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Gameplay => Wish list => Topic started by: cwazierussian on September 30, 2005, 02:02:06 am

Title: invasions
Post by: cwazierussian on September 30, 2005, 02:02:06 am

being bored and reading threads i thought of an idea and im sorry if this has been discussed before but i would like to see random monster invasions maybe a rat invasion from the sewers or a......rogue raid from the forest something like that to keep the game interesting and not as repetative and if the lower players cant handle it they can run and hide behind bigger ones but ps being set in a dangerous location i dont think its very realistic to have such perfectly safe places especially since some of your life story stuff talks about an invasion

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Post by: Rage McCloud on September 30, 2005, 04:34:18 am

That is really funny actually... that this ends up in the wishlist... not ironic but humorful... because of one Mr. Drey... this idea has been spread and thought of... but of course we would not use his instance of it... but yes i would like to see this... and i was going to post something about it in his Dectruction thread but it was too old and i didnt want to get yelled at for reviving old threads... anywho i think the link is in his sig...

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Post by: steuben on September 30, 2005, 04:51:46 am

i thought something similar. though mostly because i have a bit of an evil streak in me.

but i would prefer a rat invasion. perhaps of those vigorous one-eyed rats that i heard of so long ago. anything more than that and the beginners would rendered to spam.

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Post by: Ethan on September 30, 2005, 07:45:18 am

Dynamic spawn and a AI-like for monsters is not a new idea...
One thread  (http://www.planeshift3d.com/wbboard/thread.php?threadid=18703&boardid=11&styleid=3&sid=e7ca1b2a2f0c69beae8290c7ef233cdc)about, just following the five stars threads. :)

If someone want to make a summary of related ideas, do it. It will really help. (He could then submit it to me  :) )

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Post by: zanzibar on September 30, 2005, 10:52:39 pm

Ha.  I see it now -- The \"Defend Harniquist\" quest.

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Post by: darkw00t on September 30, 2005, 11:38:05 pm

that would be a pretty good idea.. except maybe an escort the queen or protect the king etc.

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Post by: Karyuu on September 30, 2005, 11:42:35 pm

Eh... there is no queen or king :P And it will be a while before any story involving the Octarchs and their government will be feasible...

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Post by: cwazierussian on October 01, 2005, 01:25:19 am

i dont think it should be much of a quest as much as a random thing. something like walking around and you just see 20 rats running out of the sewers followed by a dozen gobbles and 5 or so tefusangs and see how everyone reacts and if anything just jump on a roof and hope they dont find you =]

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Post by: darkw00t on October 01, 2005, 01:33:53 am

i know there isn\'t a king or queen those were just examples

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Post by: Rage McCloud on October 01, 2005, 06:31:44 pm

and just wait until bows are implemented... then we could set up ambushes to the oncoming rampages of monsters.

EDITATIONINGNESS!!! I have found the thread that i was talking about... the simple clicking of dreys sig helps a lot but anywho...

http://www.planeshift3d.com/wbboard/thread.php?threadid=17317&boardid=13&styleid=4&page=1#1

read it all it is funny

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Post by: yayoo on October 01, 2005, 10:07:47 pm

I think ever week their should be some kind of invasion just to keep people playing (the boredom is to much to take)

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Post by: Karyuu on October 01, 2005, 10:39:44 pm

Boredom..? No idea what you\'re talking about ;) But a weekly invasion will kind of lose its most important elements, don\'t you think? Surprise and anticipation? People keep playing whether there are invasions or not - there are plenty of other things to do, plenty of adventures to experience, as is. They just take some organization (even if they are to be spontaneous) and will.

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Post by: yayoo on October 01, 2005, 11:07:32 pm

Ok what if there could be a invasion at any time imagine all of a sudden the consumers come down and attack people that would be fun right?

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Post by: Karyuu on October 01, 2005, 11:37:18 pm

No arguments there. But such things can\'t be too common, or they will lose their novelty.

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Post by: yayoo on October 01, 2005, 11:46:33 pm

Finally we agreed on something besides how cool my island is in DR by the way I also found a offering room :]

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Post by: yayoo on October 02, 2005, 01:36:33 pm

Right now we are having a kinda invasion thing in arena with ulber

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Post by: zanzibar on October 02, 2005, 09:51:00 pm

I think invasions are good.  Perhaps not in the city main, but over key resources and persons.  Perhaps the sewers were taken over by extremely agressive thugs or gobbles, or the arena by the ghosts of all the dead gladiators and rogues, or perhaps harniquist was being held hostage somewhere.  Still, it\'s too NPCish....

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Post by: Karyuu on October 02, 2005, 10:00:54 pm

Hostage Harnquist! I love that ;) Imagine a grand quest by various players to get back the beloved smith from the clutches of Ulbernauts. That\'s drama :P

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Post by: zanzibar on October 02, 2005, 10:06:11 pm

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Hostage Harnquist! I love that ;) Imagine a grand quest by various players to get back the beloved smith from the clutches of Ulbernauts. That\'s drama :P

Ulbernauts are intelligent?  I was thinking more along the lines of the red guy in the valley where Brigand used to be in oja road.  To get harniquist back, you have to kill the red guy and maybe a bunch of thugs/rogues/bandits that spawn ONCE then don\'t come back after they\'re killed.  Or perhaps you have to kill them all before the respawn such that they have to be all dead at the same time for the quest to click into place.

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Post by: Karyuu on October 02, 2005, 10:15:37 pm

Perhaps when NPCs gain a greater mobility, useful NPC trainers or merchants would be kidnapped for various one-time quests and be tracked by players, as the kidnappers travel through the wild hills in guarded packs :)

Ah man... anything with actual hunting would be so awesome.

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Post by: yayoo on October 02, 2005, 11:10:18 pm

Maybe if some npc got kidnapped and we had to bring anything the kidnappers asked in a set amout of time would that be much fun ?(