Depths of Dark Hollow's Play-As-A-Monster Feature..Follow

They actually had a feature a long time ago that let you be a monster on PvP servers called the Monster Button. It lasted 1 day and it was gone. I don't know if it was taken away cause of technical issues, or cause of the gangs of large snakes eatting newbies up. In any case it was the most enjoyable day of my life, I hope this monster thing in the next expansion is as much fun.

The only thing that concerns me is that SOE will do like they seem to always do and nerf the exp of the previous expansions zones trying to get people to buy it. Anybody remember LDON before Gates???

I think the features that SOE have implemented in the past year or so have already made being a newbie easier.

i think its already nerfed fronglo

Project M was actualy tested out for months on test, where it worked as intended, and was a hoot, I loved popping up as a desert madman in oasis (which was the place to get exp before SoL came out) and sit under the dock randomly nukeing people who came to med and heal after a fight. Sadly, it did not fare well when it was moved live to the PVP servers, as to many mobs were griefing newbie chars (since PC's can't kill eachother till after lvl 10 or so). While I would love to see project M style play return it does not sound as if the DoD expansion will have the same flare. Still, I'm looking very much forward too it.

project M was actually live on -all- servers for a short while.

it was moved to pvp servers after people realized that having 500 mobs trying to kill noobs sucked, it was removed completely when people realized that hey! the same thing was true on pvp servers.

It sounds like a fun feature, but is not the primary reason I will buy the expansion.

With all the new *newbie fix's already, armor, newb zone to start ect, they should work on reworking older zones to make them more attractive or making more low-midrange zones instead of this and all the high end stuff.

They have made being a newbie easier from level 1 to 20, after that it seems like your just stuck cause so few people are your level. I have tried making alt charactors, but it seems like once they outgrow PC you can't do much unless your are super twinked, or a solo class.

I think it's very awesome, but I wouldn't buy it for that alone. I didn't quite think it had to take a backseat to the other features, so I didn't vote that way, but I'm gonna use it alot just for fun.

omg this last post.. 50-60 isnt twinked? all the expansions are basicly for 50-70's. i havent really had fun being 1-30 as i did before PoK/Lucin..now its no fun really, got to tutorial,then to PC then echo..same old

i think that being a monster will be a blast! i never got to use the M experimet thing, but i have always wanted to be a werewolf...that's the only mob that i'd pay 30$ to be....lol. i jez hope theres some midrange level things to do in this expansion too.

i am disapointed that we have to pay for getting this feature back. but hey .. it's more stuff to do other than 6 hours of lfg.

Apart from having the word "Monster" in it, Play-as-a-Monster doesn't look to me to have much to do with the old Project M concept. It would seem to be much more like EQ's answer to EQ2's excellent Mentoring system, which allows players of any level to group and get xp.

Mentoring was one of the few truly welcome innovations in EQ2 and if Monstering is anything like as good as Mentoring it could be a very significant development for the older game.

Ya, I tried that once too, but then I realized; I'm going to buy the expansion anyway, so why not enjoy the first few days before it's nerfed? It's the same $30 now as it is a month later.