[gameprogrammer] Re: MMO Idea
- From: "Laurence Grant" <larrygrant@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:00:58 -0500
Consider this
You have resource collectors you send out to perform your mining, and the
class 1 minor runs at 10 units per hour
A class two minor runs at 15 units per hour
A skilled human might collect resources at 18 units per hour, and unskilled
at 8 units per hour
During normal operations I'll just use my resource collectors, but on
certain days, maybe during or just before a large raid of an enemy base, I
know I need to stock up faster, so as one of the corporation managers I
might request a unit or two go mine, because it's critical to the raid, not
because I want to give them a boring job and not because they need to work
on leveling, but because the corporation really needs there help
Also, consider hard to reach area, up on a cliff somewhere, maybe the
resource collector can't reach it but a player with a jetpack or something
can.
I think there are a lot of ways to get people into resources collecting to
empower the corporation. It won't be there normal duties, and certainly
it's boring and no one wants to do it, but in the rate cases where the
corporation needs your help, you can feel like you're accomplishing
something.
Compared to spending hours upon hours or days upon days doing the same
repetitive task just to level your character, now that's bad, that's boring,
and that has no real purpose.
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[mailto:gameprogrammer-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Gillissie
Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 2:39 PM
To: gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Norton AntiSpam] [gameprogrammer] Re: MMO Idea
That IS cute... :)
But I was thinking more along the lines of activities such as Resource
Collection - in an RTS, I tell my drones to go collect Foofoo Dust from the
Pixie Forest. They sweep up the Foofoo Dust in little burlap baggies and
bring it back for processing. In the meantime, I'm using the collected
Foofoo Dust to build a Stench Goblin to send after the enemy commander. It's
fun to send Stench Goblins after enemy commanders. Sweeping Foofoo Dust into
burlap bags, not so much. ;)
Now, sweeping Stench Goblins into burlap bags... I would play that game. But
I digress.
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul <mailto:paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Smith
To: gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 2:06 PM
Subject: [gameprogrammer] Re: MMO Idea
On a related point, check out the community of BrettSpielWelt - there's a
game world, and if you don't want to join in with that you can just go there
to play board games. However, if you care about the game world, you realise
that games you do well in earn money and resources for your hometown, and
they in turn have to spend resources to keep the community housed, clothed
and fed.
How do they turn material into cloth? The people "work" the mil - the mill
being a memory game like Simon. It opens for business on the hour every
hour, but if no-one works it no cloth is made. Neat little system if you
ask me - makes being a janitor fun :D
--
Paul Smith
Computer programmer
paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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