03-05-2008, 04:35 AM
Demi-Gods
So you have a staff who is helping run and work on the game. They get bored from time to time right? Let them have some real power!
You have a god system where your players can worship different deities. Well each deity is ACTUALLY played by a staff member. Their role in the game is to help people out and take care of issues. Lets give them a bit more.
In Demi-God status, they don't have the power to create items, edit maps, or whatever. They are pretty much very powerful players. Create a system where the Demi-Gods gain GP(not gold pieces), but grant points. When they gain these they can help out players who worship them in the game.
Example 1: You have a player who has just lead victory over an opposing guild. Well their god notices this and has 3 grant points available. They decide to use a GP to chose from a list of items that the Demi-God has access to. These items should relate to the TYPE of god. So if it was a goddess of nature. She might reward the player with an enchanted oak staff. Well the player now is flagged for quite some time. They cannot receive anything else for awhile to prevent abusing.
Example 2: You have gotten stuck in a cave and pretty much out of hp. You know that you will most likely die. So you pray to your god. They may or may not hear it. All you can do is hope. Well the god happens to be online and grants you your prayer. They appear and revive you back to health....but lose 1 GP.
Example 3: The god wishes to unlock a quest. They use 5 grant point to open up a quest for the player. Or possibly creates an item using GPs to run their own quest personal quest. The god of disease uses a few GPs to give a city the plague.
There are many ways you could balance and utilize this system to enhance role playing or keeping players interested. Demi-gods could gain Gift Points every day depending on the amount of players that worship them. Worked out correctly, this could be a powerful feature in the game.
So you have a staff who is helping run and work on the game. They get bored from time to time right? Let them have some real power!
You have a god system where your players can worship different deities. Well each deity is ACTUALLY played by a staff member. Their role in the game is to help people out and take care of issues. Lets give them a bit more.
In Demi-God status, they don't have the power to create items, edit maps, or whatever. They are pretty much very powerful players. Create a system where the Demi-Gods gain GP(not gold pieces), but grant points. When they gain these they can help out players who worship them in the game.
Example 1: You have a player who has just lead victory over an opposing guild. Well their god notices this and has 3 grant points available. They decide to use a GP to chose from a list of items that the Demi-God has access to. These items should relate to the TYPE of god. So if it was a goddess of nature. She might reward the player with an enchanted oak staff. Well the player now is flagged for quite some time. They cannot receive anything else for awhile to prevent abusing.
Example 2: You have gotten stuck in a cave and pretty much out of hp. You know that you will most likely die. So you pray to your god. They may or may not hear it. All you can do is hope. Well the god happens to be online and grants you your prayer. They appear and revive you back to health....but lose 1 GP.
Example 3: The god wishes to unlock a quest. They use 5 grant point to open up a quest for the player. Or possibly creates an item using GPs to run their own quest personal quest. The god of disease uses a few GPs to give a city the plague.
There are many ways you could balance and utilize this system to enhance role playing or keeping players interested. Demi-gods could gain Gift Points every day depending on the amount of players that worship them. Worked out correctly, this could be a powerful feature in the game.