Not to say it's not tons of fun already ! :)
Anyways some random suggestions, feel free to ignore, use, or even partially use or be inspired by :)
I also want paypal if you want me to ramble about crimecraft for around a full novel, lol i did 3+ novels worth of relevant text on my blog in like 3 months :) mostly on guns...makin [filtered], and random other [filtered], not a cohesive story, and yet...those fictional stories, the 'main character' is the author, and to make their idea work....they have to not model the 500 other humans tangentally involved in the storay, whereas a real story, there's missing info, and every human is consistent...i was just noticin how in gta4, i'm either alone, or joinin a game with ppl that's kinda ... directionless, whereas here in cc, i'm almost always meetin new and interestin people, just was on a random mission map with some chick with jokerette facepaint, i thought she wasn't doin so good....lol at the end it was me and her with the top scores, i guess i was running backwards when gettin overwhelmed too, is joinin the red /\ the hardmode one? I like havin people around, and the co-op is fun.....i hate the AI, lol, can we get some good AI? maybe rob teh reaperbot or other oss bots...also like chess, can have difficulty settings! and maybe some left 4 dead 2 style "smart AI' spawning of mobs...nicluding more mission templates and variety, especially in spawn locations....also in 'smartness' of ai, maybe even visualize the game as a rts, (in the code / ai) with all the units, along with modeling their communications (radio? yelling? gunfire is loud, silencers break teh echolcation, trained soldiers know...and a lot can be modeled without makin it complex or noticable....and that makes the game feel 'fun and solid' sorta, and consistent and deep :)
Momentum isn't in it...I'd love to see better movement, perhaps using the rpg skills ? I notice it's mostly level and guns, no stats and no individual skills, like a 'rifle' skill or a 'rifle repair' or 'rifle modding' skill, I loved the old dragonrealms (mud on play.net , still there lol they should item shop it, or ya'll should buy their systems and graphics them, they did some amazing stuff in textmode and kept doin it, plus if you love teh console style, all game commands are inputted thru their nice telnet client (with some flags on the prompt (instead of drive:\>, prints out your game characters emergency vars like invisible, hidden, bleeding, dead, etc) ;p , and then all the moves are actually .exe files on the server :)
so n.exe moves your entry in the files one room to the north, provided that room has that one, there's also ranges, killin, and , uh, you could make swords and turn invisible like this one, might be neat to see more into the 'magic' system, or have that be hi-tech....
Those little design decisions are actually huge in many ways! I mean is realistic more fun with half inch rocket spinnin projectiles goin 2,400 feet per second (estimated, how many mph is that? according to google, 2400fps is 1,640 mph, or around mach 2, according to trueknowledge.com...also this forum won't let me paste!
How about in-game forum and website integration? It's kinda meta, maybe access your account thru the menus and have options like popup new forum messages on loading screens, maybe have a bigger profile section too, like a personal area/ house, and maybe you can do things there that can't be done elsewhere that people can try and share like new game modes with no savin of variables (unless official ;p )
Also how about some dueling options, both 1v1, teams, etc, (i like options! :) ), and it might even be possible to have 'portals' versions of the game sorta, where you have a realistic one and a magical slowsphere one, and perhaps they affect each other on some numbers, and not on others...sorta a buncha games that are similar, connected, and the ones that all the players flow to gets more dev time and becomes the main branch to fork from :)
Also the armor from the starcraft marine, it looks like teh old metal medieval armor , articulated means it bends teh same way you do so in order to bend ur arm backwards or off, you gotta break the metal....often at a joint, and holes are a weak spot, at least until someone figured out how to make it clear, or how to fight blind. On a side note, if you heat the armor the skin fuses to it pretty good, and then you can weld it on that way (painful and permanant), and its very hard to cut thru , although a porticulus and/or geared bow work fine :)
Maybe a little ez-dev suggestions app, like for makin suggestions and reviewing them p2p, specifics too based on tools , then p2p review with rewards for makin good suggestions or usin it in game cash or cash shop cash, and there's probably enough modelers (or make an ez-one that works on guns, human pieces, etc), to increase the resource quantity of the game a ton...and I hated that one part about world of warcraft, that there wasn't a lotta items at the high end, just a buncha people in honor gear ;p and instancers, plus the rare arena winner....lol i was an irregular schedule so the arena didn't really exist, although i did find a daily quester who didn't use it to 2s with me, lol was a cow dk, i was a belf dk, named her 'worthless cow' due to winning really hard that one time she was afk ;p mostly doin laps in unholy with the +15%, and lookin for a dg healer kill :) also did some random pug arena, got called 'best dk in game but schedule is impossible' at one point, and also slayed onyxia at 77 , leveled to 80 there, only other dk in raid had arena gear and matchin polearm :P back in wotlk, met lich king (in honor gear, needed at least +1 with skill, gearscore good too, i mostly ebt'd , rolled as dps then watched the tank + healer with my l33t pvp reflexes (i mostly lived in the bgs, got the honor helm at like 71, then saw someone burnin mats in 'nyx (last raid at the time approx, gs was 3500 suggested , max was maybe 4200 act 4000 not in top 50 (lol)
i got in with the gearscore joke, was spamming raids to try one with my gearscore and not level, then i got one baseed on havin the helm and convincing the top rated arena dk to join, who was randomly chillin in dalaran (photos on other blog), and i was kickin the other dks out since most dks ain't serious about what dks do when they're balanced at 80....lol they're also only good if you don't pvp the ah and have nice loot at 50-60, plus they show up right at 59ish ;p
Anyways a lotta people whine about 'zerg mobs', but man i did a few AV and wsg with a lot of hot action thru the trees, and when it's 40v40 and they're killin each other in groups, the dk's nice armor, ability to move ppl around with dg, and ranged red mist can make a wall and push ppl around, lotsa tricks and fast movin , the dk is the zerg maker of winner ;p and i love the ppl who wonder why their team never wins in wsg aloud, when i noticed the trick to winning av is for all 40 ppl to start runnin simultaneously (you can't tell them to, you gotta be parta the team ;p ) and man, one afk is kinda a you notice that and not how everybody is movin around together to kick their [filtered] , and 40v40 goes either way, but most of the players just run past on av, man that needs to be 40% narrower ;p in the middle
also after onyixa, we killed the king of stormwind on a pvp server, was the achieve a few needed plus it was the hard one, and we kicked the dragons butt, neat simultaneous movement dodging waves with all 40 of us.
the king was well defended, but we were all in diff guilds, including both large (i wasi n the biggest guild in the history and future of wow, iHorde on Illidan, with 3.8k names and typically 800ish online near the end when the guild got banned for something , i think they were reading our chat ;p)
Now the guilds are capped at a limit, yet I hate the 'one group' rule. Be nice to see lots of grouping options and in-game support, especially since i wander off and forget ppl....maybe an easy way to chat with joker girl again and find her from before, friend her profile, ez teamup if we're both online at the same time, convenient for us both when not , and then options to collect that into multiple simultaneous groups, perahps a friendly one, hardcore, crafting, my arena team guild, instead of makin us pick one like wow ;p
we managed to bring the horde, they brought the alliance, we got the king with two arena teams of rogues and druids and a big distraction where we brought in the gryphon gankers that were blockin reinforments, neat stories all around like the rogue pair in the tram, others were runnin back an forth but two rogues were not dyin ;p and they were rumblin on the tracks ! :P yeeeha we brought teh people in , had spies n lies goin too, big push to the left and i figgered they'd have it easy due to rogue + druid both havin invisibility.
I later found out druids aren't invisible and the entire allicance was there. Tragically, nobody told the story of how they did that....at least not to me, lol, i was tired from coordinatin large group movements, they were counter-gankin us so we had to raid up and move between forward points with good pvpers, those #s don't mean [filtered] if you can't hit them without dyin suddenly
On that note, the decayin zerg gameplay style, a buncha players queue up, 1-death you're out, then do waves of progression until everybody's dead, livin longer is more loot (approx), could also be zerg mob vs. a series of groupspawns of random levels and sizes too, with stacked rewards for doin ok on the weak team and a lottery potential
Also maybe buy-in games, like you pay $400 to play a series of games...maybe with that bein a per life fee, i also like the idea of a mirror shard that's diablo2 style hardcore, and maybe with a gold-bar token system, so there's a fee to respawn as a new character, and perhaps paying more for one life spawns you with nice RPG skills like jogging, parkour (youtube saerch it, people doin stunts), jumping, bestial movement, rough terrain, treeshot, (you know, trees are narrow at the top. Climb the tree (fast), grab the top, flex the tree grabbin lower branches as necessary, ,then use the tree totravel far and fast with good observations....and other custom map tile codes, like tomb raider but also with skills , and maybe model inventory and weight better i mean who the [filtered] brings 3 guns? maybe bazooka + pistol + 3 mags + bando with a buncha bazooka shells + technically a mortar, but lol your engine won't do mortars, the explosion is larger than the biggest combat maps....
Lol could make a buncha maps with copy & paste, and maybe let us fight in the cities in pvp mode too minus the npcs ;p an instance of a large map, including with multigroups and distant objectives, perahps longer larger team more spread out 'war' game modes, and perhaps some links between the crafting and actually making game resources, combined with current gameplay and also the 'real' way to make a gun, lol maybe if you play this and do tailoring a bunch, you learn to make socks , mend pants, dye shirts, CNC metals, and 3d print car parts :)
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Not to say it's not tons of fun already ! :)
Anyways some random suggestions, feel free to ignore, use, or even partially use or be inspired by :)
I also want paypal if you want me to ramble about crimecraft for around a full novel, lol i did 3+ novels worth of relevant text on my blog in like 3 months :) mostly on guns...makin [filtered], and random other [filtered], not a cohesive story, and yet...those fictional stories, the 'main character' is the author, and to make their idea work....they have to not model the 500 other humans tangentally involved in the storay, whereas a real story, there's missing info, and every human is consistent...i was just noticin how in gta4, i'm either alone, or joinin a game with ppl that's kinda ... directionless, whereas here in cc, i'm almost always meetin new and interestin people, just was on a random mission map with some chick with jokerette facepaint, i thought she wasn't doin so good....lol at the end it was me and her with the top scores, i guess i was running backwards when gettin overwhelmed too, is joinin the red /\ the hardmode one? I like havin people around, and the co-op is fun.....i hate the AI, lol, can we get some good AI? maybe rob teh reaperbot or other oss bots...also like chess, can have difficulty settings! and maybe some left 4 dead 2 style "smart AI' spawning of mobs...nicluding more mission templates and variety, especially in spawn locations....also in 'smartness' of ai, maybe even visualize the game as a rts, (in the code / ai) with all the units, along with modeling their communications (radio? yelling? gunfire is loud, silencers break teh echolcation, trained soldiers know...and a lot can be modeled without makin it complex or noticable....and that makes the game feel 'fun and solid' sorta, and consistent and deep :)
Momentum isn't in it...I'd love to see better movement, perhaps using the rpg skills ? I notice it's mostly level and guns, no stats and no individual skills, like a 'rifle' skill or a 'rifle repair' or 'rifle modding' skill, I loved the old dragonrealms (mud on play.net , still there lol they should item shop it, or ya'll should buy their systems and graphics them, they did some amazing stuff in textmode and kept doin it, plus if you love teh console style, all game commands are inputted thru their nice telnet client (with some flags on the prompt (instead of drive:\>, prints out your game characters emergency vars like invisible, hidden, bleeding, dead, etc) ;p , and then all the moves are actually .exe files on the server :)
so n.exe moves your entry in the files one room to the north, provided that room has that one, there's also ranges, killin, and , uh, you could make swords and turn invisible like this one, might be neat to see more into the 'magic' system, or have that be hi-tech....
Those little design decisions are actually huge in many ways! I mean is realistic more fun with half inch rocket spinnin projectiles goin 2,400 feet per second (estimated, how many mph is that? according to google, 2400fps is 1,640 mph, or around mach 2, according to trueknowledge.com...also this forum won't let me paste!
How about in-game forum and website integration? It's kinda meta, maybe access your account thru the menus and have options like popup new forum messages on loading screens, maybe have a bigger profile section too, like a personal area/ house, and maybe you can do things there that can't be done elsewhere that people can try and share like new game modes with no savin of variables (unless official ;p )
Also how about some dueling options, both 1v1, teams, etc, (i like options! :) ), and it might even be possible to have 'portals' versions of the game sorta, where you have a realistic one and a magical slowsphere one, and perhaps they affect each other on some numbers, and not on others...sorta a buncha games that are similar, connected, and the ones that all the players flow to gets more dev time and becomes the main branch to fork from :)
Also the armor from the starcraft marine, it looks like teh old metal medieval armor , articulated means it bends teh same way you do so in order to bend ur arm backwards or off, you gotta break the metal....often at a joint, and holes are a weak spot, at least until someone figured out how to make it clear, or how to fight blind. On a side note, if you heat the armor the skin fuses to it pretty good, and then you can weld it on that way (painful and permanant), and its very hard to cut thru , although a porticulus and/or geared bow work fine :)
Maybe a little ez-dev suggestions app, like for makin suggestions and reviewing them p2p, specifics too based on tools , then p2p review with rewards for makin good suggestions or usin it in game cash or cash shop cash, and there's probably enough modelers (or make an ez-one that works on guns, human pieces, etc), to increase the resource quantity of the game a ton...and I hated that one part about world of warcraft, that there wasn't a lotta items at the high end, just a buncha people in honor gear ;p and instancers, plus the rare arena winner....lol i was an irregular schedule so the arena didn't really exist, although i did find a daily quester who didn't use it to 2s with me, lol was a cow dk, i was a belf dk, named her 'worthless cow' due to winning really hard that one time she was afk ;p mostly doin laps in unholy with the +15%, and lookin for a dg healer kill :) also did some random pug arena, got called 'best dk in game but schedule is impossible' at one point, and also slayed onyxia at 77 , leveled to 80 there, only other dk in raid had arena gear and matchin polearm :P back in wotlk, met lich king (in honor gear, needed at least +1 with skill, gearscore good too, i mostly ebt'd , rolled as dps then watched the tank + healer with my l33t pvp reflexes (i mostly lived in the bgs, got the honor helm at like 71, then saw someone burnin mats in 'nyx (last raid at the time approx, gs was 3500 suggested , max was maybe 4200 act 4000 not in top 50 (lol)
i got in with the gearscore joke, was spamming raids to try one with my gearscore and not level, then i got one baseed on havin the helm and convincing the top rated arena dk to join, who was randomly chillin in dalaran (photos on other blog), and i was kickin the other dks out since most dks ain't serious about what dks do when they're balanced at 80....lol they're also only good if you don't pvp the ah and have nice loot at 50-60, plus they show up right at 59ish ;p
Anyways a lotta people whine about 'zerg mobs', but man i did a few AV and wsg with a lot of hot action thru the trees, and when it's 40v40 and they're killin each other in groups, the dk's nice armor, ability to move ppl around with dg, and ranged red mist can make a wall and push ppl around, lotsa tricks and fast movin , the dk is the zerg maker of winner ;p and i love the ppl who wonder why their team never wins in wsg aloud, when i noticed the trick to winning av is for all 40 ppl to start runnin simultaneously (you can't tell them to, you gotta be parta the team ;p ) and man, one afk is kinda a you notice that and not how everybody is movin around together to kick their [filtered] , and 40v40 goes either way, but most of the players just run past on av, man that needs to be 40% narrower ;p in the middle
also after onyixa, we killed the king of stormwind on a pvp server, was the achieve a few needed plus it was the hard one, and we kicked the dragons butt, neat simultaneous movement dodging waves with all 40 of us.
the king was well defended, but we were all in diff guilds, including both large (i wasi n the biggest guild in the history and future of wow, iHorde on Illidan, with 3.8k names and typically 800ish online near the end when the guild got banned for something , i think they were reading our chat ;p)
Now the guilds are capped at a limit, yet I hate the 'one group' rule. Be nice to see lots of grouping options and in-game support, especially since i wander off and forget ppl....maybe an easy way to chat with joker girl again and find her from before, friend her profile, ez teamup if we're both online at the same time, convenient for us both when not , and then options to collect that into multiple simultaneous groups, perahps a friendly one, hardcore, crafting, my arena team guild, instead of makin us pick one like wow ;p
we managed to bring the horde, they brought the alliance, we got the king with two arena teams of rogues and druids and a big distraction where we brought in the gryphon gankers that were blockin reinforments, neat stories all around like the rogue pair in the tram, others were runnin back an forth but two rogues were not dyin ;p and they were rumblin on the tracks ! :P yeeeha we brought teh people in , had spies n lies goin too, big push to the left and i figgered they'd have it easy due to rogue + druid both havin invisibility.
I later found out druids aren't invisible and the entire allicance was there. Tragically, nobody told the story of how they did that....at least not to me, lol, i was tired from coordinatin large group movements, they were counter-gankin us so we had to raid up and move between forward points with good pvpers, those #s don't mean [filtered] if you can't hit them without dyin suddenly
On that note, the decayin zerg gameplay style, a buncha players queue up, 1-death you're out, then do waves of progression until everybody's dead, livin longer is more loot (approx), could also be zerg mob vs. a series of groupspawns of random levels and sizes too, with stacked rewards for doin ok on the weak team and a lottery potential
Also maybe buy-in games, like you pay $400 to play a series of games...maybe with that bein a per life fee, i also like the idea of a mirror shard that's diablo2 style hardcore, and maybe with a gold-bar token system, so there's a fee to respawn as a new character, and perhaps paying more for one life spawns you with nice RPG skills like jogging, parkour (youtube saerch it, people doin stunts), jumping, bestial movement, rough terrain, treeshot, (you know, trees are narrow at the top. Climb the tree (fast), grab the top, flex the tree grabbin lower branches as necessary, ,then use the tree totravel far and fast with good observations....and other custom map tile codes, like tomb raider but also with skills , and maybe model inventory and weight better i mean who the [filtered] brings 3 guns? maybe bazooka + pistol + 3 mags + bando with a buncha bazooka shells + technically a mortar, but lol your engine won't do mortars, the explosion is larger than the biggest combat maps....
Lol could make a buncha maps with copy & paste, and maybe let us fight in the cities in pvp mode too minus the npcs ;p an instance of a large map, including with multigroups and distant objectives, perahps longer larger team more spread out 'war' game modes, and perhaps some links between the crafting and actually making game resources, combined with current gameplay and also the 'real' way to make a gun, lol maybe if you play this and do tailoring a bunch, you learn to make socks , mend pants, dye shirts, CNC metals, and 3d print car parts :)