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Re: Topia Online Kickstarter is live!!!
« Reply #120 on: December 13, 2012, 12:52:40 am »

Just you wait you may think slimes are weak and an easy kill tell I make an army and take over the world. *evil laugh*

No one said slimes were "weak" per se. I mean, an amorphous blob of corrosive material isn't really weak. They're just basic. Personally, I'd love to see a slime (or especially spider) holocaust. That's just me. XD
Yes.  That is my goal, to bring up an army of spiders.  Mwa ha ha.  Ha ha.  Ha ha. Ha ha ha.
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« Reply #121 on: December 13, 2012, 02:14:46 am »

I love the game concepts. Especially the scripting part and how it relates to monster ecology, I can't wait to try to script a goblin village system or a slime army or somesuch.

Though, quite honestly, I have practically zero faith in your assurances that your system will keep senseless griefing at bay, and I also speak from experience as Sappho and others earlier on this thread did when I say: A few players who enjoy the kind of gameplay most would consider "griefing" with lots of time on their hands can and will destroy the fun of a large number of "average" players. You can destroy buildings? They will stand there all night while you sleep dismantling it brick by brick no matter how long it takes (this literally happened to me in 2 different games even when there was supposedly no real incentive for them to do such a boring thing). You can permanently kill characters? They will spend days starting a new character for scratch, gathering equipment and just enough will and influence (in this stage they will act like decent people towards others), then suddenly go on a rampage, kill as many people as they can before the community can react, then happily die and start the process anew. As far as they are concerned, their goal is accomplished, they aren't losing anything by losing their character, which was built for the sole purpose of their one rampage.

Though that leads to a question: There's a lot of mentions of the game engine being available for players to start their own worlds. When will that be available? How much will it cost? What will be its limits? How flexible/modable will it be (source code provided, or only high-level script language, etc)? Will it include ALL the necessary tools to make a proper (though smaller scale) server?

Because I'd certainly be far more interested in hosting/joining a small-scale private whitelisted server with ~20 players on it than playing on your large scale and most likely griefing-infested servers. Then you'd have a small community of players that want to essentially play the same game. As in, if they all want total war and killing each other randomly, great, and if they all want to build/roleplay/enjoy the world but with minimal PvP, great too, but not a mix of both where only one side gets to enjoy the game.

Also, I've signed up on your site for the beta, how is that sign-up different from the 25$ reward on kickstarter? Other than the kickstarter reward including the finished game, and possibly a priority to getting into beta, is this signing up to the same beta?

And finally, will you be offering something like a Paypal option or somesuch for pledging while the kickstarter is running?
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Re: Topia Online Kickstarter is live!!!
« Reply #122 on: December 13, 2012, 08:40:04 am »

Sorry if I missed it in the pages of discussion I just had time to skim through, but I think my question about being killed while offline has still not been answered. So, for the third time: Can your character die while you are not logged in? This is a very important question. If the answer is yes, I can`t see myself paying to play this game. Too much stress spending all my time worrying about how my character is doing while I`m supposed to be sleeping or working or doing something else.

As it stands, I probably will not sign up for the beta. I`ll probably wait until the community establishes itself and see what kind of world it turns out to be. It`s possible the player base will be good, in which case I`ll give it a shot, but I can`t bring myself to invest in advance in something so impossible to predict which could potentially turn out to be something I would hate.

On the other hand, if you were to offer a separate game server without permadeath like Wurm does, I would contribute to your kickstarter and sign up for beta immediately.

By the way, I`m not against the concept of permadeath per se. I just can`t abide it in a world with PVP. In a single player game or multiplayer one without PVP, I personally make the choice whether to go into a dangerous situation or not, and therefore I can accept the consequence of permadeath if I get myself killed. It makes my decisions more important and motivates me to be more careful, not going wild without fear of consequences. Permadeath can be a good thing in a game. However, since you say PVP is essential in this game since even the monsters are controlled by players, it just sounds like a recipe for frustration and disaster to me. When other human beings in the world have the option of attacking me and killing me whether I want to engage in that sort of play or not, you can be sure I will spend all my time worrying about being attacked and not enjoying the game at all.

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« Reply #123 on: December 13, 2012, 08:53:37 am »

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Sorry if I missed it in the pages of discussion I just had time to skim through, but I think my question about being killed while offline has still not been answered. So, for the third time: Can your character die while you are not logged in? This is a very important question. If the answer is yes, I can`t see myself paying to play this game. Too much stress spending all my time worrying about how my character is doing while I`m supposed to be sleeping or working or doing something else

Yes they can still die if you are not logged in since Kruniac said that your character can still perform duties like eating, hunting,defending so i would be guessing a online player can kill you if you are not online.
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« Reply #124 on: December 13, 2012, 09:02:18 am »

On the other hand you can have hirelings guard you while offline so I guess anybody trying to be a dick would eventually die themselves.
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« Reply #125 on: December 13, 2012, 09:05:20 am »

Honestly I am crazy interested in this game, I loved HnH, I like minecraft, ect ect.  Anything that has real consequences and danger for your character as well as the ability to build and grow and work with others towards a conman goal is my dream game.  I can not wait to see this, and really wish it turns out as what the devs hope it will.
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« Reply #126 on: December 13, 2012, 09:59:18 am »

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Do monster have different looks like say when you make a slime you got green, yellow black, etc or that just for the humans and dwarfs? Well if you have it at all.

Characters will be able to be customized, so I don't see why we can't have different colored slimes. The idea was more of that a slime changes color to enable different abilities.

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Though, quite honestly, I have practically zero faith in your assurances that your system will keep senseless griefing at bay, and I also speak from experience as Sappho and others earlier on this thread did when I say: A few players who enjoy the kind of gameplay most would consider "griefing" with lots of time on their hands can and will destroy the fun of a large number of "average" players. You can destroy buildings? They will stand there all night while you sleep dismantling it brick by brick no matter how long it takes (this literally happened to me in 2 different games even when there was supposedly no real incentive for them to do such a boring thing). You can permanently kill characters? They will spend days starting a new character for scratch, gathering equipment and just enough will and influence (in this stage they will act like decent people towards others), then suddenly go on a rampage, kill as many people as they can before the community can react, then happily die and start the process anew. As far as they are concerned, their goal is accomplished, they aren't losing anything by losing their character, which was built for the sole purpose of their one rampage.

In the situation you describe, that's entirely possible. However, a griefer, or five griefers, wouldn't be able to affect the larger playerbase if the larger playerbase takes steps to ensure some kind of mutual protection or civilized area. This could be as simple as a farmer having hirelings guard his properly (properties will be clearly defined), or patrolling guards taking care of trouble makers.

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Though that leads to a question: There's a lot of mentions of the game engine being available for players to start their own worlds. When will that be available? How much will it cost? What will be its limits? How flexible/modable will it be (source code provided, or only high-level script language, etc)? Will it include ALL the necessary tools to make a proper (though smaller scale) server?

That will be available as soon as the default game world is up to snuff. We can't very well offer engine licenses without ensuring that the tools are working properly. :)

We haven't decided on a price for the engine license yet.

I'm not sure what you mean by "limits". The world building toolkit will allow you to do the exact same thing that we're doing. The engine has been built from scratch, and we're using the engine to build our own world. If a player wanted to do the same, they would be able to.

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How flexible/modable will it be (source code provided, or only high-level script language, etc)?

Er. The engine itself will support various types of actions that can be created, as well as world-level parameters that can be implemented. For instance, if a world builder doesn't like the idea of permadeath, implementing a respawning system (or anything you would want) would be fairly simple to do. :)

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Will it include ALL the necessary tools to make a proper (though smaller scale) server?


Absolutely. That's the point of the developer toolkit. Anything we'll be doing with the main game world (and more) will be able to be emulated or changed, or whatever with the toolkit. It's one of the main reasons we've decided to go this route. If the main game world isn't the right fit for a player, then they can always create their own. ^.^

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Because I'd certainly be far more interested in hosting/joining a small-scale private whitelisted server with ~20 players on it than playing on your large scale and most likely griefing-infested servers. Then you'd have a small community of players that want to essentially play the same game. As in, if they all want total war and killing each other randomly, great, and if they all want to build/roleplay/enjoy the world but with minimal PvP, great too, but not a mix of both where only one side gets to enjoy the game.

I understand where you're coming from. To me, player population fuels the game world, but in a smaller community, there wouldn't be as many disruptions. And the world builder could simply assign scripts to monsters, or create NPCs civilizations to provide a challenge to the playerbase. Again, it's all up to whoever builds the game world.

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Also, I've signed up on your site for the beta, how is that sign-up different from the 25$ reward on kickstarter? Other than the kickstarter reward including the finished game, and possibly a priority to getting into beta, is this signing up to the same beta?

And finally, will you be offering something like a Paypal option or somesuch for pledging while the kickstarter is running?

Signing up for the beta doesn't ensure beta access. And the kickstarter reward guarantees beta access. On the subject of PayPal - we're considering moving the pledging concept to our website if Kickstarter falls through. The stretch goals would remain the same (with donations and account purchases continuing to fuel them!) and would be there forever. The rewards would remain the same, so if someone were to PayPal $25 or something, they would gain the same rewards as the Kickstarter pledge, except immediately instead of "when the drive ends".

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Sorry if I missed it in the pages of discussion I just had time to skim through, but I think my question about being killed while offline has still not been answered. So, for the third time: Can your character die while you are not logged in? This is a very important question. If the answer is yes, I can`t see myself paying to play this game. Too much stress spending all my time worrying about how my character is doing while I`m supposed to be sleeping or working or doing something else.

As it stands, I probably will not sign up for the beta. I`ll probably wait until the community establishes itself and see what kind of world it turns out to be. It`s possible the player base will be good, in which case I`ll give it a shot, but I can`t bring myself to invest in advance in something so impossible to predict which could potentially turn out to be something I would hate.

Yes. Your character can be pulled apart by shrieking wraiths while you aren't online. We felt that to create a truly persistent and living world, it would be awesome for everyone to be in the game all the time. Ideally, you'd want to run a simple script that mitigates the risk to your character. Maybe something as simple as just going to the cabinet to get food when hungry, but staying inside. Or if you have some hirelings guarding you, you could do some outdoor work.

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On the other hand, if you were to offer a separate game server without permadeath like Wurm does, I would contribute to your kickstarter and sign up for beta immediately.

We don't intend to provide that game world, at least not in the immediate future. However, I'm pretty sure -someone- will create that type of game world when the toolkit is released. All the more reason to support the project, and get that toolkit developed and released! :)

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Honestly I am crazy interested in this game, I loved HnH, I like minecraft, ect ect.  Anything that has real consequences and danger for your character as well as the ability to build and grow and work with others towards a conman goal is my dream game.  I can not wait to see this, and really wish it turns out as what the devs hope it will.

Sweet! I hope to see you in the game. Even I'm itching to play it, and I'm the lead designer. XD

On the subject of it being what we say it is - we have the benefit of not having an investor or a CEO with the game experience of "watching football" on their resume telling us what to do, or what "sells". All of the ideas of Topia Online come from gamers who simply wanted to create a real sandbox MMORPG. Some concepts are included to balance others, but the game is still exactly what we wanted. We're not planning on turning it into something lame, even for sales. That's another reason we're working hard to develop the toolkit - if our view of a sandbox isn't the same as another person's, they can easily make their own game world. :)
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« Reply #127 on: December 13, 2012, 10:26:37 am »

If the modding community for various AAA games that allow heavy modding has shown us anything, it's that the mods will be diverse and awesome.  Part of me is almost more excited to see what sort of twisted worlds the players come up with after the toolkits released hahaha.
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« Reply #128 on: December 13, 2012, 10:31:45 am »

A question even though it might be in the game in future updates. If let's say a player who is a dragon let the human player mount him would it be possible to have that? I was thinking of being like a dragon rider.
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« Reply #129 on: December 13, 2012, 11:14:44 am »

that brings up another question, can we ride hirelings?  please say yes!  I wanna ride my giant spider pet
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« Reply #130 on: December 13, 2012, 11:37:52 am »

A question even though it might be in the game in future updates. If let's say a player who is a dragon let the human player mount him would it be possible to have that? I was thinking of being like a dragon rider.

I'm not entirely sure if we'll have players mounting players, but I don't see why not. That would be something for the future, though.

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that brings up another question, can we ride hirelings?  please say yes!  I wanna ride my giant spider pet

We plan on having a vehicle system for transportation and logistics. Again, that's something for the future. Minecarts, wagons, etc. You won't be able to ride a hireling. Hirelings are members of your race which do your bidding. It would be a little awkward to be riding your bodyguard guy or something.

*Edit* To be more specific, you could summon a spider hireling using the magic system, and assuming riding creatures is implemented, you could ride that around all day.
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« Reply #131 on: December 13, 2012, 11:39:50 am »


I'm not entirely sure if we'll have players mounting players,
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« Reply #132 on: December 13, 2012, 11:40:25 am »

A question even though it might be in the game in future updates. If let's say a player who is a dragon let the human player mount him would it be possible to have that? I was thinking of being like a dragon rider.

I'm not entirely sure if we'll have players mounting players, but I don't see why not. That would be something for the future, though.

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that brings up another question, can we ride hirelings?  please say yes!  I wanna ride my giant spider pet

We plan on having a vehicle system for transportation and logistics. Again, that's something for the future. Minecarts, wagons, etc. You won't be able to ride a hireling. Hirelings are members of your race which do your bidding. It would be a little awkward to be riding your bodyguard guy or something.
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« Reply #133 on: December 13, 2012, 11:41:14 am »

A question even though it might be in the game in future updates. If let's say a player who is a dragon let the human player mount him would it be possible to have that? I was thinking of being like a dragon rider.

I'm not entirely sure if we'll have players mounting players, but I don't see why not. That would be something for the future, though.

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that brings up another question, can we ride hirelings?  please say yes!  I wanna ride my giant spider pet

We plan on having a vehicle system for transportation and logistics. Again, that's something for the future. Minecarts, wagons, etc. You won't be able to ride a hireling. Hirelings are members of your race which do your bidding. It would be a little awkward to be riding your bodyguard guy or something.
tell that to Elona

That's EXACTLY what I was thinking of when I heard that. XD
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« Reply #134 on: December 13, 2012, 11:41:49 am »

I am unusually excited about this.  I think I will send some cash when I get a chance.

I do have an important question:  Since some monsters can multiply without user input, it IS possible to have a plague of certain monster types, right?  Like, an undead plague or a spider plague?  What's stopping a giant army of spiders one player creates from destroying everything?  Is the answer really just "Other Players"?

If so, that is both awesome and horrible.
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