Mogwai Prime wrote:Ok how about this as a compromise. I want more detail you want more imagination. Anyone that's been here long enough knows that I love to do graphics. What if I set up a Altmode thread that users can submit any form of art drawings, pictures and other such images and turn them into detailed alts. For example Burn submits a picture of his Gore kitbash. I take that and turn it into a detailed alt. Along with those alts I will also do other alts to give other choices. I am all for the imagination aspect of it. Custom alts to a point could be done the same way the other alts are done and put in. There would be a level of approval to prevent images against the sites policy, but would allow user participation also. I would still provide a color change option for the alts.
That's a compromise? Dude, you NEED us to submit different things anyway so we have a massive tonne of variety in the game.
And Mkall tried Gore. Turned out to be a big nasty blob (much like him at times). That's the problem with stacking too many weapons onto such a small figure.
And for the record, I don't mind which way we end up going, though I had assumed we'd be able to do what we've done in the past and have a crew working on transforming submitted images.
Mogwai Prime wrote:On to other things the altmodes will last for a certain number of rounds which will be determined by a stat. I am still working on what stats will do what, but it will be logical in the way they work. Robot mode will be the default mode of battle.
When you say rounds you're talking in what we now call "turns"? Currently our bots transform once, make a move, then transform back. You're talking them transforming, staying transformed and executing a number of moves across a number of "turns" before transforming back?
I am contemplating how to do missions. I'm thinking that Burn had the right idea in just making it Map Missions which I agree with totally. The arena I am thinking will be set up as a challenge arena, but I'm also leaning towards making it a hybrid of the challenge arena and the current arena. This is still being decided so feel free to offer comments. If I do it that way intra-faction fights will gain zero xp it would be just for the challenge and bragging rights.
The original idea of the map was to be the focal point of the game. I just feel having the map + missions + arena is TOO MUCH diversity.
For years people have complained off and on about lack of support in missions because their comrades were sitting in the arena. Slotting in the map and taking into account the player base (currently) is quite small, it would only make the problem worse.
By making the arena the challenge arena (ie a battle simulator, no energon or xp gained but can still be an integral part of the game and can be used for bracket tournaments) people will be less inclined to use it.
Mission/Arena logs will only be good for a certain amount of time as I will set it up so these automatically clean themselves out after a set amount of time.
Perhaps a progressive wipe (ie run daily deleting logs that are more than 3 months old) rather than a huge dump-em-all-at-once wipe?
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