New ideas
 

I think that era should have more oppertunities in player business and needs someone creative to come up with good ideas for them, people make money and spend money in player businesses and most people you speak to on era like them. So why does era only have a few!!

if someone could come up with a good business idea that isn't a generic gun/ammo/food selling business then I'm sure it will catch the attention of the staff team.

Hmmmm what happened to the eggroll shack? It was about to get released...

What really was going to be the point of eggroll shack anyways?

Egg Roll Shack was just a normal food business from what I saw

Apartments :o

Egg Roll Shack was gonna to release but Deophite went back on its own word. I redid it got graphics,levels,ganis done and all era had to do is script it. I stil have the owner tag for it but idk Deophite said hes too busy right now or something. But EggRoll Shack was a Different food business. The food is cook in front of your eyes with neat food tricks ect its more like a resturant then just a take out and more player on player then just a npc thing like DD and DH is but i doubt it will ever come up in the future. Plus i was promise when i did all that work that it was gonna to come up and i was gonna run it since I got all the content together and everything.
So if it ever comes out ill prob be running it ect.

To add more to Rave_Js reply, It was indeed different, saw that myself and I was just around 1 week to be opened, I even remember making a News article 4 it

Well im pretty sure theres lots of people with ideas, i have a few myself as im sure everyone does, but catching the idea of an admin doesnt seem likely they dont seem to want to respond to people very often.

Share your ideas here?

well if i share them here theyre everyones:P

so? if anyone takes your ideas you can just tell them "look at my thread, I came up with it first. tough ****."

So what are you going to do with them, sell them to the administrators at a high price?

They better be damn good ideas.

But really, why start a topic lamenting how uncreative and boring businesses are, yet you won't help solve the problem?

You'd rather cling to your ideas for the sake of vanity and continue to play with the same old boring businesses? Rather than suggesting something of worth and value and seeing that idea become a reality?

Really?

Alright point made, maybe we should have a building for helping out new people, and players can be involved? Or we could have a building for politics because era players always complain all the time as we all know so if we make it so people have a fairer say it might help. Maybe having people with less powers then admins but still some power in charge.

prostitution business

As a player of Era I feel their should be atleast one buisiness beyond food, and gun, and even beyond renting rooms. Their should be one buisiness that catches the eye of all players, I think cars should be half priced and half more of an effect on Era and make the car dealeship some type of player owned biz.

Yuo have GOT to be kidding me.

As far as "new ideas" go, I would like to post about the "Nightstick." The damage is a mere 10, and it's once key aspect (the stun) is utterly useless as this attribute barely takes effect in most cases (to add, the Nightstick cannot cause bleeding). The designated stun time is also much too short. At one time, the stun was useful, but due to a nerf it isn't considered a valid trait. I realize that it's just a minor weapon that anybody can buy, but in comparison to the Hammer and Machete this weapon is pointless to buy.

You would make no money being a dealership. Once everyone has a car as they do now, who even really buys from the dealership? Most people buy from each other as cars are much much cheaper from a person than from the dealership

when I first came up with the idea of the night stick stunning players and not just doing damage, I wanted the stun to last really long. not just a few seconds because yeah, it's pointless to use right now.

I just thought of a pretty neat idea though. there could be 3 different outcomes when getting hit with a night stick.

1. you get hit in the head. 10 damage.
2. you get hit in the arm. your melee damage drops 50 percent and you can't wield a gun.
3. you get hit in the leg. your speed drops 30 percent

(each percent value can be changed. I just threw in random ones for demonstration purposes)

2 + 3 are permanent effects until you heal in a bed. in order to keep it balanced so nobody can just swing around a night stick and start stunning people, there would be a very low chance of actually breaking someones arm or leg, but no matter what a 100 percent chance to hit them for 10 damage.

would be pretty cool in my opinion.

I had, but they didn't like it.. Made the levels for nothing :[

A supermarket. Right now business have most of the supplies there for them. I think they should have to buy all of their supplies. It would be a lot more interesting and I think its a great idea.

How is a supermarket any different from another food business?

Unless you're talking about some super-center like Wal-Mart, where you can buy COMPARE-US-TO-<REAL-QUALITY-****> clothes, cereal, and funyuns?

Let's not forget the 99 cents DVD rack.

No but really, what are they stocking up on? They've already got mines for the minerals needed to produce things... Food for the Employee Only Christmas party? World War III? 2012? Charity Events?

The old skateboard shop and park-area.
Could have that player-owned and then have the skate park an area for competitions (betting on winners to increase revenue for the shop, and something interesting) and practice for them.

lol...new ideas for a modern server XD

Try following the sims with something like talent points?

-Maybe you can start drawing doodles and work up to masterpieces to sell for money...

-Taking photos with a camera, you can sell for money...

-Cleaning a gun with a cool gui of gun parts and your cursor being a brush...

-An actual recycle bin somewhere on the screen whowing how much trash you've collected when you're wearing the stick thing...

-Hold shift to run for a short while while losing your ability to shoot? Unable to run/ slowed signifigantly if injured.

-Introduce Stimulants into the game to improve how fast you run/aim/stuff.

-give each gang spraypaint where they can claim area's with thier sign.

-make a diner dash sort of minigame to earn money, with a high score list.

-remove most spar arena's and add a way to simply duel with someone, making all players invisable as the 2 dueling players only see each other and are invulerable to others for a short while, bullets only hurting each other..etc..etc...duel having a time limit

-actual neighborhoods with actual houses and neighbers and yards and a mailbox w/ tree's and gardens... x3

I felt like emptying out my mind >:O time for sleep...Zzz.z

I like these 4
The hold shift would be cool, it could be a crouch kinda run, you run faster and cent use your gun (Could have some sweet ganis)
spray paint.. Meh, make it so it cant be abused rofl
Different spars! like spar in the dark, invisible, ice, Spars where you rent a gun in that level only, like rent MT for 100$ for like 1h
you kno.

Good idea, but remember...
Era is a modern server. Ice is not really fitting.

Quit being so blonde.

He means so food buisnesses have to buy materials to make there things elsewhere, it would be like the gun parts shop, you can't use anything unless your building something that uses the part. Only think is it would have to be NPC owned because that would be stupid of it was playerowned, what would they stock with?

Well, what about a ice rink... you know for hockey?

Ohhh yeah.


Decent idea maybe, just worded badly. Real food businesses don't buy their **** from a supermarket. They've got mass producing suppliers.

But yeah, they should have to pay for supplies like the ammo shops do.

Yeah I know they don't, but they buy there stuff from suppliers who warehouse the stuff, but it would help cut down on spending nothing to make something

actually thats a REALLY good idea...

would help stabilize the economy too!

renting guns? no. that's stupid.

What's the point of renting guns out for an X amount when in the real world of Era a luger is around 25 million. Also wouldn't that mess up the hole trade affiliation with people not knowing how good a certain gun is, so however this would let them know the real truth of how well the gun really is. Sorry I'm not good with wording, let me know if I am kind of wrong or right in the sense of topic.

You mean people can try the gun out for 100$ before actually buying it? :p

Could be used in just a speacial spar, or level xP

TpH or something like that, however Mesh's brother was supposed to finish the Motorcycles, right? lol

I never see him online anyways xP

Tph is long gone.

tph, yes.
he finished the graphics and the ganis. they just needed to be scripted.

*cough*