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Donation system complete
Posted: May 21st, 2009, 10:53:10 am
by Madd
I finished the donation system last night at 4am sharp. It was approximately four hours of work, many more if you count preparation. If you consider that most 15 year olds make slave wages ($8/hr) that should come to about 36$. So, pay up!
Ah, just kidding. I'm perfectly happy to pay the artists and hosting fees myself, it's just my mom that's bugging me about making money.
Anyways, next up is the shop system. Now the only issue with this is that I don't know what to sell. If you've got any ideas, please post them in this thread. The only one I can think of is some item that freezes your creature, and perhaps one that removes it's name (thus allowing you to rename it).
After shops and inventories, next on the list would be stats I think. This would give me something to sell in the shops (stat boosters?), and a starter for when I work on battles.
A new creature is coming to the stream in a couple of hours, be ready.
Re: Donation system complete
Posted: May 21st, 2009, 11:00:37 am
by Rijolt
Maybe an item that lets you change a creatures color, if they have different variations coded in, and they didn't get the color they wanted?~
Re: Donation system complete
Posted: May 21st, 2009, 1:00:37 pm
by Mivichi
Are there going to be any creatures that can be bought only in the shops? If so, that could open up the possibility of some creatures that don't start as eggs, like a genie in a lamp.
Other than that... Hmm. The renaming one does sound good.
A sex-changing item could be handy.
So would food or something that ups a creature's progress. If you're looking for something to frustrate people and cause them to spend a lot of their gold, make an item that either randomly advances a hatchling to the next stage or causes its progress to drop (like, "Oh, that's a strange looking mushroom. Why don't you try eating it to see if it's poisonous or not?").
I suppose some people might like backgrounds for their creatures. Not really my thing...
Maybe customizations for a user's creature page? As in, the ability to write messages (either on the main page or on the individual creature pages) or the ability to change the layout's color or something like that.
Well, those are just the first things that popped into my head.
Re: Donation system complete
Posted: May 21st, 2009, 1:10:26 pm
by Madd
Thanks, Mivichi, those are good ideas. I'm surprised I didn't think of the sex-changing thing.
I don't want want to get into backgrounds because
- I would go way overboard and make an avatar site
- its a huge strain on server resources
The strange looking mushroom type thing is a good idea, I'll do something like that. Perhaps random side effects could include gender changes, freezing/unfreezing, or switching species
Changing layout or color on the user page would be hard, I'd have to change a bunch of images and I don't wanna.
I could sell an item that allows custom CSS though... that would be cool.
I could also sell text-boxes that one could place on their page.
Thanks for all the ideas!
Re: Donation system complete
Posted: May 21st, 2009, 3:04:10 pm
by StrawHat
An item you use on a creature that makes it so when someone clicks/views it, it counts as two clicks?
Something that makes the gap between when a creature last breeded and can breed again shorter?
Re: Donation system complete
Posted: May 21st, 2009, 4:43:04 pm
by Chinese
Maybe an items that would increase the growth rate of the item.
Re: Donation system complete
Posted: May 21st, 2009, 5:04:06 pm
by Sapphyre
Or one that could up the number of eggs a Creature could have? Like, normally they only have one egg so far as I know. Well, with the item they could have up to maybe three? -shrugs- Just an idea.
Really liking the sex-change thing though.
Re: Donation system complete
Posted: May 21st, 2009, 6:07:26 pm
by NinjaStream
I like the gender change, too. Could come in handy.
How about an age-reversing item? It could take the desired creature back a stage. Like, if someone wanted to have a particular creature as a hatchling but decided too late, so they could just reverse the age.
Though maybe it could only work with adults back into hatchlings. Hatchlings to eggs might be weird xD
-shrug-
I'm out of ideas.
Re: Donation system complete
Posted: May 21st, 2009, 6:21:00 pm
by mewhaku
Text boxes would be a cool idea - I'd love that. ^^
I can't think of anything that hasn't been already suggested though.. lol.
Re: Donation system complete
Posted: May 21st, 2009, 9:31:45 pm
by Sapphyre
-is waiting for the new egg- Wow. Few hours huh?
Nah, I'm just giving you a hard time Tristan! Keep up the good work!