The cybervillage great depression

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 7:57 pm

I think there will be a great depression soon. The stocks keep going up and eventually they need to go down, and it will probably be drastic.

Also there's too many rich people, and they're a threat to new citizens because they have more money, and more weapons of mass destruction.

I sense it coming, a large scale great depression, maybe even a war.

Actually I've slowly been plotting to do a huge overhaul on the cybervillage. At that point I may zap all the ICs to start from scratch. Also banks will offer loans but I'll have to come up with a credit system where if you don't have good credit you can't have a loan, and the bigger loan you have, the more interest you pay. There will also be more then one bank, and they will make profit, or loose profit, like real banks, and each business (banks, stores etc) will be in the stock market and the stocks will be based on profit in a way or the other. Heck Imay even make it so business owners have to submit income statements to the stock market so it will be possible to lie but if you get caught saying you're doing well when you arn't, you may enronate and loose the business. Basically I want to make it more interactive then it is now.

I'm also not sure if I want to use a 2D map (like sim city, but top view rather then isometric) or use a 1D map like a super mario level, so basically you wil have the ground, and buildings/houses that you can get by horizontal scrolling (there will no longer be vertical scrolling on the map). The beauty of this is it would enable to make actual office buildings, and inside those buildings there could be seperate businesses/appartments etc...

Though the 2D map would look cooler and be easier to find specific places, but it would maybe require more html/graphics.

But I think I'l go for that one anyway, given the cybervillage is member only and I'l probably limit it to 8 bit graphics or something, simply to save bandwith and with creativity it can still look cool. It will look similar to a super mario map only difference you can just go click anywhere you want to go, and not travel.

I was going to make it so it's like a board game but for each move it would require a page load AND page regenerate, too much resources used up for that.

The page will only regenerate like every 15 minutes so that way it won't have to query the DB all the time.

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Death · Post by **Death** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 10:11 pm

Alright. Nice to see that you're actually going for that idea. It would definately make the cybervillage more interesting. Would be a little challenging to implement though

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 10:50 pm

Yeah won't be easy. Time is an issue as well but I guess I can find the time during christmas vacation.

Allot of stuff I would keep the way it is, I'd just have to modify it. For example instead of having "the" bank, it would have to be "a" bank, and make it possible for more then one bank, so the bank script would have to take a parameter to read only entries from the bank ID specified.

It would be fun and more realistic to make it that way. Basically anyone would have the option to open their own business. At first there would be the option to open a bank, or open a store, but I'd add more stuff too. Basically you click anywhere on the map that's spare, buy the land, then choose what to do with it.

The map would be unlimited in a virtical sense as I could add land as demand increases. But I'd probably make it somethingl like 30 by 100 blocks where each block is a piece of land that can represent something like a bank or a house.

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Death · Post by **Death** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 11:47 pm

Nothing like a visual. Would be cool to name your house to, like: "Squirrel studios" or something

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 12:19 am

Yeah that option will probably be there, not very hard will just take a field in the map database. Basically each square will have a name, defaults will be like "vacant land" and when you buy it then you can name it what you want.

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Triple6_wild · Post by **Triple6_wild** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 6:14 am

hehehe i like it but im not so sure i like the IC wipe out

will WMDs be cleared to? (plz say no lol)

but anyways i love the idea n since the cybervillage is kinda a forum game you could probly try to add stuff to the side of our posts

<---------- like biznesses owned and how well there doing or whatever

kinda like a stats or progress meter

ether way i cant wait to see your work cuz im sure it will be top of the line as always

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 12:54 pm

Not sure yet about the IC clear. Or the WMD for that matter. I'll probably put up a poll and see what the majority thinks. Since starting from scratch could be kinda fun and more fair for newer members. Since at the very start everyone had 500000 or something then that money just got shifted around but never actually got spent much.

The stats beside the posts is a good idea too, since right now it only shows ICs so I could show other stats too such as how much things they own, if they own a business etc... and it could also all go in the profile into more details.

Mind you this plan is simply a back burner thing as I have other stuff I want to work on during the vacations (such as ZeroBoard) but eventually I do want to do it.

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Triple6_wild · Post by **Triple6_wild** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 2:01 am

your not taking my 4foot 2x4 werth:9753000000020 ICs that has 0 attack HP n 10 defend HP

or my other 4foot 2x4 werth: 2050785020 ICs that has attack HP of 2079764057 n 0 defend HP

and i will not let you take my banshee werth: 30000250000 ICs that has 0 def n attack HP lol

I WONT LET YOU ahahahaha

nah im just playin ..... i got alot of "clitched" items n those 3 there are not even WMD's

i donno how it happen

really.... i umm donno

WHAT you callin me a lier!?!?

just take your time n stuff n we all can start fresh .... its for the best (well for anyone on the wrong side of my WMD's lol) n it will be fun to start over anyways with the new stuff

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