I don't think every class should be able to do everything, but some classes should overlap (like builders and resourcers for example, who can do generally the same stuff but better than each other). This was my problem with Killing Floor; everyone could do everything well enough that, say, being a class other than the engineer didn't slow down welding doors shut enough that it was extremely useful to be an engineer. That, and welding doors wasn't a big part of the game anyway.
And I was thinking that, to avoid monotony and allow flexibility of play, allow people to respawn as a different class every... ten, fifteen minutes or something, but incur an EXP penalty for doing so.
What I want to see in Survival is different classes that do different stuff better (I know there's classes in Infiniminer, but I've never gotten it to work so I don't know), kind of like in Killing Floor but a little more forceful.
Say there's eight of you. Three of you are the "resource" class, who has extra storage and can mine stuff quicker. So you all run the **** off to find stuff. The two "builder" classes build stuff quicker and using less resources, so they chop down a tree or two and start building the defensive structure until the resourcers come back with stone. The "crafter" class guy is taking spare wood that the builders have collected to manufacture wooden bows and arrows, and will start making iron weapons as the resources come in (and steel later on). The two "soldier" classes can easily fight off natural predators (animals) protecting valuable resources, and are the only class that can use steel weapons (or higher, as I imagine a long game would require more than three tiers of weaponry).
If there's the inclusion of food as a resource? Farmers. The ability to trade gold for other resources? Traders.
What Notch has here is the potential to make a really great, very deep game. This is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg I'm describing here. Think of everything a settlement needs, and imagine how it'd work in the game. Then add zombies.
Perfection.
More resources for higher tiers of weapon? Why not? A levelling system based on EXP earned in a game? Hell yeah. This should be like a mini RPG. That's what I'd love.
COUPLED WITH THIS, I think there should just be an editing-disabled version of Survival for pre-made maps (in my brain, I'm thinking about my No Mercy replica. :tongue.gif:)
Just some murals I did today (my first ones). The crappy one was a sprite from Metal Slug that was too tall (and I chose weird colours), and the Sniper/Scout in the background ain't mine.
Sonic and a shroom from MapleStory are the others.
Well I know "top" is top, because you can often see that. But the bottom of the body should be pants coloured if anything, except on the default it's t-shirt coloured.
Admins should just be able to see player outlines like in L4D; they flash red if they delete a block and flash blue if they place one. Coupled with noclip to zip through to wherever the player is, it'd be a lot quicker to find and kill griefers.
Ahh, where do I begin? First of all, stealing someone else's skin should be taken as a sincere compliment. After all, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. I personally download a lot of skins, but I only use ones I make. I like to see what other people do and how in order to help myself make nicer skins.
Frankly, I think you're in a minority. Of course while it's such a small community and it costs so much to be able to use skins it won't be too much a problem, but I can see it becoming one: people finding the best skins and claiming them as their own.
As I said, under particular circumstances it's fine, but I can see it becoming worse.
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Looks like it's my turn. TF2 promo shot coming up. :tongue.gif:
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And I was thinking that, to avoid monotony and allow flexibility of play, allow people to respawn as a different class every... ten, fifteen minutes or something, but incur an EXP penalty for doing so.
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Say there's eight of you. Three of you are the "resource" class, who has extra storage and can mine stuff quicker. So you all run the **** off to find stuff. The two "builder" classes build stuff quicker and using less resources, so they chop down a tree or two and start building the defensive structure until the resourcers come back with stone. The "crafter" class guy is taking spare wood that the builders have collected to manufacture wooden bows and arrows, and will start making iron weapons as the resources come in (and steel later on). The two "soldier" classes can easily fight off natural predators (animals) protecting valuable resources, and are the only class that can use steel weapons (or higher, as I imagine a long game would require more than three tiers of weaponry).
If there's the inclusion of food as a resource? Farmers. The ability to trade gold for other resources? Traders.
What Notch has here is the potential to make a really great, very deep game. This is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg I'm describing here. Think of everything a settlement needs, and imagine how it'd work in the game. Then add zombies.
Perfection.
More resources for higher tiers of weapon? Why not? A levelling system based on EXP earned in a game? Hell yeah. This should be like a mini RPG. That's what I'd love.
COUPLED WITH THIS, I think there should just be an editing-disabled version of Survival for pre-made maps (in my brain, I'm thinking about my No Mercy replica. :tongue.gif:)
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Just some murals I did today (my first ones). The crappy one was a sprite from Metal Slug that was too tall (and I chose weird colours), and the Sniper/Scout in the background ain't mine.
Sonic and a shroom from MapleStory are the others.
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I see your Magneto and raise you a Gambit.
HE'S GUNNA THROW A CARD AT YOU.
EDIT: whoops, put the skin on instead of the screencap. >_>
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Which has thrown me off, obviously.
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I never look at the bottom of my skin's body, so maybe it is, but it seems weird Notch would colour it like that.
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We... are unstoppable. THAT'S RIGHT, we should call ourselves the UNSTOPPABLES. NOTHING can stop us... DO YOU HEAR ME? NOTHING CAN STOP US!!
Also:
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EDIT: I'm running 64bit Vista.
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I'll see peace back on Earth if I gotta murder everyone of these bastards with my bare god damn hands!
http://www.minecraft.net/skin/skin.jsp? ... ndomKaggus
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Frankly, I think you're in a minority. Of course while it's such a small community and it costs so much to be able to use skins it won't be too much a problem, but I can see it becoming one: people finding the best skins and claiming them as their own.
As I said, under particular circumstances it's fine, but I can see it becoming worse.