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Cooperative gaming is a main component of our design.
As a result, multiplayer is essential to EXODE gameplay.
Players are very free in their decisions, and never are forced into doing one thing or the other.
There isn't any "class-limited" things to begin with (you do not need a Class X character friend to use Skill Y to make a portal to place Z), there are no magical healing, and no camping of any sort.
And there isn't any sort of forced combination, the only restrictions to a player's actions being normal material time and costs.
But isn't it reassuring to know that you are not alone, that safe havens might exist for your ships?
The game has many interesting features regarding player communications and cooperation, which provides an effective and realistic persistent multiplayer:
- The guilds in EXODE are called Factions. One of the unique features of the game is that Factions supply strong ingame bonuses to their members; players may create their own Factions, create and customize the Career Positions offered within, and thus define full Character Classes and bonuses allowed only into their ranks.
- Doing this is actually easy thanks to our opened Faction Creation Tool, which is already - or will soon be - downloadable from our website.
- The first consequence is that players have a wide range of possible Careers; the second is that they not only are interested into joining Factions, they also are quite involved into your Faction gameplay as they want to attain better Career Positions inside your ranks!
- Faction leaders are also able to define their own Missions, Operations and Campaigns, with ingame rewards for people inside their ranks. Your Faction allies will actively fight on your side! Please check the Faction system section to know more about this.
- EXODE is a roleplaying game, and when we say 'roleplaying', we *mean* it.
We go ways beyond what is done in other MMO games to ensure that roleplayers find their pleasure.
The game features a structured RPG application program to be member of any Hardcore RP server.
Always find nice people thanks to our efforts.
- Your game is your character's life.
Death for him is permanent.
EXODE is the first MMORPG to bear this feature for all people!
- Because death is permanent, people help each other.
EXODE is aimed at having a very serviceable community, one of the best ever found in a MMO game.
- Strongest cooperative multiplayer features ever found in a strategy game:
send critical information, citizens (i.e. children to move to a safest place, or yourself), or send ships and support to your allies.
- Sending your only ship to save a friend from an alien attack is epic. Because death is permanent, success will be something you will both always remember.
- Communications are filtered ; they are a gameplay feature in themselves.
To communicate with far planets, you must raise and deploy your Communications Radar.
You choose a signal power; the stronger the signal, the more players will receive it.
Unfortunately, aliens might also detect it...
- Several Factions are available - all have different background and objectives.
Become a member of the independant Serpent's League, or join the Navy and try to fight back. Some factions are featured in the download section ; you may also create your own!
Player-made factions are featured in the corresponding forum area.
In the next section we will detail one of the most unique features:
The permanent death penalty, and its related Heir System.
This is something that we feel is very powerful, and that has never been experienced in a computer game.
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