[CF-Devel] Ideas for interplayer competition

Sun Aug 3 12:16:00 CDT 2003

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Le Samedi 02 Août 2003 09:23, Tim Rightnour a écrit :
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      Som ideas I've had for a little interplayer competition.  Consider this a

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      proposal, and something I am likely to do unless people blaspheme about it.

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      1)  New stat: "Appearance".  This stat will reflect your physical

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      appearance. The stat will probably be rolled at player creation, to be

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      between 1 and 20. The stat will max out at about 1000, but with no set

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      limit.  Appearance can be modified by wearing different types of items, in

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      different combinations.  Most likely the programming for this will consist

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      of a complex set of conditions, that give scores to certain combinations of

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      equipment.  A specific list of "what is best" will not be drawn up, rather,

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      the engine will be set in place, and tuned to the point where it is self

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      sustaining, and somewhat unpredictable. The basic rules will be that

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      accenting materials, or matching materials can give a bonus, item value

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      will play a role, things like Chr bonuses, etc.  The score can be used to

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      determine how shopkeepers react to the player, and for a top 10 list,

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      players can compete on.

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Looks to me like charism, but more specific to top models immitating. Quiet 
interresting, but are players interrested in standing at the top 10 glamour 
characters?

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      2)  New stat: "Fame".  Fame will be another open-ended stat, where players

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      can accumulate points in it.  Things such as becoming a noble of scorn,

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      solving certain quests, level, time spent online, etc etc can all

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      contribute to your fame score.  Initially, your fame will primarily be a

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      competive stat, with a top 10 board.  But eventually it could be used in

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      shops, and in things like gaining followers, etc.  (maybe you need to be

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      famous to start your own guild)

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Interresting too but this would mean modifying some quest to update those 
stats.
 I don't think fame should be used in shops or perhaps not in the way you may 
think. For myself, when i see someone famous coming in my shops, with cameras 
nearby, i will be glad to increase prices by 500% or 2000% since, this is the 
kind of guy having money and who wouldn't refuse to pay in front of cameras.

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      3)  Score stat.  Unlike the current system, where score is your exp, a new

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      score stat will be developed.  You gain score points by doing specific

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      things. For example, killing a monster, 1 pt.  Solving a quest, 100-5000

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      points. gaining a level, level*100 points, killing a player accidentally,

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      -500 points, killing yourself accidentally, -50 points..  Perhaps even

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      re-entering the hall-of-selection to start your character over, gives you a

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      big bonus if you do so above level 108.  In this way, score can be a

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      meaninful representation of your accomplishments in the game, and the top10

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      scoreboard will show something other than 10 people who are currently at

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      max exp.  Players can continue to accumulate a score even when reaching the

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      topmost level.

not sure about usefulness ofthis, but a try is needed to be fixed on it. Again 
giving score for quest accomplishment may need to do some mapmaking to take 
into account this (and be carefull only on guy can solve a quest at the time, 
to easy to enter a map cleared by a big player and then 'solve the quest')
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      These ideas are mostly fleshed out in my head.. at a basic level.

Fix them better before applying. Just to prevent some disaster. Put on paper 
all you want to do exactly, influence on game play, what would be the rules, 
aso.

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       The

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      specifics of implementation aren't fully fleshed out, but none of these

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      seem particularly difficult to implement.  Ideas/criticisims welcome.  If

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      fame and appearance work out, perhaps Charisma can be phased out. 

No, i don't think. As i see your thing, fame and appeareance is only a 'per 
player basis' (may be a monthly vote for mister & miss crossfire?). This 
shouldn't remove cha, since cha, in my mind, is not only fame and appearence, 
but also some kind of aura around you. Someone ugly, mentally deficient can 
have good cha, thought he couldn't acheive quest or find beautifull clothes. 
Simply, people around him are showing pity, or like him for his stupidness.
CHA is more than fame of appeareance i think.

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      If

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      anyone wants to tackle one of these, contact me off-list.

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      ---

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      Tim Rightnour <

      root at garbled.net

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One last thing, if you implement this, could you do this in an optionnal way, 
in a plugin? So this is easy to choose if you want them or not. Plugins were 
needed, in the begining to add optionnal things to server or to change, on a 
test basis, server behaviour without interfering with CVS mainstream.
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