ninjaluc79 wrote:The SOD's? Hmm... let's see...
There are only 27 True Runes... and there maybe TRs which have more than one aspect, like the rune of Beginning... but we exclude Circle Rune, Gate Rune, Beast Rune, and other runes which can't be inherited by Suikoden protagonists. We are left at less than 24 TRs, and RB has two aspects, making it less than 25.
Say there are 25 inheritors to each TR, then if each inheritor has 108 followers including themselves, that makes 2,700 players. And I'm pretty sure that players will reach 3,000 (RoK has more than 20,000!), so SOD's will not really work like son michael said, but unites do work here.
Or maybe like this, the story maybe about a war between all the nations in the Suikoverse, and the protagonists of GS games may be GM-controlled who go out searching for followers only within his/her own continent through an event game. Instead of performing tests for an SOD to join the protagonists' group, the 'TR inheritors' themselves give a test open for all players. When they pass the test, they will become SODs, the sorry flunkers can serve their own country by serving at the inheritors' castles, but they will only be known as the citizens of their own country.
However, the flunkers can go back to the process again, as long as the inheritors haven't recruited their 107 players yet.
Whaddaya think?
you know...I really love these ideas!
ok so we start the game and we choose which nation we wanna be apart of,the choices are holy harmonia{under sasarai} falena{player must be a female character and they will be under the prince} toran{under tir mcdohl} dunan[riou and jowy will be the commanders for the dunan army}zexen{under chris light fellow} grassslands{under hugo} and the island nations{under Lazlo}
ok so weve chosen our nations, now we have to create our characters, we can be a male or female of: kobolds,nay kobolds,ducks,lizards,beavers,mermaids,squirels,dwarves,elves,vampires and whatever else race I forgot
so the main story is all the nations are at war with each other, some suspect its hikkusak,others think its a specific nation thats power hungry, leknaat is no where to be found,every nation is on there guard and there all at war with each other
you start by watching a nice little cut scene of how this huge world war started and then after the scene, your npc commander/instructer/teacher{depends on what nation your in} orders you to go out of the nation and perform various quest, now once your out on the world map it would be just like World Of WarCraft,at first you will have to stay and level up your character, then you can go to the specific areas of the world map which have stronger enemies and the quest items you seek, the battle system can be like star ocean till the end of time,it would be real time and the camera will zoom in on the battle until you decide to cancel it{some enemies will have an ability that dosent allow you to run from the battle} or win,winning gives you experience points and a +point in all your stats.
ok so other players will be performing quest for there specific nations so naturally all the items you collect will re spawn so other players can get them, if you see other players the game will mark them as enemies and you will immediatly be in battle,who ever wins takes a percentage of money from the player he/she defeated,when a player dies they will either be sent back to a camp out place on the world map{a temporary safe haven} or they will be returned to there kingdom{so it will be important to keep your forces at your camp out bases so enemies cant destroy them and make you re spawn in your kingdoms
ok so when your in your kingdom you can do mini quest for people npcs, these quest will be confined to the kingdoms only and will net you money,experience,better weapons,armors,items,special runes ect
occasionally advanced players will be given a mission to go into enemy territory,the players of that kingdom will be alerted of intruders and all players in that kingdom will be on the alert to destroy any intruders
bassically im thinking every player gets 6 party members, and 108 characters to choose from{go on sidequest to get these characters or they will be given to you by the game} you will be the only on screen character but when you get into battle your other 5 characters will appear besides you and they will be npcs,the star ocean till the end of time battle system wouldnt work with so many characters so it would then switch to World Of Warcraft battle system{star ocean battle system would only be used when you have 3 characters against an enemy}
ok so when you get strong enough you can go to certain areas on the map which have war battles going on between nations and you can get involved with that,you can get mounts and recruit factions to your cause{such as the dragon knights}
on the world map you can find merchants that are willing to sell you stuff
you can partner up with allied players of your nation and you can have a party of 6 people, but when you get into battle...you would have 36 characters on the field at maximum to fight against an enemy or other players from enemy nations
viki and jeane will be in this game! but they will be neutral, jeane will be sellign runes as always and viki will set up teleportation spots everywhere, players can use these telport spots to teleort from there kingdoms to certain areas on the map
the setting will have to be when all the leaders of the nations are alive except for suikoden 4's characters, only Lazlo will be alive in this game,so naturally this will take place when everyone in suiko 4 is dead
wow..lol so thats what I came up with after reading ninja lucs post...maybe if we can work out some of the kinks...blizzard and konami could team up? hey you never know....
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