renaissance themed game

[alayzia]

Style of play:: MMORPG
Skill learning:: Your character would accually have to learn the skills either in a School, Univeristy, or by accually discovering. The other way you could learn would
be to take on a true apprentiship, where you would spend X amount of accual time, doing X amount of each process needed to endertake whatever it is that you are learning. For example.. Character Leion is going to take an apprentiship with Jayda who is a master Chef, first Leion would need to spend say 1-2 hours just grinding
wheat into flour, corn into corn meal, milking cows, that sort of thing. After Leion has completed his 2 hours and has learned each of the 3 skills to Master status, by performing them correctly say 10 or so times, then he can move onto to learning to make doughs, and then butchering, stews and soups, and so on. The key to apprentiship would be XP gained by both parties for time spent together. All items created by the apprentise while learnign from the master will be that of masters.

Job types:: Chef, Tailor, Armorer, Weaponsmith, Blacksmith, StoneMason,Carpenter, Contruction, Engineer, Doctor

*Should have player housing*
-- The thing here is that every item is made in steps, for example if you need 1k bricks to make your home you need to gather each item, clay or mud. After having made a brick mold, and accually make each brick. And then in grid format design your home. You will first need to have learned the skills to make your home,
or hire someone who does this. Same with furniture, cloth should be dyable, so that everything is very customizable.

*Quests*
-- These should follow a "Bring the community together theme"
So a higher up lever quest could be to organize a festavile that must have X amount of attendies.
Another could be for a teaching type quest, you need to teach X amount of people 5 skills to master status.

This is just a quick outline of my idea, I hope it isnt to confusing~!

[disruption]

Sounds amazingly repetitive.

[Charles]

Sounds amazingly repetitive.

The person who wrote that is not a member of the development team. I am and I think some of those ideas are interesting.

If by a renaissance game you mean a game with a historical setting set in the renaissance period, that is an interesting idea. We are hoping to develop enough expertise in MMORPG design to do more realistic games like that.

[alayzia]

Sorry at the time that I was writing it I was in a rush.. Yes I mean historically in the renasaince period. With such things as researching and forming religeons as aposed to guilds, think along the lines of guild A being Roman Catholic, Guild B being
Pagan, and so on.
This is the time period that I am looking at::
www.twingroves.district96.k12.il.us/renaissance/GeneralFiles/C_PolWar.html

Also if you look at the following link..
www.twingroves.district96.k12.il.us/renaissance/GeneralFiles/C_ArtScience.html

the time period was very much about the arts..What I would love to see is perhaps some type of way to have ingame art, sort of in the idea of sculpting primatives to make bronze statues, or having a mosiac palette where you had various geometric patterns on a grid of tiles, and a palette of colors to use on each "tile" to make paintings.
This could also working into a Mentor/student scenerio I am sure that once a small few mastered these 2 trades many would want to learn.

1543
Copernicus publishes theory that the sun is the center of the solar system
Andreas Vesalius published his findings on anatomy in his book The Fabric of the Human Body.

Atrology and Anatomy is another feild that I think many would find of interest.

Star charts could be made on that same mosaic, and sun dials and other such items can be made using the sculpted primative format. This would also lead into a measurments type of class needed.
From here the list can go on and on. And I will post more as I am able to research and get to the forum.

[Charles]

I'm thinking of including a "teaching" feature in the Magic of the Gods game that would allow people to advance much more rapidly if taught by someone with greater skill in the subject area. They couldn't advance beyond the skill level of the teacher that way, maybe only up to about half the teacher's skill, but they could advance much faster than the usual "grinding" approach.

Also, on the subject of creating art and sculpture. We already have that. If you use a compatible graphics program like Blender (See www.blender.org), you can create art objects that can be directly imported into the game. You could also do some other type renaissance ideas such as engineering and architecture. For example, you could design a bridge or a building and make a 3-D model of it in blender and import it directly into the game as a bridge that actually crosses a river or as a building that your character could live in. Your character would need to have sufficient skill in the related areas for this to be allowed, but we're being very lenient on that at this point.

We're not likely to start a new game project soon, but we welcome ideas on new game concepts. If you want to try out some of these concepts now, try finding ways to incorporate them in the Magic of the Gods game that is already running.

[magick]

The teaching idea sounds good...but there are alot of ways you can implement that into the game. Such as if you wanted to be a mage maybe the teaching/university idea would work and if you had a warrior or some type like that i think more field experience and fighting would work better then studys. It makes sense since magic would be more book work then obviously training to become a warrior.