Advice on RPGs plz

[Frozen Glory]

Im thinking about making and RPG called, Kahashi Rusashi: The Dark Awakening, where Kahashi, The main character obviously, gets cursed by a mage for trying to break into a grand arena located to the south of his village and while hes trying to find a way to break the curse his village is destroyed and he loses all hope of breaking the curse because the mage is killed in the attack. Kahashi then awakens in a dark room and swears revenge on the person who destroyed his village. Then Kahashi travels with one of his friends to, well ill just call it the dark land for now cuz i dont have a name for it yet, and they meet up with 5 other people who were cursed by the mage that cursed Kahashi on there way and then they have to defeat the main villan. it would only be a 2 player because how big i want it to be and the story line kind of forces it to only be a 2 player but this is only an idea what do you guys think of it? if you dont like it then plz give me some ideas for a map I wont be mad I really value your guys' opinions, oh ya and triggers dont matter to me ill find a way to do it even if i dont know it before hand.

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

I like the basic concept, work on it abit and I think you could end up getting a good story together and a great map

 

[Ki]

I am unsure if you meant this, but if you are planning on making it only 2 player I suggest that you make it optional and allow it to be 1 player. If someone doesn't have any real friends on battle.net and wants to play, he pretty much can't (assuming that you are making a fairly long rpg).

 

[Frozen Glory]

Hmm so ki you mean like make 2 different versions like ones a 2 player ones a one player that way the player can choose which way he wants to play if he wants to play with a friend or if he wants to play by himself and just kind of edit the story line a bit to make it suit a one player aswell?

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

Just make it so if only 1 player is playing he gets control of player 2's units aswell...

 

[Frozen Glory]

Well that makes it too easy.. a well i guess thats fine as well

 

[Frozen Glory]

Should I make it a save/load or just let them save it in the "Save Game" section of the menu?

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

Having to save with the wc3 function in multiplayer often can cause it to crash if the game has been going on for a long while, you should go with the save/load

 

[Frozen Glory]

Okay is there a way to save the location of your hero as well as the hero?

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

I am not sure about the location stuff but all the items and stats of your hero you can save. I am no big expert in this area really

 

[Frozen Glory]

ah ok thanx anyways ill try to find out if u can save location so like i can have an inn then be able to save it there then when u load u appear in the inn.

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

Yes that would be a great idea, but if it isent possible you could do it with like teleportation pads? When you walk onto the pad at the starting town you get a Dialog shown with all the names of the diferent telepads which lies around the current map and you can choose whichever you want to go to. Then you could make it so they first become avialable when you have come to a certain place ofcourse, that would be done thru some triggers

 

[Frozen Glory]

that works to but does that save with ur hero? like - Unit Enters Region INN1 > add INN1 to last created Dialog?

 

[map-maker]

the final fantasy created by ILYAS has the same idea of the telepad thing to other places when u activate the teleport things ^^ it was a good idea(with saving hero location couldnt you jsut save the x and y of the hero on the map?)

 

[Frozen Glory]

Err I believe so dunno never tried.. but i will when i get to save load in my map

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

If you need a Save/Load here is a pretty decent one.http://www.clancbs.com/downloads_seperate.php?id=32

It saves...
• Hero
• Items
• Level (max 999)
• Account name

 

[Frozen Glory]

So how exactly does this version work?

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

Like any other Save/Load system, just implement it into your map and do whatever changes you think should be made

Else try to ask the author: -=Emergenzy=-

 

[Sven8136]

a save system can save anything. you can save the exact location of the player if you want, although i wouldn't advise it.

all a save/load code system does is allow the player to input data (a save code) that the program translates into meaningful data, then output data (after encrypting it) that gives the player a save code.

the big problem is trying to figure out what exactly you want to save and load(player name, lvls, class, etc), and making an encryption system for it.

 

[Frozen Glory]

Thanks Sven but why dont u suggestion exact location? Is it just because it takes more time or because errors?

 

[Sven8136]

mainly because its going to be adding another 6-8 digits to your code, unless you are using a high compression technique, and its probably not going to be that important. if you just use inns, you can use 0-9,a-z,A-Z...that gives you 62 inns

 

[Frozen Glory]

Thanks, would that make it so if you save it in the inn you could reload it in the inn?