suggesting about - Gang war -

[Guest]

How to make a fun gang war mod in a multiplayer game, using low server resources?

ill try to explain with my poor english some ideas to do a similar gang war than we play in solo game, but for a multiplayer experience.

its a mix of good ideas i have seen in some mods for MTA:VC a long time ago and the funniest ideas of that i played in GTA:SA solo games.

we play in los santos with quarters to take, we ll name it areas.

the areas and gangs are probably same as we see in the gang war in solo game.

Each area have an headquarter house.

resume :

los santos must have approximately 12-15 areas in the gang war.

there is approximately 4 gangs with their native area.

each gang must conquer others areas to get respect.

to conquer an area, they must take control of the heading house that i call headquarter.

each area have an headquarter house to spawn, buy weapon, get car, do money missions and recruit bots.

a gang with many areas gain respect.

a player gain money with some transport mission

respect give better weapons/cars in the area they hold.

cops play free for all.

where to spawn?

players first choose a gang. then they choose an area controlled by the gang. they spawn in the headquarter house of the area.

headquarters

this place permit a gang to control the area.

its usually an house or a roof to spawn and get stuffs.

what to do in this place? :

- spawn for players

- buy of weapons ( see about: buying weapons)

- some guarding bots to recruit ( see about: recruiting bots)

- a car spawn near ( see about: car spawns)

How to take an area ?

we need to control the headquarter house of this area.

the attacking gang need, for exemple, to take an item in the house and hold it in the area, for 5mn ( like a flag?... ).

player of attacked gang ll maybe respawn to house to try take the flag...oops, i mean the item back under the 3mn to protect their area.

similary to the solo game gang war.

(yep, its like a flag-holding mission)

player changing area when holding house-item may lost the item.

whats purpose to get many areas?/ whats gang respect ?

a gang with many area have better respect.

respect give more things in spawn houses :

-more and better weapons.

-more bots to guard and beeing recruit.

-better cars in spawn car places.

can we take all area ? / can we destroy a gang ?

no. each gang have an native place who cant be stolen.

there is no holding item to get in headquarter house.

its the place a gang start when the town is neutral.

for example, groove street is an native area ...

How to get weapons in headquarters?

each headquarter have a weapon selection.

there is more weapons to buy in a gang controlling many areas.

each weapon have a cost and each player have to get and hold money.

for example,

knives and knuckles are free...

simple guns are cheaps,

shotguns are expansives,

military weapons are very expansive.

you only can get weapons/ammos in your friendly headquarters.

okay but how to get money?

it may be fun if server can save money to disconects, with an easy-to-use subscribe and login mod.

to get money, player need to do a mission in 3 steps :

here is an exemple of a transporting drug mission :

-1) going to their native spawnhouse to get mission

-2) go to a random place to check a dealer and get a drug bag.

( dealer created for the mission, only visible for this player )

when checked, the player with a bag must have an icon on him.

he can be seen, killed and stolen by others gangsta and cops players during the transport mission.

dropped bags must be transported to their own native headquarter only to gain money.

-3) going back quickly to the headquarter of the mission and get mission bucks.

quick time to make mission give more money.

( resume : take the flag and go back safe n quick : make rich)

with money, you get weapons.

how about car spawns?

each area have a car spawn near headquarter.

server cant handle a great number of items, then its the most simple solution.

if somebody already taken the car of the area you spawned, you have to walk to the next area to get one...

the type of car is involved by the gang respect holding.

respectless gang : poor cars

respectfull gang : best cars

a destroyed car spawn back at it spawn place.

huh? same bots you spoke about recruiting?

to get more fun, it ll be good to have some bots of each gang, spawned near the headquarter of a gang area, they guard it.

1-3 bots by area. if its possible and dont lag too much a server.

number involved by gang respect.

theses gangsters bots can be recruiting to help to attack an area for exemple.

when they die, they spawn back at their area.

its fun to have some bots to kill in each holded area, because empty headquarter houses, and empty enemy streets may be boring...

k k, but purpose of all this is to kill my friends, na?

what happens when i kill someone or get killed ?

a player killed, lost all his weapons and some money.

he must wait some seconds and have to choose a new spawn place ( see: where to spawn)

money lost of a killed player can be taken ( after some time, it disapear)

drug bag of killed player can be taken. ( after some time, it disapear too)

dropped bags must be transported to native headquarter to gain money.

you cant take weapons on killed players. only money to buy weapons.

killers get kills points. killed get deaths point.

ratio kills/deaths can be seen... just for fun.

yeah, that's cool but, im not interested to be gangsta with missions, rules and others, i wanna kill kill kill, anything for me?

sure. become a cop.

you ll spawn in a police station, have a police car, and always same weapons: guns and shotguns.

you wont have friends, you ll play like a cowboy, you dont need money,

and can kill everybody with no reason, because... its your job...

and gangs will hate you to break theirs funs and bizness...

it may be a good define of a GTA cop...

any purpose of all these crappy rules?

yeah, purpose it to play enhanced GTA game with friends.

if i think all of this may be fun... somebody may dont like this, or have better ideas for some or some points.

it ll be good to speak about this, and it ll be great if some devs can give their mind about this kind of game and difficulties to create it.

thx.

[The-end]

Awsome idea man i hope the take note of this

[Guest]

Nice.

[davo]

thats a suggestion!!

i like that

[zerb]

Interesting idea about the cop, killing anyone you wish would, just doing anything you wish and in your own law. Aswell as invading gangs territories, taking the resources for the good while the gangs try and take it back etc. Nice to see a good old fashion war come into action. ;D