So, I was on youtube yesterday watching Lets Plays of mmorpgs. Well, I got to thinking and discovered a way that a Zelda mmo could actually work, and I must say that it'd probably be the most unique mmo experience ever. It would take place after Link gets sent back in time in Ocarina of Time, because I will not allow over 9000 people being Link. Anyway, it would either be in between Ocarina of Time and Wind Waker, or it would have it's own branch in the timeline. It would not be just Hyrule, since that's too small an area for an mmo, it would take place on the entire world.

Character Creation:
When you create your character you choose the starting city first. The reason behind this is that certain starting citys will only have certain class and races, so depending on what starting city you choose, your options will change. So, say you chose your starting city to be Castle Town, your race choices would be Hylian, Zora, and Goron. Your class choices would be something like knight, archer, and merchant.
The races wouldn't just be Hylian, Zora, Goron, and Gerudo, but it would have more races from the other country as well. There would be a lot of classes like, Knight, Archer, Mage, Necromancer, Cleric, Gungnir, and Pirate are all of the classes that I have come up with. Don't worry about the class, there is a clever way to develop it.

Character Development:
The level up system is very different, in order to keep that LoZ feel, you level up by getting a heart container. When you get a heart container, not only do you get another heart, but it brings up your stats. Now, I'm going to go back to the classes for a second. Choosing your class only has a few purposes. The first being your starting stats, different classes would have different stats at the begginning. The next is your starting equipment, obviously, different classes start out with different equipment. The next is the master chests, but more on that later. Back to the heart container, it also brings up your stats and gives you a set number of points. You distribute these points between your stats. You can actually change your class from this, or multiclass. When your stats get to different point, measured by the differences, the game will ask you if you want to change your class to that class, or you can hit a button and multiclass (only on the heart container screen you can do this) and the game gives you prerequisits, which is basicly what your stats should be based on your level to multi class. Don't worry, there would be signs in town that says this stuff. The heart container will not increase your mana bar, instead, you can find a special mana bottle that increases your mana. You can find pieces of heart and whatever the equivilant of that would be for mana.

Items:

You get items the same way as any rpg, you buy them, or find them out in the wilderness. However, there does need to be a Zelda feel. When you open the big chest inside the dungeon, instead of getting an item, you get what I call an item key. In every town, there is a special shop. Instead of buying items with gold, you use the item key. Each class and multi class has it's own key, however, there is a place inside the shop where you can trade keys.

Crap, I can't remember what else I thought up, but this is still pretty impressive considering it only took an hour to think this up... Unfortunately, it took longer than that to type this up.

Oh yea! Before I forget, I will make a top ten places to live when in videogames. Please leave suggestions in the comments.