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Ok,
Basically this threadnis for ideas and who can do what. These are the things that people can do. And everyone can help!
We need people for coding, ideas and graphics. So post here what you can do and ill add you on the list. This is a way to sort it out ;)

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I still havn't decided what to do yet, as im not a very good desiger but i might give it a shot.

So come on guys i really want this to work out!

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stick me in for graphics and/or coding i guess :P
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RE: Plus! RPG, Who can do what thread!
The original idea was that it would be text based, so that plugins could easily be made for any client, on any protocol.

I'll do coding.

The way I see it working is as following...

There is a web server, which contains all the details for each member, such as their health, items, shield, money etc...

Each user has a plugin on their computer, we need to generate a way of authorising each computer to a specific account.

If Person 1 decides to attack Person 2, then Person 1 would type /attack in the conversation. A menu would come up asking what weapons to use, then a message would be sent to Person 2, who would choose if to accept the battle, then choose his/her own weapons. The choices would be sent to the server, which would do the calculations, decide who wins, and would then send the results back to each computer.

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RE: Plus! RPG, Who can do what thread!
First of all, sorry to be the partypooper....

Doing something like this will make people cheat for sure.
You can make it with all the good intentions in the world, but there will always be people who will cheat, and cheating would be extremely easy when you do something like this with a script (and no, not all cheaters will be reconized or discovered, unfortunatly).

Also, ideas like this (in one form or the other) have been suggested before on the forums. The never took much ground simply because the most important thing has been forgotten or not much attention has been given to it: gameplay. You can assign jobs to persons and people could sign up and stuff, but all that is rather useless at this point.

You can't start developping something if you don't already have a detailed gameplan with all the ins and outs. To develop something like this you need to draw out and pen down a lot of stuff on paper first and it all should work and fit (rules, items, carefull balance between values of items, etc etc). Making the program, server, script is actually one of the last steps.

The idea must come first, then that idea should be discussed, gameplay should be discussed. What would the gamer be able to do, what not, how does one play the game, what's the goal of the game, how to win, how to loose, etc, etc, etc...

Only when all that is known, defined, fixed, working on paper, etc you can start thinking of developping it. And when that happens you also know what the requirements would be. So a natural selecting of who does what would also be done. Only then you can make a thread like this, otherwise, I'm afraid this is a bit useless...

Other than this, I'm interested in seeing this to be developped (as game ideas have been suggested before and threads have been made before,... none took any ground).

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Cookie for ideas man? :zippy: :P
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Ok,

So its not a good idea to a text based on on msn? So it lbe a better idea to do a game with graphics and everything?
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So it lbe a better idea to do a game with graphics and everything?

but that'd be harder :s
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Yes, But also harder to cheat! cos its not a script is it.

Wait, am i getting confused when they ment 3D before did they mean like a app (e.g nfs-mw) self-dependant?
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