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Old 07-10-2010, 06:06 AM
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Hiro sucks ****. Just saying. So let's ignore the horrible ideas he's trying to share, and create some fresh ones.

Take into consideration games and try studying a bit of American history and what made the times in which the Mafia reigned so unique. For example, instead of simply making the game a "gun/building-capturing server," why don't you attempt to use that RP element you have to your advantage?

Take the ability to customize your characters and make it so that people as they join are able to join one of x amounts of "main" families. The benefit in joining a family in the beginning could be a bonus in say: using the places taken over by that specific family to gain discounts in weapon shops, food shops, etc. Make it so that the more territory a family has taken over, the more money they make and the more of specific (not just filler territory - crackhouses, bars, etc) territory taken over makes it so that the members of that family can gain benefits in those territories.

Doing something as simple as this would make it so that the need to be in a family is required and each player WILL strive to keep that family actively on top of the most important (or strategically diverse) territory so that they could plan attacks on other families.

On top of that, you could offer making things much more unique by allowing players to form their own families and allowing the buildings they take up to be customizable as well, allowing them to gradually form a family that could compete with the main families.

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Just a few ideas, but I think that'd make the server a little more unique in terms of being just a plain gun server. It'd offer purpose to the players and it'd be unique in the theme. Given the theme and the time of the game, you could also give specific effects that character can experience while drunk and can be a huge selling market for the families that can take over specific territories and set up their own underground bars (given the whole Prohibition Act where alcohol was made illegal around this time).
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Old 07-10-2010, 06:14 AM
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I think Hiro's doing a good job
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Old 07-10-2010, 06:18 AM
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Hiro sucks ****. Just saying. So let's ignore the horrible ideas he's trying to share, and create some fresh ones.

Take into consideration games and try studying a bit of American history and what made the times in which the Mafia reigned so unique. For example, instead of simply making the game a "gun/building-capturing server," why don't you attempt to use that RP element you have to your advantage?

Take the ability to customize your characters and make it so that people as they join are able to join one of x amounts of "main" families. The benefit in joining a family in the beginning could be a bonus in say: using the places taken over by that specific family to gain discounts in weapon shops, food shops, etc. Make it so that the more territory a family has taken over, the more money they make and the more of specific (not just filler territory - crackhouses, bars, etc) territory taken over makes it so that the members of that family can gain benefits in those territories.

Doing something as simple as this would make it so that the need to be in a family is required and each player WILL strive to keep that family actively on top of the most important (or strategically diverse) territory so that they could plan attacks on other families.

On top of that, you could offer making things much more unique by allowing players to form their own families and allowing the buildings they take up to be customizable as well, allowing them to gradually form a family that could compete with the main families.

===========================

Just a few ideas, but I think that'd make the server a little more unique in terms of being just a plain gun server. It'd offer purpose to the players and it'd be unique in the theme. Given the theme and the time of the game, you could also give specific effects that character can experience while drunk and can be a huge selling market for the families that can take over specific territories and set up their own underground bars (given the whole Prohibition Act where alcohol was made illegal around this time).
Robocop.. You just blew my mind. He is completely right, If you use elements of the theme you are using to your advantage mix that with basic RP elements, You will surely have a server worth playing on.
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Old 07-10-2010, 06:29 AM
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Robocop.. You just blew my mind. He is completely right, If you use elements of the theme you are using to your advantage mix that with basic RP elements, You will surely have a server worth playing on.
You're welcome, hope the remains aren't everywhere?

Roleplay isn't necessarily a bad thing. Val, I remember was a fun server when the weapons were still usable and players were able to go out of character and back into character when needed.

You just need to find a right balance between the two, with a theme so delicate as the mafia, the limitations prove to be infinitely useful.

Truth is a server that has some obvious limits and forces players to follow some sort of goal - other than the widely popular kill player - makes it so that the server gives all players a purpose other than killing a player for stats.
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Old 07-10-2010, 06:39 AM
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Hiro sucks ****. Just saying. So let's ignore the horrible ideas he's trying to share, and create some fresh ones.

Take into consideration games and try studying a bit of American history and what made the times in which the Mafia reigned so unique. For example, instead of simply making the game a "gun/building-capturing server," why don't you attempt to use that RP element you have to your advantage?

Take the ability to customize your characters and make it so that people as they join are able to join one of x amounts of "main" families. The benefit in joining a family in the beginning could be a bonus in say: using the places taken over by that specific family to gain discounts in weapon shops, food shops, etc. Make it so that the more territory a family has taken over, the more money they make and the more of specific (not just filler territory - crackhouses, bars, etc) territory taken over makes it so that the members of that family can gain benefits in those territories.

Doing something as simple as this would make it so that the need to be in a family is required and each player WILL strive to keep that family actively on top of the most important (or strategically diverse) territory so that they could plan attacks on other families.

On top of that, you could offer making things much more unique by allowing players to form their own families and allowing the buildings they take up to be customizable as well, allowing them to gradually form a family that could compete with the main families.

===========================

Just a few ideas, but I think that'd make the server a little more unique in terms of being just a plain gun server. It'd offer purpose to the players and it'd be unique in the theme. Given the theme and the time of the game, you could also give specific effects that character can experience while drunk and can be a huge selling market for the families that can take over specific territories and set up their own underground bars (given the whole Prohibition Act where alcohol was made illegal around this time).
You did a very good job.
We have all these ideas already in motion. Thank you so much for confirming to me, that the players wanted this.
But we do have these ideas, almost all of them, already written down.


And in my post, I also mentioned I didn't want to release ALL my details...but I guess if you guys want...I can release some more.

Do you guys want more details?
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Old 07-10-2010, 06:44 AM
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You did a very good job.
We have all these ideas already in motion. Thank you so much for confirming to me, that the players wanted this.
But we do have these ideas, almost all of them, already written down.
No problem. I'll offer more suggestions as the server comes closer to a release or at least further improves on its current needs to make it a full-fledged server.

Feel free to send me a message if you need to discuss any ideas that you're currently considering and not considering.
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Old 07-11-2010, 12:37 AM
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blah blah blah retardedness sort of like: Hiro sucks shutup go away ): Big idea omg huge guys its best idea ever had personal: Lets add rp elements to the server!!!!!!1111one lets add main families and let players join themz!!@! and omg the more space they has the more power they has!! im geniuss!!!
before i critiquie your suggestion, let me just say that you are quite the flaming homosexual (even though i have no idea who you are) and may i also suggest to my peers that we shouldn't listen to a word he says. let's "ignore" his suggestions that the server has already posted about doing, and create fresh new ones!

now, let me critique why your ideas are stupid. by your solution, we would solve the problem of family monopoly by adding in monopolies to predetermined families that already exist before the server comes out: sort of like era's gangs. except that this would make player-made families become futile unless they started out right in the beginning, thus being one of those predetermined families in the first place. allow families to have more customization is an obvious prize-system that is quite far from being original. how you ever came up with that one, we'll never know - perhaps during one of those long nights waiting for sleep, you thought up this brilliant and unoriginal suggestion. whatever the case, if ML staff hadn't already thought of this before you suggested it, i would be shocked (and appalled)

now i'll give ML a different suggestion since you seem to want to have some worthless RP elements on a game where people love to be as unique as possible and don't want to be limited to "fitting in" with the atmosphere: you are going to need some form of law enforcement that combats the various family mafia. if my memory serves me correctly, what gave the mafia leverage over the police force was the fact that they could use machine guns, while the police force was limited to pistols. this should be hard for a family to get (you don't want to have everyone with machine guns going everywhere) but it should give them a significant advantage over the neutral police force who want to get rid of the various mafia-groups

for example, you shouldn't be able to run about with guns blazing in a public area, or just go about PKing anyone you please. these acts are illegal, and you should be pursued and stopped if you try to do so. a good way to enforce this would to have several NPC-police guards who protect the inner cities and patrol about, either capturing or killing any mafia-type members should they attempt to break the law. hell, if a player gets a big enough reputation in any given city, you could have police chase that player on sight

another good opportunity presented by the idea of law enforcement would be to have local banks which could be robbed by players - a good neutral way to obtain money aside from carpal tunnel syndrome "press the s button to break the rock/ore/tree/etc." type systems. the bigger the bank, the larger amount of police force within, the greater amount of money to be stolen (not to mention having families break in, fill up the bags with cash, get to the getaway car, only to be thwarted by a enemy family who steals their spoils)

a last suggestion on police forces: allow police to randomly raid a mafia-controlled building at some given time, given the reputation of that family. unless you were planning on having giant flags atop the buildings to indicate which family owned which building, the hideouts of each family should be secretive (how are you supposed to get away from breaking the law if everyone knows where your hideout is?) and so, if a family member breaks the law and the police see them walk into (one of) their main-hideout(s), then the setup for a raid would be warranted


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