Suggestion: Revival of Innovation

[Devari]

Just a random thought, really... Perhaps we should, come summer, work a bit on reinventing FAF and Promisance. I'm not really sure what I mean, persay... Perhaps thinking of ways of adding new dimensions and features WHILE maintaining the traditional simplicity and ease of use of Promisance.

For example, heroes. Where do we want to go with them? Do we want to turn them into an almost-minigame, where they can grow (and age, and die) and have a more prominent effect on the outcomes of battles and production? And, if so, how do we do so without making the game too complex?

Take a look at QMT Epicurus to see what I mean. They had some great ideas about making Promisance more realistic and "cool", but they made it way too complex and hard to use. Can we do both? Maybe. It'll take some work, though.

As an aside, I'd really like to see the interface designed into a more modern-looking ("pretty") layout. Maybe even throw some graphics into the mix. People have a short attention span, so prettiness might grab them better; then, features and gameplay come into play. As it stands, FAF looks pretty dull and technical - perhaps we can make it more pretty and exciting.

[Gen. Volkov]

I agree, but definitely over the summer, no time over the school year.

[Devari]

Most certainly. Although preliminary proposals could always be brought forth anytime before then, we'd certainly have to wait to summer to make any decisions or implement anything.

[bjornredtail]

Prominiance is already far, far simpler than most games I know of. Makeing the game more "realistic" might in fact make it easier to play, while increaceing complexity. For example, when I was playing in RWL's round 1, I was not aware what the special attacks (ie Gurilla, Frontal, Bombardment, Navel Assult) did. So I massed weasels for defence, not knowing that you could simpy attack with rats and simply ignore my troops. When Retto discovered this fact he was able to basicly own the entire game while eveyone else was left scraching thier heads..

[Freenhult]

This is all well and dandy, but every time we say we're going to do this... Bleh. Anyway, Me and Rudder started going on about something with Heros. About how they can just show up and all randomly and such. If anything, Regardless or when we want to work, there is no reason why we can't get a small committee or something going where atleast 1 coder can be around to make sure that ideas aren't crazy.

[Devari]

Give me a date after April 26th and I'm there.

[Freenhult]

Mmk. I'm going to pin this so we don't lose it. Hopefully some bump or remember before the 26th so we can get a team together.

[Freenhult]

Hi. Everyone who wants to help, even non-staff should sign up here. Lets try to keep on topic just until we're done determining who's doing this. Please please realize, if you sign up, we'll expect you to help.

[Devari]

Ah, if we get people interested, we should certainly make a new subforum for this (and move the appropriate topics there).

[Freenhult]

So far, Beatles, Devari, Ruddertail, Volkov and I.

I know there are more of you.

[The Beatles]

Oy, did I post anything? No. I'm out until further notice. :/

[Freenhult]

Oy, did I post anything? No. I'm out until further notice. :/

WHAT? Of course this is during summer Break you know. >_< Come on! Your like.. The the most important person.

[Turock]

Sounds like a good plan.

[The Beatles]

Oh, sorry. Summer break, yeah. Mind you, that's mid-June for me.

[Freenhult]

Wow. Thats late. But cool. I'll be gone 21-24. Possibly longer if I can extend my tickets. <3