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Notunknown99 is not online. Notunknown99
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25 Mar 2013 06:25 PM
I am currently working on an RPG which will be titled "ASCENSION" (The link to it is here: http://www.roblox.com/Labs-place?id=42799437) but have yet to decide on what storyline I should use.

No matter what I choose there will be dragons, goblins, number to roman numeral converters and 100% pure awesome.

So, I have 2 different storylines I am thinking about doing:

==STORYLINE 1: CLASSIC FANTASY==

[[This is what I am currently making the map for (Although I could happily throw the map away in favor of other maps if people prefer the other storylines more)]]

The game starts when you awake with your village burning around you. After you flee (And possibly do some quests along the way) you go to the nearby village which is surrounded by hoards of angry monsters (yay!). When you get inside you talk to an old scholar who tells you about how over one thousand years ago a great demon attacked the world, destroying empires in its wake. However, a town of great mages created a powerful artefact and entrusted it to their best warrior to go and defeat the demon. However, in the Abyssal Caverns (basically a bottomless pit of evil) the warrior was defeated and the sword cast down into the depths of the cavern, where it still lies. The warrior fled and sought help from other warriors but whilst he was doing so the demon destroyed the town in a great explosion that left nothing but a huge crater to show that the town ever existed. Although the artefact was lost, the warrior managed to defeat the demon, but died in the process.

You then go and search for help and other information on how to defeat the demon (Whilst it goes about destroying the world) and discover that there may be a way to defeat the demon in a very dangerous part of the world. When you go there you activate some old machinery and the village appears before you. You talk to the elder of the town who explains that they cast a spell to transfer the village through space and time to prevent it from being destroyed by the demon.

The elder casts a spell that reveals that the artefact Ascension is somewhere deep within the Abyssal Cave and that it may be the only way to defeat the demon. You go deep within the cave (Which until now has been sealed off) and at a low level (Not the lowest level, just very deep) you find a damaged sword. You take it back and the elder confirms that it is Ascension. He, with the other mages, repair the sword and entrust it to you.

You now go to the demons stronghold atop a mountain whilst the soldiers from the worlds cities attack where you find a hole in space. Upon entering it you find a destroyed city with a few survivors in hiding, the warrior from legend among them. He explains that he could not defeat the demon so instead he sealed it away in this universe (the universe where it came from) and went into hiding. He explains that he has been wounded by the demon and so he cannot help you defeat it.

You go to the demons fortress at the heart of the city where you fight your way to the demon and attempt to slay it with Ascension (Cue epic battle) but fail and at this point the warrior comes and sacrifices himself to allow you to stab the demon through the heart with the blade. At this point you have won the game!

But there will be other stuff for post-game, it just wont be part of the storyline (Will still have just as much skill put into it)



==STORYLINE 2: SCI-FI/FANTAST MIX==

[[Because why slash at dragons when you can shoot them with rocket launchers?]]

You are an employee on level 47 of Ascension Laboratories, a company in one of the 4 major cities that develops weapon technologies to help guard the cities against the not all to uncommon orc, goblin and dragon attacks coming from the source of all evil (again, a mountain fortress). Its just a usual day when a siege starts, but that doesn't matter as the laser and missile defences will take care of them.

Or they should. However, the main magic-reactor (which uses Energite, fragments of a huge black crystal of infinite energy which was used by the gods to create the universe, however in doing so the crystal was drained of its energy (which nobody can explain, as all theories point towards it having infinite energy) explodes at the start of the assault, with backups quickly following. With orcs, goblins and other monsters raiding the city with their swords and stolen laser rifles (Not to mention the dragons which are also destroying the many skyscrapers and picking off the soldiers atop the watchtowers) the city is quickly overrun.

You manage to escape and help a woman who is trying to look for her brother. When you get out she gives you her necklace which she says brought her luck as a token of her thanks and tells you she cannot leave without her brother before returning to the city.

You make your way to another major city where you are asked about what happened there and at the security station (which scans for Energite as its quite volatile) the scanners are overloaded. As it turns out, that necklace is a perfect sample of Energite (meaning it contains infinite energy, as it should) and they explain that the woman must have been a goddess. They take the energite to research its properties and then send you on a series of errands (such as exploring destroyed facilities, helping troops who are stuck somewhere and generally you being awesome) before they tell you that they have made a breakthrough with the energite and then ask you to go back to Ascension Laboratories and get some schematics for prototype weapons. Once you do this they send to you repel an attack from the third major city. Once you return they tell you that they have made their most powerful ever weapon: A huge battleship (the map has quite a few oceans) armed with the most advanced weapons (read: Super Railguns and Lasers capable of burning through thick steel plating in only a few seconds) using the perfect energite as its power source.

With this battleship and a nuclear warhead you are given you assault the mountain stronghold (cue explosions, enemies and fire) and fight to the top where you place the warhead and run back to detonate it (hint: it isn't as effective as you hoped) After Plan A has failed, its only natural that you start Plan B: Going INTO the core of mountain and fight the demon in control of everything (demons FTW!)

Anyway, you kill the demon and all is happy. Except for the fact that there are still attacks, just not as organised or as common. After all, you wouldn't want the adventurers to get TOO bored now, would you?


So, what story do you prefer? If you have any questions, hints or other ideas, please tell me!
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Notunknown99 is not online. Notunknown99
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26 Mar 2013 02:58 PM
too long?
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bioncl3 is not online. bioncl3
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26 Mar 2013 04:38 PM
I kinda like the second one.
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Notunknown99 is not online. Notunknown99
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26 Mar 2013 06:05 PM
I am quite partial to it myself, although I cannot help but wonder how people would react to it...
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ArbiterOfDeath is not online. ArbiterOfDeath
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26 Mar 2013 07:13 PM
They are both good and would appeal to different people. Try picking the one that would be easiest to make. I think the classic would be easier to make, since you already have a start on it.
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Notunknown99 is not online. Notunknown99
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26 Mar 2013 08:23 PM
I think they are both about equal in difficulty, really. But I want some users to decide on which one they prefer.
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shadowlego7 is not online. shadowlego7
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26 Mar 2013 10:32 PM
"The game starts when you awake with your village burning around you."

I stopped here. Why is it that all of these RPG storylines I see start with you waking up in a burning village.
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Notunknown99 is not online. Notunknown99
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27 Mar 2013 01:40 PM
Because you need a way to get the player to have a reason to adventure. Why don't you just drop everything and trek to the Amazon rainforest and possibly get eaten by a crocodile, or contract some deadly disease, or get bitten by a snake, or touch one of those frogs that will melt your skin or get killed in a hundred different ways?

Because you have no reason to.
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27 Mar 2013 02:11 PM
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27 Mar 2013 02:14 PM
@weapons: This is not TL;DR. It is just two short sentences repeated over and over. You need a wall of non-repeating content for a TL;DR to apply.
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28 Mar 2013 11:33 AM
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thedestroyer115 is not online. thedestroyer115
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29 Mar 2013 10:43 AM
@foot
Get out.
Now.

@OP
I prefer the second one, but it sounds like the player doesn't have much freedom.
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Notunknown99 is not online. Notunknown99
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29 Mar 2013 01:45 PM
If you mean "Mass effect where you go around altering the storyline with every decision"... Well that's kinda hard...

There will be a large range of side quests (And side quest lines) for you to do.
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29 Mar 2013 02:03 PM
@Notunknown
Do you want a ground breaking RPG or another one that's famous for a few days?
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Notunknown99 is not online. Notunknown99
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29 Mar 2013 02:27 PM
True, but there are still a lot of popular RPGs that don't have multiple endings.

Also, I am not 100% sure if I could do this... Not in a reasonable amount of time, anyway. I guess I could try, although I would need ideas on what the possible choices may be (Only affect through storyline, affected by certain side-quests or a combination of both)
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29 Mar 2013 02:32 PM
@notunknown
That's my point.
Do you want a popular RPG or a groundbreaking one?
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Notunknown99 is not online. Notunknown99
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29 Mar 2013 02:33 PM
I guess. So, any ideas of branches/alternate endings?

Nothing where you die, there is going to be post-game content.
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29 Mar 2013 02:37 PM
You could do a popular FPS kind of finish where you have an ally that you fight together with throughout the story line, and multiple descisions in the middle of the game affect:

a) The main storyline enemies outcome.
b) Your allies outcome in the climatic battle.
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Notunknown99 is not online. Notunknown99
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29 Mar 2013 02:38 PM
I was going to avoid having companions unless I can out how to do pathfinding (By companions I mean people who follow you)
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thedestroyer115 is not online. thedestroyer115
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29 Mar 2013 02:54 PM
Just use some simple math and MoveTo. Then when in combat, create an aglorithm to engage enemies.
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Notunknown99 is not online. Notunknown99
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29 Mar 2013 04:00 PM
I can handle following, but if you enter any complex terrain (Or go into a building/jump up a cliff/walk around a corner) the AI will be unable to follow you.
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29 Mar 2013 04:44 PM
humanoid:MoveTo(tonumber(character.Position.X + math.random(-5, 5), character.Position.Y, tonumber(character.Position.Z + math.random(-5, 5))
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29 Mar 2013 05:49 PM
I know how to script, its just that it cannot follow you over any type of semi-difficult terrain, and teleporting based on distance does not appeal to me...
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29 Mar 2013 08:09 PM
Then I suggest leaving out the campanion and just do storyline choices affect the climax of the story.
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