Era needs quests that are more intense and costly. You should make some quests that require you to buy thousands of dollars worth of cloaking potions, many healing items, robotic cars, bomb snipping kits, lock picking guns, etc. Then the prizes can be some of the new things people have suggested that wouldn't become huge monetary assets (IE the ability to shoot out the side of a car, something that reduces both damage taken and speed, etc).
I also think Era should consider a much larger playerworld with more internal politics. I think if the playerworld gets to the size where it can support more players and have more things to do, then more people will be apt to play. You should try to things ready for a player count never seen on graal, and then aim for it through advertisement to other games. I think its possible. It would be cool to take the idea that was floating around about a different theme in each corner of a playerworld. Each could have a little 'government' of sorts, some of which would be more mob run and others of which would be more democratic. You can earn "trust" in each of the sectors by killing people from other sectors and completing quests. You can work your way up and gang access to better guns, restricted areas, faster healing, recruiting power, etc.
I think we should see some boats in Era. I haven't been on in a while, but last I heard, the idea was pretty abandoned. Imagine the potential of fishing, plus maybe even piracy, and if gangs are expanded, they could have outposts in the water that would have to be defended.
I believe Sales' gang system incorporates pretty much everything I'd have to say about that. I used to want a system where each gang would have many buildings, each with a different vantage point, that can be over-run and taken over like a party base. One might have an underground tunnel into the main base, another might have access to all the doors, another might have security monitors. By taking over these areas, raiding gangs will get advantages.
For businesses, I think there needs to be a function for a player to sell their business. People will often go extremely inactive trying to reap the last profits they can before being kicked out of a business, whereas it'd be better for the whole server if they just sold it and took that money instead. Also, stocking should be more than just grabbing boxes. The ammo businesses should be at least converted to something more like dairy hut, speedy pizza, and dippin donuts. Maybe you grab a piece of lead, take it to a forge, smash it into pieces with a hammer, then pull out a tray to stick it in a fire for however many seconds, and that magically makes handgun ammo. Idk, it'd be an idea.
I think that if Era could pull off a larger player count, the potential for PKing would be amazing. You could set up larger arenas for people to fight in, both inside and outside, and accommodate for more action. If the iPod version of graal can have thousands of people on at any given moment, so can Era. |