A couple good ideas

daz-01 · 2004-04-28T22:10:28

Hi, I''ve never posted here before but I''ve been a gamer for around 10 years now, I''m currently 19 (well soonish) anyway... I have a couple ideas on games, how they could be made more fun, how you could entice more people to play MMORPGs (thus more money, more servers, better pings ect..). I''ve got an absolute load of ideas but i dont know how to get them to the right people? Anyway I dont want to look like a hog or a crap artist so let me share some of these ideas. MMORPG Games: MMORPG are constantly faces problems with cost issues, lack of players, bad pings. But one of the things that strikes me is that you cant sign up and play these games just with cash, how could you do that? well the target market for gamers generally ranges from 13 to 25 and MMORPGs have problems with the younger bracket there and more than often its because of the whole "pay by credit-card idea", but what if you didn''t have to pay via credit card? Lets take the example of mobile phones, a lot of young people get pre-paid mobiles, where they pay say $30 and get 10hours talk time. I KNOW I would have played more MMORPGs if I could go down to the store buy 40 hours of play time or a month of gaming for a game I wanted to get, not only that but these games are a whole life for the players and they are very addictive, gamers would say "yeh damn that game I spend $300 this year just playing it". You download the game for free (or get a copy when you buy "game credit"), you sign up, make an account and register your "credit-key" or whatever you''d like to call it that entitles you to X ammount of playtime. This of course gets rid of the problem of people "forgetting to cancel an account" or whatever. MMORPG economy: More than often i hear game designers saying "ohh but you dont want to loose that or this in a game, that would be to harsh" infact i think they say this to much, you gotta gain, you gotta loose. Personally I think MMORPG games need a sort of "AIbot" making sure the economy doesn''t go crazy, along with a floating dollar to make sure that the money doesn''t become useless. (eg every MMORPG game made). If a weapon becomes to popular, make it harder to use or automaticly "dull-down" its damage, make armour more resistant to it, if a class becomes to popular automaticly make that class a little weaker, you have to maintain that all classes and all types of units are fairly equal. Do all this in a fairly simple manner based on the game and player statistics, not every one in the "upper-levels" of the game should be using the same weapon and class. All things should have a form of wear and tear. This would seem fairly obvious but all MMORPG games have problems with this. MMORPG Pings: Most MMORPG games, well all, have a problem with pings even though they usually have multiple servers working on it, my solution is to create an almost real world. I live in australia and my pings to asia are alot better than my pings to europe, so use this in a game, if your in Australia make it so areas where that the european servers deal with are further away than those in nearby asia, If your in America you''d probably want to be closest to the areas dealt by servers in canada. Additionally if i''m out in the battlezone fighting I dont want to be slowed down by 16 people who are trading back in town, so for towns you might not want to have them on the same servers. Of course I have a game which i have been designing for a while now though i dont have the resources to create which allows all these things to come into play well, compared to say a everquest or ultima online type MMORPG. I might also draw your attention back to the game Diablo 2 where if you wanted to trade you created a server and went from there, it meant all the people advertising didnt stand around hogging ping time, in town you might want to have your own little corner of the earth where the trader acts a "sub-server" dealing with all the non-critical information for that trade, after discussing terms and cost on the battle.net chat. That was great. Your little trade area could be your own In-game appartment or something similar for player-to-player trade. There are of course issues where item duping could be a problem, but assuming its in a "trade only" area there is no reason for an item to be created, destroyed, changed or anything and no player would be killed, so aslong as the server makes sure the items the players entered with are equal to the ones the players left with it doesn''t need to worry about player location or wether they where ducking or jumping at the time. (non MMORPG)Multi-player FPS Games: Imagine your playing you favorite game (lets say UT), and you run in put a democharge next to the enemy base wall and boom you''ve blown in an entrance into the enemy base where you can then get to thier base to destroy their power core to win. On the other hand you might destroy an elevator to try to make it a little harder for the enemy to get to the battle field quickly. Or you destroy a tunnel, a bridge ect. Now why i feel such things are so important is because new games namely UT2K4 are making it so gamers are going to expect vehicles in all future FPS online games, destroying the easiest path for your enemies tanks might mean victory. -=-=- I have many more ideas including -Games that never end, thus never get old or repetitive (one of my golden ideas) -Games that are both MMORPG and normal Multi-player FPS (eg, if there was a "counter-stike" mmorpg, it would probably have 1000s of devoted players) -Simple alternatives to the "class based system". -Ideas on ways around a new poly-model for every gun More on MMORPG economy More on gameplay and many more but I would like to discuss some of these ideas with a game dev company, how would i get to them? If you are or you know someone who might like to hear more contact daryl@petty.com.au

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Started by daz-01 April 24, 2004 02:20 PM

10 comments, last by daz-01 20 years, 9 months ago

daz-01

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April 28, 2004 08:19 PM

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lol u got an idea, then go make it!, you can talk alot, show us some implementation

I probably will make in with a UT mod team and start when i get UT2k4, additionally I''m not a programmer, I''m a modeler/texturer so i cant make it by myself.

Additionally I was asking this question as in, where could I submit a large document detailing my ideas with diagrams and why they would work, I''ve seen the vast majority of games to come out in the past and I''ve picked up on what seems to be some common values in them and I''m a bit of a cult gamer.

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If our responses are disappointing, it''s only because we don''t have enough information about your ideas to formulate a solid understanding

Dgaf, I just didn''t like your responce because you started asking me questions about things that i only put headings of...

I''ll be starting another thread to discuss some of my specific ideas in a min, I just wanted to know if anyone had other ideas on how to get ideas to game comanies.

johnnyBravo

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April 28, 2004 10:10 PM

alot of people have ideas, the ones who can program are the ones who are actually doing something about it, other then telling other people

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