Peon rpg?

[MrGrez]

So basiclly a simple peon rpg or 'life of a peon' type game.
You start off as a peon, you can research upgrades/ buy items with gold.
You get gold by doing repeatable quests (like mine x gold, harvest x wood, repair buildings before the blow up)

In short a game focusing on the peon's view. combat can be as simple as hitting stuff while on your way from point a to point b.

Should include a main base, a few outposts, yada yada.

eh? eh?

 

[Jsprat100]

Won't it be a bit boring? I can imagine it fold out:
Get quest to mine
Go to mine
Dig in the mine
Go to base
Complete quest to mine
Research upgrade
Get quest to cut wood
Go to forest
Cut down the trees
Go to base
Get attacked by a wolf
Kill the wolf
Turn in the quest
Research upgrade
Get quest to repair
...

 

[ClanOOKARep]

Won't it be a bit boring? I can imagine it fold out:
Get quest to mine
Go to mine
Dig in the mine
Go to base
Complete quest to mine
Research upgrade
Get quest to cut wood
Go to forest
Cut down the trees
Go to base
Get attacked by a wolf
Kill the wolf
Turn in the quest
Research upgrade
Get quest to repair
...

You are forgetting the point. The things you just listed are what you do in any other RPG, you get the quest, do the quest, get money, buy things. He is trying to make a game that could bring you into the life of an orc peon. Anyways, good idea.

 

[takakenji]

Won't it be a bit boring? I can imagine it fold out:
Get quest to mine
Go to mine
Dig in the mine
Go to base
Complete quest to mine
Research upgrade
Get quest to cut wood
Go to forest
Cut down the trees
Go to base
Get attacked by a wolf
Kill the wolf
Turn in the quest
Research upgrade
Get quest to repair
...

like the guy above me said, that's no different from any other RPG though everyone still likes RPGs.

maybe you should incorporate "boss-fights" which would be a peon deployed to the battlefield and you have to repair towers and catapults to win

if you ever need help with this rpg, just pm me, it sounds fun.

 

[monkeyboy15]

Could the peon be a hero perhaps?

For the first ability
Harvest Gold - - - Can mine x amount of gold for the Gold Mine. (Quest 1 Only)

Harvest Lumber - - - Can cut/chop trees (Quest 2 Only)

Repair - - - Can repair the towers/carapults etc. but with a x coolsown base on the towers/catapults build/training time.

I don't know if that'll look well in your map.

 

[ClanOOKARep]

Could the peon be a hero perhaps?

For the first ability
Harvest Gold - - - Can mine x amount of gold for the Gold Mine. (Quest 1 Only)

Harvest Lumber - - - Can cut/chop trees (Quest 2 Only)

Repair - - - Can repair the towers/carapults etc. but with a x coolsown base on the towers/catapults build/training time.

I don't know if that'll look well in your map.

I dont know if Repair, and/or harvest can be set for hero abilitys alone, but all you have to do is take a regular hero, reduce the size to the size of a peon, and then change the model path to a peon, that way, the only thing that will be different are the skills and stats of the peon, and the fact that it is now a hero.

 

[haxel96]

maybe you should incorporate "boss-fights" which would be a peon deployed to the battlefield and you have to repair towers and catapults to win

Ye in normal boss fights you are the fighting hero, in this you should repair towers and catapults and buy new catapults to kill the boss, build more towers etc

 

[Orcsbreath]

Reminds me of my WarCraft II map Peon Power. Actually it was a bunch of peasants, not peons (I think it was 3 full groups of 9 peasants) trying to kill a bunch of ogres.