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Gameplay => Wish list => Topic started by: Ha?linn on February 25, 2003, 06:35:55 pm

Title: Vampires...
Post by: Ha?linn on February 25, 2003, 06:35:55 pm: I have an idea : we can be vampires ^^ 8) :]
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Post by: Link on February 25, 2003, 06:43:46 pm: Wow... uh... If your going to post a wish, please be a little more specific.
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Post by: cmhitman on February 25, 2003, 08:03:55 pm: *votes for vampires*
thats the best idea i\'ve heard since the devs began the tantilizing discussion of the intricate fishing system they plan on implementing. (snickers)

[sarcasm]
Somebody point this guys to the dev team so they can harvest his brilliant ideas.
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Post by: Kiern on February 25, 2003, 10:30:21 pm: Well, since the already have all the playable races I don\'t think they\'d add vampires to the list.
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Post by: cmhitman on February 26, 2003, 12:16:39 am: note:
I only vote vampires cause there just tight as hell and I think mybe we could have the devs give us some quests with vampire npcs as enemies
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Post by: FMiddy on February 26, 2003, 08:14:37 am: vampires are an interesting and controvercial idea, 1. would they work ingame? and 2. would they fit in game?

I say if it goes in, there are vampire NPCs, and if you get attacked and bitten, you turn into one, and you have to avoid light and drink blood to live. There could also be good sides which are night vision (if you dont already have it) and super strength and agility. If you want to continue being a vampire then you protect your \"master vampire\" (the one who bit you) which could be an NPC or actual player, if you kill the vampire that bit you, you are released, but there are those who might not want to be ridden of the curse of being a vampire. If someone kills your master vampire, then your curse is removed, along with all the others he bit and all the ones you bit. For people who are tired of being a vampire and dont want to ruin their clan, the master vampire could release them or they could summon the help of an alchemist to help release them with a very hard to come by potion. Also on a side note vampire NPCs wouldn\'t attack Vampire players. This would introduce a new type of clan, vampire clans. However I cant really imagine a vampire kran or dwarf.... a vampire dwarf... that would be hilarious, a vampire kran... that would be scary...
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Post by: Fanomatic2000 on February 26, 2003, 08:33:16 am: Yes, that\'s not a bad idea. A vampire by the way, isn\'t a \"race\", it\'s a cursed person who need blood to survive and have nasty teeth ;)
Will PCs be able to spread the curse as well? I can imagine a whole world where vampires is the most common race :]
I\'m not sure about the \"master\" thing thought, I mean you can\'t be a vampire for very long thanks to the XP-hunters.
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Post by: Nazi on February 26, 2003, 12:07:50 pm: What about the Vampires are like the ones of Morrowind if you get bitten you\'ve got 3 days to
take a basic medicine if you don\'t you turn into a
vamp then you can be a vamp for as long as
you want and be super human ansd then do
the quest\'s to find the cure and once you\'ve taken the cure you can\'t be a vamp again this would stop
everyone in PS becoming a vamp

Nazi
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Post by: Keldorn on February 26, 2003, 12:14:04 pm: and why would we take the cure once we\'ve found it? Everybody will just stay a vampire.

Nazi, please pick a different name for this forum.
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Post by: Nazi on February 26, 2003, 12:50:30 pm: Make NPC\'s run away from vampires or if the NPC knows he is strong anough attack you on site making it dangerous for Vamps to walk into towns + if they walk
in the sun they would get badly hurt so there walk around time would only be say Night time and maybe a very cloudy day.
And maybe Players could be rewared for hunting
and killing Vamps .

(How do I change my username without making a new account)
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Post by: Keldorn on February 26, 2003, 02:21:35 pm: you can\'t change it, but since you only have 2 posts i wager it isn\'t really going to hurt that much.
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Post by: cmhitman on February 26, 2003, 05:20:47 pm: why change it? I believe in freedom of expression just be ready to explain yourself about a billion times to every person you meet. btw, what prompted you to do such a stupid thing as name urself nazi?
lol,
you might not even be a bigot monger but people are people, so be ready to come under fire

but getting back on task...
yeah vampires would even work with the overall theme of the game because it is a kind of mythic themed game, and its a small step to go from mythic to gothic.
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Post by: Fanomatic2000 on February 26, 2003, 05:27:35 pm: You could of course explain yourself in the sign. That way you don\'t have to explain it every time.
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Post by: Kiern on February 26, 2003, 05:56:18 pm: ...or he could just change it to make it easier on himself and make other people happy

so just change your name.
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Post by: cmhitman on February 26, 2003, 06:02:55 pm: kiern, dont get me wrong I\'m proned to be offended at certain things (i\'m working on that) but I believe he should give his name up on his on terms...**fu-ck** what people think. On with freedom of expression.
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Post by: Grey on February 26, 2003, 07:26:47 pm: NOOOOOOO!!! Wampyrs are at best overused and at worst, completely unapplicable to the present game, why do people feel like adding them to any game, just because they would be cool? If you are going to make a game about the vampire (damn english), make one.. don\'t just add it to a current idea. Don\'t get me wrong, I love the idea of vampires, but I also like hot dogs and ice cream, but believe that they should be strictly absent from the game.
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Post by: explorer on February 26, 2003, 07:41:28 pm: I think if they did put in the idea of vampires, it would fall into the disease or plauge category. You get bit and you slowly die over the period of say three in game days. That way if vampires are in as a monster class, they would be hunted down more readily because they are a nuisance.
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Post by: cmhitman on February 26, 2003, 09:13:17 pm: Personaly i just thought (jokingly) that maybe they could write then into the script and add npc\'s, i mean it might seem cheap but if done right even cheapness can be golden I mean there is much depth and complexity in simplicity. We just have to craft it properly.

I\'m not sure were everybody else was going with this but lets get it straight: Planeshift is not a next generation survival horror game. Not that I don\'t think the gaming company that finaly figures that combining a survival horror game and an mmorpg will be filthy rich; It\'s just we should stay focused.
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Post by: Cognition on March 08, 2003, 09:11:16 am: Sure...
What is every roleplayers obsession with vampires root from ? =)
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Post by: cmhitman on March 10, 2003, 07:04:38 pm: I think its cheap games like resident evil
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Post by: Kiern on March 10, 2003, 10:50:05 pm: I\'ve never like the undead/scary alien types of games (with a few exceptions) it just seems to me a way to make an otherwise boring, not scary game look scary although the storyline is horrible.
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Post by: Ravette on March 11, 2003, 06:29:59 am: I\'d say, if you want to be a vampire like you were in morrowind. You are just one little installation away (double click the morrowind install file ;) ). It isn\'t a bad idea necessarily, but if every fantasy type rpg you play starts to have vampires, it loses its originality. I think that the idea mentioned, which was to have vampire npcs, could be ok. Just forget the idea of them turning a person into a vampire, then that person turning everyone else into vampires. Which by the way, wouldn\'t that be considered a form of PvP? I do believe so.
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Post by: Jessyn on March 12, 2003, 06:53:14 pm: If vampires ARE added to PS, it should probably be as a monster race that CANNOT propagate the disease(vampirism) onto thier victims. I don\'t think PS should have vamps at all, as they do not seem right for the PS world, and they might be a trifle overpowered(does crystal light count as direct sunlight?) I would say for the most part, stick with original monsters.

Jessyn
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Post by: Fanomatic2000 on March 13, 2003, 10:29:49 pm: I agree! This idea is just stupid and has no connection to PS. X(
This thread didn\'t look serious from the beginning.
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Post by: FMiddy on March 14, 2003, 03:31:15 am: ya... they wouldnt work in PS, but it would be cool have just cuz I like vampires, and werewolves, I guess I have to go download morrowind illeg.... I mean buy morrowind.... :D
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Post by: kyp14 on March 14, 2003, 07:47:55 am: well maybe they could make vamps very very rare and one of the really big quest\'s for some super high stat characters would be to hunt them down and kill them off for good that way vamps arn\'t walking around on the street but are very scarce and evetually wiped from the game by some super stat character who got the quest
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Post by: Maresedotes on March 28, 2003, 07:14:42 pm: I agree with kpy14. I personally very much dislike the idea of vampires... mebbe there could be some legendary warrior who was turned into a vampire along with like 4 of his friends... and they live really deep in the caves and ver come out... just prey on people who come too far into the caves and can\'t defend themselfs.

BUt players shouldn\'t be turned into them. If the vamp gets him, he dies. And can\'t come back for a little while.
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Post by: rainmaker on March 28, 2003, 08:32:08 pm: I\'ve only read the storyline once or twice but vampire\'s just as monster npc\'s in the game would be a total displacement in my opinion.

The era of the plot is mythical and legendary. The world is still in its infancy with multiple gods strugling to further their own cause. It reminds me a lot of greek mythology.

Vampire\'s implies some sort of duality with good and evil that doesn\'t seem to fit into this era. The gods may struggle and disagree but in some sence they are all on the same side. Vampire\'s makes me think of the middle-ages really.

Ofcourse this a fantasy game and anything will go, I\'d just rather see more creative mythical underground beasts instead of the usual vampire\'s and werewolves.
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Post by: Maresedotes on March 28, 2003, 09:15:38 pm: I know!!!!! this totally reminds me of greek mythology!! I love the story plot. I am an amature film maker, and I am thinking of making a short \"add\" for this game. Jus something that could be put up on the web.

Errr sry, A little off topic.