The Elements Ascendance [ warriors game of some sort? ]

[ALARIS]

The Elements Ascendance

I literally just decided to make this after having acquired some html and css knowledge for a couple of years now. I've been wanting to make some type of game that's based on the warriors series for a while now and have an idea, but it will definitely have to be forum based on proboards due to my lack of knowledge.

Feel free to post suggestions, comments, interest in staffing, and what not.

Overview
The plan is for each player to start off with their own clan of 6 cats. 3 of those cats will fill in the high positions (leader, deputy, and medicine cat) and the other 3 cats will be the warriors of the clans. These first 6 cats are considered the "firstborns" of the clan and can not be sold in the bazaar or exchanged to another player (basically you can't get rid of them and make a profit). The only way to remove them from your clan is to bestow them to Starclan, this will increase the player's reputation with Starclan.

For every cat you bestow (basically giving away) to Starclan, you increase your reputation with them by 10 points. Every time your reputation levels up you receive a reward of some sort! I'm deciding what the highest rep. level you can have with Starclan and I'm thinking it will probably be 50.

Players will be able to gift or trade to other players their cats, but cats in the higher ranks (includes medicine cat apprentice) can not be traded or gifted unless demoted.

Clans
Yes, players will be able to have a clan that they control and can name it whatever they like as long as it's appropriate. The amount of cats that will be allowed in a clan will be 20 and I'll probably make it so you have to unlock more room in your clan in order to welcome more cats into the clan.

Economy
There will be two types of currency in the game. The primary currency is _ and the secondary currency which will be hard to obtain are called _. The primary currency can be easily obtained while the secondary currency can only be earned through special events, contests, etc. I have yet to figure out what to call the currency, so feel free to suggest some name ideas!

Clan Hunger & Patrols
Your clan will go hungry which is why you need to make sure to hunt daily, if for whatever reason you miss a day your clan's health will go down by 20% per day. It's also important to keep your warriors on their toes by assigning them patrols. If you don't send them out patrolling your chances of getting looted will increase and a clan nearby will be able to have a chance to snag some of your riches or even a kit!

WORK IN PROGRESS...

[ALARIS]

Site Design

Most Recent
I've already made the site and have already started the coding/design process. So far I've modified the mini-profiles and made the status appear above the avatar to look like it's saying something (seen in comics/manga). Avatars are 70x70 (or you can leave it be to resize). Do note that the white bubble above avatars only appears if you have a status!!

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The palette of the site will be the following:


Site's default font will be either: Verdana, Sans serif, or Arial

Logo: n/a

Map: n/a
Map w/Clan Examples: n/a

Element Symbols: n/a

Cats
n/a Feel free to make suggestions (breeds)

[Tick]

This sounds really fun, it's like a simgame, but forum based. I really like this idea :>

And for the currency, maybe you could do something like "Stardust" for the special/secondary one and maybe some nature related thing (Stones? Pebbles? Twigs?) for the primary currency?

If you need any help, I'd like to help you (if I don't forget). I can draw cats (only in a cartoon-ish style) and know some HTML and CSS things
Art examples (in case you need them) ((I don't even know if you need art for this xD))

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[ALARIS]

Thanks Tick! I used twigs as the prim. currency and stardust as the secondary sounds good! (it can tie into starclan)

I've updated the second post with a picture of the site and I've got some of the site done. I still need to finish coding several other features of the site as well as finish writing my launch plans (first post).

Art would be nice, but I need to first flesh out what kinds of art I'll need for the site.
Definitely cats, but I'm thinking of just having a cat silhouette so members can make up their clan cats appearances and what not.

It's really early right now, so sorry if anything doesn't make sense, needs to be elaborated, etc.

[Reed]

This seems like a good idea! I would like to help but I can't.

I could suggest a few ideas though,if you want.The clan cats should be random colours and you could maybe get a special cat from a event or something to change your cat's.Just a suggestion.

[ALARIS]

Dec 29, 2015 7:06:40 GMT -5 Reed said:

This seems like a good idea! I would like to help but I can't.

I could suggest a few ideas though,if you want.The clan cats should be random colours and you could maybe get a special cat from a event or something to change your cat's.Just a suggestion.

Oh that's a cool idea, kind of like swapping out pelts in a sense?

I'm still trying to figure the art out, but I honestly am leaning more towards have a cat base/lineart instead of just a silhouette (it really depends on whether I can handle coloring/drawing or if I have enough people involved/contributing).

[❄️Blue fang the furry❄️]

One question- could you make guests able to chose their clan when they open the forum page? Then the rest of the Time the page is open, they are in that clan! I could also help with art-




(It's my fursona blue fang with Christmas colored face paint, it's not blood.)

Don't worry, I can draw cats. I don't seem to have any pictures of my cat drawings on my phone...

[ALARIS]

What do you mean by choosing a clan? Guests will be able to browse and check out the clans, but can't join one. A lot of the site's features can only be accessed with an account in order to store and keep track of the data that's flowing through, so if for whatever reason you lost an item from the shop that you know you purchased, the dev. team can just check the data log for confirmation.

For art, right now concept art is good so you can just sketch out ideas and not waste effort into going into one art only for it to not be in use. I'm planning on going for digital art since I have a drawing tablet (wacom bamboo) and figured out how to make nice lineart through pen pressure and slowing the pen's tracer (I'm not sure what it's called exactly, but the lines drawn lag behind so you can draw precisely).

[❄️Blue fang the furry❄️]

Oh, I stink at digital art. Having to use a laptop trackpad.....
But I could do some paper sketches.

Also as a little extra, you could change the name from "guest" to "loner" XD

[ALARIS]

That's totally fine, rough sketches and all are welcomed! As for ideas what to draw currently, apparel. Eventually I'll flesh out the mechanics for the layering system, so for now stick with drawing accessories, hats, and little companions. You can draw other stuff as well, since I don't want to dictate what you're limited to drawing, but I'm just letting you know what art I'm looking for in case you really are interested and have no idea what to sketch.

I'll go do that right now, maybe even add a banner too later on. 8'D

[ALARIS]

Here's a peek at a clan map, I was using place holders.

What I'm planning is that you're able to click on the different dens and a modal window will pop up and provide you information. I'm thinking of including more things into the map then just the different dens.

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[ALARIS]

OK, here's a gif for those of you that find the loading time tedious.

[ALARIS]

So I've been looking at cat genetics since I'm working on the breeding system and decided to share you guys what cats, coats, etc. will be possible outcomes for your cats. More may be added (maybe even markings!) later on, but I think what I typed down would be a good enough start.


As for cat breeds, the site will be dismissing them and stick to default/generic cat. (so EA's cats are like american shorthair if you must label a breed for the it)
I'm also trying to come up with a image layering method and sort of found one, but it would be a bit...manual. Again, my coding skills are lacking yet I still really want to make this site.

[ALARIS]

Breeding genetics and outcomes will be realistic for EA;however, eventually I want to introduce fantasy characteristics such as multiple tails, pelt coats of various hues such as purple and green. Eventually apparel will be added during beta testing.

As for crafting, I'm still trying to figure out what I'm going to do for that. I'm thinking perhaps players craft for herbs for their medicine cat to stock up on, but I want to figure out what other ways players would find the need to craft and what they could craft.

[Snowflower]

hmm, normal currency could be called leaves, maybe.