This must be the work of an enemy stand!
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 4:55 am
I'm a massive weeb and think punching ghosts would be cool to have in the game. I plan on coding this/am looking for ideas and feedback on it, dunno if this is the right forum or what. Obviously they won't be named stands in the final version.
So far the plan is basically
-Stand's are probably going to be simple animals, as they won't need to breathe/be hungry etc.
-Stands will be stored inside the users location, and summoned onto the users turf with the use of a verb/recalled with the use of a verb (probably on a cooldown)
-The stand will have a max range they can be from the user. If they're too far away, they get forcibly warped back to the users turf
-Stands/users will get a private telepathy channel, like :z or something
-Stands will have randomized sprites so you can't tell what their power is at a glance
-Stands will have infinite health/be unstunnable by normal means, but doing damage to the stand will do some portion of that damage to the user, and when the user dies the stand dies (maybe the user should have slightly increased max health so the fights last longer or something if they're going to be taking damage from two sources)
-Null rod would probably desummon them because why not
Stands will start out fairly simple at first (plain attacks, fast with weaker plain attacks, no attacks but completely invulnerable and unpushable, ranged attacks, a stand that deals bonus damage to other stands but nothing to people, and a scout stand that can move as far away as it wants off the top of my head), but more interesting powers could be added once the system is in place. Right now the primary difference would be how much damage the stand deals and how much damage the user takes.
What I need help deciding on:
-Their visibility. I think ideally, and most interestingly they'd only be visible to other stands/users, but it'd be fucking miserable for the sec officer who tried to break up a fight only to be killed by something invisible. I think I'll settle for silicons being unable to see them
-What sort of role they should play in the game. Plain antagonists? A wizard spell? Antags with strict rules that they're only after each other or specific targets? Ideally I think they'd be after one another, but that'd require it's own game mode at a fairly high population (it'd take 8 players just to make 4 stand users, after all)
-How to theme them. I'd rather avoid tarot cards. Maybe zodiac signs or something?
-Other fun (but sane and feasible) ideas for stand powers
-If they should be vulnerable to normal weapons (I can already imagine it'd get really dumb if a stand dragged its user around in a locker while attacking people invulnerable, even if I think stand vs stand would be more interesting)
Also I can't sprite for shit so I'd need help with that as well if anyone is at all interested.
Anyway, that's the basic idea, just looking for any extra input before I start. I know coding the stands themselves won't be hard but deciding how to implement them in a meaningful way will be tricky. If you think I should just drop the whole thing that's cool as well.
Hopefully a maintainer can tell me if they'd let me merge this as well, because I know references/inspiration is touchy. Hope I didn't forget anything this was mostly just stream of consciousness from ideas I've had bouncing around for a few days.
tl;dr
Can I add these? Any suggestions? I need sprites please help thanks
So far the plan is basically
-Stand's are probably going to be simple animals, as they won't need to breathe/be hungry etc.
-Stands will be stored inside the users location, and summoned onto the users turf with the use of a verb/recalled with the use of a verb (probably on a cooldown)
-The stand will have a max range they can be from the user. If they're too far away, they get forcibly warped back to the users turf
-Stands/users will get a private telepathy channel, like :z or something
-Stands will have randomized sprites so you can't tell what their power is at a glance
-Stands will have infinite health/be unstunnable by normal means, but doing damage to the stand will do some portion of that damage to the user, and when the user dies the stand dies (maybe the user should have slightly increased max health so the fights last longer or something if they're going to be taking damage from two sources)
-Null rod would probably desummon them because why not
Stands will start out fairly simple at first (plain attacks, fast with weaker plain attacks, no attacks but completely invulnerable and unpushable, ranged attacks, a stand that deals bonus damage to other stands but nothing to people, and a scout stand that can move as far away as it wants off the top of my head), but more interesting powers could be added once the system is in place. Right now the primary difference would be how much damage the stand deals and how much damage the user takes.
What I need help deciding on:
-Their visibility. I think ideally, and most interestingly they'd only be visible to other stands/users, but it'd be fucking miserable for the sec officer who tried to break up a fight only to be killed by something invisible. I think I'll settle for silicons being unable to see them
-What sort of role they should play in the game. Plain antagonists? A wizard spell? Antags with strict rules that they're only after each other or specific targets? Ideally I think they'd be after one another, but that'd require it's own game mode at a fairly high population (it'd take 8 players just to make 4 stand users, after all)
-How to theme them. I'd rather avoid tarot cards. Maybe zodiac signs or something?
-Other fun (but sane and feasible) ideas for stand powers
-If they should be vulnerable to normal weapons (I can already imagine it'd get really dumb if a stand dragged its user around in a locker while attacking people invulnerable, even if I think stand vs stand would be more interesting)
Also I can't sprite for shit so I'd need help with that as well if anyone is at all interested.
Anyway, that's the basic idea, just looking for any extra input before I start. I know coding the stands themselves won't be hard but deciding how to implement them in a meaningful way will be tricky. If you think I should just drop the whole thing that's cool as well.
Hopefully a maintainer can tell me if they'd let me merge this as well, because I know references/inspiration is touchy. Hope I didn't forget anything this was mostly just stream of consciousness from ideas I've had bouncing around for a few days.
tl;dr
Can I add these? Any suggestions? I need sprites please help thanks