I think a neat idea for a FPS would be to introduce economic situations in FPS''s in SP and DM. My imagination ran wild last night when i was listening to some music and thinking up FPS Deathmatch games. It was just to too tooo cool to forget and it didn''t quite look right in my scrapbook so i''m going to waste a bit of gamedev.net hard drive space I had just finished reading a few pages of map design in a book i''m reading and started to think about bases in a FPS deathmatch. There''s a lot of potential here. I was thinking that each player has a base and within there base there''s switches that activate gun turrets, lights, makes weapons, etc. But there more time you spend in you home bases the more progress your opponent makes out on the map collecting cash and technologies. I was also thinking about having power positions in a deathmatch game. Areas in the map where you can do things like turn multiple lights on and off to temporarily blind your opponents. I also thought up a really cool weapon called the AGP or Acid Gas Pump which works like a flame thrower but it keeps damaging your enemies way after you''ve attacked them with it. Whee But back to economics in FPS''s. Wouldn''t it be better if you picked up cash instead of weapons. This way you could choose you weapon at a Automatic Weapon Disposal Machine I know this has been done in games like Futureshock 2 but i hated that game, yuck. It can be done properly i think. Feel free to dump your crazy thoughts for a FPS here It''s fun. I love Game Design and it loves me back. Our Goal is "Fun"!

You could have safety zones where you can temporarily lock the doors around you when you do your purchasing. It could also be done with hotkeys to speed up the purchasing act. Example, you run up to a Auto-Weapon-Machine and hit F1 to F12 to buy various weapons.

I''m now going to make a thread just for weapons

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quote: Original post by dwarfsoft

Cool, you could probably just have a portal that teleports a player to a room and make sure that only one player can be in that room at any one time. Or you could make multiples of the room and the players can go to different rooms (still through the portal)... I am falling asleep now, how come ur up so late Paul?

I probably stay up so late due to lack of disapline or something crazy like that. I''ve got i crazy life sytle. I look forward to friday/saturday not so i can go party but so i can go around to a friends place, drink a lot and play heaps of games (N64 and PSX). They know me at the video shop by name. I think they quit the freebie game with every 4 games rented because of me
Thus is life.


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Can you tell me what shogun means please

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I thought there might be a second meaning to shogun by the way Dwaftsoft was using the word.

3D cards causing you grief ahw, you can have mine, i don''t use it anymore. I can''t stand all the installation crap, these days i always use consoles. To many bit''s and pieces attached to micr*softs crapinow''s 95.

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There is such a FPS twist out there, the firearms mod for Half-life works a bit like what u''re describing, but instead of cash it''s got reinforcements point or something along those lines. You also have a set amount of cash everytime you die, and can redistribute them to armor, bandages, grenades and weapons everytime u spawn...

Maybe not what u were after...

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