The side of Sorta Good

Imerprials:
Space Marine(Assault, Devastator, Tactical)
Sister of Battle
Imperial Assassin
Imperial Inquisitor

The Eldar:
Various Aspect Warriors (Banshees, scorpions, Reapers, spiders, Hawks)
Warlock

The Tau:
Ethereal
Crisis Pilot
Broadside Pilot
Stealth suit

The side of Definately evil:

Chaos Marines:
Berserker
Plague marine
Noise marine
Sorceror

Orks:
Goffs
Evil suns
Bad Moons
Dethskulls

Dark eldar:
You know I don’rt know much about them- no one ever played ‘em in our group.

It is very doubtful you will play Imperial guard, Tyranids, or Necrons,

I’m sure there will be some sort of storyline that forces the Imperials, eldar, and tau to work together.

Rememebr with MMO’s it isn’t going to be exactly like the 40K universe- It can’t because if the social aspect of the game. Look at the Fantasy version- Dark elves/chaos/ and orks do not associate in that universe, yet they do in the game. Why you ask. Because there are real people behind those Characters that wanna hang out with their friends and you have to provide some choices so everyone is happy

Warcraft is on of the best games ever made, regardless of what some say. 12 million accounts speak volumes. Making a WOW knockoff would be a mistake. 40K online has to be different and fun right out of the box or it will die in 3 months. That being said the first and foremost thing they need to change is this

Tank-Healer-DPS. This is an EQ/WOW standard. This mold must be broken first. BAse the system on something else or its just WOW with new graphics.

I like Pauleos armour comments they make a lot of sense. since playing COD4 and being for the first time n my gaming career worried about my health constantly, not having HPs would be really good.

Neodaishi’s and Squidslapper’s post(s) are very good, Space wolves also have fights in company to challange for Wolf Lord status. that would be funny to see. Blackmane company no more, it is the Derek_A*s_man_66 Great company. The famous characters do deserve a place in my eyes, you cant really imagine any one else than Marneus Calgar leading the Ultramarines or Abaddon leading the Black Legion.

Maybe a points systemwould be a good idea in large combats, chosen by the server and numbers added up with non player characters if one side is down. as you can get several Imperal guardsmen for a single Space Marine. maybe that is how inter race battles could be evened up. as come on there needs to be tanks and terminators. It just would not feel right to just have footsoldiers of the 40K running around in the larger engagements.

I have been a fanof 40K since the first beeky models in rogue trader and I am very in love with the universe. I admit this is my first blog. I signed on to see if anyone had any idea what it would be about and wanted to enter some input as I was afraid what the game might become. I am happy that so many others feel the same. and as long as THQ read these articles, the game is in safe hands.

sure, higher leveled people should have better toughness and better armour, but in reality a guardsman is only human, one shot could blow his head off, thats why i agree that “inquisitor” style game mechanics could be implemented-where armour play a part in PREVENTING damage, but if a shot gets through the player only has his toughness to rely upon to determine how many shot they can take, in most situations it is about 3, mabe 5-6 for a marine, where his armour absorbed most of the damage.

this would prevent the elite culture appearing where new players get picked on, while more experienced players run about, totally invincible. eg a boltgun, which should cost alot in-game would vapourise a guardsman, but similarily a few lucky shots from a laspistol can still cripple a marine, just like in the tabletop game.

This would give range-orientated races like tau a chance, as it would be only their fault if they let a rampaging demon get too close.

it would also add a degree of realism, as when push comes to shove, there is no instance where a space marine could survive a hit from a railgun, but if it was like WoW, the guy would take 500 damage, have 999999999499 left and completely hack the tau up in close combat…

40K MMO has a much better chance to gain traction than Age of reckoning does because it has much greater separation from WoW. There is no WoW killer MMO and WAR certainly is not it as proved by launch. WoW will burn out itself over time as the industry moves on, cloning it is a terrible idea as you are cloning a game that went into development like 5 years ago.

An MMO now needs to be able to separate from WoW to be truly successful, trying to steal there userbase just does not work as proved by several recent MMO launches. You need to appeal to people who either do not like WoW or are burnt out on its game play.

Also for all you blizz fanboi’s out there you should know that when the very first warcraft game went into development it was based in the warhammer word. Games Workshop pulled the rights from them and they had to hastily create there own game universe and lore. Hence the similarities.

I’ll have to admit, the NPC chapter master thing might be our best option. Field commanders should prolly be human, though.

Btw, I’ve never played Planetside, but I just read its description recently, and its organization system sounds a lot like what we would need for the WH40k MMO. Any thoughts?

The biggest problem I forsee with player run chapters is attrition. In other MMO’s most guilds grow, peak, and peter out leaving just a hand full in the guild - In the lore, the most powerful warriors are usually the leadership - Would that make the remaining members more powerful by defualt or maybe some sort of level minumum to be chapter master?

Leaving the chapter masters as NPC’s allows the game to use them to assign missions when needed.

To Squid’s comment “you can challenge a guy to single combat and if you win you get his job. ” - I think not only would that be a good fit for Ork players, but downright manditory for advancement! A Waaaah can only have one leader… To many Nob’s in the kitchen spoil the Squigg Stew and all that.

:-)

On the other hand, having to choose between pleasing your friends and attracting fresh recruits would kinda suck. Maybe just performance-based would work fine, then. Politics would be interesting to watch, but could end up being very unpleasant.

Ooh, Ooh!! We can let the evil guys also use murder-fights! I read about that somewhere in the fluff, that you can challenge a guy to single combat and if you win you get his job.