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Skudgemuffin

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W3 Life

Intro
I have been making a map where you play as a person who lives in a city, kinda like Loap (No, I didn't just open a Loap map and work from there. I made a new city and everything). For now I've just called it W3 Life, but I'm sure a more clever name will appear soon.
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Features
Here is a list of features. About half of them have been completed, and a couple are in progress.
  1. Other players cannot pick up your items when you drop them, unless you use "Unclaim Item"
  2. Every street is named. When you get the advance cell phone, you can use its GPS function to tell you what street you are on.
  3. Any items you collect, cannot be picked up by players unless you use an ability that allows the item to be picked up by any player.
  4. After you buy or rent out a house, you can go to different stores and buy walls, furniture, etc. to place in your house.
  5. You can open your own stores.
  6. Cars run on gas. You can go to a gas station and buy more gas. Different cars hold more/less gas.
  7. You can use the arrow keys to rotate and zoom the camera.
  8. You need to be in your car to drive it. Locking the car doors will greatly decrease the chance of having your car stolen. Driving on terrain other than roads will decrease/increase speed depending on your vehicle.
  9. Parking lots. You can park your car in a spot (Not for free) where it becomes invulnerable and 'unstealable' but not drivable.
  10. Lawn system. Every x game days your trimmed grass turns into regular grass, regular grass turns into dirt, and dirt turns into rough dirt. Basically, your lawn degrades over time. You can improve your lawn by using a lawn mower, watering it, and planting grass seeds. Trees (Which you can plant yourself) also degrade with the lawn, and weeds may appear over time.
  11. Your phone. Through out the map you may notice different phone numbers written on signs, walls, etc. You can dial the numbers with your phone.
  12. You can go to school.
  13. You can get a job
  14. You can put money in the bank and withdraw it via ATM machines.
  15. The club opens at night.
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Ideas
Here's a little list of ideas (And the person who came up with it) for the map that I plan on adding eventually.
  1. Weather effects. Lightning strikes deal massive damage, rain turns dirt into mud, etc. -Zinive
  2. Theater. Watch movies. -Zinive
  3. Radio. Listen to different Warcraft songs. -Zinive
  4. 480x480 - Steel_Stallion
  5. More than 1 city -Steel_Stallion
  6. Once a player buys a certain tech, his boat can use the fishing ability.
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Screenshots
The current minimap. The house looking icons are buildings/plots of land that you can buy. The gold mine icons are stores.
Graffiti.
McGrub is the McDonalds of the map.
The runway at the airport.
One of the city's parks.
The other park.
A parking lot.
The side of a public swimming pool.
A class for not so smart people.
A street in the ghetto.
Gameplay shots:
Delivering letters as the mailman.
The postmaster isn't to happy that you quit.
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Project Website
W3 Life has a website and forums, which can both be found at http://w3life.vndv.com. Please show your support for the project by signing up on the forums. There's a thread there which is the first thing I update, and it contains all of the information here and more, including a daily progress log and the status of the above features.
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Thanks for reading this. If you have any ideas or whatever, post here, or better yet, at the project forums.
 

thewrongvine

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I have to go now so I'll be brief.

Your map is called Warcraft 3 Life, yet the game, from your description, doesn't really relate to WC3 or it's lore. Cars in Warcraft? :D

However, besides that, it sounds really cool. LOAP's pretty much fail because they are imbalanced, i.e. stats are like 90000 for the "god" character, and the low peasants and drug dealers are so weak.

I love the movie idea, though I question how that will work.

Idea(s):
Crime Marker: every player has a crime marker which starts at 0. When they commit a crime, such as attacking an innocent person, or perhaps robbing a place if you have that feature, their Crime Marker increases depending on how bad the crime is. Every second, their Crime Marker decreases by 1, and if they caught by a police type of player/NPC, they will lose money and get jailed for time according to their current Crime Marker level. If you want to display it in a more simple way, you could do levels such as "Low, Medium, and High".

Good luck! :thup:
 
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Skudgemuffin

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Thanks for the reply :D

I know Warcraft 3 Life is a stupid name =p I just had to come up with something quick to set up some advertising this before I had to go to school xD

I think the movie thing could work like this... There is a fixed camera from a side view, the player(s) watching the movie/play will be in cinematic mode, and there's units/actors that move around like a normal cinematic.

Crap, I gotta go now. I'll edit this post and write more later...
 

the_ideal

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Sounds fricken awesome.

I like the play style of LOAP, but there are so many things wrong with it. Having a better system for having a house (yours sounds great) and getting a job, etc. will be cool. I look forward to your map, +rep!
 

Advena

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Sounds really really cool to have this kind of game in wc3 :thup:
I've never played.. Loap, is it? ..so I consider this a very good idea credited to you alone :D

Get a download link in here sometime soon and I'll inofficially help you test it a bit (which basically means I'll try it a few times and then whine about the things I don't like about it.. jk mate, hehe). Anyways, keep it up :)
 

thewrongvine

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Just my opinion, LOAP is pretty much FAIL nowadays because of all those rigged versions. :)

Hm... would you like some game-name suggestions? A theme would help.

Names:

SIMS (duh :D)
SCL (Simulated City Life)

Btw, what do you think of my Crime Marker idea?
 
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Skudgemuffin

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Thanks for the support, everyone.

Advena, the map isn't even in beta yet, but hopefully I'll get the first working version out soon :D

thewrongvine, Yes Loap does fail because of the rigged ones. Just to make things clear, this map is balanced and will be protected.
I like your crime marker system, although I think it shouldn't increase if no one saw the crime. Also, I pictured it being shown via a multiboard. Were you thinking the same?
 

thewrongvine

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Yeah, a mutliboard which showed the marker of everyone. However, the crime marker goes up whenever you commit a crime, even if no one saw it. However again, it doesn't really make a difference, because they can only catch you if they see you, so even if you like have a marker of say 5000 (pretend its high :)), if you instantly like go to a restaurant and eat, they can't catch you unless they saw you.

Hm... that would be hard to make maybe...

And I forgot to say this I think, if you get caught without a crime marker, and you are put in jail or whatever with a marker of 0 (no crimes committed), you can SUE THEM!

I got this idea from a map in which I cannot say the name because it is racist.

"REVENGE OF THE *******!"
 
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Skudgemuffin

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Sounds quite complicated, but maybe I could pull it off.

off-topic -> Wtf is with people creating maps with names like that now...
 
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saberxpert

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Hey Skudgemuffin, I like your map idea but try to keep it as basic as possible for the beta version, I speak from experience when I say that if you try to put too much stuff in at once, you end up being overwhelmed and quitting.
About the crime factor thing, (GTA based?) I suggest you just you levels because numbers would be more complex and might make it lagg (10 ppl(just a number) having 10 numbers going up and down...) Maybe use 5 levels of crime like in gta? (5 star system in GTA(Grand Theft Auto))
For example: Cool-As-A-Cucumber(0), Small-Time-Crime(1), Petty-Theft(2), Organized Crime(3), Mafia/Professional-Crime(4), RUN FOR IT!!!(5)
Just an idea though...
*EDIT* Also, for the map name...:
Grand Theft Warcraft(GTW)
Warcraft Sims(WCSIMS/WS/WCS/WSIMS)
Regular Life(RL)
Not Just Another Loap Map
Just Another Loap Map
Plain Ol' Life (POL)

Just throwing some ideas around...
 

thewrongvine

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I vote for "Grand Theft Warcraft" :thup: :D

There's no poll. :p

And do you understand the words? Just asking, lol. Your title sorta' makes sense but not really... GTA makes sense because you do steal those things. :/

Lalalala!
 

thewrongvine

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Ha... You're funny! :p People will join and go like "Yay WOW!', then finish downloading, see that it is not WoW, and go like "**** **** *** ***** ****!" :)

Nice screenshots, especially the road. lol, graffiti. I have an idea from that - wait, nevermind.

You have an airport... are there going to be planes? :D
 
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Skudgemuffin

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There might be planes... don't see much point in them though since there's only 1 city. Then I wonder why I made an airport... GAH!

"I have an idea from that - wait, nevermind."
Come on :p What's your idea?

And GTA has 6 stars :p And Just Another Loap Map is win, I mean, the freakin acronym is JALM...
 
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