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- Aeronauts -(pre-development) |
Idea Factory thread: Map only Sky
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If you've got any comments on the lay-out please say so! I want to make this as readable as possible (without too many colors)General Ideas: |
Aeronauts will become a map featuring RPG- and LoaP-elements, taken to the sky. You will control an airship and can choose your own destiny. The game will be a mix between various genres, such as fantasy and steampunk. |
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| You will control an airship and have to fly around the world. While doing so, you have several options: you can become an aeronauts who defends cities and/or other players from pirate attacks and accept missions to wipe out pirates, or you can choose to become a pirate yourself: raid cities, plunder wandering merchants and take all loot you can find. If you rather want to become wealthy without too much fighting, you can become a broker and sell/buy resources, either for other people (missions), or of your own free will. When you've become succeseful at either one of these and want to do something else for a change, have no fear: you can buy a second ship for a completely different purpose, note that you can only have one active ship at a time. |
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Why these races? That's simple: everyone knows these races and can rely to them, most people already know what they do without having to read a gigantic description. This makes the game easier to learn and play for those who are new. |
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Quests can be found in ports all over the world, there are several quest categories so far:
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Upgrading: |
| You can upgrade your ship in several ways, one would be to simply purchase the part you need. Aside from that, you can create your own parts with Blacksmithing, woodworking or Craftmanship.
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Storyline: |
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In the beginning darkness. The Gods sat in their golden cities far from the darkness and questioned the future. They pondered their past wars against darkness and pondered what lay ahead. After a millennia had gone by the head of the Gods and king of the universe made a decision. A decision that would change the fates forever. Over hundreds of years he crafted a master plan on a hallowed and holy scroll. He wrote scripture, he wrote plans, he wrote schematics and maps. He crafted a past, a future, and he crafted life. After the forty hundred years had come to their end he rolled up his holy scroll and called a high and mighty meeting of the powers. Each God took upon themselves a section of the scroll and copied it into their own holy books.
The Gods then went about their work, and so fell in love with it. One god created the peoples of the world, the creatures were his first work. He made them ugly, as it was his first creation. These were the trolls, spiders, wolfs, and demons of the world that failed to achieve ultimate intelligence. Next were the goblins, this time he tried harder and was more knowledgeable. As he created them he made them too small...and therefore created the Orcs who were strong yet not as high of mind. The two species were in mutual relationship...the Goblins helped orcs by making their laws and bookkeeping, while all the time manipulating them for greed. The Orcs fought and provided for both races against the Creatures. But the God was not done and created the Dwarves. These were too much like the goblins, while still more beautiful they were not to his liking. He had them delve deep into the riches that the world would have and made them greedy for jewels. But he was not yet done. He had a drive for the perfection the original God wrote. So it was done that the humans were created, tall, fair and wise they were. But they were weak as the others, the would die and sickness took them easily. So in his last creation he took the knowledge of all the beasts and creations and crafted the Elves. Much like the humans in appearance, while more wise and fair. These lived forever and were the culmination of the head God's image...and so the creatures of the land were created.
But the God who created the people was unsatisfied. His perfect creation could not live among these lesser creations, and so as the God assigned the creation of the earth crafted the metals and pounded his iron he was asked a favor. The God of the people asked that his fair creations were to be raised high above the surface, and shrouded from the lesser. He asked that the lesser be beneath a fog wall of sorts, and that they live in hardship not effecting the elves. This wish was granted. As the world was created and the different Gods made their pieces, the seas, the weathers, and the plants, the head God was proud and yet astonished that the Gods had changed his original plan in that way of the mist.
So the planet was dark and lifeless, but not for long. As all the pieces were set in place the head God crafted his ultimate creations. In his utopian castle he had all his workers help him craft out of gold, silver, and stone millions of lanterns. But one he crafted himself. One was bigger than all the rest and was not only a lantern but was filled with magic and while originally was a lantern, it turned into a self-consuming ball of flame that lit the world of the Gods up in blinding light. Then the head God knew it would not work as it was too bright, so he rewrote the planet's future and spoke to the other Gods. This is how the two moons of the planet were created, and day and night were made. So it was that the balls of fire and the lanterns were cast up into the sky with great commotion, and set in their ever cycling phases. The moons healed the earth of their burning brother, so it was that day and night were created.
So the Gods were content with their work, and went back to their lands to watch the world unfold and be with it as they would. But one God lingered as the peoples awoke, and he cast upon the world his breath. This God was the God that created the rules of the earth, its "physics". His work, however, he found boring and in that breath he cast a new rule "magic" that not even he had figured out. He knew it broke all rules and must be found. So it was that magic was created.
As time went on and the elves warred and had peace and loved and hated the world below was a said picture. Although the creatures under the mist lived, they lived in hardship and pain with everlasting twilight. Great glowing mushrooms were their trees, and slime governed their feet instead of the grass the elves loved. After thousands of years the elves became curious about the mist below, for they had explored all the world. The elves then grew restless and sank their airships down below, with great hardship to the underworld. There they first met the humans, and being sorry for them helped them up. So it was that they learned of all the intelligent races of the underworld and one by one uplifted them to the upper worlds. The dwarves and Humans were given an island, and so were the Goblins and Orcs. Now they grew restless once more, for they hated and loved the underworld and wished to reinhabit the land with the knowledge of the elves.
So now it comes to the days of today. The land of the "Aeronaught" as the humans called it. These "Aeronaughts" are sent by the various races to gain favor with the elves and become the ultimate power among the lesser races. They fly in magic ships (which has been taught to them by the elves) , although the simplest are simply balloons. In these days many islands have been conquered by different races and the elves are no longer the only power. Many of the lesser races have sundered and some have become pirates against the lesser races. However the elves are still too powerful, they cannot be killed unless by the Gods themselves. The lesser races are now in place to gain resources from the mist, and from trading with each other and the elves, they also must craft their own castles above the mist. But once this has been done they will descend back to their long-forgotten home. So the lesser races once more are descending into the mist after gaining resources above, where they war upon one another to gain more resources and therefore gain favor with the elves and ultimate rule over the other lesser races.
Basic concepts in here are the idea that you gain a lot of money aboveground trading and learning new spells/new schematics for your ship from the elves. Then you take over pirate bases, and help your base and do whatever. The elves are invul. and are the moderators to this (NPC). You trade with each other's bases and primarily the elves because they hold the technological secrets. Then when you go down into the mist (A second map within the map? (Solar Conquest as an example) ) you harvest mushrooms and kill beasts and whatever to make items to sell to the elves. The ultimate goal of the map is still a bit unclear to me, but it can be various things. Kill other players, get the most resources, gain the most favor with elves, control all the bases, or just duke it out. You guys come up with ideas as well! Hope you enjoyed this
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Comments/Ideas/Suggestions are highly appreciated!
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I wasn't really sure whether you were on the team or not, so I put you as a part-timer 
But that could be something we do after we get the basic stuff done first.
