Animal Crossing?

My idea was that once you sign up you get assigned to a town that matches your time zone. If a town is filled with 10 (or something) citizens, a new one of that time zone is created. That way we get to make sure that when a player is on, he's with people from around his own time zone, and therefore there's plenty to do. People can also visit eachother's towns, obviously, and move to another town if they desire. Until towns are filled with players, NPCs could take the spot, like deaddude suggested.

Oh god yes do want

Well heck, full steam ahead I say. That is, AFTER you've met your other priorities first, but it sounds sweet as hell.

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This post has been edited by bambam95 on Nov 14 2008, 08:16 AM

I think there still should be some neighbors. They all shouldn't be replaced by humans. In case there's nobody online in your town, you can talk to them, run errands, and whatever. Like in the game.

But you wouldn't have as many neighbors in the town, since the town would be filled with real life people.

which is why they're sorted by timezones. So when its midday to you, people will be online like you are, however if you play at night, irl people will be sleeping, like they should be in the game.

Sounds interesting. If you do decide to do 2d (which I would recommend, considering rips wont have everything you need), I'd be glad to help with spriting.

rips can handle quite a bit of stuff even if it means you need someone else to help make the missing item/character etc. Plus there's a big efferince between 2d and 3d which can totally affect the gameplay either positively or negatively.

Yeah I have to agree. 3d would require more efford, alot more. And 3d modellers.

And I'd have to figure out a way to do that rounding off edges. Though I might have an idea on how to do that.

With sprites/environment: why not just make it SMRPGish? That will work.

And I suppose I can help sprite items.

I got some great Ideas, like you can have some mini games. Like for the beach there can be a surfing contest or boat racing.
You can make some new trees plus new fruits and it would be awesome if you can sprite trees. For instant you can make a design and then place it on a tree and it will go around the whole tree.
You should also make the village and different parts of it to make it a nice touch. Add some mining areas and new tools.

Dude

Make it like an Animal Crossing, with a side view. That would be freaking awesome.

Actually, no. It wouldn't. You'd be so limited in movements and actions.

SMRPG kinda thing = GOOD PLAN.

The only problem is tiles.

Hey, wait a minute, I thought you said MS couldn't support 3D MB!

Yeah. But even then, there might not always be people on in your town.
The animals would be good to have anyway. It juices it up a bit.
Plus, it's ANIMAL Crossing.

Renders

True true. Another thing thats been bugging me is how I'd handle people who have been away for several days (and possibly never to return). I guess I could make it so that their house is put on sale after 10 days of no gameplay?

Well, not for now.

thats a good idea but I think that 10 days is just a little bit to low....I say around a month or so

Yeah, something like that would work. Only like metwars said, it should probably be longer.

And I just thought of something. What would happen if the person came back after getting kicked out? Would they just move into another random town? Would they be able to keep their stuff?

Well obviously they'd keep all their stuff, but in some kind of bag I guess. And they'd be homeless.

And they get the money for which the house was sold for, so they should be able to buy a new one, or take a loan to buy a new one.

There should be a valley where all the homeless guys hang out.

If you ever do make this I will stay homeless.

Should probably be some kind of respect meter, though, so that you can't stay homeless WITH dignity

or else everyone would be homeless. And you'd probably be required to have a certain amount of respect in order to get, like, a job.