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6/21/2017 5:37:16 PMOverarching Gameplay Mechanics and Lore Questions and statements

Stratus

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2 Posts
November 2016

Hey sorry if this just popped out of the blue but I have an idea if you would like it. I hope you do like it, since to me, it seems really cool. If you wanted some clarification on what I’m saying then let me know. I would like to see an Armageddon event happen every 4 – 14 real world years. Take it as mother earth is a living spiritual being that feels pain as the humanoid population sores and the earth is moved and forests deforested. I would prefer that this is not one big boss a battle but rather a swarm of crystal / earthen / wood like beings that take forms of animals and humanoids that have and haven’t been seen or that are things of legend. The swarm should act like that of white blood cells taking out a virus they should focus on hotspots like city and towns while still destroying farms and other structures along the way but with less intensity. I would like the human population to have a chance though so the creatures should be killable and the problem should be able to be circumvented or at least prolonged. Could you implement a thing like you do with the magic system where like .05% of the population would be able to hear the mother earth plead for help randomly and all of them would be able to hear it at the same time. The plead would normally be to kill kings/officials or reclaim parts of land for nature from the cities. This then satiates mother earth for a short time before it needs to happen again. Who knows an in-game cult/religion might spring up around the earth mother to protect her rather than allow people to flourish without a limit or cap. I feel like this would cause vast amounts of people to band together seeing as people’s homes, businesses, kingdoms, families, and lives would be in danger of being lost. Plus, it would allow for a huge power shift to come in upsetting life for everyone and forces people to work together for survival. Basically, I want the humans being at the top of the food chain to still worry about survival even when they have all their ducks in a row. Of course, no one should know when or where it’s going to happen but I would like most everyone to be affected but perhaps leave continents that have a low population alone for the most part save for their big cities.

6/21/2017 5:39:48 PM #1

Stratus

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2 Posts
November 2016

This is probably going to be a very unpopular comment but will the NPC's be able to well.... end themselves. Now before people start posting hundreds of stories about past events in their lives and how this might trigger them and what not. I am just asking out of curiosity, you have included many real life things in here and i'm just wondering if you are going to include a emotional stability status that could lead to different emotional outbursts (angelic like kindness, goodwilled towards others, kindhearted, normal, angry, violent, sad, seclusion, self loathing, suicidal) suicide being an extreme case of that. So is it possible to just destroy an NPCs emotional status to such a degree ( Multiple family deaths, home burning down, lover's dying, old age, neglect, endless poverty or multiple inflictions) that one day you could be walking down the street and Mr.Monopoly just jumps from a 6 story building leading to his inevitable death in a quick meeting with the ground. Or is that to realistic/hard of a status to implement. I think it would bring a sense of realism to the game since if the players are little shits to the NPCs they could be running into something along the lines of a population crisis / ending the existence of NPC's. Sorry if i offended anyone.

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