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Gameplay => Wish list => Topic started by: edge on April 16, 2004, 07:58:12 pm

Title: a theater
Post by: edge on April 16, 2004, 07:58:12 pm: well because there isn\'t much to do in game right now i thought, Lets start a theater.
I asked around a bit and people sayd it was a good idiea.
Now i already have a little crew
(a story writer, and just 2 actors, but hey ist a start)
the only thing is that we need a place to preform our plays. So i suggest that the developers/programmers implemented a little theater/public building for groups like ours, to make PS a little bit more fun.

Greetz
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Post by: Monketh on April 16, 2004, 08:28:21 pm: I\'ll act a bit for you, supposing I can get on at the right times.

Hopefully the whole world will be one giant improvisational stage. :)
Though I can see a theater when building is implemented, for now choose a place like the Gazebo or a large alley. Make sure the choice you and your group makes is clear, that way people who want to see a play will associate plays and your theater company with that place.
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Post by: edge on April 16, 2004, 09:36:41 pm: Ooh yeah i forgot,
if any of you guy\'s are interested in joining my theater, or sponsoring it you can always contact me (in game i\'m called theudge). Ask around i think almost everybody has heard of my theater who has played recently. :)

Sorry for the many advertisements :)

I hope this is a good step in the developement of PS.
I also hope that people will think about how to make PS more fun, even without new updates or new versions.
?fcourse CB will be better than MB but let us make things as fun as it can be with the tools and brains we\'ve got now.

i hope more people will join my theater soon cause with just 3 actors (yes 3, i found a new actor today) i wont be able to set up a good theater.

<--*I especially need a funny dwarf*-->

Greetz
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Post by: DepthBlade on April 16, 2004, 10:08:29 pm: Aww theater!! Its great!! I can act rather well in real life but its a whole different ball game over a game heh!! I wish there was a way to in-game record the whole thing
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Post by: Monketh on April 16, 2004, 10:20:11 pm: Quote
Originally posted by DepthBlade
Aww theater!! Its great!! I can act rather well in real life but its a whole different ball game over a game heh!! I wish there was a way to in-game record the whole thing

There is. Aineko\'s mods include a chatlog feature. ;)
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Post by: Yalzin on April 16, 2004, 11:43:37 pm: How do you act in PS? You can\'t really get a view of what everyone around you is doing which makes it very difficult. And doesn\'t it take ages typing out all your lines?? I suppose you could mime. A game of charades would be quite funny actually, but you\'d get into trouble with things like how many words and so on.
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Post by: Icefalcon on April 17, 2004, 12:53:57 am: Use the /me commands...and uh, practice typing :D Sounds cool ;)
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Post by: DepthBlade on April 17, 2004, 01:23:28 am: They could have pre-made lines that you just add in! That way all the lines are rehearsed and sound proper!

OT: IceFalcon we are 5 each, deleted posts :(
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Post by: Icefalcon on April 17, 2004, 02:24:37 am: Don\'t know how that happened... :(

How would you have pre-made lines? you can\'t copy and paste...
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Post by: faldrok on April 17, 2004, 04:53:40 am: Ooh!! A Theatre sounds really nice/fun. :D

If ya need another actor, count me in. Some people say I am funny(not a Dwarf though :-/)

Well, I do have a Dwarven Char; a Jayose family member. ;)

I would rather do them(plays, acts, scripts, etc.) in the temple cuz it has minimal lag. Very minimal. :)
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Post by: DepthBlade on April 17, 2004, 06:30:57 am: Quote
Originally posted by Icefalcon
Don\'t know how that happened... :(

How would you have pre-made lines? you can\'t copy and paste...

well maybe that is something they should look into, copy and pasting should be aloud and a journal to write and keep information in for each character!

OT: Yah the number of my deletes gets higher everyday maybe some of my comments are just rude or unappropriate :D *shrugS*
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Post by: edge on April 17, 2004, 09:35:21 am: If we could copy and paste it would be realy nice, cause now the actors have to type realy fast :(

We thought about preformances in the temple, but its a public place and if i will keep my theater running i have to pay the crew. I dont think that people will go out of the temple so we could preform.
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Post by: Kraxton on April 17, 2004, 11:30:23 am: I think this is a great idea, but I have a question.

How would you keep others from jumping into the middle of your production and disrupting things?
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Post by: edge on April 17, 2004, 12:29:26 pm: Yes i thougth about that problem before.
But i hope people will respect the rules of my theater.
Just like everybody speaks english and doesnt swear.

There will alway\'s be some funny guy who walks trough without paying (cause we can\'t stop him) and people will shout boooo, but as long as there are people who like the idea and come to the theater for fun, it will work.

If we just ignore those \"funny\" people and treat them as they do, i think/hope they will stop acting \"funny\".
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Post by: zinder on April 17, 2004, 05:43:22 pm: For later versions you can perhaps convince the devs to support theater shows in the arenas. I mean the arenas from concept should support tickets for viewer. All what is needed is a way to leave without fighting.
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Post by: Wormtail_ on April 17, 2004, 07:00:54 pm: There could, perhaps, be a police force or just a couple of (strong) \"bouncers\" that kick out the disruptive folks. A hired hand would have to be paid, of course, but there could always be some volunteers from the audience. But it might be more effective to hire trustworthy strongarms. Or simply use magic to create a ward. :P
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Post by: Monketh on April 18, 2004, 04:28:23 pm: Quote
Originally posted by DepthBlade
They could have pre-made lines that you just add in! That way all the lines are rehearsed and sound proper!

OT: IceFalcon we are 5 each, deleted posts :(

Another feature of the mods. Macros could be made for lines easily, and they\'d be perfect every time.

As probably has been said, the temple\'s a little high-traffic for a theater...
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Post by: Monketh on April 30, 2004, 02:13:28 am: I\'d like to refresh this idea. Planeshift theater company anyone?

It is a worthy idea, but edge here didn\'t stay long enough to get it going.
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Post by: Samoth on April 30, 2004, 05:04:41 am: I see a grand play being performed in that cool arena I saw in today\'s post. The arena should be reserved occasionally for non PvP activities - like plays!

A Kran and a dwarf performing slap stick would certainly be intertaining. GMs could keep people from disrupting the show.

I also think a parade should be planed for the first weekend of the release that starts outside of town and ends in the arena. Should this idea have it\'s own post?
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Post by: SaintNuclear on May 01, 2004, 02:27:40 pm: Nice idea, I\'d like to try being an actor.

There are many things that should be solved though. The typing, billing, place, etc.
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Post by: operand on May 12, 2004, 02:46:37 pm: Well, actually you don\'t need a special structure to hold your theater. You can have actors play everywhere, like outside the city, then you would go around and collect money from those watching.

I LOVE THE THEATER IDEA.

Then you can build your own website and have dates and times of your shows. You can also recrute actors from there.
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Post by: Cirque on May 12, 2004, 05:34:38 pm: I smell a new and original idea for a guild.
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Post by: Toadhead on May 12, 2004, 08:42:02 pm: cool!

- I can try to sneak in without paying ..
- I can steal money from everybody that is watching
- I can kill some actors..

enough things to do for me..

ow... I can also look to the show :D
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Post by: Gold_Fusion on May 14, 2004, 04:58:03 pm: Quote
Originally posted by edge
So i suggest that the developers/programmers implemented a little theater/public building for groups like ours, to make PS a little bit more fun.

I would prefer an amphitheater. :)
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Post by: DepthBlade on May 15, 2004, 03:49:26 am: In a theater we could reinact past PS Wars and such which could be really fun!
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Post by: Zackery on July 08, 2004, 04:05:53 am: I was in a few plays i\'ll act.
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Post by: Arberar on July 08, 2004, 03:04:47 pm: if the musician job is impletted it could be possible for me to play the music in the play :) i would gladly do it :p
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Post by: Djaggernaut on July 08, 2004, 07:55:35 pm: Oh, that\'s a really nice idea!

I\'m sure this could be pretty nice to have some different performers group and the arena could be a nice place for this.

Could be nice too to have some kind of exterior chat box then, so it would be possible to copy and paste dialogs easily, perhaps an actor tool (special class?)

Keep thinking about it ;)
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Post by: PlaneWalker on September 29, 2004, 05:13:11 am: Maybe its just me... but how does a theater in a RPG work?
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Post by: Tulfutzian on September 30, 2004, 05:37:33 pm: Quote
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Maybe its just me... but how does a theater in a RPG work?

It could work, actually.

First of all, you would become a public figure, that would influence (in good or in bad) your social status.
As a class or job, actors could have a bonus in casting certain illusion type spells or even in \"inspiring\" party members before battle.
Also, your acting skills could be employed in advertising (guilds, religious factions, etc) or in various quests that imply deceit, impersonations, etc.
Maybe the planeshift actors would gain with experience the ability to morph his own look, to perfectly imitate voices and accents and so on , making them great for spying and thieving.

How about that for role-playing? A charming rogue singing and reciting for the ladies, a chameleonic thief able to make you believe he is your own side-kick then rob you blind...

(Oh...and...I am an actor in real life... :) )