PlaneShift

Gameplay => Wish list => Topic started by: kieba on December 02, 2003, 09:06:22 pm

Title: species wars
Post by: kieba on December 02, 2003, 09:06:22 pm: what if each race had their own cities for example a dwarven city, a cat city :S and other cities for other races, and when you start the game you spawn in your city and that way it segregates different species from each other, making it more exciting when p2p killing starts.

say if you saw a fellow diabolo being attacked by some dwarves you could rush in to aid them with some other dwarven people. and maybe the diablolos would get more people to come and then kind of gang wars, maybe leading to all out species wars would occur. I really think this would add an exciting twist to the game.

also it would be great to fight along side you real life friends or internet friends to look out for each other and stuff. it would also add to the excitement of walking through the world late at night when gangs of other species could ambush you from behind walls or trees :D

having different levels would mean that you\'d have to be wary about who you are killing which would make it tense, like a real battle.

please say what you think of this idea and how it would be made better :D
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Post by: Yann on December 02, 2003, 10:06:01 pm: From my point of view, \"fight between species\" is a bit similar to / could encourage racism. (cyber racism? lol)

Anyway, i think that even if the devs will surely create some \"dwaven cities\" or \"nolthrir underwater cities\", they will surely encourage the players to ... \"mix\" with each other instead of fighting other races.
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Post by: lynx_lupo on December 02, 2003, 10:11:10 pm: I don\'t like it either. And people are very different...I don\'t know if I\'d want to help my \"fellow\" dermorians, if I found them not worthy of it or even of not being worthy of being a dermorian.
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Post by: Natrina on December 02, 2003, 10:48:33 pm: For what I\'ve seen there were like three guilds Enkiducai only, and probably many more like them will arise in other races, as some nation only (only french as a sample) have been around too, so racism might exist, not that I am saying that one race only guild will fight with other race only guild, but such thing will probably exist.
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Post by: kieba on December 03, 2003, 08:18:31 pm: i guess so, cyber racism? now why didn\'t that cross my mind when writing that? well what if there were 2 islands, one which we could see in the distance but couldn\'t go to (causes a problem for flying but nvm) and everynow and then npc\'s from the other island came and attacked out island full of an alliance of species. that way there is no \"cyber racism\" and there gets to bee the same thrill of fighting with other real players

how about that idea ?
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Post by: Elegrand on December 03, 2003, 10:17:37 pm: I don\'t think that would be possible because of how the PS game world looks. If you don\'t know read the setting.
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Post by: Dagothur on December 04, 2003, 02:03:43 am: you have great ideas and they sound like fun but you gotta keep in mind whats possible, i dont think ill like the p2p killing if you cant decline the challenge b/c then u got guys just whording the spawn spots :)
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Post by: kieba on December 04, 2003, 09:03:55 pm: im not talking about huge amounts of npcs here, surely the ps servers can handle a few extra npcs to ad some more excitement to the game.
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Post by: Natrina on December 04, 2003, 11:27:57 pm: Quote
I don\'t think that would be possible because of how the PS game world looks.

So much true, PS world is in the shape of a stalactite, so two islands is out of thought.

But the Stone Labyrinths will be the place where the monsters will come from.
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Post by: kieba on December 06, 2003, 12:29:51 am: firstly whats a stalactite, and secondly, cool. :tup:
someone mentioned about cyber racism if people are segregated into species. Now that i realise this i agree however wont the formation of guilds create a similar scenario where if different guilds make another guild unhappy in some way, abusive language etc would be provoked by both guilds......
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Post by: Yann on December 06, 2003, 12:47:57 am: Indeed, some groups of people fight other groups of people, in real life and ingame.
But a fight between 2 guilds (for exemple one represents loyaltly and honor and the other is a rogue guild) is better and more... acceptable than a fight between species (called races ingame).
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Post by: Kixie on December 06, 2003, 04:14:12 am: cyber racism? in planeshift? WELL DUH!!! :D your going to tell me you havent ever heard dwarven slurs and jokes? I think this is a good idea. Of course it shouldnt get too out of hand but having a lower class race would be kind of neat and stuff. All the thieves would be the lower class races and all of the rich people would be a different race or something. Anyways it would be cool and make interesting gameplay... 8)
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Post by: Altharion on December 06, 2003, 11:05:16 am: i think its a good idea i encourage racism in planeshift.

thougth not wars but like racial guilds, taverns etc
that would be a good idea.
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Post by: knightvision on December 06, 2003, 01:33:51 pm: Did you just rip this idea from World of Warcraft? :D
This idea is like the town halls that wow will have. Each race has their own city.
http://www.blizzard.com/wow/townhall/cities.shtml
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Post by: Altharion on December 06, 2003, 01:36:52 pm: well that idea is bad that each race have different cities?

what about each race has theyre on turf and hydlaa is like a neutral place ;)
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Post by: Wormtail_ on December 06, 2003, 04:03:16 pm: Erm, I am under the impression that the races in Yliakum )Bah, I never spell it correctly) are united, or at least allied. The system of government, from what I read in the setting, comprises of the citizens of the entire stalacctite.

A stalactite, by the way, is one of those crystal formations that are long and pointy and hang down from cavern walls. I believe stalagmites are the same, except they come up from the ground. I may have mixed the two up, though.

Anyway, if the many races can manage to live under the same government, I would think that they do not have wars. I think that there would be several cities tht are made of multiple races, such as Hydlaa (I think),but there are a few, and only a few, \'pure\' cities. That is my impression, at least, but I get this from the fact that many years of cohabitation would allow two species to live in peace next door to each other.
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Post by: Altharion on December 06, 2003, 04:06:26 pm: well if thats true then it wont last long there are two gods and many races racism is inevitable.
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Post by: knightvision on December 07, 2003, 01:51:57 am: Quote
well if thats true then it wont last long there are two gods and many races racism is inevitable.

Yeah but a lot of players who dont rp probably wont read much into the background story so why would they fight each other for that reason? (I rp by the way)
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Post by: Altharion on December 12, 2003, 03:02:45 pm: well i am devoted into rp and even if you dont care that much of the story or much of the backround then there will still be some sense of rp in the ones that play PS and there is lots of fun in being an in game \"racist\"