Re: [projectx] reply to the description of the game

[Ben C. <cro...@ne...>]

Matt,

Since this really won't be an RPG (though the engine will be more than
capable of that), we'll leave the experience points for later.  *This*
game will be an action hack'n'slash arena.  As to allowing the players to
put in as many computer opponents as they'd like, you have a valid point.
In addition to the little NPCs (like the grunts and the carriers and
such), we *will* have computer players.  I neglected to mention that in
the design doc.  Each computer player will have its own team (that is,
each *major* computer player -- each little guy won't), and they'll be
capable of anything a normal player is capable of.  The server will decide
how many computer opponents there are, not the clients (but since the
server will be run by a player, most of the time, that's fine).  For
alliances, Nate and I talked and came to the consensus that it'll be far
easier and simpler to make alliances "virtual" -- i.e. "I'm with you and
you're with me, but we're still on separate teams."  See, remember that
the ice rod can only be used by the team captain.  If you have two humans
on one team, only one could use it.  But if you have two teams with two
humans working together, you have twice the power.  So alliances will be
set up just by the players talking to each other.  We're not going to
worry about subgames like Steal the Flag just yet, but they're definitely
a possibility in the near future.  We want to get the core game done first
(then we can write scripts for all of that).  Last man standing, though,
*is* the core game. ;)  What I was thinking was that at the bottom of the
screen each player would have a kill meter which shows how many kills they
have.  At the end of the round, a screen would pop up with stats on who
killed whom how many times.  By the way, thanks for the input --
discussion is very valuable at this stage in the game.

Later,
Ben

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On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Mathew Davis wrote:

> Ben,
> The document sound really good.  The only thing is the experiance points for
> the characters we will have to decide which monsters will give you how much
> experiance points and how strong they will have to be to move up a level 
> (I.E. 8100 exp until level 10.)  Also I think that if we are going to have
> computers at all I think that the players will be able to place in as many
> computer oponunts as they like I also think that people should be able to
> alley them selves with people but we should put a limit on how many people
> can be on one team at a time.  also I think that we should have mini games
> in the multiplayer like steel the flag or the last man standing or something
> like that.  We should also have a kill limit or something like that or some
> way to show stats on how strong the player and how many times you killed
> curtian people and how many time you were killed by other people and by who.
> If anything sounds dumb or shouldn't be added just tell me I am sure we
> could talk about it and figure something out well that's all good bye.
> 
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