Star traders rpg multiplayer

[Aftormath]

Ok so imagine realm of the mad god meets star traders rpg. Now they would need to tweek a few things as far as combat and ai but I think a rogue like multiplayer version of this game would be absolutely amazing to do this they would need to implement a few things

#1. An agro system along side the standing system. for instance you buy some goods during a trade ban your standing goes down and the regular affects that happen during the game come into place. Now to balance it out now when you pirate and destroy ships you get an aggression level which means bounty hunters of the offended party will now be out hunting you and get significantly stronger over time to hunt you down and eventually end you.

#2. Permanent death and a leader board showing who managed to amass the most wealth maybe also separate categories for like most ships destroyed and ect. Also 2 separate leader boards 1 for the current best living captains and the all time record which has a captains wealth recorded at they're time of death

#3. Pvp and changes to combat first off for combat you would need a cool down system so you can only try to move in or retreat so often as well as firing and have this change based on the ships engines/sails and firing speed based on weapons. As for boarding that timer will be determined by sails and engines as well determining if you can keep within boarding range while the other party is desperately trying to flee or vice versa

#4. Instead of years the game would need to go by a global time for everything to mesh correctly

#5. Needing a special upgrade to your ship to be able to find and fight other players (you can be targeted by a player who has the upgrade even if you don't)

#6. The ability to receive contacts to hunt other players you'll need the upgrade from #5 and then you'll be able to see where they are and track them when they're in green space

#7. Now to round everything off once you have a huge wealth and are really doing well and are in the top 10 of the server you automatically get a bounty put on your head and anyone can track you when your online that way no 1 person can become like a trader or whatnot and just run around making billions untouchably #1

#8. The last thing I could think up for this is a way to search for people's caches on planets but incurring an agro level for it just like pirating

Extras. Ok so about the aggression meter I think it should only be implemented vs other players like if you pirate an NPC you wouldn't have any trouble at all (well nothing you wouldn't normally get) but take out a player and that's all she wrote

And that's my idea guys feel free to add your own and tell me what you think

[Aftormath]

Also I forgot just something fun I'd like to see in it as well a self destruct feature kind of like ramming but you blow up your own ship killing you and dealing massive damage to them possibly taking them with you unless either of you have an escape shuttle but either way it ends combat

[Aftormath]

Also to generate revenue from the game to support it let everything be unlocked and free besides the ship editer and the skill editer but implement the ability to buy extra lives for your captain now to make things fair the first time you die your wealth is recorded on the death leader board and your stats will stop being tracked on the regular leader board but you get to keep that captain to play around with some more if you want

[mandomaniac]

I think this may be a project for Star Traders 3 lol

[Cory Trese]

Nov 5, 2015 18:53:38 GMT -5 mandomaniac said:

I think this may be a project for Star Traders 3 lol

I'll definitely have to say I regret not hitting the fundraising goal for multiplayer, but we might make a competitive persistent world game in the future.

[Aftormath]

It's times like this when I wish I knew how to code lol but to make the changes I mentioned above to the original start traders code and maybe expanding the map a bit how much would something like that cost?

[xdesperado]

Nov 6, 2015 11:02:37 GMT -5 Aftormath said:

It's times like this when I wish I knew how to code lol but to make the changes I mentioned above to the original start traders code and maybe expanding the map a bit how much would something like that cost?

Go on the ST2 kickstarter, been a long time since I checked the stretch goals but if my ageing memory servers believe it was in the $200,000 range...know it was way past what we reached as it would not only require a lot of extra coding work but also incure an ongoing operating expense for dedicated servers etc.

A mobile multiplayer ST would be incredible but until we can get more fans/investors with extremely deep pockets who would be willing to let TB create their games their way it's unlikely to happen.

Cory Trese and fallen have a wonderful gift for creating games and a vision of the settings for those games, would hate to see them co-opted by some corporation/rich investors that would want to take over the games direction and ruin that vision.

[Cory Trese]

To be blunt, I would expect the minimum cost of building a persistent world ST to be somewhere between $100K and $200K

The plan for ST2 included $60K of that and TB would have covered the rest. To be totally honest, if you want to build the game you described above you wouldn't want to start with the Star Traders RPG code base anyway. You'd be much, much better just starting over!