What do you think???

Hey everyone.

Here is my idea for a new map. (Kinda like the Sims)


Map

Probably about 160*160. Many houses, roads, a castle, farms, and much more + good terrain.

Story

You are a citizen of this place. You start off as a farmer and try to get a better job. You have to support yourself so that you can buy food, sleep, and just survive. You can do this by working for your money like a normal person, robbing other people, etc. You can create a family or just do whatever you want. Seasons change as time passes, and you can be able to do new things on the map. (Buy better houses, etc.)

Players

A 10 Player map (Or more if possible) so that you can rob NPC's or other players.

Possibilities are endless...

Please tell me what you think ... Thanks

Sounds very good!

this sounds like it will be fun, if u need help with triggers or whatever ask

Sounds cool but time consuming, good luck!

I would starve myself to make a map someone would pay money to play. Go for it man...

I think I will, but I'm not sure if I might get tired of making it or not cuz it would take SOOOO long. I don't want to get like half-way through and then get bored. But maybe if enough ppl we were willing to help I could do it.

Is anyone else willing to help or am I on my own?

well i dont know if i can commit to this... im pretty busy i might be able to help u a little

any help would be nice thx

I can contribute ideas!

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You can rob a person by entering their house. You may enter the house if there is no security alarm outside the door you are going through. If an alarm is present, the police arrest you and you loose $1,000. If there is no alarm, you may destory the items int he house for however much it is worth. Lets say you attack their TV, you gain $300 when it dies. The owner of the home may call the police if they notice you, and will result in an arrest in 20 seconds if you dont leave the house.
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There is always a risk of fire! In the summer heat, fires will randomly start and spread! You can call the fire department which will save your home, or equip a smoke alarm, which automatically calls the fire station. The fire will slowly destory any items it touches.
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Jobs. You can go to work everyday and do jobs. You start as a farmer and have to attack corn fields for cash every day. You might get better jobs, like pizza delivery, where you drive a steam tank and have to deliver pizzas in a set amount of time to get cash. Think GTA: Vice.
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Living. You can do things like buy chair or a microwave. Cooking a meal will cost you cash, but then you can eat and prevent yourself from starving. If you do starve or something else happens, like you get caught in a fire, you will show up at he hospital with $500 taken away for medical expenses.
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Those are just a few ideas!

I like this idea a lot, it's not like any of other maps :) new gameply not just different skins and so on.
I am real good a triggers, but I can't like join a team although if you give me a section to do I am pretty sure I could do that and send you a map of it. I will also help as much as possible.
Cool Cool
DKSlayer

*Edit*I take it back heck I have not much time, but Put me on the team. You can PM me, cacth me on IRC sometimes, if you PM I will get you my email or anyother handles. Lets get Kicking, I am not much for ideas though :)*Edit*

thx for the new ideas and help. I'm working on some of the terrain and basic units( like im making wheat that you can farm + and items u can eat) I'll post more when I have a lil more time

Hey dude, I actually am working on a project very very similar to this right now!! Well, I actually realised that I'm never going to complete this project alone, so if you want, take a look on what I have right now. Anyway, my vacations are almost over so if you want to, i can give you away all the stuff I've made (I think that all the effort i placed over it shouldn't be lost), but I have plans to continue with this project, so it's your call.

Anyway, here's a copy&paste from the readme you will find inside this zip file (I acctualy just writed this readme, so it will make a reference to this post sometimes and things can get confused, but nothing to big that would make you think "wow, what a crackhead"):


Ok, my version of warcraft is 1.00, so to make this think work, you have to backup your war3patch.mpq file, and then copy this new one on top of it.

About the map:

Right now, I have the year stations working, but you have to type 'winter' in the chat room to make it winter, 'fall' to make it fall, and 'summer' to make it summer (summer is default, so if you start with summer, you will only see random tree changing). If you type 'news', you will get to a news thing, where people read the news. I wanted to make it a newspaper, but it wasn't working very well, so a changed it to television.

The television news I had in my tought where absolutely great, but the ones you are going to seehave that 'unfinished' look on them, and this makes them look very cheap. Plus the typos and errors (I should really add the famous 'sorry don't speak english very well' line in the credits, but I didn't, and WE takes an awfull time to load, and i'm trying to do this really quickly, because I allready have righted the post and all I need is the README explaining how things work ). Anyway, I also tried to implement a rain and snow effect, but it didn't worked I don't know why.

OK, there is also a sell sheep and sell Weat Bunch feature, but it's a work in progress. There is also a map with a city and opening gates and stuff, but personally, I think that that city has a real bad design, I think I just can't make good city maps. You can buy other farms, but they won't produce stuff. They only thing producing is your starting sheep creation, and if you select the four peasants you start and right click on the sign post you will find in one of your starting farms, they will begin a crappy work animation, but this farm isn't really going to produce anything.


EDIT: Oh crap, the file is to big to place here for download. If you want, I can email you (it's about 1,1Mb), or slice in very tiny parts so you can glue them all with winMPQ.

I had a lot of similar ideas

Here's my plan.

Trees will all be made into immobile units. Same with wheat, corn, etc. With trees, I will make a variable the changes with time, so when a certain time has passed I will pick all the trees, that are fall colors for instance and replace them with winter trees. Then change wheater to a slight snow.

Jobs I am still a little unsure about, but anything would work
(Lumber Mill, Pizza Guy as u said, and more)

Now for the way I will make Burgarlery. For each different situtation I think I will make a different costume (skin). Default will be the normal skin , a peasant,. But u can get more like a buglar suit (comes at start), and some you have to earn like a police suit, fireman's outfit, etc. You can only rob peoples's house in the burglars costume, Just as you can only work for the police in the police costume.

When you rob someone, if they see you, u get caught (not sure what to do, make player wait without character for 30s in jail? Pay A fine?, etc.) But thats the risk you take. Characters must go to sleep, and when they do they will be replaced by a half invisible sleeping dude with no line of sight. Then Bugulars can rob to hearts content. (their will be upgrades to bugular suit to match security with more advanced jobs like in the military.)

For Security, u start with none but it can be boutght. Advances for this will come as well. It will be displayed as a sentry ward.

Finally for farming trees, wheat, etc.

All wheat HP will be set to 1.(and a mechanical unit) That way citizens can repair it. When it gets to full HP it dies and is replaced by an item( Not a tresure chest, a pile of wheat which can be sold or eaten 2 survive) This way right click can still be used.

Finally for the meters at the top.
FOOD=HUNGER LEVEL (at 0 u go to hospital and die if no $)
LUMBER=REST (0 is no rest and u go to hospital and die if no $)
GOLD=CASH (Get better houses, more filing fods, better jobs)

:ggani: Thats it for now. I will get back to the course when I have more time. Please post more suggestions.

Ok, here's how I looked into it:

You start out as a small farmer. You can plant stuff like corn, wheat and this kind of stuff; and create some animals like horses, sheeps, pigs, eventually cows (if some modeling/skinning guy shows up).
As things go on, you can extend your lands, buy other farms, hire more workers, this kind of things. There would also be the city, where you can buy stuff, and if you pay your taxes, they would protect you from eventual attacks from orcs and stuff, but you could also hire an army, this kind of thing.
Then, there would be random events, like undead attacks, fire, orc attacks, spells that went wrong, etc.
Also, I tought about getting other activities, like harvesting lumber (also needed to biuld stuff, but you can buy them in the city, so you can do this only if you want to), harvesting gold (again, you can get gold by selling your production, but mining would be another way of getting profit).
There where also minor features like elections, eventually you could run to be the mayor and command the city, there would be an arcane santuum where you can get some magic to make rain or something, there would be the newspaper, and all the cool stuff that would be placed if I knew how to do them and if I had time.
Anyway, I think I'm going to try to remove the abilitydata from the map, so tell me what you think.