Suggestions

[Faith]

Alright, the time has come to do something with food in my ORPG.
Currently, I'm not using it at all, but it looks ugly with a black box and a zero in it.

If you have a suggestion or a comment, feel free to post, just make sure to stay on-topic.

 

[Doomlord]

1/ http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/trigger-gui-editor-tutorials-279/lumber-food-clock-147990/

2/ Vitality System (as seen in TCO Campaign)

Will add more when ideas come.

 

[Faith]

1/ http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/trigger-gui-editor-tutorials-279/lumber-food-clock-147990/

Yeah, I've thought about doing something like that, although the problem with that is the text will turn red after an hour has passed.
Most people these days would be playing for over an hour at a time, making it ugly. ;p

Note that the problem would only occur when using a food-only clock, but I'm using lumber as a form of currency, so a lumber / food clock is out of the question.

2/ Vitality System (as seen in TCO Campaign)

TCO Campaign?

 

[Doomlord]

Ah nvm that then. That feature was removed a long time ago. I will give a brief explanation here. Your hero's vitality starts at X and decreases by 1 every Y seconds. When it drops below a certain value, the hero has reduced MS, AS, etc and even negative regen (can be lethal). He has to consume food to increase vitality. The food box will be the counter window for players to keep track of the vitality.

 

[Faith]

Oh kinda like Wilderness Survival or other things like that.
One of them used warmth, or hunger, and if either fell to zero the player lost.

That's a cool idea, but it really isn't relevant to anything in my ORPG.
Omg I feel so kewl using fancy words. ^

 

[deathismyfriend]

can u explain ur ORPG a little. so i can hopefully think of some things to suit ur game

 

[Faith]

Well alright I suppose.. '
You choose a hero, you do some quests.. Earn some gold.. kill some things..
Earn some more gold.. Get married.. Settle down.. Have kids.. Die.. Alt-F4.

 

[deathismyfriend]

u can use it as a death clock. ( not sure if that will work)
or use it as an age clock to show how old u r.

give me time to think of more lol

 

[Faith]

Lol that was a joke. There's a link in my signature. ;p

 

[deathismyfriend]

ooo nice one.....lol

umm u can show the amount of dungeons the ppl have beaten.

 

[Faith]

Hmm, not a bad idea I suppose.
I'd like to get a few more suggestions before I decide tho.

 

[Doomlord]

Well I am really bad with ideas. Sorry I guess I can't help ><

 

[Faith]

No, your suggestion was good.
I've kinda been thinking about a favor system or reputation or something where you do a task and it increases and then you can do something special.

 

[Tonex]

Incidentally, you could change the upkeep messages to denote rising ranks so that they appear after gaining certain amounts of those reputation points.

 

[Binsu]

I want to help but I cant get the hang of what is the problem here? Can someone mind explain to me?

 

[Zeatherann]

I vote for the reputation with food, and upkeep for ranks of fame.
0-10: Nobody
11-20: Peasant
21-30: Village Leader
...
100: King

For example.

 

[Tonex]

Only problem with the upkeep ranks would be if you needed more than nineteen, as I believe that is the maximum definable

 

[Zeatherann]

i think it's like 10, idk, still enough for something like rep.

 

[Faith]

Upkeep is not an option, as I'm using it to display some map information and contact details.
The upkeep differences were all set to 10k, so the upkeep will never change.

I'm going to go ahead and use favor in place of the food system, and I'll use it as a requirement for a few party-based abilities. ;p

Thanks anyway guys

 

[cleavinghammer]

Maybe have a third ressource, the way some maps replace lumber with crystals or power or such, given by bosses or plot and used to craft items.

 

[Tonex]

You could create a dummy worker unit and edit the Idle Worker description to include contact/version/etc info, leaving upkeep free to use otherwise.

 

[Faith]

Except it wouldn't be near as cool. If I wanted to do something like that I could put it pretty much anywhere..
Hell I could use custom text right smack in the center of the map with everything there too. (;

 

[Tonex]

I suppose that's true. But at least the Idle Worker icon follows your screen wherever you scroll.