Subject: Re: Suggest Birth System in Majik
From: Tommi Leino (namhas@taikatech.com)
Date: Mon Jan 08 2001 - 15:46:10 EET
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Dave wrote: > Just as someone who has nothing to do with the work on Majik, I think a > "birth system" would be very cool. Interesting idea this birth system, we have thought of it during the times of Majik 3, and decided that it would be all too silly. We even thought about the system for making the children, heh, but we decided to put the idea to the same category with the ideas of making shitting as necessary as eating, and then making a 'breath' command that you have to type once in a while, or otherwise the character will forget how to breath. Anyways, the birth system idea is good, if making it easy and simple. There is one big problem however that breaks things, the time is not that fast in Majik, it would take years of time until your character would be adult, but oh well, at the times of Majik 3 we were trying to be as realistic as possible, no matter what it causes, so we discarded the idea completely, ultimately only because of that problem - we didn't quite see the fact that it is impossible and we have to be a bit more flexible. Having parents for children would add just so much to the game and it would make the children really play the game, not only log in and quit right after it - which would likely happen if the registration would be too easy and this birth system thingie would also free us from the problem of having unwanted players in the game. Everyone would take the game more seriously if we would have this birth system. We might add something like this in the future to the game, if not a birth system but then some other system that registration to the game wouldn't be so simple. We're not making a game where we want thousands of players that play for few hours, making mischief and then quit. For that we might do a separate exp-making version and that is not too hard to do. > However the way you described it gave to much power to the adults. No > one should pick who their parents are, It should be random, Like if > someone wants to play they send in somthing and who they are born to is > random. That is not good. The player should have control over what kind of character the player is going to play. Not all would want to play a strong and stupid troll or a nimble elf. If needing to play a character that the player doesn't want, then the player quits and creates an another character and that is _not_ a good thing. It is meant in Majik that players concentrate on the character, not just test around and do something, we want it to be taken seriously and no-one can't play seriously a character that they don't really want to play. > ANd the idea of having the adult players choose when their kids can have > children is silly. Yes, that is silly and unrealistic, no parent have control over what kind of child they will have, only factor that they can choose is the race of the children and that is comes from the race of the parents or then a half-race, like human and elf as parents. Another problem of this birth system would be the unavoidable fact that most of the players are male and thus choose their characters to be male too, so we would a have shortage of female characters and for this system to work optimally, we would need much more female characters. -- Tommi Leino <namhas@taikatech.com> Principal Software Specialist, Taika Technologies Ltd.
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