MY CK Wish List

[rabidbite]

Feel free to completely ignore EVERYTHING I type here. This is just a morass of thoughts and ideas that might or might not be worth the time.

1. Make Cyberknights look like Heroes of Steel. I find CK colors less vibrant and stale than HoSteel colors. In comparison, HoSteel colors R O C K.

2. Remove the entire "close up" combat window when you're fighting an enemy. Integrate the buttons of that window to the "combat map". I mean, I like the close up of the enemies and the flashy little bursts, but I think this feature remarkably slows down the game. This is, of course, something to TEST. Not sure if it will improve the game or not. I guess this comes under make CyberKnights more like Heroes of Steel.

3. Rework the map. Make 'The Wall' really BE a wall instead of having so many different ways to step around it. Access THROUGH the wall has to be 'earned' via faction specific reputation gains. As it is, The Wall is just an annoyance that doesn't really add to the game itself.

4.Toxic areas: Add/alter areas to be fully and completely toxic. (Loss of life per square). Add an item or piece of equipment that allows you to go into them. Put something valuable in the area to make it worth going there. (unique items, unique store, unique fixer, unique quests etc). Make inquiring the armor/item that helps you survive the toxic area, be faction specific or even a hard to find random quest on a particular Fixer. This adds layers to the game.

5.To add Mystery and Thrill to the game, integrate profiles into the factions. I love Blackgauntlet's religious interpretation of Blue Ox. Thus, as an example, their quests could be worded more religiously. Just a thought.

6. A little more logic on the conflicts to match the relationship of the factions. Instead of merely random events coming up between random factions, make it more Corps versus Gangs versus competitor. Example: If say AzTek Global and Mars Inc, decide to come to blows, they are mega corporations. They won't go to war with each other. They will, however, try to undermine each other via subterfuge, small hit teams, surgical data center strykes .... in short corporate espionage. Also, I am extremely keen to the idea that Mercenary Corporations have "principal backers". AzTek Global and Knight Horizon. Mars Inc and Bravestar. Yakashima and Yakuza. With that logic, there should not BE open war between principal backers and their chosen Mercenary Corp. Might have disagreements, but not bloody wars.

7. Add Fidgeting to the CK 'stick guy/girl' moving on the map. I really like that feature in HoSteel.



That's it for the moment. Rock on!


rabid

[fallen]

rabidbite - only 2.6 years of skills, technology, and art talent separate Cyber Knights and Heroes of Steel. We will continue to bring back what we can, but CK is built on a limited platform (as is, of course, Heroes of Steel!)

1. I was talking to Cory yesterday about finishing the new Outlander portrait and caught myself saying "He's at the flat color stage right now, I need to add two more light sources, over-paint his lines, and backlight him " ... yes, the art for Heroes of Steel is "Andrew really feeling more like a confident artist who understands light and color a lot more" that he did when I did the big CK art grind (but wow, do I have more to learn!) Depending on the CK work load, I had started redoing some of the art, but other pressing items popped.

2. Interesting. Cuts out a ton of the art in the game (a good and a bad thing). We'll look at this one.

3. We've been talking a lot about this. Maybe not locking the gates but increasing the difficulty and variety of ways to cross into the four major zones. At the moment, it can't be done because of the jobs system in place that would constantly be fighting against the new setup. Jobs is the next big system that is in process of overhaul, ad that would open up this possibility.

4. Awesome idea, love toxic areas. Easy to imagine in tunnels or in zones, and the toxicity could be driven easily via really nasty toxic encounters of various sorts.

5. More faction specific stuff would really help. Driving this through the new jobs system is one of our goals -- get a real feeling for what / where the different factions are putting their emphasis.

6. I will take a look over the Conflict / Rumor logic engine. Maybe we can make some easy enhancements here to drive home the strong lines of affinity that exist within the NBZ factions.

7. On map animation is something we've looked at but it's really hard considering the graphic surface we are using. The level of effort may not be worth the result we get.