-TWD: UNLOCK ITEMS/SHIPS-

[Fork]

Post 1) Unlock-able Ships

Post 2) Unlockable items

Unlock-able Ships in TWD

So i've already suggested this idea for twd (incentive to play twd) but heres the thread for those who didn't know about the idea:

In twjd and twdd arenas, make ship 1 a normal looking warbird/jav. Ships 2-8 will be different styled or looking wbs/javs. Now these unique looking ships are locked until u play so many games or depending on stats:

- Ship 2 (unlocked at 15 matches):

-ship 3 (after playing 25 matches)

-Ship 4 (after playing 50 matches)

-ship 5 (after getting 50 match wins)


-ship 6 (after playing 100 matches) (ETC)


-ship 7 (after getting 150 match wins)


-ship 8 (after playing 300 match wins)


Now when u unlock a ship, before both teams ready the game- u can either use the normal looking jav/wb (ship 1) or use an unlocked ship.

Advantages:

1) Gives twd a purpose to play (to unlock all ships or a type of ship)

2) Players could go crazy and play just to unlock a ship (get addicted)

3) These ships could change appearance each year.


Possible problems:

1) Who can make these unique ships and include ship roll? (making ship roll is very hard) Some players use ship roll in twd- i think ease/ maketso does.

2) Could it be too distracting to use in twd games where dif players are using dif styled ships? Or would players see this as fun.

3) Disable this feature a month before twl starts to prevent distraction so squads can fairly qualify for twl?

Calling out for players to make these ships (with ship roll): Wormhole surfer/ jabjabjab

SEE BELOW POST FOR THE IDEA: UNLOCKABLE ITEMS IN TWD

[Fork]

Unlockable Items in TWD

This idea purposes that your squad has a chance of receiving various items after each twd game is played + games from squads challenging the world. Some items are fairly common but others are extremely rare. If a squad collects an item set, they inform staff and rewards are discussed with the captain. The rewards are a select number of players receiving a certain amount of spacebux tickets (from staff) depending on the set collected... which players in squad receive them? well that's for the captains to decide (unless people have a better suggestion regarding rewards + how they are given out).

Typically a common item is given out once every 3-6 games (1-3 matches). Any item received by a squad will appear as a squad PM straight after the game is completed:



Squads can see what items they have acquired so far/ check to see if they have a completed set on their squad home page (on the TWD website)

The list of sets + rewards will be shown on the TWD website on a side link you can click:


1) Maybe have it so some rare items can only be received from playing an individual league I.E, A diamond can only be obtained from playing in Twjd arenas, Ruby from playing twdd etc. Perhaps there could be a super set where u need to collect all 5 items: an item from each league but make it more common to receive it in twsd and twfd leagues. This will encourage people to play leagues they don't normally play so that they hunt for items they haven't yet received to complete a particular item set.

2) It would be cool if some items can only be received if the squad has play so many TWD games + it was mentioned on the twd item set website so that squads know they can only receive some of the best rewards if they play so many twd matches.

3) Perhaps squads can only receive the item once + when a set is collected and rewards claimed- that item set is removed from the squad home page on the TWD website which will allow these items to be collected again.

Yeah its a mad idea but personally i think this is fun/ adds some excitement to every game even if you lose.

?Any other suggestions that could be similar to this idea? Any rewards you suggest instead? Perhaps squad funds could be set up and item sets claimed will be funded into these "squad bank accounts".

[Azov]

I like the idea of being able to unlock cool looking ships. And I like the designs to.

[Shaddowknight]

It will be distracting to begin with, only because it's different and we arent used to it. I am, however, against unlockable items if it is in-game. I'm all for unlockables for your TWD profile and/or squad's profile pages.

[Fork]

Duplicate post.

[bkgmjo]

Does having more than 8 ship grahics in an arena even work? Also, how would you prevent players from just modding graphics for themselves?

[roxxkatt]

lvz is enforced override
yes, it would work in arenas that only have 1 ship, like wb/jav

[Turban]

you can still override arena lvz by making a folder called twjd in zones/sscu trench wars/ and putting your graphics there, i think. at least that works in public, ww3 and other maps.

[Fork]

you can still override arena lvz by making a folder called twjd in zones/sscu trench wars/ and putting your graphics there, i think. at least that works in public, ww3 and other maps.

It wouldn't matter if they override arena, they would just ruin the experience for themselves but other players would still see the unlocked ships graphics?

[bkgmjo]

Well, if overriding is possible then just put it in. People who do not like it can force standard graphics. No valid reason against it that way.

[Morh]

Lol Fork, where were you with all these ideas a few/many years ago? You seem to be spitting out new ideas every week. :P Too bad that there really aren't much resources left in the game to actually make these things happend. Going to asume that people put forth ideas like this before but got shut down by staff and the community as usual.

[Jessup]

Cool idea again Fork. I had fun playing that huge terr in ASSS when the base revamp was being tested. It's weird how new ships seem different proportions .. like a little bigger.. guess its some illusion as the same pixal ratio is being used. I vote if it's possible let it be done. It is too bad all these great ideas people have been throwing around are happening as things dwindle. I guess we were all too busy fighting it out in TWD back then

[Fork]

Lol Fork, where were you with all these ideas a few/many years ago? You seem to be spitting out new ideas every week. :P Too bad that there really aren't much resources left in the game to actually make these things happend. Going to asume that people put forth ideas like this before but got shut down by staff and the community as usual.

I guess i'm even more desperate to somehow inspire staff to improve this game but in ways that would make it really fun even if there is a low population. I'm sure if we improve the TWD experience by adding in ideas that would make TWD very addictive- then the population should grow/ more games will be played- perhaps (if possible) the population of this game will start to rise? Even if we had the best idea, i guess it won't happen without good coders (and our current coders are either too busy or too drained to work on such large projects).

...Man i wouldn't mind having some kinda random reward system for twd (post 2) because even if squads lose games- some players would be happy just to play them in hope they get lucky.

...Either way, i'm quite happy to throw in many weird ideas aimed at making this game more fun.

[roxxkatt]

you can still override arena lvz by making a folder called twjd in zones/sscu trench wars/ and putting your graphics there, i think. at least that works in public, ww3 and other maps.

game would detect different file checksum and dl new copy

[Turban]

uh, no?

i moved my graphics to this folder -> zones/SSCU Trench Wars/ww3. i don't have to redownload the ww3.lvz file every time i enter the arena. what that does it simply makes my ww3 folder, with my graphics, override the lvz that the arena is using. this can be used in any arena, but you can't override splash images and other things like that.