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i want to make a city game, that is connected to all FF game worlds. the idea would be that other characters who aren't from canon can pick a world, have powers/abilities added onto what they already have based on what is there.

sort of like kingdom hearts, i've been wanting to do the idea for long, but idk if anyone would even like that.

i want this game except not a 'city game' and not run by someone who probably has no idea all the work that goes into making and maintaining a game.

i have experience in maintaining a game, i used to mod all the time. so, i actually do know how, but i wouldn't want to do it alone.

Not quite sure what you're saying. You want a game where there's a central city everyone is stationed in and from which they can travel to every FF world? And characters who aren't from Final Fantasy would pick a FF world to AU into?

well, think how kingdom hearts works to an extent. they have traverse town and are able to go back and forth between the worlds, but people often get dumped there when they lose their world. yeah, characters who are not from FF could pick one where there character is accidentally launched to. they'd still have their memories + powers, but they'd gain something new and be forced to live a new life for (insert much time) they've lived there.

I see what you're saying now. I think that would be a little unwieldy for a game though. As well as being difficult to account for all the FF characters you'll be missing unless you set each world well after all known cast have died off. Putting NPCs aside though you'd end up with people spread out all over the place and it'd be hard to get a cohesive effort towards anything going on.

what if i made it a neutral place? where there are a lot of worlds, but no one can go back to any of them the moment they appear? the door closes and it cannot be opened for any certain amount of time?

i liked the idea of giving players places to explore more than one small city.

Giving players places to explore isn't bad, but aimless exploration in a large area is. Having only one world open for visiting at a time or making completing quests so players will have reasons to go places together the focus of the game would help a lot.

Did you have an idea for what kind of plot or premise you want for this game?

i didn't have the plot yet, but i'd love to work on one. i was thinking something like a jamjar with events that happen inbetween. some events would happen in town, some events would force players to go to other places or experience things. i was thinking of using a type of control device to keep characters in check or want to refuse to do things.

the idea would be on the outside like slice of life, but somewhat horror-like in a way? for example, Character A refuses to participate causes a lot of problems for other people. now, because of this problem, Character A would be locked in a situation where he/she is forced to have to depend on someone.

i'd like to effectively find CR for people who have trouble finding CR in other games.

From what you're saying basing the game off the clans from TA would probably be your best bet. Start people off in clans of 5-10 with each clan being assigned a city to watch over and protect. You can mix it with the l'cie concept from XIII with protecting their respective city being each clan's focus so if they don't they'll gradually start to turn into a cie'th. Then have a lot of events that require clans to work together or against each other on top of every day happenings in cities clans can react to and NPC for themselves (rash of robberies in Treno, forest fires around Rocket Town, spring festival in Tycoon).

If a clan doesn't end up being a good fit for someone they can either get two CRmates and start their own clan or petition the Goddess and get reassigned to another clan that fits them better if that's what the player wants OOCly.

i've never heard of TA? i still want most of the town/city stuff to be relatively slice of life for the most part. i like the idea of using the clans, but i'd be afraid that people who are slow taggers would make it very hard for people who tag normally.

i don't want a bunch of hand-waving.

Tactics Advanced, it's one of the Final Fantasy games. As far as matching up players' paces that's why you would want clans to run bigger rather than smaller to keep more of a mix in so people have some automatic CR from the start with a high chance of at least a few of them being similar pace.

I don't really know what to tell you about hand waving. That largely depends on who apps into your game. You can try instituting a rule that no event is considered cleared until those participating submit a finished thread, but that's the only thing I can think of that would really discourage people from hand waving.

Typically you probably wouldn't have an entire clan roundrobbining one thread unless you set up game events to be best played that way. 4-5 is a good number to start with and see how it works out.

It really depends on the players you get. Acceptability of hand waving is something that's more defined by the player base than anything the mod or the game does.

Anyway from what it sounds like you want to do with this game a set up like this might be the best way to keep things organized and people on task instead of spread out all over. Someone else might have a better idea though. Good luck with your game!

eta: not sure where you would find anyone to help mod though unfortunately sorry

Edited 2014-03-31 22:16 (UTC)

oh, i didn't play through that one. no, i mean, 10 people sounds like a lot of characters to be in one thread trying to do something. i'd prefer to keep it around 4-5.

i don't expect all threads to be completed 100%, but 90% of the way there is more than enough. i know players hand wave some stuff, which is normal, but not everything.

if i did this idea, i'd need more than myself as a mod. i've learned that when you have 1 mod for everything it becomes overbearing. i was graphics mod, app mod, head mod and also did all of the events.

Drive-by anon offering her two cents. Having one world open at a time, with quests to complete on them to motivate travel, will help your players keep things moving.

i've always liked the idea of a FF based game. except i don't know a good way to describe what i mean with this except i think this is a bit too broad.

the idea in theory sounds interesting and having people able to choose from all FF worlds powers wise leaves a lot of options. sometimes having so many options is too much and can be really overwhelming. especially if you take into account people who aren't too canon familiar and find themselves feeling like they have to do a whole ton of research on the subject.

that's my two cents on it at least.

maybe, if i only took the options people mostly know? 6,7,8,9,10,13?

i think that's heading in the right direction! but then you run into another problem there too. the ff series does deal with powers widely differently with a lot of its installments. but they still are very similar to each other in certain ways because they're still all a part of the same series. (ex. firaga, cura, esuna, etc.)

personally, i think it would be a good idea to dwindle down which series have powers the most similar to each other, then decide between them which ones are the most varied and unique between each other. that way you can offer a simple explanation for those who aren't canon blind, but still leave the options varied.

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