Farmers Paradise (Working Title)

[Cardinian]

Farmers' Paradise is my take on a unique blend of Warcraft 3 mods.

As the name would suggest, you are a farmer, in a region which serves loyalty to the King. As such, the King will make various requests, ranging from demanding Grain for his soldiers, Meat for his banquets and Weapons for his troops. Completing these quests will award you with Royal Honour, as you serve the king, and please him, he will start to reward loyal subjects.

Features:
Resources

Crops

Grain Crops - Youth > Adolescent > Ripe
Status: Implemented [90/100]
Reach maturity in 90 game seconds. Begin to wither at 120 seconds.
Average yield is between 40 and 60 units.
Hitpoints (resilience) = 100hp

Resilient Grain Crops - Youth > Adolescent > Ripe
Status: Implemented - Testing Stages [40/100]
Reach maturity in 100 game seconds. Begin to wither at 130 seconds.
Average yield is between 40 and 60 units.
Hitpoints (resilience) = 250hp

Impatient Grain Crops - Youth > Ripe
Status: Implemented - Testing Stages [20/100]
Reach maturity in 30 game seconds. Begin to wither at 45 seconds.
Average yield is between 25 and 35 units.
Hitpoints (resilience) = 80hp

Livestock

Sheep - Youth > Mature
Status: Implemented - Testing Stages [50/100]
Reach maturity in 60 seconds. Death at 240 seconds.
Produce Goods (wool) and can be slaughtered for between 15 and 30 meat.
Hitpoints = 50
Upkeep per minute: 6 Grain (Youth) / 9 Grain (Mature)

Chicken - Youth > Mature
Status: Not Yet [0/100]
Reach maturity in 30 seconds. Death at 120 seconds.
Produce Goods (feathers) and can be slaughtered for between 8 and 12 meat.
Also produces Eggs - which turn into more chickens.
Hitpoints = 15
Upkeep per minute: 3 Grain (Youth) / 6 Grain (Mature)

Pigs - Youth - Mature
Status: Implemented [90/100]
Reach maturity in 120 seconds. Death at 360 seconds.
Can be slaughtered for between 40 and 65 meat.
Hitpoints = 80
Upkeep per minute: 6 Grain (Youth) / 12 Grain (Mature)

Units

Labourer
Status: Implemented [100/100]
Basic Economic Unit.
Harvests Crops. Slaughters Livestock. Collects Goods.
Upkeep per minute: 3 Grain + 3 Meat

Mule
Status: Implemented [100/100]
Basic Economic Unit.
Transports goods from field to granaries.
Upkeep per minute: 6 Grain

Farmer
Status: Implemented [100/100]
Main Hero Unit
Purchases seeds, livestock and structures.
Plants crops. Builds fences. Gains Experience.
Upkeep per minute: 6 Grain + 6 Meat

Upkeep System
Status: Being Implemented [25/100]
Every 20 seconds of game time, your units need to eat. Hungry little buggers they are!

Livestock typically have an upkeep cost of between 1 to 6 Grain.
Humanoids typically have an upkeep of between 1 to 5 Grain and 1 to 5 Meat.
Specialist units, such as Knights, Magus and Beasts eat considerably more.

If a unit is starving, he will take 10 damage. However, this damage is not permanent. The game features a method of 'remembering' what damage to a unit was caused by starvation. And, if a unit was starving a minute ago, the damage is undone when that unit is fed again.

Royal Favours
The game incorporates a system of Quests (or Requests) given to you by the King. These range from things such as:

• Grain Request (Small: 100 to 300 / Medium: 301 to 600 / Large: 601 to 1200)
• Meat Request (Small: 25 to 99 / Medium: 100 to 249 / Large: 250 to 400)
• Food Request (Combination of Small/Medium/Large Meat and Grain)
• Goods Request (Feathers/Wool/Leather)
• Military Request (Footmen/Archers/Knights)
• Defence Request (Attack a Player/Kill Neutral Faction)

As you complete these requests, you are awarded with 'Royal Favour'. As an added competitive edge, the first player to complete a (re)Quest is awarded with a bonus - these range from military units, additional Royal Favour, better crops, sturdier livestock etc...

Your 'Royal Favour' is a measure of how much the King likes you. Fall into disfavour with the King, and you will see harsher requests imposed on you, military sanctions and trade embargoes... Become too 'close' to the King, and you might be asked to attack a fellow player in the region... The key is to strike a balance: economically, politically and in a military sense.

Linking Attacks to Requests
Status: Being Implemented [25/100]
As the king makes requests, various scenarios occur around you. These range from things like: the King's daughter, the Princess Orelia goes for a ride and loses a precious necklace. Which can be returned for Royal Favour. To more standard events, such as a goblin war band marauding your grain supplies, a pack of wolves terrorising immigrants, evil sorcerers being evil etc...

The Victory Condition:
The final release will incorporate many different game modes:

• Regicide: Your goal is to kill the King. But, you will have to keep your friends close and your enemies closer as you strive to achieve this. Fulfil the King's requests to avoid suspicion, stay one step ahead of your neighbouring farmers (players), and strike when the iron is hot. This mode is reccomended for experienced players with at least 60+ minutes to spare.
• Invasion: The Kingdom is under attack by Orcish Hordes from the North and Valithrian Elves from the South... What's more... an Evil Sorcerer has been corrupting granaries and grain and an Undead force is brewing right under the King's nose... This game mode focusses primarily on the military/combat side of things. Of course, a hungry army won't fight as well as a fed army...
• Sibling Rivalries: This is a Free-For-All brawl. Medieval style. No politics, no alliances, no treaties... You are pitted against up to 5 other human players, all seeking total control of the Kingdom. The King is your friend, provided you fulfil his requests and gain his favour. To annoy the King will only add another enemy to your list. Your key to success in this mode is fast, shock-troop raids on an opponents grain crops or supply lines. Disrupt the flow of Royal Favour and cause your opponents troop to starve - then strike hard and fast. You cannot afford to leave your farm unprotected for a long period of time!
• Tower Defence: This is a vastly simplified version of the game. Yet, it is good practice for the real thing. Every round you have to acquire a certain amount of Grain or Meat. Later rounds you will be required to acquire Goods, such as Feathers, Leather and Wool. All whilst under the constant attack of Orcs, Elves, Undead, Wild Beasts and neighbouring Kingdoms.

The Development Goal:
To create a game which seamlessly blends elements of:

• Tower Defence - protecting your crops and livestock from things such as Locust Swarms, Goblin Warbands and Evil Sorcerers.
• Role Playing Games - unique and progressive storyline and you evolve as a subject to the king to an eventual dominant power in the kingdom. Transform yourself from amateur farmer to battle-hardened general as you conquest your neighbours and eventually take down the King.
• Politics / Negotiations - play tactfully and with discretion. Keep in mind, that you want to please the king but not become his puppet. Fall into the trap of being too docile and you will be over-run by your neighbours or an invading warband.
• Strike the balance between Economics, Politics and Combat - The fully automated way in which economic units such as Labourers and Mules operate, allow you to set up your defences and wage war while your crops grow, are harvested, and transported to your granaries.

Major Edit:
Revamped and tidied up initial post.

News:
Due to the scale and interest in this project: I AM NOW RECRUITING.
1) Terrainer (medium to experienced)
2) Modeller (any skill level)
3) Animator (any skill level)
4) Play Testers (skillz? )

Please Private Message me about these posts!

 

[arafor]

Well keep working on it and when its in a testable phase let me know, it looks very nice.

 

[Coffeeholic]

The different game elements seem like they would be fairly hard to tie in together, but they would give a nice entertaining spin on how boring some of the farming maps can be.

A test version of at least one or two of your systems/features would be more favorable for people checking this thread out. I'm looking forward to testing it too, and I hope you manage to get a fully working version up eventually since it sounds like a fun game.

 

[Hawk]

Good luck with the project i think this is custom idea,but you should add some screenshots.

 

[medion555]

interesting if you need some help in basic-slightly advanced trigering tell me.

 

[Cardinian]

Hehe, thanks for all the feedback guys!

I am pretty noob when it comes to WorldEdit... Used to be quite pro but seem to have forgotten everything I had learnt back in 2007/8... It is a slow process, but as I mention in my post, progress is being made...

@medion555 - thanks for the offer, if I do run into a problem or can't seem to figure out how to make something work - I'll be in touch.

@DEMIGOD - I was thinking of posting a demo map later this week. I'm just working on a 'tutorial' / 'game basics' introduction cinematic at the minute. Plus, I am removing some of the newly added features for this demo map - they are just too glitchy to expose all you guys to

@coffeeholic - a play-testable demo will be available shortly, I am just ironing out the problems in the map so far: watch this space

 

[medion555]

aslo i can make simple models for you with simple animations (learning to skin now)

EDIT

editing the animations failed .... but i got the weaponless model so only thing you need to do is add a weapon via atachment points

 

[Cardinian]

Bump. Major edit of first post.

Secondly, thanks Medion555! I'll take a look and see what I can do

 

[medion555]

hope it helps you abit need something else done ? ask me i can custom animate and model (simple models)

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[Cardinian]

Screenshots (Very early stages of game)

Terrain is no where near finished (hasn't really been started yet)

Just to give you a flavour of how it looks so far. (Making do with the War3 models available to me at the minute)

 

[Hawk]

Need a terrainer ? I have medium skills...

 

[Cardinian]

Most definitely .

I just don't seem to have the patience or a good eye to make nice looking terrain. I'll PM you with details!

 

[Hawk]

Ok, but please don't ask me about this week because i'm full of studying

 

[Cardinian]

Same here. Have university exams starting on monday oops!

 

[medion555]

Cardanian could you send me te map so i can test it ?

 

[Hawk]

I'm free now. How should the terrain look ? Give me details some screenshots if you have as example...