Some Ideas: "Never will be forever"

[NOOBY93]

Has anyone here ever played cRPG, the Warband Mod (now replaced by the mod teams steam game released sometime last year, "Of Kings and Men")?

They had a rather elegant solution to generational gameplay.
The game had a softcap level system, where you could progress from levels 1-30 fairly quickly, but anything after 30 became exponentially more difficult to progress through. You had the *choice* at 30 to restart your character at level 1, receiving a permanent perk that would benefit you and all future descendants, or you could keep progressing and never give up your progress.

Some people just kept progressing the same character, reaching level 36 or somesuch.
Others restarted as soon as they hit 30.

They are distinct playstyles resulting in distinct characters that were relatively balanced and a lot of fun.

I think the general gist of this concept could be implemented in HnH.

Also known as einher hehe

[jorb]

Has anyone here ever played cRPG, the Warband Mod (now replaced by the mod teams steam game released sometime last year, "Of Kings and Men")?

They had a rather elegant solution to generational gameplay.
The game had a softcap level system, where you could progress from levels 1-30 fairly quickly, but anything after 30 became exponentially more difficult to progress through. You had the *choice* at 30 to restart your character at level 1, receiving a permanent perk that would benefit you and all future descendants, or you could keep progressing and never give up your progress.

Some people just kept progressing the same character, reaching level 36 or somesuch.
Others restarted as soon as they hit 30.

They are distinct playstyles resulting in distinct characters that were relatively balanced and a lot of fun.

I think the general gist of this concept could be implemented in HnH.

Something like that could perhaps be fun, but otherwise I think decay mechanics are generally a part of the real world that we do well to abstract away.

[Robben_DuMarsch]

Has anyone here ever played cRPG, the Warband Mod (now replaced by the mod teams steam game released sometime last year, "Of Kings and Men")?

They had a rather elegant solution to generational gameplay.
The game had a softcap level system, where you could progress from levels 1-30 fairly quickly, but anything after 30 became exponentially more difficult to progress through. You had the *choice* at 30 to restart your character at level 1, receiving a permanent perk that would benefit you and all future descendants, or you could keep progressing and never give up your progress.

Some people just kept progressing the same character, reaching level 36 or somesuch.
Others restarted as soon as they hit 30.

They are distinct playstyles resulting in distinct characters that were relatively balanced and a lot of fun.

I think the general gist of this concept could be implemented in HnH.

Something like that could perhaps be fun, but otherwise I think decay mechanics are generally a part of the real world that we do well to abstract away.

Give it a spin
I'd certainly try to play HnH again if there was a major overhaul to progression.
It wouldn't even need to be this.

[DDDsDD999]

Has anyone here ever played cRPG, the Warband Mod (now replaced by the mod teams steam game released sometime last year, "Of Kings and Men")?

They had a rather elegant solution to generational gameplay.
The game had a softcap level system, where you could progress from levels 1-30 fairly quickly, but anything after 30 became exponentially more difficult to progress through. You had the *choice* at 30 to restart your character at level 1, receiving a permanent perk that would benefit you and all future descendants, or you could keep progressing and never give up your progress.

Some people just kept progressing the same character, reaching level 36 or somesuch.
Others restarted as soon as they hit 30.

They are distinct playstyles resulting in distinct characters that were relatively balanced and a lot of fun.

I think the general gist of this concept could be implemented in HnH.

Having two classes of character progression is an interesting concept. The guys that want to raise their stats consistently and be titans, and the guys that just want to scrape by and try to be relevant can have their own progression scaling.

[Robben_DuMarsch]

Well, I think the implication is that it would be a lot more difficult to become a titan... but still theoretically possible if the server went forever without wiping...
But perhaps the other perks for other players would make other gameplay options more attractive for many as well.

[Granger]

Something like that could perhaps be fun, but otherwise I think decay mechanics are generally a part of the real world that we do well to abstract away.

I think decay is a way lesser evil than to replicate the RL class system that makes it impossible to catch up to the old money (attributes and abilities in the game), which IMHO is one of the reasons RL suck that bad for so many.

[sMartins]

Tbh about decay I'd like if everything turns back into wilderness state at some point ... I see the problem with paving/roads, but can we bind decay to the last player login? after 6 months or whatever of not logging in every thing you done start to decay .... I suppose the game would need to know everything that players make, that would be good also for crafting .... "mighty sword made by xxx99" ... not sure if doable tou.

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ye, bc everyone wants to play a game where they know in the end there char will die and they will need to start over from scratch.. nty we already get the pleasure of starting over when new world comes.

also i can see more and more alt use with this being implemented. pretty sure jorb and loftar want to move away from all the alt use

[tigerlrg245]

Has anyone here ever played cRPG, the Warband Mod (now replaced by the mod teams steam game released sometime last year, "Of Kings and Men")?

They had a rather elegant solution to generational gameplay.
The game had a softcap level system, where you could progress from levels 1-30 fairly quickly, but anything after 30 became exponentially more difficult to progress through. You had the *choice* at 30 to restart your character at level 1, receiving a permanent perk that would benefit you and all future descendants, or you could keep progressing and never give up your progress.

Some people just kept progressing the same character, reaching level 36 or somesuch.
Others restarted as soon as they hit 30.

They are distinct playstyles resulting in distinct characters that were relatively balanced and a lot of fun.

I think the general gist of this concept could be implemented in HnH.

I would definitely want some kind of ascendance mechanic, even if it was very low, but that's because I spent hundreds of hours playing incremental/clicker games, honestly I don't see how it would come into haven as a good idea,
haven already has a lot of increment aspects. besides it's way easier to gain fep and level skills on a new character if you already have a base, so resetting your character for a bonus would be a sure thing, and people could do it constantly with cheap food and one table.

It might add some dynamic though, but I feel like whatever system would be best for progression might not be very intuitive, haven is a web of game design questions spawned by spiders of weird mechanics. which is kinda cool

What I think might work regardless is to make some credos only possible to have if you don't have specific other ones, as in make the credo tree have branches where you have to only pick one, giving more specialization to characters without stopping them from general stats/lp advancement. either that or add another system in conjunction with credos that you can't get all of its benefits on one character.
maybe this other system will remain with you after you die, along with the credos, and will advance more slowly and with work in that field (farming/mining) to give people more stuff to do in order to develop their character when their stats are maxed.

[Potjeh]

Stat caps plox.