At the begining, you vote to decide whever you get your own ship and crew, or you all share a ship and have one of the crew as a hero.
Crew
There will be jobs, some of them will require a certain skill. For example, a job at the hospital will require a doctor of at least level 3. There is also a battleground where there are 2 sides that are fighting each other (At the begining you pick a side). If you choose to fight in there, for every enemy you kill, you get 50 gold.
List of Jobs
There is also an ability on the ships where you can board a player's ship and land on a planet/moon/space station. I've based the ability off of Banish, the only bad thing is that whatever you are trying to board/land on will be see-through, but thats not too bad.
If you want a home, (depending what side you picked) you either go to Londinium or Bellerophon. The homes will range from tiny apartments to huge mansions.
Ideas
Problems
Models, actually Model. I was planning on basing the game on a few years before Joss Whedon's TV Series, Firefly was set (so probably around the year 2510). Problem is, I can't find a model that even remotely looks like a Firefly ship (Picture here). If you are a good model maker and you want a lot of credit for your work, make a model of that.
Ideas anyone?
Now version 0.01 has been released, had a bit of trouble uploading it on thehelper.net, so I uploaded it elsewhere. Get it here. Note that it is in .zip format and the map only supports 3 players currently (teal purple and orange).
Current Status:
Triggers 5% done
Terrain 70% done
Units 30% done
Overall 10% done
Design Notes
17th August 2007
Done the 0.01 version of the map. It is NOWHERE near done, but in the meantime enjoy playing it.
16th August 2007
Started and finished the Engine. When its hp is less than 50, the ship will be unable to move. Also made a start on the life support. I'm working on the preview now, I will have to think of something to spice it up a little.
Crew
- Captain. Simply a tough guy, but if you all share a ship he is the one that bosses everyone around.
- Pilot. Well what do you think his job is?
- Engineer. There will be a room in each ship with 3 'buildings': Engines, Life Support systems and something else. The max hp of each building will be a third of the ship's. Every health point the ship loses, a 'building' (depending on the game time) in that room will lose health points , (so if the engines are destroyed, the ship can't move and if the life support is destroyed, everyone in the ship dies in 5 minutes). The Engineer's job is to repair these 'buildings'
- Doctor (Optional Extra). Heals the crew if they get in a nasty fight.
- Mercenary (Optional Extra). Just there to shoot any annoying person.
There will be jobs, some of them will require a certain skill. For example, a job at the hospital will require a doctor of at least level 3. There is also a battleground where there are 2 sides that are fighting each other (At the begining you pick a side). If you choose to fight in there, for every enemy you kill, you get 50 gold.
List of Jobs
- Hospital Job
- Blue Sun (Thats the super-rich food company) Can Machine repairer (requires engineer level 3)
- Member of Parliment (Need to encourage people to vote for you by saying the right stuff or you are fired.)
- Policeman
- Black Market Seller (Encourage villagers to buy your stuff by saying the right stuff)
- More
There is also an ability on the ships where you can board a player's ship and land on a planet/moon/space station. I've based the ability off of Banish, the only bad thing is that whatever you are trying to board/land on will be see-through, but thats not too bad.
If you want a home, (depending what side you picked) you either go to Londinium or Bellerophon. The homes will range from tiny apartments to huge mansions.
Ideas
- The Engineer could be able to construct a security system, so that when a ship comes nearby they get a little message, and if an enemy to them boards the ship a message comes in red and a big Alert sound comes.
- An autopilot function.
- Players could be able to take over a planet/moon by destroying the planet/moon center. This would be extremely hard to do, but if it was done, it would be extremely rewarding. You would get taxes every minute, however every 3 minutes you would get a rebellion from both land and space (basically you would have some poorly trained rebels on the planet/moon you took over, and you would have some old ships in space surronding the planet/moon you took over).
Problems
Models, actually Model. I was planning on basing the game on a few years before Joss Whedon's TV Series, Firefly was set (so probably around the year 2510). Problem is, I can't find a model that even remotely looks like a Firefly ship (Picture here). If you are a good model maker and you want a lot of credit for your work, make a model of that.
Ideas anyone?
Now version 0.01 has been released, had a bit of trouble uploading it on thehelper.net, so I uploaded it elsewhere. Get it here. Note that it is in .zip format and the map only supports 3 players currently (teal purple and orange).
Current Status:
Triggers 5% done
Terrain 70% done
Units 30% done
Overall 10% done
Design Notes
17th August 2007
Done the 0.01 version of the map. It is NOWHERE near done, but in the meantime enjoy playing it.
16th August 2007
Started and finished the Engine. When its hp is less than 50, the ship will be unable to move. Also made a start on the life support. I'm working on the preview now, I will have to think of something to spice it up a little.
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