with normal loot for the monster you are playing and
Player Characters will be able to kill you for loot and experience.
-If you are a spell casting monster you might want to take a moment to
memorize some spells.
-Once you die, you will return to the character select screen where you
may choose to return as another NPC or play your normal character.
-You may gain experience, levels, and skills as this NPC, but once you
die, it is all lost. You will need to start over the next time you
choose to be a NPC character.
-You can't zone as a monster.
-Monster PCs (MPCs) can not loot, sell, or gain items. They only get
what they start out with.

This ability to play a monster is being implemented for PvP servers
only as we have no plans to implement non-consensual PvP on a non PvP
server.

However, we are still working with this system. We may find other ways
to implement Project M on the non-PvP servers that are acceptable. We
aren't done looking at the possible uses of this new feature.

^It was never mentioned in any patch notes ever again. I think once they discovered that people were griefing newbies with it, which might hurt their ability to bring in new players, it was removed and they acted as though it never happened :P

[rafaone]

haha that project was fun, i recall it too

[Norsegryphon]

I wouldn't say lowbie zones are dead here, playing PST i see numerous low levels, tho i will say, misty thicket is a ghostland, as is qeynos at some hours and even nektulos averages 2-5, but EC is always bumping, and Gfay/Butcherblock have a good amount. I'm glad to see there are others around who remember this as well as i did. But if a system like this was activated, you would see a lot more new toons made and logged in to have fun with it i think. Though being a lvl 2 spider against some asshat twink wouldn't be too much fun for the spider. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Sturgeon]

I'm all for Devs adding this to a to do list and getting to but I'm not going to kick and scream if they never get to implementing it. But yes I don't see any negatives to this project other then the amount of work that the dev team would have to implement.

[vinx]

Originally Posted by Dirtnap [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I remember it very little, I think I only did it once or twice.

Same. think i tried it but there was nobody around.. instead i switched to an alt in Gfay to look for these MPCs but i dont remember killing any [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Bigcountry23]

Kept changing mobs until I got a madman in Oasis and ran amuck until a group tracked me down and took me out. Good times. I would love to see this, even if only for a couple days (for those of you wondering what happened, it went away due to people griefing newbs)