Guild castles

Mysticknight · 04-09-2006, 03:14 AM

First, please forgive my spelling / grammer.

Second, a disclamer. The foundation ideas for this I got from Arinnaya (thanks btw) [view her/his (don't know wich) thread -here - http://forums.worldofwar.net/showthread.php?t=374121 If she/he got the idea of her thread from someone, I also give them some credit.

Now for the point.

Guild castles.

First off, where they would be -
6 locations, 3 on each continent (no consideration taken to burning crusades for now) Please notice these are all in contested arias (I think).
1- alliance - descolace
2 - horde - un goro crator
3 - horde - fellwood
4 - horde - Arathi highlands
5 - alliance - blasted lands
6 - alliance - darkshire
- These are ment to be isolated, and intentionaly dangerous (or fairly) arias. They are not ment to be increadably easy to get to.

Second, How they work. The GUILD LEADER dose a quest, there would be 6 of these (you can only do one, you cannot do them all, the one you finish first is the one you get, and you MUST have a guild with at least 20 people) After you finish the quest the guild gets a fairly small (200 yards x 100 yards [ that is small for a castle] basicly instanced) plot of land.
I'll explane how that works while i'm at it.
You buy the wall sections. I can't be bothered with figureing out prices right now :\
- they apear on a set location near the edge of the plot of land and must be carried into place... by 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 or 14 people, depending on the kind of wall (wood, soft stone, bronze, iorn, dark iorn and granite respectively)
Doors can be built, main gates use 50 bars of the metal of choice and average doors use 5 bars of the metal of choice - (obviously) you have to have walls on eather side. - all walls must be made of the same thing per room, but rooms of differant types can be touching - when a room is completely closed, a roof will automaticly apear over it. You can build stairs and build on the top of these, but the costs of the walls doubble per floor you add.
For esample, if a bronze wall costs 5g for the first floor, it would be 10 for the 2nd, 20 for the 3rd, 40 for the 4th, 80 for the 5th, 160 for the 6th, 320 for the 7th and so on...

You would also be able to craft tables, baracades, and a lot more (these cannot leave the aria)
the guildmaster can buy 50 yard by 50 yard chunks of land to expand the grounds for 100 gold (this last part is MENT to be expensive)

- the point of this whole thing -
- give people something to do on their spare time.
- allow for the creation of "castle storming" events, where the guild with the highest player level average attacks the castle and the guild with the lowest defends theirs (a limit of players that is the same as the number of people in the smaller guild) - a number of tools would be created to help you attack the castles, and defend them (siege ladders, battering rams, ext.) In this you would see enemy players on the minimap.
The first guild to wipe everyone else from the map (or for the whole other guild to leave the instance) wins, Or if no one has gotten in combat for 1 hour the defenders win by default, preventing people from just sitting out of range of the defenders. The defenders coulden't do this because they are constantly being attacked, and if the walls or any gates/doors are attacked everyone is considered "in combat"

Did i miss anything or dose something need clearing up? Also i'm looking for aditional sugjestions.

^looks up^ this is actualy a fairly long post...

KingFKA · 07-09-2006, 06:20 PM

Wouldn't work. You can not add something into wow. Everything is stationary.
/sigh. Wish it would though. Would be a great idea.
-The reason why, is because of the .mpq, in your WoW Folder. It contains the map"Render of land, buildings..etc" and each person has it. If you added something in, it would have to change for Every person, I think you should be able to see the problem here.

rellnan · 07-09-2006, 06:49 PM

Cool idea, but KingFKA is right. They should design a way to access everybody's computer and change the thing on their computer during Tuesday maintinence or something. Of course, then you wouldn't be able to use that account (computer acct, not WOW). When you install WoW, it should suggest that you make a new acct for WoW only. That would work, but it's too late for that.

Beruen · 07-09-2006, 07:02 PM

Actually, Horizons had a system that could handle that. Heck, during the GM events just before the server merges, in order to get the properly appocalyptic feel, the boss mobs would cast spells that would create mountains inside towns, and the mountain would quickly appear to everyone present, and anyone else who came by later.

Of course, Horizons had its own lag issues (even GM events that didn't alter the terrain would cause severe lag) that may or may not be resolvable by a larger development team.

Mysticknight · 07-09-2006, 07:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KingFKA

Wouldn't work. You can not add something into wow. Everything is stationary.
/sigh. Wish it would though. Would be a great idea.
-The reason why, is because of the .mpq, in your WoW Folder. It contains the map"Render of land, buildings..etc" and each person has it. If you added something in, it would have to change for Every person, I think you should be able to see the problem here.

You have a point, but that is blizs own fault, the game I used to play before i started to play WoW had something similar to what I sugjested, only it was for every single player seperate.
A few hundred thousand people on at once and most of them haveing one of these - no lag.

The problem is that bliz stores all of the terrain on your computer, but i guess it is too late to change that, isn't it?

TeamRamrod · 08-09-2006, 12:36 AM

What if they made each guilds castle like a instance? and you and your guild could queue like the BG's and each team gets a chance on defense and offense. Just make a common instance portal in each main city that only members in your guild could enter, build your castle, and queue when you are ready for battle. and each time you fought a different guild it would load the others guild's castle. not sure if that would make it any better or not though.

Mysticknight · 08-09-2006, 02:14 AM

That just might work... Besides, it's not like bliz can't afford to buy better servers and conection boosts.

Arkane Dark · 08-09-2006, 07:22 PM

I dont see why it couldn't work. Think about it, Guild Wars had a similiar thing where each guild got their own instanced island! (the island was the most expensive one)

KingFKA · 12-09-2006, 05:54 PM

Hmm..Something to look into then eh? But about GW's. The game is different on many levels, Hence it is WoW's rival?

Hunter Noventa · 13-09-2006, 01:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arkane Dark

I dont see why it couldn't work. Think about it, Guild Wars had a similiar thing where each guild got their own instanced island! (the island was the most expensive one)

Yeah, but there was no customization of the islands at all in Guild Wars. To be able to customize the stuff they would have to store a version of the instance for each guild. About all that could be managed as it is would be banners based on your guild tabard.