himoses
03-30-2009, 02:47 PM
I want to encourage Outspark to continue coming up with new content. You all may be past the time for developing this, but if you are not, please feel free to use this idea.
I would be interested in seeing a 4th of July carnival dungeon or summer festival (yukata baby!). This could be as crazy or as simple as you like. This could also be a good summer promotion used in Solstice, Fiesta, or Windslayer. Since my main game is Solstice, I will focus only on Solstice.
I suggest setting up a carnival in Candyvault in some of the open space or in the unoccupied corner in Brynhild. I would make a map addition like a 3d ferris wheel and an NPC clown. As with Christmas, you can find some circus music and jazz it up so you do not have to pay any music use license. This dungeon should be multi-leveled. I would suggest like 6 levels and 3 bonus sparkcash levels where players only with sparckash could go if they buy a ticket or special item in the sparkcash store. If you are pressed for time, just recycle some generic maps and use some creatures already in existence. If you have time, I would suggest making some wild new creatures such as zombie uncle sams with chain saws, living firework monsters that shoot fireworks at you, gigantic evil bald eagles, and various machinations of clownlike already-existing creatures like a clown version of a Coplance with a cane and a top hat. In terms of drops, I think some new bankable, non-tradeable candy would be perfect (weight of 1 or 3 with same stats as current candy). I am torn whether there should be a xen drop or not. I am leaning towards no since a xens are currently being used as currency and an influx of xens would just continue to promote that practice instead of slowly getting back to using kron. However, there could be some other non-candy drops such as chocolate, YWM, Large MP and HP pots, etc. as a rarer drop, possibly from a boss (Bozo-oka the clown-a clown with a bazooka…I know…lame pun). I also think that there should be an admission or mini-games where you have to pay in kron. For example, you would have to pay 100,000-500,000 kron for admission for Adeline and maybe 5000 for Marian. Mini-games can be like the new recycle shop (minus the ability to win lucky balls) or whack a Mogras or new games like ski-ball. Of course, there should be no experience loss or ability to track in any maps. Two-three weeks of this should be sufficient until it vanishes. Like any carnival, if it is a wild success it can always come back (why stop something if it is increasing sales 20% and fixing the in-game economy as well). Maybe the Sparkcash dungeon can give you a chance to win rares like leather, wood, ssfs, and fairy powder (might destabilize economy) or some 1or 3-day premium items like new cloaks, eye items, or other sparkcash items like shoes or speed buffs or 10% exp buffs (probably better). There could also be one huge hardcore aoe map for those 71 and up filled with all aggro monsters with 3-4 times more mobs than normal. Another map could be a zero aggro map good for ranged classes.
Maybe someone has something they want to add or subtract. I hope enough people will give feedback to help Outspark consider doing something like this. I REALLY enjoy holiday dungeons and think the addition of something like this would really add to the enjoyment of many and possibly to Outspark’s bottom line.
I would be interested in seeing a 4th of July carnival dungeon or summer festival (yukata baby!). This could be as crazy or as simple as you like. This could also be a good summer promotion used in Solstice, Fiesta, or Windslayer. Since my main game is Solstice, I will focus only on Solstice.
I suggest setting up a carnival in Candyvault in some of the open space or in the unoccupied corner in Brynhild. I would make a map addition like a 3d ferris wheel and an NPC clown. As with Christmas, you can find some circus music and jazz it up so you do not have to pay any music use license. This dungeon should be multi-leveled. I would suggest like 6 levels and 3 bonus sparkcash levels where players only with sparckash could go if they buy a ticket or special item in the sparkcash store. If you are pressed for time, just recycle some generic maps and use some creatures already in existence. If you have time, I would suggest making some wild new creatures such as zombie uncle sams with chain saws, living firework monsters that shoot fireworks at you, gigantic evil bald eagles, and various machinations of clownlike already-existing creatures like a clown version of a Coplance with a cane and a top hat. In terms of drops, I think some new bankable, non-tradeable candy would be perfect (weight of 1 or 3 with same stats as current candy). I am torn whether there should be a xen drop or not. I am leaning towards no since a xens are currently being used as currency and an influx of xens would just continue to promote that practice instead of slowly getting back to using kron. However, there could be some other non-candy drops such as chocolate, YWM, Large MP and HP pots, etc. as a rarer drop, possibly from a boss (Bozo-oka the clown-a clown with a bazooka…I know…lame pun). I also think that there should be an admission or mini-games where you have to pay in kron. For example, you would have to pay 100,000-500,000 kron for admission for Adeline and maybe 5000 for Marian. Mini-games can be like the new recycle shop (minus the ability to win lucky balls) or whack a Mogras or new games like ski-ball. Of course, there should be no experience loss or ability to track in any maps. Two-three weeks of this should be sufficient until it vanishes. Like any carnival, if it is a wild success it can always come back (why stop something if it is increasing sales 20% and fixing the in-game economy as well). Maybe the Sparkcash dungeon can give you a chance to win rares like leather, wood, ssfs, and fairy powder (might destabilize economy) or some 1or 3-day premium items like new cloaks, eye items, or other sparkcash items like shoes or speed buffs or 10% exp buffs (probably better). There could also be one huge hardcore aoe map for those 71 and up filled with all aggro monsters with 3-4 times more mobs than normal. Another map could be a zero aggro map good for ranged classes.
Maybe someone has something they want to add or subtract. I hope enough people will give feedback to help Outspark consider doing something like this. I REALLY enjoy holiday dungeons and think the addition of something like this would really add to the enjoyment of many and possibly to Outspark’s bottom line.