We have been thinking for a while now about a method of making the game more interesting, maybe a little more tricky but mostly, a lot more fun.
We present to you a player location (x,y coordinate) system which holds certain information critical to the success of professions and also what players a fighter can attack.
The idea would be that on each hour, x,y coordinates would be assigned a profession location (there would be multiples) - that is, for example;
- 41,2 - 32,8 - 23,45 might turn into cubicle farms
- 38,2 - 25,8 - 21,43 might turn into basement entries
- 18,7 - 23,10 - 8,20 might turn into water coolers
- 27,1 - 35,1 - 30,12 might turn into kitchens
- Other locations could include special shops, NPCs for fighters to battle, random finds / drops, etc.
Fighters / pickpocketers would no longer be able to just randomly attack / pickpocket someone from a giant player list. Instead, they would be limited to those currently on the square they are on. A technique for a fighter in this system might be to hang around hot areas, such as a cubicle farm of water cooler they have located.
Clicking on the left, right, up and down arrows would move you in the appropriate direction by 1 coordinate. It would require no energy to do this.
Clicking on the square (middle button) which holds your current location, would open the status screen... the status screen is the screen you would see after clicking left, right, up or down - which includes what is on the current location (cubicle farm, water cooler, etc) and any players on the square, for battling and pickpocket purposes.
Over time, we could phase other aspects of the game into this locational system... for example, trading, hard set locations for the bank, ammo united, gym, and other places.
This system could also see other cool add ons be put in place, such as tracking gadgets, etc. which you might use to find out / detect where certain players are...
