Mythic Open RPG

Well I know what your thinking... "Not ANOTHER open RPG" and I have to say that I've gotten sick of the different ones that have been coming out recently to, which is partially why I decided to attempt and make one that is trully innovative and original and not just a rip-off of other ones. So I'll just list a few features I plan to incorporate into the map eventually and I would be delighted if you (yes you reading this) would be so kind as to give me some feedback on how you think I should go about doing certain things.

Heros
-- All heroes are custom made (not models since I don't want the map to be too large) as are there spells.

-- When you first pick your hero your given a few options on how you can "customize" him/her to give yourself a little originality for example: You are able to choose the general size (Small, Average, Above Average, Large) and what "plane" (color/translucence) they are from.

-- I have my own way of setting up the heroes stats aswell. Instead of automatically being given a set number of points when you gain a level you are instead given a single point that your allowed to spend (obviously the bonuses gained are larger). I think that that gives you a little more strategy on how you want to design your hero based on the effects of different stats.

"Realms"
-- I havn't begun to actually design this system yet, but the general idea is that there are 5 different "realms" (cities) across the map, and depending on which on you go and do Quests for you become automatically allied with that Realm and it becomes your safe-haven more or less.

-- If you want to join a Realm in the first place you have to do a Quest (Not sure how I'm going to set that up for 12 different players) that the Lord of that Realm gives you.

-- Once you join a Realm you will automatically gain certain bonuses unique to that particular Realm (This is still up for debate too, but things like Element attacks and well thats all i thought of so far)

-- Each Realm with have a Rival realm and if players are member of eachothers Rival Realm they are locked from being allies.

Items
-- At the main city in the center (where you begin) theres a building called an Abandoned Forge and if you walk up to it you are granted control (control is taken away if you walk away) and you can use this to "forge" items by placing them into the Forge's inventory. (working on this trigger still)

-- All items are custom created for a touch of originality

Well thats all I'll post (lot to read I understand) and if you actually did take the time to read my little speil about my map I am most grateful and hope you give me some good feedback (or atleast constuctive critisiscm). :god_help_us:

***Screenshots***Dont forget to check out the custom loadscreen I'm working on at the bottom!!

sounds cool... can we see some screenshots of past maps so i can get an idea of how good the terrain will be... the joining realm thing sounds pretty cool.
there is a game called helbreath. To ally a city and join its forces, you must talk to the town 'mayor' and he decides if you are accepted or not based on how good you are... you should try something like that, make each realm have standards if u can

and if u want any help with a storyline... my msn is [email protected] also
hurry up in making it, cuz i already badly wanna play it :D

sounds good. Would there be portals or bridges in between the realms to cross from one to another? Or would there be an extra 'realm' in the middle, that you cant join, and there are portals to the different realms there?

Thanks, and I may just look into using the idea you put in about the requirements on joining Realms.



They're are portals at the entrance of each Realm and I was thinking of perhaps having portals in the central city and you can only warp to a Realm using its portal a member of it.

Heres some screenshots as requested...

I dont see no screenshots, I must see screenshots plz!!!

:( What the hell... it won't upload the Screenshots whenever I try to. (I havn't used Zip before so it could just be that I did something wrong with that) Any idea what I may be doing wrong? Cause I waited about 10 minutes for the file to Upload and it didn't do a thing.

What file format are you trying to attach?

The files in the Zip are all Jpeg, do the need to be something else? I assumed it didn't really matter a whole lot...

try using a BMP file type or a TGA file

Grr, I tried both filetypes and it still never finishes Uploading the Zip file... I have 56k connection and I'm waiting around 5-10 minutes. Is it just that with a 56k It'll take a long time to upload the Zip file? Another thought I had was that maybe I'm not setting up the Zip file right; do I have to compress the file or anything like that before I upload it?

OOOHHHH, i see wat your problem is, you have to unzip the zip file first, and extract the images, I dont think your suppose to upload zip files

Sounds good, I'm looking forward to it...I like the ideas you have, I just hope you'll be able to pull them off. Another thing you might want to keep in mind is adding a lot of fun content that isn't repetitive...I remember the old Gauntlet RPG. That was fun for the five minutes, but it got boring fast. Learn from that and how to avoid it.
Also, good terrain is a must for an Open RPG like this. If you can terrain yourself, draft someone that can do quality terrain for you.

Thanks, I'll be sure to look at Gauntlet RPG, and as far I know I'm a good terrainer... but you can judge for yourself... well atleast once I get this Zip file stuff working right I can. Speaking of which, I "Unzipped" the files from the Zip archive and so then now it becomes a .exe file? Is that what I should be trying to upload?

Hmmm if u have irfanview save ur picture in that and were u type in the name for the save thing below that there should be another bar and select to jpg or jpeg forgot wich it is i use jpg jpeg will work to i guess if not you really need it i forgot were i got it from tho so