A MMORPG where players can engage in role-playing with other users online.
Character progression in Vendetta Online largely depends on the playstyle of the player. While the starting Nation affiliation provides certain benefits and liabilities to the player, the character's progression is entirely up to the player's individual playstyle, be it peaceful trading, military piloting, or dastardly piracy. Moreover, the game universe features both lawful and lawless regions and various factions with differing motives and alignments that determine the game's complexity. Players are required to align themselves with the factions that suit their personalities and objectives.
The game's character progression mechanics involve improving a variety of skills and attributes that can potentially unlock new gameplay content such as ships, equipment, trade items, and even missions. Players can increase the general activity-related to specific skills by doing things such as trading, but completing missions generally proves to be faster in increasing skill levels. Also, completing missions can yield better item prices, a wider item selection, access to rare "special" equipment, and rising in the esteem of a given faction.
The highly-customizable ships and various designs and add-on modules that are available to load equipment expand the flexibility of the ships in Vendetta Online. Players can configure the colors of their individual ship to their liking, opening up infinite possibilities for customization. Certain ships in the game are best-suited to perform specific tasks like combat or trading, while others maintain their flexibility based on the player's configuration.
Vo launched in North America in late 2004, and since then, the game has undergone significant continuous full-time development to get closer to its intended goal of "version 2.0" in 2007. New patches, upgrades, and releases are often seen weekly, enhancing the game's complexity. Unique to Vendetta Online, players contribute to its development, creating new content via the Player Contribution Corps toolset to develop new missions and features. The core development team frequently interacts with the game's user base, posting and responding daily to inquiries and suggestions, ensuring the integration of user-requested features within days or weeks.
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