Comic Games And Scope
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@zombiegenesis said in Comic Games And Scope:
As for Ares plugins, what kind are you looking for? There's a general dice plugin that lets you roll dice in the scene system(and there's a dice command in-game). What kind of things were you looking for, plugin wise?
If I was looking for one, I'd be shooting for the moon. An admin 'sheet' builder, that helps create a sheet and define what type of dice to roll using the dice plugin, so I can roll ability or roll skill.
I like universal systems, FS3 is good for me, but I want a little more for supers. I don' t need the awesome meat of the combat system that is there for FS3. I was spoiled ages ago being a D6 fan when Dahan made their D6 system - not to be confused with Dahan Skill System which I think is more percentile based. In Dahan's D6, they made it universal for staff such that staff had easy commands to make the abilities and skills and such for the system if one didn't want the Star Wars parts of it.
This is belated, I did want to respond.
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@zombiegenesis said in Comic Games And Scope:
Ultimately I think my question boils down to this; Are there few games on a focused theme because of lack of player interest or because staff want to hedge their bets by allowing as many characters as possible? I don't think character balance factors in though I do think character unique-ness could.
And I'm also not saying there aren't any or have never been successful games with a focused theme. They are, however, vastly outnumbered by games that allow either everything from a given comic universe or anything from any comic universe. I'm just wondering why the scales are so unbalanced.
Like I said, there's a lot of factors. Even if you do a single-company focused game, you're going to get players that aren't going to want to join because 'It's a Marvel game' or 'it's a DC game'. Brand loyalty is very much a thing in comics fandom.
Like the old saying goes: you can please some of the people all of the time, or all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time.
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@zombiegenesis said in Comic Games And Scope:
And I'm also not saying there aren't any or have never been successful games with a focused theme. They are, however, vastly outnumbered by games that allow either everything from a given comic universe or anything from any comic universe. I'm just wondering why the scales are so unbalanced.
Are they though? I don't play on comic games, but I do hear about them. Quite a lot of the ones I have heard people talking highly of seem to be focused themes. Various X-Men and Marvel games spring to mind.
Maybe they don't have the sheer volume of logins as some other games, but that's a very narrow and IMHO flawed measure of "success". Logins can be inflated by alt policies, how much people hang out OOC and idle, and various other factors that have nothing to do with whether people are RPing and having fun. With web players and async RP, logins become even less meaningful. Heck, Shang and MUD-lites like Firan were often on the top of the "most login" lists I'd see back in the day - does that mean you should shoot for that to be "successful"?
The most active and engaged playerbase I ever saw was on TGG. There were probably never more than a dozen people online, but man did they RP. I wouldn't discount the merits of a small, passionate playerbase.
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@zombiegenesis I don't think it's either of those things. I think it's just that the people who've tried recently either didn't catch on, or proved inept; and that a new one would still have a chance, barring both of those problems. But people generally haven't tried, recently. As far as I know, anyway.
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@zombiegenesis Basically I think you should just make a game you want to make/play on and hope for the best, if you think it has a chance at all. If the only kinds of games that can succeed are the kinds of games that don't sound worth it to you, it's not worth the effort.
Mind you, I say that, and yet I have yet to invent the Sonic MU of my dreams. Or the Mortal Kombat one. Or the 'Pro Wrestling is Real and Crazy' one. So.
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@squirreltalk Sonic isn't really my thing but, man, I'd be all over a Mortal Kombat game or a Pro Wrestling game.
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@zombiegenesis It'd be so good. Would be fun to go full reboot/AU on the MK story and let people play out the cast there.
