The newest sensation to hit space trading... low prices. Always!
Okay, for you people out there waiting for a EV:N TC, here is the idea that'll raise the biggest franchise in trading to a stellar level! That's right, taking equal parts EV:N and Wal-Mart, and seeing what happens.
To begin, I should introduce myself, since I just created an account maybe five minutes ago, and I'm therefore an unidentified face in the plugin world. My name (at least, as you shall know it) is Mitschu Games, pronounced Mit-chew Gah-mez. Remember that. Not that it is important, but remember that. As for my career, I actually work at Wal-Mart, so I consider myself fairly steeped in the great culture that is... well, actually, shoot wrong store, let me start over again. I work at Wal-Mart, so I know Wally World. I know the layout of the buildings, the departments, the goods we sell, the positions one can have, and pretty much everything needed to make a game about it. I know how the silly corporate gossip trees out, I know how allegiances are formed, I know how kings are overthrown - wait, again, wrong scenario, I apologize. But I do know how to overthrow kings.
Now that you know me and my background (even if 'me' is an assumed name, and my background is saturated with misleading information), lets get cracking, eh?
Wally World: The EV:N TC is an immersive modification to the engine provided by Ambrosia, allowing in-depth gameplay and scintillating plots. It allows - wait, did I really just say that? My, my mind is on the wrong topic today. Wally World (hereandafter WW for short, doubledouble yew for long) is actually a complete revamping of the way you play overhead shooting games. Trading in your ship for different bodies / vehicles (ranging from the beloved "Janitor with a Cleaning Trolly" to "Manager on a Forklift"), trading in outfits for... well, okay, outfits, but not like you expect (unless you expect "Working Hands", "Fighting Hands", "Tazer", and "Intercom System" to be outfits,) even swapping out the beloved Planets with various Checkpoints (where you can buy and trade between store departments, ask for a promotion, bribe lackeys to do your dirty work, or just listen to the intercom for recent developments on that wet spill in Aisle 9.)
Changing out resources such as the generic "Food", "Equipment", "Luxury Goods", etc. with "Empty Pallets," "Cleaning Supplies," and the coveted "15 Minute Break," as well as adding more junks like "MP3 Players" - purchasable in the Electronics Department - "Winter Clothing" - available in the Softlines Department - or even the rare, hard to find "Stickers" - which, as a point of interest, can be found in either the GM Entrance or the Grocery Entrance, depending on your mood.
Find unexpected trade routes, such as selling those MP3 Players to the bored people over in Infants, or those Winter Clothing to the sad saps working in the Meat Freezer, or heck, selling those Stickers in the Checkout Lane to those greedy impulse buyers. Go on a mysterious quest to find the Hardlines, which logically must exist since there is a Softlines (i.e, clothing) Department.
If trade isn't your thing, try your hand at what most people are doing instead of playing videogames. Er, ahem, I mean, why not try working? Find unexpected things that you get to keep by working the floating pallets found around the univereeeeeer, Wal-Mart. And by working, I mean pound the crap out of them with your primaries.
Of course, working pallets requires you to have your, ahem, "Working Hands" on. Sort of like wax on, wax off. And if you want to work pallets, you gotta be on the lookout for Thieves, who only nominally want to steal from the pallets, and more likely than not will steal from the sad sap working the pallets. But if you choose the path of Security, you can get better and better weapons to use against the odder robbers, and steal the goods that they already stole! (And as momma used to say, if you stole something that was stolen, you ain't stealin'.)
Oh, and missions! Well, you can go on various quests to prove your Respect for the Individual, Service to Customers, and Strive for Excellence, while winning young hearts over and amassing millions. Actualy, reality check, you just float along, making odd money in less than legal ways, getting laughed at on dates because you actually admitted that "I work at Wal-Mart.", and the only promotions you get are the ones you pay cold cash for.
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Technical Stuff:
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I intend to use the same principle behind the Asteroid Miner's firing / not-firing transition states to create a fighting mode where, if your weapon is a hand-weapon (not to be confused with a hand-gun) it cycles through an animation of your character's fists swinging, while a laser beam exactly 1px long with a 100% decay ratio determines how many scores on the enemy you get.
Oh yeah, no spaceships, as I mentioned.
Inertialess, of course, because having inertia would be just plain silly. Unless you are on the maintenance crew, and just laid down some wax, and are wearing nothing but silk socks. Okay, fine, I'll include a "Waxed Socks" outfit, happy? Just so you can Monty Python a guy with your fists-a-flying.
Instead of ships, you will get "promotions", which are essentially ships with pay-per-day. As an example of the logic tree ---
Worker on a Pallet Jack @ 100c/day -> Maintenance Crew on a Cleaning Cart @ 150c/day -> Security on Foot @ 250c/day -> Risk Control on a Scissorlift @ 300c/day -> Backroom Supervisor on a Walker Stacker @ 400c/day -> Management on a Forklift @ 500c/day
More will be added / removed at my leisure.
Outfits will vary, and some will make you stronger, others have various affects. For example, the Martial Training converts your Fighting Hands into Calloused Hands (+1 armor damage) the first time you buy it, converts your Calloused Hands into Meat Hooks (+2 armor damage) the second time, and converts Meat Hooks into Martial Hands (+2 shield damage, +3 armor damage) the final time you buy it, at respective prices of 2500c, 10000c, and 25000c. These upgrades are permanent (carry over), and essentially leave you with slightly more formidible primary weapons no matter what level of promotion you are.
There are also other weapons that can be used as primaries, although ranged weapons are always secondary. These are more along the lines of techniques, such as the "Phantom Strike" (another c/o) which is a 20% chance of hitting for an addition +2 armor damage, or the weapon (not technique) "Palmed Tazer" (not c/o) which gives you a 5% chance of ionizing (aka stunning) a target when you hit him with your primaries.
Shields and armor should be reread as "Mental" and "Physical", respectively. Certain weapons will be designed to fire through both (ala the Ignores Shields flag with two type submunies) such as regular combat (what fun is pounding a guy if it doesn't hurt his brain, and as a result, he doesn't take damage?) Meanwhile, most Mental weapons have a nasty Physical damage rating, if they can only break through the mental plating of the enemy. For example, the Intercom System slowly chews away at the target's mind, until he snaps, at which point... er, nasty things happen. While defeating an opponent mentally is often less exciting than physically, and will take longer, it is also the safer method.
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Author Notes:
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Okay, this us, for the people who have been laconically reading it and chuckling at the appropriate moments (like, when I think I'm being funny and you find that hilarious.) this is a serious plug idea.
Yeah, sure, a Wally World plug won't work out seriously, there'll be a lot of random jokes thrown into the desc and misn data, but overall, the plug is a test of my abilites without overtly being challenging. Designing rudimentary people in a random program (methinks Anim8or) to make the graphics, maybe tweaking a few 3d models, the basics. And then the misns (I'm thinking, a traitor who leads you to a spy who leads you to a woman who you g{"fall in love with", "become best friends with"} before being betrayed and lead to the Roman King Niich, who kills your g{"girlfriend", "bestest friend ever!!!"} and gloats over the fall of Wally.)
Whoo, lost myself.
I'll wrap this up, it is getting long. All in favor of ANY EV:N TC, even if it is set in the (shudder) Wal-Mart World? Say aye. All opposed? Bah, go shop at Ross or something, traitor.
Always, Mitschu
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My easy way is writing the descs as the idea comes....usually after i create the outfit/ship/spob/ etc. I usualyl have alot of fun with it too.