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April 27, 2017
· spent about a month redoing ore and weapons
· the old metal ores replaced by new ones, 10 in all, minable, smithable
· all melee and missle weapons redone
· dagger skill is now free, dagger damage nerfed down low
· I changed so much, who knows what is broken or unmakable
· wands, armor, shields and tools still need to be redone

If you don't recall, a weapon rating is the average damage it can do in 10 seconds.

The ore weapons start with tin with a rating of 30.
Each ore increases the rating by 10.
For now, each ore will have 6 weapons in a skill type.

For Sword I have:
- Short Sword
- Sword
- Long Sword
- Broad Sword
- Claymore
- Great Sword

Name	Speed	Damage	Rating	2-Hand	AL	Skill Req
Tin Short Sword	1.5	1 - 8	30			25
Tin Sword	2.0	2 - 10	30			25
Tin Long Sword	2.5	4 - 12	30			25
Tin Broad Sword	3.0	5 - 13	30			25
Tin Claymore	2.0	3 - 11	35	True	4	50
Tin Great Sword	3.0	6 - 15	35	True	4	50

So basically the first 4 are normal, single handed. Fastest to slowest, least damage to most damage. Depending what your style is, attack more often with less damage per attack or attack less often with more damage per attack.
The last 2 are similar, faster/less damage and slower/more damage but since they are 2-handed, you get some AL and a little higher skill required to arm plus a little better rating.

I updated the updater for V3. If it complains, just keep trying it a few times because the client*.exe updates the updater and it may take a few runs to get it all updated.

You don't need to download and install anything manually from rpgwo.com.

Option1:
V1/V2 uses a Stamina based system that charges the player X STAMINA per usage attempt whether it success or fail. On success, it gives the final item produced. This can produce items fast but has an upper STAMINA limit that keeps usages on the low end. Like 100 stamina charge would be the practical limit and thus really complicated items may be too easy to make, from a balance stand point. But we have had this system for 17 years and been just fine. Can always have item stages like "<item> : 10% complete" up thru 90% then "<item>". Only one person can do the usage at a time except for failed XP.

Option 2:
V6 uses a Work based system that requires X WORK to get the final item. It charges 1 STAMINA per turn and does N WORK per turn based on your skill. It uses a divisor on your skill to get work done that turn, for example, if your skill is 200 and the divisor is 50, then 200 / 50 = 4 work done that turn. It takes longer to make items but does give more Failed XP. This also mimics Combat stamina usage, with 1 attack = 1 stamina thus traders match fighters more closely in XP gain. This system allows high/unlimited amounts of Work for more complicated usages. Multiple players can work the same usage at the same time and share the XP.

A V6 world is currently up and running if you want to try out the Work based system. Farming, mining, blacksmith, etc.

I started off messing around with the V2 VB6 code for about a month then decided to go ahead and create an official V3, non-Facebook.

rpgwo.com/download/client3.zip

The server address is hardcoded so just run client3.exe.
The world is empty and there for testing the new client. It does have some monster spawns for combat testing tho.

Now is your chance to post your suggestions and get involved!

 Maybe search the forums and post links to other topics that had good ideas. I know there is a lot.

I plan to commit the entire 2017 year to this.

Alrighty then.

On my V6 break... I have been playing old games (Civ, MAX, etc) and working on RPG Party V2 which I call Ploxoon Mandate ploxoon.com

If you remember my older RPG Party, it is an online, party-based RPG, like the RPGs of old (80's and 90's). I have a decent version up and running now for windows, linux and android. If you using a phone, it will use your data since it is "online", so beware, I need to add a disclaimer in there still.

Also been looking at making a 3D RPGWO, RPGWO Armies (strategy) or converting the V2 code to something but I saw a post on making a V3 back in 2015 so I doubt that will happen, although V3 turned into V6 actually which most veterans don't like *shrugs*.

Happy New Year!

Wiping soon so here is the current world map.
- red dots are towns
- light blue is life stones
- black lines are road (I was able to pave a road (as a player, not admin)connecting all 5 start spots. I dug a tunnel under the water near the middle, going north)

Here is the current world map for you to check out.
Light blue squares are starting locations.
Light red squares are tribe locations.

It doesn't look very pretty from this scale but when walking around it has seemed a pretty good layout and feel.
Comments?

This topic has been moved to RPGWO V6.

http://rpgwoforums.net/index.php?topic=4807.0

Those of you who have play tested V6, you hopefully are aware that Melee Defense is gone. It is determined by the weapon you have armed and your skill in it. So a Sword skill of 50 and a Tin Short Sword armed, gives a melee defense of 50. Been working well so far and gives all types some kinda melee defense even if just based off attributes of weapon armed.

With Missle weapons... there are 2 issues:
1 - how is melee defense determined since a bow is not a melee weapon
2 - how is missle defense determined for the target shot at

1 - I was gonna code it so there would be 2 weapon slots: melee and missile. It would switch auto between both depending on what was attacking you and what you were attacking. Decided not to do this cuz seemed to easy to manage but also the system may get confused so just gonna keep the V1/V2 way with one weapon slot. Just use hotkeys to swap out as needed when I code hotkeys of course. So really, what could happen is when a missile player gets melee attacked, the unarmed skill would be used for melee defense. That seems to make sense since 1 hand would be kinda free if not on a bow string. But maybe 50% of Unarmed skill then?

2 - Melee has 3 possible outcomes: miss, defend, hit. A miss is bad aim by the attacker. A defend is the target deflecting/blocking the incoming attack. A hit, is a hit. Can do the same, increasing miss chance with distance to target. Maybe just do the same thing, using the armed weapon skill to deflect the incoming projectile but at a reduced rate, like -25% to -33%. I plan a shield skill that would be a full block. Or maybe instead of a reduced skill roll, reduce the damage from the projectile. Not sure but I know I don't want Missile Defense unless we can combine Melee and Missile Defense into a "Defend" skill?