• -Optimize DX8 to run even faster
  -An alchemy system.

• Warrior: The warrior is the melee class of the game. The warrior will have the choice between a few classes of weapons, some one-handed and some two-handed. The warrior might have an extra skill which you can use (although it will have a cool-down system) called Animal Instinct which will give him a temporary boost in stats in the heat of battle. The warrior will also be able to wield heavy armor.
  
  Mage: The mage is the magical class of the game. They will have two classes of spells, one will be slow-acting damage yet it has an area of effect while the other will be more powerful damage yet it can only hit one enemy. This will be a choice for the user as he will be required to focus more on one class of spells then the other. The mage will also have a heal spell and perhaps a buff spell.
  
  Lord/Lady: The Lord/Lady title will be added to your name after defeating a certain boss further on in the game. This will give you some benefits, but will more be used as an accomplishment. Some areas might require the player to be a Lord/Lady to access.
  
  Class Upgrade: There will be a class upgrade planned at some point in the game. I do not know if I should make it so the player is re-born as a special class (a combination of the two) or an upgraded version of their class.

• Hit Points - This is basically how many hitpoints you have. The more points you put into HP, the more HP you have
  Magic Points - Same as the hit points, more points you put in here the more MP (Magic points) you get.
  Strength - Strength is basically how hard you hit. This stat will modify pretty much any stat related to damage power, including the damage the player actually does. This will be much more effective to raise for Warriors as it has more of an impact on damage then Mages.
  Wisdom - Wisdom is your knowledge. For Mages, this will help deeply impact your class-specific stats. For warriors, this will slightly impact your class-specific stats.
  Technique - Technique is how well you are able to do whatever it is you are doing. This will affect all your stats.
  Intuition- This is basically your concentration. For warriors, this will slightly affect your damage, while for mages, this will heavily influence your magical damage and moderately influence your weapon damage.
  

• A stat for each type of weapon (sword, staff, etc.)
  A stat for Armor for the warrior only. This will allow the warrior to wear better armor

• Still have to decide on a few...

• Haggling - Your haggling skill will affect how NPCs price things for you. This can be a very useful stat to invest in. For buying, the formula goes like this : BuyPrice * ((100 - (Haggling Mod Value / 3)) * 0.01)). For selling, it goes like this : Full Item Price * (((Haggling Mod Value \ 3) * 0.01) + 1)
  Alchemy - This will affect your alchemy skill, including the strength of your potions and the chance it will work.
  Mercenary - This stat will allow you to get extra experience per kill. The formula is applied to the experience the NPC gives you BEFORE it is lowered/highered depending on player level (the exp farming prevention system ). The formula goes like so : Experience * ((Mercenary Mod Value / 200) + 1 ).

• -Sword (Low/Medium Power, Fast)
  -Axe (Medium Power, Two Handed, Slow)
  -Hand to Hand (Low Power, Fastest)

• -Knife (Low Power, Fast)
  -Staff (Medium Power, Two Handed, Medium)
  -Hand to Hand (Low Power, Fastest)

Stomach Pulser Wrote:well done. actually completed a good bit.

• -Added in the chat channel system. Works perfect Has support for admin-only channels and guild-only channels. So I removed the original broadcasting/global/admin messaging Also each channel has a color, and channels can be joined and left. Planned are an Info channel, a Gossip/Chat channel, an Auction channel, a Guild channel (For your guild only though ) and an Admin channel.
  -Commented out the self-adapting economy system for now. Am keeping it in source though as it is very easy to re-enable. I might re-enable once the game has an actual community with some money, because for now it is pointless
  -Finished transferring the shop system to a in-game window (not as a seperate form, actually drawn in DX8 and so) with full support of dragging and dropping (Drag item from shop to an inventory slot or double click it to buy it. Drag an item from your inventory to the shop to sell it! )

• -Redone player spawning system when dieing/logging in. Spawn points will be located throughout the lands for you to spawn at. Just stepping on one will set this one as your spawn point
  -Added player Genders

William Wrote:Wow, very impressive that you kept it a secret Why no screenshots? Please share some spicy pics.

• -Finished more stuff on the guild system. Guild/Rank now show up in your description.
  -Redid the death system. How it works is basically, every level you get a Rescue. Now what a rescue is, next time you die, it prevents you from losing exp/items/whatever will happen when you die, and basically saves you from dying. Now, I'm not sure what will happen once you die without a rescue. I'm thinking of making it so you lose some experience or get some Death Experience, which you must work off before being able to raise your experience again. I don't think players will be losing their items when they die as I find this an annoyance in many games. Your death count / rescued count also shows up in your description.
  -Description is now read properly using he/she and her/his based on gender, instead of using a generic : "This player"

• -Two handed weapons.
  -Started remaking stat system to be accommodate the system I want to implant in the game. Basically, I want the player to have about 10 stats, some Base ones which will affect others, and for skills to be considered stats as this is where Mages will make their spells stronger, but putting more skill points into it. This is also where the Warrior will be able to wield better armor and weapons
  -Removed SP and Running

Robin Wrote:You spelt amount wrong. Everywhere xD

• -Classes are pretty much hardcoded client side since all the client really needs is the Class Names, so I removed pretty the new char classes and the send classes packet
  -NPC stats are now modeled like a player's stats
  -4 base stats pretty much implemented for players

JokeofWeek Wrote:Nah, sorry guys, this one's closed source :wink:

JokeofWeek Wrote:Nah, sorry guys, this one's closed source :wink:

Robin Wrote:

JokeofWeek Wrote:Nah, sorry guys, this one's closed source :wink:

Can I have the source?

I want to see your way of initialising Dx8...

DFA's and mine differ... want to see if yours is similar to either.

JokeofWeek Wrote:

Robin Wrote:

JokeofWeek Wrote:Nah, sorry guys, this one's closed source :wink:

Can I have the source?

I want to see your way of initialising Dx8...

DFA's and mine differ... want to see if yours is similar to either.

XD I'm not giving out the source xD And I'm pretty sure I used the same way as you since I used the tuts on erm, DirectX4VB and that.

DX8 is easier then you think, I used to think it was impossible. To make it easy, you basically have to forget everything you learned with DX7