Mafia Life, live the life.

[Fulg0reSama]

Originally Posted by Robocop300

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).

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.

[Robocop300]

Originally Posted by Fulg0reSama

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.