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With the recent addition of Celerysteve’s optional mission which amountted to obscenely awesome amounts of trollwin, I’ve had the idea of CZ releasing missions made by the community for players who have already completed ep2 (just like the MOTF mission)
So if there was a way we could develop our own missions, chats and whatnot, send them to CZ for approval up until an arranged deadline and release them well in advance of whenever ep3 is due to go live, that would not only be awesome, but it’d also engage the community in something other than flamebate and forumbuildr. What do you think? |
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| Posted On: 02/25/2009 3:44AM |
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Signed. All in all, I don’t think there should be too many community missions, but one from time to time would definitely be a good idea. I even already proposed Evil Trout to buy a custom mission for quite some BP (not even for all Ep. 2 finished players, but only for a few selected ones), he said he’ll think about this later.
Another idea that came up by Evil Trout himself were additional quests you can buy for BP. Also not that bad of an idea imo as long as the price-performance ratio is fair. FalCoN edited this message on 02/25/2009 3:47AM |
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| Posted On: 02/25/2009 3:46AM |
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The idea is not bad, though I don’t think it will happen in the near future. With forumbuildr and itembuildr starting soon, there is not the space for a missionbuildr now, I suppose.
An official sidequest from time time like now is pretty good for now |
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| Posted On: 02/25/2009 3:50AM |
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I think thats a great idea. I was thinking of some sort of ‘trip around the world’ mission, given by some yet to be created Dictator who seeks to rule the planet. This involves pwning a crazy amount of forums (let’s say 15 or something) all from different countries. So an american forum, a french forum, a german forum etc.
This should eventually lead to the ‘around the world in 15 visits’ e-peen. |
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| Posted On: 02/25/2009 3:51AM |
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Aldo_Anything Posted:
Actually, instead of adding new characters like Falcon****er, I’d even prefer to see some of the old NPCs to make another appearance. I’d definitely enjoy another sidequest by Doktor Jojo, BidSquid or Fr4gGingR1teZ… |
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| Posted On: 02/25/2009 3:54AM |
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I don’t like the idea of buying side quests with bp. |
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| Posted On: 02/25/2009 3:54AM |
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Only quest that CZ could reasonably charge BP for would be E3.
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| Posted On: 02/25/2009 4:15AM |
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Since the cat is out of the bag…
I’ve always liked the idea of giving the community the ability to create their own missions — whether they’re done as solo vanity projects, within a Klan, or as a democratically voted and/or wikified group effort. One day (perhaps after Episode 3 is complete) I would love to see this become a reality.
However, there are several issues with such an concept, beyond those of quality control.
The obvious one would be the hugeness of the infrastructure needed to create a comprehensive “questbuildr.” A mission is more than just a chat. There’s the mission description, NPC profile and avatar, follow-up tubmails, reward items, bumociated attacks, etc.
Now, if you were to just hand in a well-formatted conversation, as druss suggested, that’s another story. And to be honest, I was thinking of holding a contest along those lines in preparation for Episode 3. Even so, it’s not that simple. Someone (me) would want extensive revisions and edits before manually porting it over to our conversation editor. From there, I’d have to create all the other mission aspects described above.
And only then could ET begin to program the mission, which could be simple or very complex. In the case of Falcon****er case, the BlindedWithRage attack actually took a lot of programming — not the animation, but just making sure it worked in the context of the mission. With everything else he’s got to work on, it’s not a task you can take on lightly. He’d have to be completely devoted to getting all this content up and running. |
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| Posted On: 02/25/2009 2:07PM |
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Jalapeno Bootyhole Posted: Not every quest needs to introduce new attacks. They could introduce interesting combinations, such as “suck up to Forum1, deploy x FBO attacks to Forum2, get n IP addresses from Forum3, kill yourself on Forum4, and pwn Forum5.” Most of that codes already in place so the changes for it, or any subset, should be relatively straightforward. As long as he doesn’t accidentally overwrite another forum’s attacks in the process again. And existing NPCs could be used, or at least some of them, so then there’s no need for creating everything required for them. I for one would love to go on a mission bumigned by Yuriko-chan… |
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| Posted On: 02/25/2009 4:23PM |
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MC Banhammer Posted:
Only if mammary glands are rewarded. mammary glands > epeen. Johnny Mac edited this message on 02/25/2009 4:28PM |
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| Posted On: 02/25/2009 4:27PM |
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Yeh, I’d love to see her pop up again. I think there’s a whole host of stuff you could do with Yuriko, especially in some of the community forums like Engrish Lessons or Cosplay Central.
(If someone else steals that idea for use in a sidequest I will whine even more than I already do. Consider yourself warned.) |
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| Posted On: 02/25/2009 4:30PM |
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Johnny Mac Posted:
You’re looking at it all wrong, the reward should be a mammary glands epeen. There would at least be a thematic reason why your epeen just grew a little bit. |
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| Posted On: 02/25/2009 5:35PM |
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Point taken, Banhammer and all.
As we’ve kind of hinted at before — and at risk of further raising the ire of The Unknown Comic — we’re not going to openly put out a call for submissions in Flamebate. However, if you think you’ve got the creative chops and you’re seriously interested in contributing, I’m always happy to look at what you’ve got to say. One of my long-term dreams is to use Forumwarz as a platform to help other writers gain a wider audience, because I know we have a ton of talent here.
So if you find the muse hits you, all you have to do is Tubmail me. It might take some time, but I’ll always get back to you. However, you should know that part of my day job is rejecting bad pitches from wannabe writers. While it might seem shoddily thrown together, we actually have very high standards here at Forumwarz! Log in to see images! |
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| Posted On: 02/25/2009 8:13PM |
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FalCoN Posted:
very much agreed, the NPC’s you meet go by too fast, they should come back in ep3. |
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| Posted On: 02/25/2009 8:19PM |
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I thought of one for Bitsquid. We would make a Ebay parody forum, and he would ask us to take it down. Missons would rock, if don’t have to pay BP for them. I don’t have any so it would suck for people who don’t have Eps. 2 |
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| Posted On: 02/25/2009 8:24PM |
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Will there be an option to be anonymous when making these missions? |
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| Posted On: 02/25/2009 8:30PM |
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Actually, instead of adding new characters like Falcon****er, I’d even prefer to see some of the old NPCs to make another appearance. I’d definitely enjoy another sidequest by Doktor Jojo, BidSquid or Fr4gGingR1teZ… I also agree with this…bring back the characters that briefly showed up, then disappeared…tidying up the sTalk list, and making the story more involved. |
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| Posted On: 02/27/2009 12:57AM |
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Yes, this has to be an absolute must! It may be hard to code and may take ages to perfect but this is exactly what you said about itembuildr. |
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| Posted On: 02/27/2009 7:36PM |
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I think this is a great idea. Rather than being 100% user-created (like forumbuildr), to create something in conjunction with CZ would be absolutely fantastic; and from what I’ve seen in my writing comp I think quite a few fwarz members would be up to the challenge!
The question is, how would you choose which members / submissions are worth your time? Because to vet everything manually would be a huge workload for you guys, even with all the mods helping. |
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| Posted On: 02/27/2009 9:18PM |
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Who knows? Maybe we can get a new mission every week! Log in to see images! |
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| Posted On: 02/28/2009 9:34AM |
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