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Gameplay => Guilds Forum => Topic started by: Stygius on May 11, 2003, 11:20:58 pm

Title: Ideas about guilds signes in game
Post by: Stygius on May 11, 2003, 11:20:58 pm: Still waiting for reply about joining Planeshift team so i have decided to put my ideas with pictures about guild signes.
Guild signes should have 4 customizable objects
1 )Shield - you could choose one from 10 available and set your own color
2)Border - with similar shape to the shiled but you can set diffrent color then shield
3)Main sign -you could choose one from 40-50 available and set your own color
4)additional signes - some objects around main symbol
(stars ,skulls ,moons ,suns...) with your own color

On picture (big one)
http://www.angelfire.com/my/cee/screen7.jpg
you can see shields with borders and main signes

http://www.angelfire.com/my/cee/screen6.jpg

here you can see rest of main symbols and additional signes (green colour). Below you can see ready guild sign
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Post by: Bonez on May 11, 2003, 11:51:46 pm: not bad but i dont think theyll let u join the team just because u have a few ideas
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Post by: Valfaran on May 12, 2003, 03:07:35 am: How do you know he\'s applying to be a member of the team because of his ideas? How do you know he?s not a coder or something?

But anyhoo, Stygius: I like your ideas. If there were a way to keep the signs from repeating (like, once a sign has been registered for a guild, no other guild can use that combination), that would be quite a good idea for the game. Perhaps then a member of a guild would have to buy the shield, then go to a higher-ranking member of the guild with artistic talent so that the shield could be decorated with the guild emblem.

By the way, Mr. Rex, I\'ve read that book as well. Waiting for the sequel to come out *wink wink*.
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Post by: acraig on May 12, 2003, 04:12:08 am: I like the idea of guilds having their own type of coat of arms or something like that on their guild house or something. I\'m pretty sure that we will have something like this. Maybe something like you said where you have a selection of things that you can build up a coat of arms.

People like to customize things and I think that this is a good way. As to how we will do it, I cannot say yet.

This is filed under \'Something that may eventually get done\' :). There are many good ideas that come around and we file them away as for things to assign to new developers looking for something to do.
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Post by: Stygius on May 12, 2003, 08:09:31 am: Well i am not applying becouse of my ideas but for 3d/2d section . Well about guild shields/signes . I think
they should have been hardcoded in game so no additional downloading each time when guild needs new sign.But as i said before signes should be high customizable so this way you could get around 1 million
combinations
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Post by: Skizzik on May 17, 2003, 11:06:45 pm: You could also give every guild a tiny bit of webspace (a couple of KB) on the planeshift server where the leader can upload a crest/coat of arms (in .gif or .jpg format). That picture would then be imported in the game as a texture (or maybe the leader had to make it a texture and upload the texture).
That way there would be a lot of artistic freedom and guilds could make a crest/coat of arms that suits them. This also prevents from multiple crests/coat of arms eventually looking alike because the guild ran out of options. ;)
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Post by: Valfaran on May 18, 2003, 01:12:16 am: This could be controlled by only letting officially recognized guilds have their own, leader-submitted guild crest. All other small guilds could have the selection option for theirs.
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Post by: Skizzik on July 04, 2003, 05:27:01 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Valfaran
This could be controlled by only letting officially recognized guilds have their own, leader-submitted guild crest. All other small guilds could have the selection option for theirs.

Good idea!
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Post by: Caldazar on July 04, 2003, 08:02:23 pm: About guild-signes. Me and Yann has been talking about some sort of \"invisible\" sign. Perhaps a pendant, or a banjana. Something that only guildmembers can see. This would allow secret guilds to work on another level, bringing RP to another level, or so I think. This symbol could shine for everybody in the guild, but look like a normal pendant for people outside the guild.
Comments?
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Post by: Bonez on July 04, 2003, 09:52:04 pm: yea how about a tatoo or something? that would work well with secret guilds
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Post by: Xalthar on July 04, 2003, 09:55:08 pm: cool ideas, I like both yours caldazar, and yours bonez...
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Post by: Moogie on July 06, 2003, 01:47:02 pm: I like the ideas for the invisible signs.

It seems slightly wierd how games automatically show you what guild or clan people are in when you don\'t even know them. In real life you wouldn\'t know untill you met them or joined their group.

PS would be a welcomed break from the norm if you didn\'t actually know what dark, secret cults people might be in untill you get a little closer...
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Post by: Wolfmane on July 06, 2003, 07:46:29 pm: I like the idea of invisible signs/tatoos to guild members. In real life some secret organisations also use secret handshake-codes. This can identify them not only as a member of a secret society but even their rank within it.

If members of a guild in PS can identify each other secretly, seeing or feeling an identifying mark or code, this will add a lot of realism and excitement into the game.

Another idea could be that members of guilds can also see the rank of the other character in their own guild.
Guilds that are allied can possibly also see each other\'s guild affiliation but not rank.
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Post by: Maerth on July 07, 2003, 08:14:50 pm: But the thing about secret guilds is currently all anyone would have to do is type /who and it tells what guild the person is in and their rank in the guild too.

Edit: So basically, that\'d have to be taken out if you were going to go with the secret guild idea, or perhaps or simply make it an option the guild leader chooses to have it recognized in /who or not.
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Post by: Kathmor on July 07, 2003, 08:20:37 pm: I like the idea on making it optional. Some guild might want to be secret and some may want to be known. It depends on the guild. The option of making it secret or not should be up to the guild leader.
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Post by: Commando on July 07, 2003, 09:39:09 pm: I checked the CVS today (Yes i downloaded some new stuff to see what is new in CB, WOW!).

FROM CVS:
guildmanager.cpp 1.40 8 weeks vengeance2001 Committing support for \"secret\" guilds, which do not show up on /who lists. To ...
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Post by: Caldazar on July 08, 2003, 05:13:21 pm: Yes, secret guild can be turned on/off with /guild secret on/off (or something close to it). Thank you Yann for that proposal ;)
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Post by: Yann on July 10, 2003, 11:44:43 pm: That\'s it: the command /guildsecret on/off is implemented so that only the server knows who belong to the secret guild. (thx again, venge)

Concerning secret signs, like shinning pendants and stuff, i would love it to be implemented, even if it is just a detail.
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Post by: Wolfmane on July 12, 2003, 05:52:48 pm: Congrats!

That was a great job, having the guild association as an option will allow many things, amongst other infiltration of enemy guilds :D X( . It\'ll add spice to the game.