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Gameplay as of : Beta 1.0 27th october 2000 Create a character : choose race, class, attributes, and initial talents (not final) Tour in the city and enter buildings Buy weapons and armors Provoke fights with any other character (it has to be accepted), and resolve them Register in a tournament, and play it (and win it !) Create battle tactics (not final), change them, select one for training, learn new elements Read you story getting written along the way You can establish a planning of your actions You gain experience from fights, change levels, and can buy talents and increase attributes Wounds and damage need tests and time to be recovered (death leaves a penalty) Most talents are implemented for melee combat, including those needing karma A few basic spells are implemented and the magic system is working Battles can be limited to first hit / first wound / knockout / death Bids on tournaments fights and planned-ahead duels (bid values fixed) Click on a character sprite = send him a message Chat in buildings ! NPCs can answer keywords in chat window Objectives of the Final version 1.0 End of the year 2000 ? Done Character's general attitude towards battles Building owner, daily agenda, day/night presence/absence To Do Implement the rest of spells and talents Help text and races/classes description Quicker character creation, more roleplay (choose race then dropped in, have to train attributes and initial talents) Battle tactics full and in tuning Extended battle report (accessed as an animated replay) Gain fame and celebrity, used as main ranking Evaluate your adversary to know his basic stats Career system complete, with all talents implemented You can train talents for slow increase Buy potions and magical stuff NPCs move around with their agenda, sell stuff, train you, heal you, bid, fight in tournaments Characters can create tournaments -with their money- Depending on server workload, players will be called in at this point. Even more ideas Sometime in the future Fight against monsters, fight in groups, and groups vs groups Enter dungeon in teams, playing one room per day Reaching high levels need writing a background for the character Leave the city to explore the country, protect caravans, discover new cities Players can buy city buildings and open shops, schools or guilds Players can create new cities and trade posts, or mines Players need to write their background to progress through high levels Weapons will need regular repairs and will be able to receive improvements Buy ingredients and create potions and spells Trade goods between cities, participate in cities growth, build your fortune Weather system ? 8) Describe suffered wounds, with specific penalties Graphical development Along-the-way One graphic sketch per race, with layer for the class, and layer for readied weapons and armors Harmonize buildings rendering, shadows and plane Have a different background brightness for each period of the day Graphic for each hour with sun and moon phases One building for each period of the day, with shadows and torches (animations ?) for the night Small flags to add on the arena when a tournament takes place "Sand" graphic patch to draw roads in the town Animation system for battle reports with different races, attacks, and effects Sprites for Hall of Fame, Bids, Planning links, tournaments backgrouns, battle bids