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INTRODUCTION

In the old days, People used to believe in many gods.
Life was simple then until An evil Dark Lich King, Gyrakettsuki, Challenged the most Powerful God of them all. That God's name was Meiretstu. The rage went on to for 1396 years. During this time, the sacred Earth Spirit, Quacheurt, was killed. The Earth Spirit's job was to keep the actual fabrication of the world intact. With him gona, all hell broke lose. Continents shatterred into tiny islands and mountain crumbled to small hills. Many millenia later though, the earth settled down, and mankind began the reconstruction of the world. But man themselves cannot complete this task. They will need a sacred Gemstone, known as the "Quaearch Stone", that will give 1 sole person the power to shape earth and summon mountains. All was going well until one of the few surviving liches vowed revenge against humans and seeked the "Quaearch Stone".

To be continued.

FEATURES

-Real time combat AND Virtual HP combat
-Many items and an interesting inventory system
-Random battles
-High quality cinematics
-Gain experience by participating in a fight, arena battles, fight clubs, random battles, or observing people battle
-Raise your attributes: strength (weapon upgrade),armor (armor upgrade), and toughness (custom)
-You can buy houses, live in them, let people rent them, and be a landlord!
-No more HP bar. Just burrowed units =) (I might add an HP bar along with the burrowed units )
-5 continents for you to explore
-Control a Heavy Armored Transport, Enchanted Aircraft, or Light Armored Aircraft
-Receive items by finding them, Killing enemies, chests, vendors, and trading posts!
-Interactive Town and Townspeople

Terrain

256 x 256 fully customized and extended jungle terrain. 5 continents for you to explore, swamps, hell (creep), and waterfalls.

GAMEPLAY

You play as Karu, a young prince, who is destined to rebuild the earth.
Karu is a Hero Zealot.
Your main character can become 1 of 4 classes (or more. Still trying to think of them.)
Each one of these classes have Pros and Cons, and they all have their own Special Abilities.
This game is 1P.
(I'm trying to make this game impossible to beat in a few hours)

CLASSES

Karu can become four classes. In this section, I will explain the classes in detail to you.

Knight:
Unit: Vulture
Special Abilities:

Reinforcements
Town Call
Faith

Pros:
-High Speed
-Good Strength

Cons:
-Not many abilities

The knight is a standard class. It has good damage and good speed. Reinforcements at level 1 summons 2 militia to do your bidding, costs 150 mana. At level 2 reinforcements summon 4 militia to do you bidding, costs 300 mana. When maxed it summons 1 Mounted Knight to do your bidding, costs 350 mana. Town call teleports you to your castle, costs 50 mana. Faith at level 1 heals 1 counter to your life bar after every battle (Passive, 0 mana). Faith level 2 give 2 counters at the same mana cost and Faith level 3 heals 3 at the same mana cost.

Pirate:

Unit: Zealot

Special Abilities:
Mug
Greed
Scurvy
Hands on Deck

Pros:
-High HP
-High attack

Cons:
-Low Defense

Pirates are strong. But they have low defense. Mug level 1 has a 50% chance of stealing an item from an enemy and damaging them at the cost of 50 mana. At level 2, mug has a 60% chance of stealing and damaging and costs 60 mana. Mug at level 3 has an 80% chance of stealing an item from an enemy, but always deals damage and costs 100 mana! Greed is a passive skill that increases the amount of money you get at the end of battle. Scurvy is a 1 level skill that has a 50% chance of poisoning the enemy and costs 20 mana. Hands on deck is a 1 level passive skill that increasing your chance of running way from an enemy by 30 percent.

Ninja

Unit: Ghost

Special Abilities:
Flaming Ninpo Trap
Floor Ninpo Trap
Projectile Ninpo Trap
Shurikens
Wind Walk

Pros:
-High Speed, Low Drag

Cons:
-Average Attack
-Low Defence

(Mana is treated as the word Ninpo) injas have ecelling speed. All their special abilities have only 1 level though. The Flaming Ninpo Trap Summons 1 Right Flame Trap Beside you to fend off enemies and costs 40 ninpo. The Floor Ninpo Trap Summons 1 Floor Machine Gun Trap to fend off enemies and costs 50 ninpo. The Projectile Ninpo Trap summons 1 Floor Missile Trap to fend off enemies. Shurikens can only be used on Bosses and Mini-Bosses. Shurikens costs 0 ninpo and they shoot 1 interceptor (the animation) at the enemy. Causes the Boss or Miniboss to lose 5% HP, So basically you can start every Boss or Miniboss battle with them having 95% HP at the click of a button (and a few seconds). Wind Walk summons 2 Hallucinations of you to do your bidding.

Under construction. 1 more classes and descriptions will be added.


MUSIC

Searching for someone to make music for me. If your interested, PM kholdstare. Will get full credit for the music.

SCREENSHOTS

Screenies will be coming soon!

TESTERS

Looking for testers. Post here if interested.

FINAL NOTES

I need a partner. PM me if your interested. (For triggers. Will receive credit if you help)

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Added Classes section
Updated Gameplay Section
Added Ninja Class

Any suggestions? Questions? Comments? Post them here!

So are you gonna edit it anytime soon?

Right now to be exact.

Oh, cool! NICE story. I likes it alots.

Yeah this actually seems kind of interesting.

When you say high quality cinematics, what does that entail? Some better dialogue and more movement or are you going to woo us with something completely different?

And what do you need a partner for? Terrain or triggers or unit placement or everything?

Hey hey hey, so what happened to Meiretstu afterwards? And for a moment there, I thought this was called 'Kool RPG.' RTC and VHP systems? Sounds like you're trying to compete against Crescent Dyne. And that's all the comments you get from me for now.

A bit of a paradox, how are you managing that?

What do you have in mind?
What randomizing system are you doing? Do all monsters have the same chance of spawning? Patrol paths?
Will my GeforceFX handle it?How long will they be? Don't go overboard.
Explain the "Observing" part.
Maybe rename Toughness to Charisma. Assuming you're using Minerals for strength and Gas for armor, are there then going to be no custom mana points for spells?
How do you earn money through renting?
Are these easily viewable on minimap? Or represented through Leaderboard points?
Are aircrafts for exploration only or can they engage in combat as well?
Randomized? Can you sell back to vendors?
What buildings can be interacted with?
Steal existing fantasy game music from their "Fan Downloads" section. Example.
Is this post enough? I can do stuff.

This RPG is inspired by CD, but I'm not competing against it. Oh by the way, I need a partner for music and triggers. Too much to do. Oh, and PCFredz, thats a crapload of questions.

Many people try to create things they can't create simply because they lack experience. I think that is the case. But I would be more than happy if you proove me wrong.

No offence, but you seem unconfident/unsure about what would you want your map to look like. Or you're simply too lazy to type it in

Anyway, good luck

I could probably help with some triggers later on, but I have too much on my plate at the moment. Good luck with this map, it looks pretty cool .

I'm lazy.

Seems interesting and all, but will you be able to actually do that stuff? I hope it has better terrain than the Megaman Navi Netbattle map :l

Lol. It will. Oh, and before I forget the MMBN map is postponed (almost done the demo version though)

ADDITION:
I updated it.

Read and answer some of them, lol.

I like the story and the theme.
btw:
Real time battle + VHP is too complicated

Ok, when you face an average enemy, you kill the enemy viareal time combat. But the enemy tries to kill you via VHP.. When you face a Boss or Mini Boss, They have VHP. So basically- Basic Enemies: RTB Big Enchiladas- VHP.




Well, there will be alot of items, (Potions, Revival Flasks, Flash Bombs, Stink Bombs, etc.). The items that you can use in battles are actual units, while the items that you cant use in battle are "virtual".




Some thing like the Final Fantasy system. When you walk in enemy infested areas, youhave a chance (via switches, of course) of getting into a battle. The only difference is that you dont get transferred to an arena, the enemy spawns on the location following Karu.



What is the GeforceFX you are talking about? The cinematics will range from 30 seconds to up to maybe 2 minutes.

Edit: Except important cutscenes and the introduction. Those will be like 10 minutes.




Haven't figured out yet, sorry. Anyone have any suggestions?



Minerals for strength and armor (you upgrade), but I'mm thinking leaderboard for mana, too many triggers and locations if I do a minimap bar.



Well, when you buy a house, the trigger will place one counter and wait for *** (I don't know) seconds. After *** is up, Preserve trigger takes effect ???. After maybe 10 counters are placed, It randomizes 3 switches. If at least two of them are set, someone bought your house. For gaining money, maybe after 10 battles, your guy pays the rent of ??? (depending on house)



Non-existant now. These have been changed. (I'm using burrowed units, that means I might do a minimap bar)


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Aircrafts can engage in combat. By the way, Heavy Armor Transport - Siege Tank, Enchanted Aircraft - Arbiter, Light Armored Aircraft - scout. From how on it is HAT, EA, and LAA.




When receiving items, it is randomized. I don't know if I should have a selling system. Any suggestions?




You can interact with some houses, vendors, and villagers by talking to them anda few houses can be entered.


PCFredZ, I answered some of your questions.

Noooooo! Don't use waits for buying a house. And have fun transfering your real time combat stats to virtual stats when you do fight the bosses. Personally, I would think that it's better if all battles utilized VHP, rather than using actual HP and VHP, because all the stat transfering is sort of a waste. Plus you'll have items that deal damage right?

ill trigger for you if you want.

sounds fun but can you give us a basic decription of the terrain?

Ummm, ok I'll post screenies soon.

Agreed on the Waits issue. Using Wait actions is much less flexible than Death Counts and can easily mess up other triggers.

I don't think the HP + VHP will be a problem, since the player's character is always using VHP, and no transfer of stats is needed. Only lesser monsters use normal HP.

PCFredZ, what is that GeforceFX?

You said "High Quality Cinematics", I cracked a joke. GeforceFX is a graphics card line by nVidia.

How are you coming on progress?

Well, I finished the terrain and unit names, and I scratched on the locations and unit placement. Haven't touched the triggers yet. Also, lol that was a funny joke.

Another singleplayer RPG.
Somehow i dont like them (RPG-s). Multiplayer is da best.

But dont listen to me.
Do it for the ppl, who love long singleplayer RPGs