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well, sometimes even the "big ones" can make mistakes, but this one's especially funny: basically, blizzard managed to implement a disease "feature" that brought down whole servers
http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=10760041

...yes, not exactly tmw-related, interesting read nonetheless i think.

remember this when you start implementing poison spells/stuff, maybe it'd be better if it didn't spread to other beings

why not? diseases are an interesting feature. i played another mmorpg which had a disease feature, too. but the difference was that it was planned by the game designers and that you could make a quest to make yourself immune to it.

could be funny to have an infectious disease, too. but the players should of course be able to heal themself from it. would be interesting to watch how fast an epidemy gets around the server and if the players can manage to get rid of it.

I read about that... lol
It's interesting but killing all low level Players is not a good idea...
Such a thing shouldn't really kill. It should be very annoying though.
But in my opinion it shouldn't affect NPCs

yes, or at least the npcs should die too. so when at some point everyone's dead at the same time, the epidemy vanishes. they really outdid themselves there, with infected -immortal- npcs all over the cities.

yeah I thought you could kill npcs on there but guess some are real high level so they wouldnt die from it... so they spread it also? thats funny

they shouldnt have it be as bad or have it not last forever or whatever

yeah, read about it just after it started. ITS F*CKING AWESOME! It makes me almost want to play it

a disease >.> hmm, well in one way, its good, in another its bad

Good: Players can work together to get rid of the disease

Bad: Theres always the annoying people who walk around infecting everyone on purpose.

Its not a big deal anymore... i play on Moonrunner and Dark iron US version