This is just a list of my personal wants for the game, aswell as wants I've heard others express. Most of these ideas are very practical, and most likely previously suggested, but would be Very appreciated by many if put into the game.
Storage
A way to store your items would be Very much appreciated in SO2, and in SO3 when it arrives. It is very annoying to have to delete some of your treasured items in order to pick up something new, Especially with the drop system in this game. All I'm suggesting is a simple cardboard box be placed at each of the stores in the game. When near the box you can press your CTRL button to open your personal storage. While viewing it you have the option to right click items in your inventory, and that will immediately move the item to your box or visa versa.
BBB Idea
It would be quite shmexie indeed if when the BBB died, it exploded into several smaller blobs. This would make it a bit more exciting to kill, and just add a little more feel to the game. Not a very necessary idea, but I would love to see it in the game.
Draggable Windows
We're able to drag the game now, and thats pretty nifty, but it would be very helpful if Meiun could take it one step further and be able to drag the Inventory, stats, and skills windows. Most important of those being the inventory window. It is rather annoying to have to open the inventory, choose an item, then close the inventory during the middle of a fight. This is the entire reason why hotkeys were invented, because keeping the inventory open disables your vision. A very easy way to fix this is to just be able to drag the window, so that it can be placed in the top right of the screen (or wherever) like so.
(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t287/LucifersUncle/WindowDrag.jpg)
Arena Screen
As we all know, lag at the Arena can get rather unbearable for those without, and sometimes with good computers. This is not always caused, but very much so added to by the massive amount of people standing around the arena (and/or pvping/running about aimlessly.) A simple, probably previously suggested idea to fix this would just be to add a giant screen(s) somewhere in SO (I was thinking to the right of the arena, on the Green Mountain) where people could sit next to. While near the screen(s) you would press CTRL, as if you were on the stands, and it would allow you to see the arena.
I remember someone suggesting the bank or storage take the form of a cardboard box, lol. Was it you?
I love this idea. I only have two empty slots in my inventory. >~<
yeah i want something to keep my finding in.
Quote from: Epicphail on July 03, 2009, 07:33:14 PM
I remember someone suggesting the bank or storage take the form of a cardboard box, lol. Was it you?
It was, on the stickho forums in ciro's stopic. I like the idea of it being a cardboard box because it plays along with the cartoony aspect of SO, while also being very easy to sprite ><.
Same here, to the cartoony part I mean.
ofc we need something like that in SO3. Espcecially when trading will be one of the features. If yes, you need a place where you can pu the items, you obtained two or more times, also you may want to save your obtained event items somewhere else, because you do not need em all the time.
Instead of creating separate topics, I think I'll just rename this one and shove my ideas in here.
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QuoteBBB Idea
This is just another simple idea that again I'm sure this has been suggested before, but I think it would be nice to see in the game. It would be pretty awesome if when you killed the BBB (Big Blob Boss), it exploded into 3-6 smaller blobs. I think it would make it a little more interesting and exciting to fight, especially for the nubbies.
yeah
What would be the point of the BBB idea?
Theres already tons of blobs that spawn at once anyway.
The point is it's just a practical idea. It adds more of an atmosphere to the game, rather than just "Stab stab stab, kill, collect." It's the little details like this in games that really make a difference to people.
Quote from: Lucifer on July 05, 2009, 01:49:23 PM
The point is it's just a practical idea. It adds more of an atmosphere to the game, rather than just "Stab stab stab, kill, collect." It's the little details like this in games that really make a difference to people.
well you would half to "Stab stab stab, kill, collect" those little blobs. so maybe it could work the other way ware if the bbb runs into a blob it sucks it up and get bigger its self. and if you kill the big one then your idea will come into place.
QuoteBBB Idea
This is just another simple idea that again I'm sure this has been suggested before, but I think it would be nice to see in the game. It would be pretty awesome if when you killed the BBB (Big Blob Boss), it exploded into 3-6 smaller blobs. I think it would make it a little more interesting and exciting to fight, especially for the nubbies.
Haha, that sounds like an awesome idea. That would be pretty exciting for a noob to kill there first Big Blob Boss, and have it explode into regular blobs. Good idea.
~Looperpuck
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Ooh, that's a nice one.
I love the card board box idea! I hate having all of these halloween and christmas items, that, don't have great stats and are pretty much useless when compared against GS's, Inferno, etc. But then you don't feel like selling these special items because they only drop during one time a year.
the "Draggable Windows" is something i miss a lot from maple story.
Another Captain Obvious idea approaches.
The arena screen is a great idea. Because it does get very laggy. And it's espically annoying when your vsing an opponent that you can usually beat but because it lags so much, your opponent is all over the arena and hitting you and you can't hit back. I really do hope this idea gets added.
It could take the form of a TV. Like, you know how in those T.V shows or movies where they stack up TVs in shops against the windows? Yeah, it could be like that. Makes more sense than randomly having the ability to look at the platforms through the walls.
Quote from: Epicphail on July 12, 2009, 11:45:34 AM
It could take the form of a TV. Like, you know how in those T.V shows or movies where they stack up TVs in shops against the windows? Yeah, it could be like that. Makes more sense than randomly having the ability to look at the platforms through the walls.
Yeah by "Screen" I sorta meant a TV screen.
Or some one can stream it out over the Internet.
i think that th Arena Screen idea sounds pretty cool like "Omgz hez on teh TeVe!" But not really like that. but it'd be cool for that reduce alot of lag.
I think they are all simple but very good and useful ideas which would make the game easier and funnier to play.
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Quote from: Dragx_Rage on July 12, 2009, 06:31:39 PM
I think they are all simple but very good and useful ideas which would make the game easier and funnier to play.
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Took the words right out of my mouth. They're simple but good ideas that don't seem that hard to add and would help a lot.
Quote from: Mystery on July 12, 2009, 06:43:30 PM
Quote from: Dragx_Rage on July 12, 2009, 06:31:39 PM
I think they are all simple but very good and useful ideas which would make the game easier and funnier to play.
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Took the words right out of my mouth. They're simple but good ideas that don't seem that hard to add and would help a lot.
Great minds think alike!
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Quote from: ARTgames on July 12, 2009, 04:25:34 PM
Or some one can stream it out over the Internet.
The point of the screens isn't so that more people can see them, I thought I had made that quite clear. The point is so people fighting at the arena have their lag reduced because of the lack of people, and can actually have fair fights.
Quote from: Lucifer on July 12, 2009, 07:09:12 PM
Quote from: ARTgames on July 12, 2009, 04:25:34 PM
Or some one can stream it out over the Internet.
The point of the screens isn't so that more people can see them, I thought I had made that quite clear. The point is so people fighting at the arena have their lag reduced because of the lack of people, and can actually have fair fights.
If people were watching a stream of it they don't haft to in the arena or even logged.
AKA making the game less laggy and less people using meiuns server. They could have a official stream that moderated and you could tell people when its there turn to fight. They log in the other people can log out ect. They would only halft to have like 4 people there. 2 fighting 1 streaming and a GM to watch over.(Or the gm can both stream and moderate) And its a lot easier for some ones pc to Handel 4 people than 40.
and if people want to go into another zone and train and keep a eye on whats happening they could just have stick online open and the stream in another window next to it.
And the best part of all this is that the system already made and meiun does not half to program a thing and its all free.
Do you mean something like Ustream?
That would be laggy as hell, and I don't mean ingame. Ustream is kind of choppy when it comes to the action-y games.
Quote from: Epicphail on July 12, 2009, 07:50:34 PM
Do you mean something like Ustream?
That would be laggy as hell, and I don't mean ingame. Ustream is kind of choppy when it comes to the action-y games.
its really not bad if you use these systems right. most people just use ustream on the mom's dsl on the failing router without using the FMF. it can be mutch better.
non the less its still better than having a laggy match in game.
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Heres a example:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/Mario-Marathon
Yeah, but it would kind of be...uh, awkward. It would be like no one was at the tourney except for the competitors. One thing that makes up a successful tournament is an audience.
Quote from: ARTgames on July 12, 2009, 07:44:20 PM
Quote from: Lucifer on July 12, 2009, 07:09:12 PM
Quote from: ARTgames on July 12, 2009, 04:25:34 PM
Or some one can stream it out over the Internet.
The point of the screens isn't so that more people can see them, I thought I had made that quite clear. The point is so people fighting at the arena have their lag reduced because of the lack of people, and can actually have fair fights.
If people were watching a stream of it they don't haft to in the arena or even logged.
AKA making the game less laggy and less people using meiuns server. They could have a official stream that moderated and you could tell people when its there turn to fight. They log in the other people can log out ect. They would only halft to have like 4 people there. 2 fighting 1 streaming and a GM to watch over.(Or the gm can both stream and moderate) And its a lot easier for some ones pc to Handel 4 people than 40.
and if people want to go into another zone and train and keep a eye on whats happening they could just have stick online open and the stream in another window next to it.
And the best part of all this is that the system already made and meiun does not half to program a thing and its all free.
That would be entirely different and much more complex from what Lucifer has suggested. That would entail somehow sending out the graphical information from the server to some web based portal of some kind. Massive amounts of work. Whereas the idea Lucifer suggested would not require anything more than what is already in the game. The system is already in place to press Ctrl and center the view on the arena, it would just have to be tweeked a bit to allow the same thing from a different section of the game world.
Quote from: Lingus on July 13, 2009, 08:35:48 PM
Quote from: ARTgames on July 12, 2009, 07:44:20 PM
Quote from: Lucifer on July 12, 2009, 07:09:12 PM
Quote from: ARTgames on July 12, 2009, 04:25:34 PM
Or some one can stream it out over the Internet.
The point of the screens isn't so that more people can see them, I thought I had made that quite clear. The point is so people fighting at the arena have their lag reduced because of the lack of people, and can actually have fair fights.
If people were watching a stream of it they don't haft to in the arena or even logged.
AKA making the game less laggy and less people using meiuns server. They could have a official stream that moderated and you could tell people when its there turn to fight. They log in the other people can log out ect. They would only halft to have like 4 people there. 2 fighting 1 streaming and a GM to watch over.(Or the gm can both stream and moderate) And its a lot easier for some ones pc to Handel 4 people than 40.
and if people want to go into another zone and train and keep a eye on whats happening they could just have stick online open and the stream in another window next to it.
And the best part of all this is that the system already made and meiun does not half to program a thing and its all free.
That would be entirely different and much more complex from what Lucifer has suggested. That would entail somehow sending out the graphical information from the server to some web based portal of some kind. Massive amounts of work. Whereas the idea Lucifer suggested would not require anything more than what is already in the game. The system is already in place to press Ctrl and center the view on the arena, it would just have to be tweeked a bit to allow the same thing from a different section of the game world.
please read all the post befor you make yours.
Oh, you mentioned using UStream... well... that just doesn't make sense. This is a forum to suggest ideas that would be added to the programming of the game. You're suggesting that people use a 3rd party software so someone's idea doesn't need to be added. Again, pointless as Lucifer's original idea shouldn't be too complicated to add to the game. And in my opinion it would be much better than using a Ustream type of software. That would require someone there to actually be streaming, and if no one wanted to then you'd lose that functionality. Plus you're suggesting that people log out of the game while they aren't involved in the tournament and to me that's just crazy. You don't want to force people to log out of an online game. They should just be able to go somewhere else in the game world and be able to still view the arena...
Quote from: Lingus on July 14, 2009, 03:15:12 PM
Oh, you mentioned using UStream... well... that just doesn't make sense. This is a forum to suggest ideas that would be added to the programming of the game. You're suggesting that people use a 3rd party software so someone's idea doesn't need to be added. Again, pointless as Lucifer's original idea shouldn't be too complicated to add to the game. And in my opinion it would be much better than using a Ustream type of software. That would require someone there to actually be streaming, and if no one wanted to then you'd lose that functionality. Plus you're suggesting that people log out of the game while they aren't involved in the tournament and to me that's just crazy. You don't want to force people to log out of an online game. They should just be able to go somewhere else in the game world and be able to still view the arena...
just trying to help man.
Both of the ideas could work, however I was just suggesting a simple idea that wouldn't require anyone having to Record the entire thing... Not only would the delay between what we were seeing and what was actually happening be annoying in the stream but we would have to wait for whoever was up next to log in. Anyways, Lingus wasn't attacking your idea, he was just pointing out that it's rather unnecessary.
There are lots of flaws in it but im not going on. You just seem to want to prove me wrong more than trying to come up with a good idea.
Ugh.. Art.. will you stop with the doucheyness. Nobody is TRYING to prove you wrong, they're just arguing that your idea is completely unnecesary. Please don't leave snide comments then say you're not going to go on, thats just rude.
Quote from: Lucifer on July 14, 2009, 03:50:13 PM
Ugh.. Art.. will you stop with the doucheyness. Nobody is TRYING to prove you wrong, they're just arguing that your idea is completely unnecesary. Please don't leave snide comments then say you're not going to go on, thats just rude.
Than stop talking about it and go on. Im not arguing with my sealf in these topics. Im sorry if im trying to defend my ideas but also so are you. It just seems to me that you people dont read my who post or get my who post.
Ill even help stop it. your Draggable Windows is good idea. Do you have anything else to ad on this list?
I'm asking you politely to stop jumping to conclusions whenever you argue with people, that's all. Lingus was only trying to help too, yet you act as if hes out to get you. Theres nothing to stop or start here, you just need to actually learn to take advice and not argue with it. No, I don't have any new ideas to contribute at the moment, sorry D:.
ok than! ill do that. also what the bbb idea was for both so2 and 2?
I meant the BBB idea for So2 and So3, mainly for So2 though :3.
Do you also buy the box you put you stuff in or is it just given to you when you start the game? It would be nice it this was a use for gold. i would play it.