A bit of random

[Catchaotica]

This may be a bit radical.

I was thinking that it would be cool if a MMORPG had a random feature that would make a character become, a Dragon, or a hero or something.

What I mean is, About 5% of the time after someone creates a character, the computer runs the algorithm and they either get into the game as the character they selected... or they appear in a high mountain area as a giant and incredibly cool monster of awing strength. Or if they are a hero, they appear as their character with special  and awing skills that no one else has in the game.

Then they can then either terrorize the land (pillage and burn villages..etc.) ... or help the land. They should be really, really hard to kill, so that only another hero can kill them or a lot of people together. So that way it forces Human interaction and creates a sense of camaraderie.

Also they * the aggressive heros and dragons*should drop a lot of goodies like a NPC animal so that they are way worth killing even in a large group.


The only catch to being born a Dragon/ hero is that once you die your character is dead, and you regen as the character you chose (or just have to make it over again)

I figure that since this game is free.. that mebbe the idea could be at least tested.



Let me know what you think!

[Xalthar]

It\'s a very cool idea IMO :tup:

but it could cause some conflicts with players not wanting to become a giant/dragon or such... but I guess you could just have a cancel button then

[Bonez]

like the hulk :p but everyone would wanna be the 5% so its not rlly fair.. its like a free ride

[Catchaotica]

yeah i kno,

A big concern of mine was that people would just create tons and tons of characters until they got one.

there are definately some bugs in the system

but  to make it more fair
the percentage could change.. ive thought mebbe 10-20% or we could just keep it to like 100 dragons; 500 (super?)heroes and 10,000 heros.

a friend of mine also suggested that you could unlock the ability mebbe, if you did some really hard quest or something.

[tygerwilde]

man, there would be way too many people that would delete chars that weren\'t dragons....

make it an accomplishment, if you can achive ultimate lvlage...(or whatever equivelent this game has) you can create a dragon character, but only one...

I\'d hate to see the server overcrowded with dragons, but I\'d also hate to see it set up so that if you\'re too late and there are already 100 dragons, you\'ll never be able to create one...

[Caldazar]

Making it random would cause cheating. One dude creates a dragon, then he goes to the people in his guild, or some other of is friends, and then they slay him, then they all split the \"phat lewt\".