Help me make New Weapons!
Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:25 pmDamage has been made proportional to stat requirements, and recharge times have been reduced (though still not technically balanced), making HMWeapons once again (if they ever were) viable.
The final thing to be done (besides fix brawling)? Fill out the empty spots on the list!
We have a lot of stat combinations that don't have corresponding weapons. And of course, for each combination, there's different damage-ranges and recharge rates to consider.
In other words, unless there is some cap that we need to take into consideration, there is a lot to be added!
So, in light of that, what I need is suggestions for names!
I could probably fill the list out by myself, using the list of inactive weapons if nothing else, but that doesn't seem fair, so here are the 'rules':
Suggest as many weapon names as you want!
BUT
1) Only give me your desired stats for your favorite suggestion. Since I'm constrained by what is currently missing, I can't just throw things in willy nilly, but if your weapon fills a field that is currently missing, why not? Still, only one! Please!
2) Try to keep the weapons semi-serious. Other players may feel that their gaming experience has been diminished if they get attacked by Dual Mammary Machine Guns.
3) Weapons that are from other canons are up in the air. A "Batarang" for example will probably be out of the question, but the Chainsaw Sword, which is both a touch more obscure and sounds like something a TF would use, have made it in in the past. Try to avoid using weapons that are copyrighted or trademarked outside of Transformers. We use a lot of copyrighted alternate modes (like the TIE Fighter) but the icons are also intentionally vague. Same principle applies here.
4) Try to name the weapon something that will flow grammatically in a mission text. This is a recommendation rather than a rule though.
5) Just because you suggest it, doesn't mean it will get in, even if it's great. There may be a limit to how many weapons can be in the inventory that I don't know about. Even if there's no technical limit, we may simply not want to scroll through 300 weapons on the weapon page. In that light, I won't start adding stuff for, like, a week or so. That way, there will be plenty of time to determine how many should be added. In the mean time, I'll just build a list in Word and organize things. Then add the stuff that's needed most when we know how many can be added.
The final thing to be done (besides fix brawling)? Fill out the empty spots on the list!
We have a lot of stat combinations that don't have corresponding weapons. And of course, for each combination, there's different damage-ranges and recharge rates to consider.
In other words, unless there is some cap that we need to take into consideration, there is a lot to be added!
So, in light of that, what I need is suggestions for names!
I could probably fill the list out by myself, using the list of inactive weapons if nothing else, but that doesn't seem fair, so here are the 'rules':
Suggest as many weapon names as you want!
BUT
1) Only give me your desired stats for your favorite suggestion. Since I'm constrained by what is currently missing, I can't just throw things in willy nilly, but if your weapon fills a field that is currently missing, why not? Still, only one! Please!
2) Try to keep the weapons semi-serious. Other players may feel that their gaming experience has been diminished if they get attacked by Dual Mammary Machine Guns.
3) Weapons that are from other canons are up in the air. A "Batarang" for example will probably be out of the question, but the Chainsaw Sword, which is both a touch more obscure and sounds like something a TF would use, have made it in in the past. Try to avoid using weapons that are copyrighted or trademarked outside of Transformers. We use a lot of copyrighted alternate modes (like the TIE Fighter) but the icons are also intentionally vague. Same principle applies here.
4) Try to name the weapon something that will flow grammatically in a mission text. This is a recommendation rather than a rule though.
5) Just because you suggest it, doesn't mean it will get in, even if it's great. There may be a limit to how many weapons can be in the inventory that I don't know about. Even if there's no technical limit, we may simply not want to scroll through 300 weapons on the weapon page. In that light, I won't start adding stuff for, like, a week or so. That way, there will be plenty of time to determine how many should be added. In the mean time, I'll just build a list in Word and organize things. Then add the stuff that's needed most when we know how many can be added.
