Ideas for future TWGs

[alainbryden]

I know why you think PMs only would be better, but the fact is that the game is much more fun with realtime involved. This, and, if you walk into a room where someone was killed, is their dead body still there? DO you know who got killed in what room? Maybe when they got killed too, because we are all agents and can probably determine time of death. Also, if you are above, below, right or left of a room, maybe you can say "the smell of something dead is in the air" to let someone know they are one room away from a dead person.

I also have a question, is there diagonal movement?

[User6773]

Read more carefully.

If you walk into a room where someone died earlier, it will say that his corpse is there. It won't say who killed him, but it will report how he died (gas, nanites, gunshot, etc.)

During the Movement phase, each player privately informs me which room they want to go to on the base - it can be any room - movement is unrestricted.

[alainbryden]

whoops, I guess i missed those one's. Sorry. Not sure about that last one though. Is it so realistic that a person can transport instantly to another room across the base without passing through any others?

And I still think you should do the smell thing for adjacent rooms

[User6773]

The base is set up in 8 floors. Each floor has a "lobby", and 8 doors that go off to separate rooms. By quickly moving up and down the stairs, yes. If I include "tile-by-tile" movement, it makes the game more RPG like. However, this makes it less appropriate for a forum and more appropriate for a group gaming session. In fact, I think it ruins the spirit of the game - the game's, at its core, about information gathering and putting that information to work for you. Anything else dilutes the game (which is why I decided not to include items.)

[evilbutterfly]

I really don't like the idea of taking over people. That's just a bit over the top, and I'm sure you can come up with something better and still balance the game just fine...

[User6773]

Taking over someone is really, really difficult.

[blahblah18]

but it causes too many rules problems, and in a forum where chaeting is kinda hard to detect, this makes it nigh impossible, by imposing rules that normally would not be put upon the player.

[User6773]

Not if people are willing to register alternate account and screen names.

[alainbryden]

Why not compare taking over with a vampire-like effect, where the user changes to the wolf team. I think this could be more acceptable to the players, although is not quite condusive to the story.

[User6773]

Can't do that, because most people would rather be wolves than humans and would secretly want to make deals to become wolves. If you get converted, you, as a player, have just lost the game, but your character is still in play, under the control of the wolf team.

[evilbutterfly]

I really don't like that idea. Sorry.

[Afrobean]

I like the idea about taking over, but I don't think I'll be playing this game. It just sounds far too complex.